✍️ Huge thanks to our authors @ericdavis.bsky.social, David Jay, Numa Dhamani, and Jen Weedon

Global cyber crime syndicates are running “pig butchering” scams, where scammers build relationships with targets to demand money. IST’s @ericdavis.bsky.social & Gabrielle Tran spoke to @technologyreview.com about AI's impact on fraud & potential interventions. 🔐 Read the article: bit.ly/42GPPan

The @cursor.com.web.brid.gy integration of Gemini apparently favors self-flagellation over failing gracefully. I've never seen an AI Assistant in IDE give up on problems and spiral like a house elf. I'm curious if others have encountered this. @jeffdean.bsky.social, is this known behavior?

@disneyplustr.bsky.social Either there's a content management bug or you're taking a pretty dark turn creatively

Hurry Turkeys Hurry Hurry Hurry

"Oh God, it's Mom": With many divided families getting together for Thanksgiving, a look back at the most famous call on C-SPAN's Washington Journal www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q15x...

🚨NEW from IST: Tech revolutionizes the way we live. But insecure, negligent, or exploitative advancements can threaten global security & stability. #TechnologISTTalks is dedicated to bringing conversations on these risks & opportunities to the forefront. 🎙️Episode 1: technologist-talks.simplecast.com

False Positive

The new Block Party from @triketora.bsky.social is one of the most-useful tools for digital life I've seen in years. I was way more exposed online than I realized. My review @washingtonpost.com: wapo.st/4efIdOD

Hot off the presses: our team's analysis of several prominent rumors spreading on social media over the last few days about voting and election administration: uwcip.substack.com/p/rapid-rese...

If you're at #Trustcon, I hope you can make our panel today at 1:30pm, "2024 Elections and AI Case Studies: Beware the Six-Fingered Man." Here's a preview of our discussion. securityandtechnology.org/blog/2024-el...

True believers — give me a shout if you're here at the Trust & Safety Research Conference. It would be great to catch up in person instead of via that internet silliness people keep taking about lnkd.in/grnUJ7a5

Some purple prose in honor of National Dog Day

True believers, if you're at Defcon I hope you can join my fellow panelists and me for two great Elections Integrity sessions, Saturday at 1:30 and 2:30 at the Voting Village info.defcon.org/event/?id=52616 info.defcon.org/event/?id=52614

Congrats to @rightsduff.bsky.social and the team for this concrete and *actionable* report. So glad to have participated in this initiative.

"Vegas, baby"

By the most important standard — the capacity to write a reasonably humorous episode of Rick and Morty — chatgpt-4 is a big leap forward. It even came up with the phrase "quantum paradox resolver," which Google could locate on just a single page across the interwebs.