Now is a good time to remember that Meta has announced that it is laying off 10% of its workforce, including 2,000 people just today, while going in on a "AI will replace workers" strategy. www.404media.co/hackers-simp...
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evacide
Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
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Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked 404media.co
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones wired.com
Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch techcrunch.com
Startup sues Palo Alto Networks theregister.com
Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly the-independent.com
‘News’ Site Keeps Hallucinating EFF Staffers eff.org
Starbucks quietly retired its AI agent just months after deployment after it miscounted coffee shop inventories and slowed down baristas finance.yahoo.com
AP Exclusive: Bernie Sanders unveils plan to give the public direct ownership of AI companies news4jax.com
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The Meta Ray-Ban creep glasses already have facial-recognition capabilities--Meta just hasn't enabled them yet. www.wired.com/story/meta-s...
When I do a web search, I do not want Google to go to the websites for me, pull the information, and interpret it for me. I want it to give me a list of websites that I can read and evaluate myself because AI is frequently wrong: techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/g...
Startup sues Palo Alto Networks' Koi Security, saying an AI-hallucinated report falsely linked it to Chinese espionage www.theregister.com/legal/2026/0...
Ford rehires "greybeard" engineers after its push for AI automation backfires. "Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product." www.the-independent.com/t…
An AI-generated "news" slop site keeps making up EFF staffers and attributing made-up quotes to them in their stories: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Throwing one more story into the "Is AI going to replace all jobs?" folder. finance.yahoo.com/sectors/tech...
Oh no. Just no.
The future does not have to suck. Here I am at BSides Prague, talking about AI and telling folks "Do Not Build the Torment Nexus." www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3K-...
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