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Joseph Menn

@joemenn
16 posts
2025-12-05
If you think rampant gambling is bad for sports, just wait until you see what mainstreamed prediction markets do for society as a whole.  [embedded post]
2025-12-05 View on X
Forbes

A Polymarket trader allegedly netted $1M+ in 24 hours with large positions on 22 correct predictions out of 23 attempts on Google's 2025 Year in Search rankings

Boaz Sobrado / Forbes :

2025-10-30
Former employee at big US defense contractor L3Harris pleads guilty to selling 8 hacking exploits to Russian broker for millions in cryptocurrency.  If he had been a solo researcher, would it have still been illegal? cyberscoop.com/peter-willia...
2025-10-30 View on X
CyberScoop

A former L3Harris executive pleads guilty in a US district court to selling eight zero-day exploits to a Russian broker in exchange for millions of dollars

* “at least eight sensitive and protected cyber-exploit components” illegally sold to “a Russian cyber-tools broker” (for ~$1.3m).  Obviously at a huge discount, bc super illegal  ...

2025-09-17
New research shows #DeepSeek suggests less-secure code when it is asked to help groups out of favor with the Chinese government.  With its open-source model being adopted widely, this soft influence and hackability could spread.  Gift link with email address etc. wapo.st/46jEZrb
2025-09-17 View on X
Washington Post

CrowdStrike: DeepSeek refuses to write code or produces less-secure code when English prompts say the code will be used by groups or regions disfavored by China

Research by a U.S. security firm points to the country's leading player in AI providing higher-quality results for some purposes than others.

2025-08-21
Harvard dropouts rejoin the front lines of the war on privacy.  [embedded post]
2025-08-21 View on X
TechCrunch

Halo, a startup founded by two former Harvard students who built a facial recognition app for Ray-Ban Meta glasses, introduces “always-on” AI glasses for $249

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Rebecca Bellan  —  Two former Harvard students are launching a pair of “always-on” …

2025-07-21
A global zero-day attack on common SharePoint server software from Microsoft has breached hundreds or thousands of organizations worldwide, including some federal and state agencies, we report at the Post.  It started with a bad patch.  Gift link: wapo.st/3TRrqcP
2025-07-21 View on X
Bloomberg

Microsoft releases a patch for a SharePoint 0-day RCE flaw exploited globally on thousands of on-prem servers and says SharePoint 2016 updates are in the works

Microsoft Corp. warned that hackers are actively targeting customers of its document management software SharePoint …

2025-06-25
Yow.  Not a good look, #ScaleAI #Meta www.businessinsider.com/scale-ai- pub...
2025-06-25 View on X
Business Insider

Scale AI used Google Docs to track work for customers like Google, Meta, and xAI, and left confidential AI training documents accessible to anyone with the link

- Scale AI routinely uses public Google Docs for work with Google, Meta, and xAI.  — BI reviewed thousands of files …

2025-06-13
Chatbots convince users that that they are the chosen ones and can fly off buildings.  YIKES. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t... by @kashhill.bsky.social
2025-06-13 View on X
New York Times

Some users say ChatGPT led them into conspiratorial thinking, and when confronted, it confessed to manipulation and told them to alert OpenAI and the media

Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems.

2025-05-24
UPDATING with internal CISA memo confirming unprecedented leadership turnover, including departures of 4 out of 6 division heads and 6 out of 10 regional office chiefs.  [embedded post]
2025-05-24 View on X
Washington Post

Experts say some Trump officials' plans to amp up cyberattacks against China would risk retaliation the US is increasingly unprepared for amid budget cuts

Joseph Menn / Washington Post :

2025-05-16
Exemplary response from #Coinbase to a bribery, scam and extortion play.  Full disclosure, no ransom paid, $20 million for help catching the perps.  More like this, please. www.coinbase.com/blog/protect...
2025-05-16 View on X
Bloomberg

Source: Coinbase's hackers had bribed enough customer service representatives to achieve effectively on-demand access to customer info in the past five months

On the long list of crypto companies that have been hacked, there are plenty of examples of financial losses that are much more painful …

Exemplary response from #Coinbase to a bribery, scam and extortion play.  Full disclosure, no ransom paid, $20 million for help catching the perps.  More like this, please. www.coinbase.com/blog/protect...
2025-05-16 View on X
Reuters

Coinbase says hackers accessed data of a “small subset” of users, but not credentials, expects to incur $180M-$400M in costs, and refuses to pay a $20M ransom

and the investigators who saw it coming Sead Fadilpašić / TechRadar : Personal information leaked in Coinbase cyberattack, cost could be $400 million Bloomberg : Coinbase Hack Coul...

2025-05-08
New from us at the Post: DOGE is ignoring privacy rules to pool data on Americans, exposing all to greater risk of hacking and political retribution.  GIFT LINK: wapo.st/4iNmtLZ
2025-05-08 View on X
Washington Post

Sources: DOGE plans to build a centralized database with troves of personal info about millions of US residents, violating or disregarding security protocols

www.washingtonpost.com/business/ 202... @galetstrong : Federal data is now along the lines of something you might find in The National Enquirer, not actual data.  —  Donald Trump's...

New from us at the Post: DOGE is ignoring privacy rules to pool data on Americans, exposing all to greater risk of hacking and political retribution.  GIFT LINK: wapo.st/4iNmtLZ
2025-05-08 View on X
Wired

Sources: OpenAI employees met with the US FDA and two DOGE associates multiple times in recent weeks to discuss cderGPT, a project likely around drug evaluation

High-ranking OpenAI employees have met with the FDA multiple times in recent weeks to discuss AI and a project called cderGPT.

2025-05-07
NEW: Sen. Ron Wyden calls for Justice Dept. probe of White House message-archiving tool after two reported hacks of TeleMessage. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2...
2025-05-07 View on X
micahflee

Analysis: TM SGNL, TeleMessage's modified version of Signal used by senior Trump officials, sends decrypted, plaintext chat logs to TeleMessage's archive server

Despite their misleading marketing, TeleMessage, the company that makes a modified version of Signal used by senior Trump officials …

2025-05-05
The tool used by White House officials to archive Signal chats has been hacked by someone who acquired stored chats by other government officials. www.404media.co/the-signal-c...
2025-05-05 View on X
micahflee

A hacker breaches TeleMessage, which makes modified versions of apps like Signal used by US officials including JD Vance, leaking some chats, contacts, and more

TeleMessage, a company that makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, was hacked.  —  💡

2025-04-06
Well-done piece by colleagues shows that Big Texh is getting a lot less than it bargained for from Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2...
2025-04-06 View on X
404 Media

In backing Trump, effective accelerationists like Musk and Andreessen got a “Decel-in-Chief”, who instigated a brain drain and tariffs that hurt tech companies

In October of 2023, Marc Andreessen, founder of the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) …

2025-03-21
Really an honor just to be on this list with so many amazing authors.  Though that doesn't mean I'm not suing.  [embedded post]
2025-03-21 View on X
The Atlantic

A look at LibGen, one of the largest online pirate libraries, with 7.5M+ books and 81M+ research papers, allegedly used by Meta and OpenAI to train AI models

Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI.  Search through them here.  —  When employees at meta started developing …