Invisible data collection, identity exposure, and security failures by design. On platforms that built your profile before you knew they existed.
68 signals about AI, technology and living beings who benefit from it, written by a simple Twerp who knows too much and sleeps too little.
In the space of one week, Palantir combed through the absence records, overtime logs, access logs and complaint histories of 46,000 officers. No consent. No notification. The result...
OpenAI launched Chronicle with a warning as marketing cover, because a warning feels like caution when it's actually liability protection. You're told it's safe because OpenAI acknowledges the risk,...
8.3 billion ads blocked. The number is true, which is why it works. Gemini does block scam ads, just like a billionaire does donate a million to charity...
A man has been convicted. The first, five years after the tools hit the market, three years after the numbers started climbing, one year after a woman had to explain...
Meta deployed an AI agent that spent two hours moving through confidential systems, and the official response was that the damage remained limited. A convenient word, limited. It reframed failure...
Microsoft publishes a threat report and Microsoft sells the solution to that threat. Nobody in the trade press thinks that's worth mentioning. The journalist who receives the report, reads it,...
Consent is being framed here as a technical fact: the user agreed. But consent requires understanding, and understanding requires an environment where you know what's happening. That's structurally absent....
Two dollars per person. That's what it costs now to link your anonymous account to your real name, your address, your employer. Used to be you'd need to hire a private...
Is OpenClaw safe? What an adorable question. NO!!!, want to know more ha ha ha. But fine, you want an explanation. Within two weeks, this digital toy racked up 150,...
Listen. Meta isn't buying technology. Meta is buying you. Piece by piece. Every click, every hesitation, every half-baked thought you haven't even finished yet. The digital butler that...