New: after 404 Media's investigation Discord shut down a mass of accounts used by 'Spy Pet', the service that was scraping & selling Discord data/server messages for as little as $5. Spy Pet domain also down. 404media.co/discord-shuts-…

Good news: Facebook's bizarre engagement bait AI has made its way to LinkedIn:

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A novel attack on Android TVs, where people might sign into their Google account in an Airbnb or an office. Usually they're locked down, but by downloading other software an attacker can access the entire contents of the Google account, email, drive, more 404media.co/android-tvs-ca…

I had assumed Google was smart enough to permission the tokens it handed out to devices, so eg your Android TV couldn’t access your Gmail account. Apparently I was wrong. 404media.co/android-tvs-ca…

if this works and the airlines don’t sue and it actually happens then wow,,,,, thank you

TikTok ban is deeply stupid, definitely unconstitutional, a complete failure of governance. Pathetic that it was attached to a must-pass bill

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NEW: Bugs in iSharing, a popular location tracking app, allowed anyone to access any other users' coordinates, even if the user wasn’t actively sharing their locatio with anybody else.

Researcher exploited bugs to locate zack whitt in just a few seconds.

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This whips

For WIRED, I wrote about how TikTok isn't the same app that Trump first tried to ban in 2020. The platform has completely transformed since then, and the implications of getting rid of it have changed too wired.com/story/senate-v…

‘Inside a Modern Murder-for-Hire Ring in NYC’

Bitcoin, Telegram, and Instagram. All were used in a recent murder-for-hire and extortion plot in New York City.

New piece with the ⁦404 Media⁩ folks. courtwatch.news/p/inside-a-mod…

New from 404 Media: Telegram, Insta, Bitcoin, drive-by shootings. This is how one murder-for-hire ring in New York City allegedly operated. Made three attempts on a target's life and demanded 5k BTC to stop trying to kill them 404media.co/inside-a-moder…

NASA performs most annoying software patch of all time blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/0…

“These emails tell a dramatic story about how Google’s finance and advertising teams, led by Raghavan with the blessing of CEO Sundar Pichai, actively worked to make Google worse to make the company more money.”

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pinning 'i know what enshittification is, that's why i wrote the article' to all of my social media accounts

Today's newsletter is the story of how Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's former head of ads - led a coup so that he could run Google Search, and how an email chain from 2019 began a cascade of events that would lead to him running it into the ground.

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finally got access to Meta AI