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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  • Wired reviewed over 1,000 pages of unpublished DHS, FBI, and fusion-center reports coalescing around a new label called 'anti-tech extremism.'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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NEW: Dozens of ads containing video and other child sexual abuse material ran across Meta’s social media platforms, including some as recently as yesterday. @mattburgess1.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/meta-r...

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery wired.com
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  • Tech Transparency Project linked 210 Facebook pages to Beijing-based GatherOne, running about 30,800 ads for AI image-generation and face-swap tools.
  • One promoted Android app, BAfter, had a 'ShareZone' with pornographic face-swaps; reviewers flagged what they called illegal child porn and AI videos of minors.
  • Meta says it banned BAfter and had ads removed on roughly 85 percent of the identified pages after being shown the findings.
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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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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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