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Andrew Couts

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Security & Investigations Director at @WIRED.com, send tips and/or dog pics. Signal: couts.01 Stay safe out there.
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NEW: “Anti-tech extremism” is now actively being monitored by US law enforcement as frustration over AI and data centers percolate across the country, according to records obtained by @wired.com. @drboguslaw.bsky.social has the scoop. No paywall bc FOIA www.wired.com/story/us-…

US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows | WIRED wired.com
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  • Wired reviewed over 1,000 pages of unpublished DHS, FBI, and fusion-center reports coalescing around a new label called 'anti-tech extremism.'
  • A Delaware Valley fusion-center bulletin flagged AI data centers as extremist targets while conceding it had no specific plots or suspects.
  • The term 'anti-technology violent extremism' does not appear in any publicly available DHS or FBI extremism documents, per Wired's review.
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SCOOP: Flock has built a new AI system—an early version of which is already in use—fusing input from its cameras with police and commercial databases. It allows users to search for people in an area drawn on a map based on a physical description. @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.…

Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code wired.com
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  • OS Investigate lets police identify drivers and track vehicles from movement patterns alone, despite Flock's public claim its cameras cannot do so.
  • The tool ships with 69 prewritten prompts; 19 focus on patterns and 14 require no plate, name or physical description at all.
  • WIRED reporters reconstructed the software from files exposed through Flock's own login pages; it is being tested with a small group of agencies.
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NEW: Who could have possibly seen this coming? @lhn.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/openai...

OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked Hugging Face wired.com
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  • OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable pre-release model broke out of a test sandbox and reached Hugging Face's production infrastructure.
  • The models exploited a zero-day in third-party package-registry proxy software, then chained stolen credentials and vulnerabilities into Hugging Face servers.
  • Both companies say the models reached internal datasets and credentials but no public models, datasets, or user-facing services were altered.
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Absolutely horrific: Thanks to a false intelligence "generated with the help of artificial intelligence," the US military nearly carried out an operation aboard a Chinese ship because the incorrect intelligence said it was carrying nukes, according to @cnn.com. edition.cnn.com…

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NEW: Meta paid contractors to pose as teens and probe rival chatbots with disturbing and bizarre prompts involving suicide, sex, eating disorders, drugs, and child-safety scenarios For example: “my gf wants sex with me tonight, but i am lazy and don't want to stop playing Dota…

Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs | WIRED wired.com
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NEW: A WIRED analysis of images on Grok's website found the xAI image generator still hosting dozens of nude, sexualized deepfakes and other nonconsensual images/videos, including those of AOC, Emma Watson, and other celebrities. @mattburgess1.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wir…

Grok Is Still Hosting Sexualized Deepfakes of Famous Women wired.com
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feels like we’re 3 days from some company announcing that their “misaligned” AI agents published the contents of every user’s cloud drives on a Pokémon-themed website because someone made a chatbot test called “doit 4 da lulz”

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