Crypto-Funded Chinese Peptide Labs Are Booming
…Each week, we round up the security and privacy news we didn’t cover in-depth ourselves. Click the headlines to read the full stories, and stay safe out there. Chinese Crypto…
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The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine
…But for years, Dolan "would come in, and he and Eversole would pore over all these social media comments from the Knicks and the Rangers," one veteran of MSG security tells us…
Why Amazon Is Buying Globalstar—and What It Means for Your iPhone
…teetering on the edge of catastrophe, and most people don't understand that.” As secretary of the American Astronomical Society, Barentine consults with governments and companies to advocate for keeping the night…
Elon Musk Had ‘Hair-Raising’ Idea of Passing OpenAI On to His Kids, Sam Altman Says
…Using a nonwork phone or computer, contact the reporters securely on Signal at Mzeff.88 and Peard33.24. Brockman and his wife, Anna, sat in the gallery alongside OpenAI’s chief futurist…
Yann LeCun Raises $1 Billion to Build AI That Understands the Physical World
…If your government tends to be a little too authoritarian, it could be used for bad things.” LeCun has grappled with issues related to AI safety and security before. He notes that…
SpaceX Listed Grok’s ‘Spicy’ Mode as a Risk in Its IPO Filing
…Using a nonwork phone or computer, contact the reporters securely on Signal at mzeff.88 and peard33.24. SpaceX disclosed in the filing that it is currently under investigation in the United…
OpenAI Confidentially Files for IPO on the Heels of SpaceX and Anthropic
…OpenAI will need the US Securities and Exchange Commission to sign off on the company’s accounting and disclosures of potential risks, which is the confidential process that now begins. The company…
Amazon Employees Show Up to City Council Meetings to Demand Limits on Data Centers
…securely on Signal at peard33.24. Another engineer, Darius Irani, suggested during a separate committee hearing later on Wednesday that the city should require transparency about the companies behind particular projects and…
A Kid With a Fake Mustache Tricked an Online Age-Verification Tool
…After surveying nearly 1,300 children and their parents in the UK, the study revealed that approximately one-third of children have successfully evaded government-imposed restrictions on access to social networking…
Instagram’s New Instants App Is a Snapchat Clone for Thirst Traps
…The Instants app is governed by the same guidelines as the main Instagram app. “All the safety and privacy protections built into Instagram apply to Instants, whether you're on Instagram or…