Twin brothers wipe 96 gov’t databases minutes after being fired
A case study in why credentials are revoked before firings.
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Nate Anderson
Deputy Editor
nate@meincmagazine.com
Nate is the deputy editor at Ars Technica, where he has written about tech policy, legal issues, and philosophy for nearly two decades. His most recent book is In Emergency, Break Glass: What Nietzsche Can Teach Us About Joyful Living in a Tech-Saturated World, which is much funnier than it sounds. Nate has an MA in English Literature from the University of North Carolina, and he lives in Philadelphia with his family and his collection of board games.
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Why Reddit blocked my daily visit to its mobile website
Reddit REALLY wants you to use its app.
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Canadian election databases use “canary traps”—and they work
Intentional errors can be useful.
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US falls below Ukraine in press freedom as global autocracy takes hold
“In 25 years, the average score… has never been so low.”
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Anti-Trump Instagram pic of seashells now enough to indict ex-FBI directors
The clown car is all gassed up.
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Your tech support company runs scams. Stop—or disguise with more fraud?
Fake it till you make it.
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AI on the couch: Anthropic gives Claude 20 hours of psychiatry
Mythos is “the most psychologically settled model we have trained to date.”
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Police corporal created AI porn from driver’s license pics
Officer created over 3,000 “deepfake” images.
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What the heck is wrong with our AI overlords?
New profile of Sam Altman shines a light on a whole industry.
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Sweaty, glassy-eyed Tiger Woods blames cell phone use for his car crash
Cops arrest Woods after incident.
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Judge irate as defendant joins by Zoom while driving—then lies about it
“Let me see the driver!”
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Internet Yiff Machine: We hacked 93GB of “anonymous” crime tips
Ultra-sensitive data may have been hacked.
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After hackers hit an Iowa company, cars around the country failed to start
If you don’t calibrate your interlock in time, your vehicle is dead.
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Writer denies it, but publisher pulls horror novel after multiple allegations of AI use
One of the first controversies of its kind.
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Explain it like I’m 5: Why is everyone on speakerphone in public?
Your phone still functions when held to your ear, people!
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Quad Cortex mini amp modeler: All the power, half the size
A warehouse of guitar gear in the palm of your hand.
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US gov’t: House sysadmin stole 200 phones, caught by House IT desk
Scheme allegedly cost taxpayers $150,000.
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Deny, deny, admit: UK police used Copilot AI “hallucination” when banning football fans
Police finally come clean about botched use of AI tools.
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Scott Adams, Dilbert creator, dead at 68
“I had an amazing life. I gave it everything I had.”
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US Black Hawk helicopter trespasses on private Montana ranch to grab elk antlers
Crazy, but that’s how it goes.
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Michigan man learns the hard way that “catch a cheater” spyware apps aren’t legal
Spying doesn’t become legal just because “cheaters” are the targets.
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Neural DSP models John Mayer’s entire amp and effects rig—and it sounds great
Mayer gets the “Archetype” treatment.
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Guitar amp sims have gotten astonishingly good
There has never been a better time to be a guitarist.
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Faced with naked man, DoorDasher demands police action; they arrest her for illegal surveillance
Two felony charges for filming man inside his house.
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How to trade your $214,000 cybersecurity job for a jail cell
Ransomware doesn’t pay what it used to.
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Musk and Trump both went to Penn—now hacked by someone sympathetic to their cause
Social engineering strikes again.
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Caught cheating in class, college students “apologized” using AI—and profs called them out
Time for some “life lessons.”
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10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea.
It’s still legal to pick locks, even when you swing your legs.
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Tech billionaires are now shaping the militarization of American cities
Money means access to power—and tech has plenty of money.
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This may be the most bonkers tech job listing I’ve ever seen
Don’t even apply if you’re not a Tier 1 “A-player.”
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With deadline looming, 6 of 9 universities reject Trump’s “compact” to remake higher ed
But Trump is pressuring the others.
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NATO boss mocks Russian navy, which is on the hunt for Red October “the nearest mechanic”
A Russian sub surfaces off of Western Europe. Is it damaged?
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Why doesn’t Cards Against Humanity print its game in the US? It’s complicated.
Price, quality, speed, and relationships all matter.
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Not a game: Cards Against Humanity avoids tariffs by ditching rules, explaining jokes
You absolutely, definitely cannot play it.
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Trump admin defiles even the “out of office” email auto-reply
“Radical Left” and “Democrat Senators” come in for attack.
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The AI slop drops right from the top, as Trump posts vulgar deepfake of opponents
A sombrero and a fake mustache were also involved.
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