Great news for monopolists: If you successfully swat away regulators for long enough, a new approach might come along and disrupt your monopoly status after nearly a decade of unfettered domination of your domain, thus rendering you not a monopoly despite enjoying all the benefits of one. On Tuesday, Judge James Boasberg ruled that Meta […]
If You Can Read This, You’re About to Get Scammed
Did you find this article by typing in the name of a website associated with Elon Musk? Did it sound like you could invest in SpaceX, Neuralink, or one of Musk’s AI ventures like Grok and xAI? It’s fake. It’s 100%, without a doubt, completely fake. I know you may not believe it, but please […]
WhatsApp Just Patched a ‘Zero Click’ Bug Being Used to Hack Apple Users
On Friday, WhatsApp announced that it had patched a software vulnerability that was being used by unknown hackers to target specific users of Apple products and hack them with spyware. WhatsApp, which is owned by Meta, said in an advisory that the previously unknown bug “may have been exploited in a sophisticated attack against specific […]
Iranian and U.S. Officials Agree: WhatsApp Is the New Security Boogeyman
Iran and the U.S. may not agree on much (and may technically be at war with each other right now) but there is, apparently, one thing that officials from both countries seem to be on the same page about: WhatsApp, Meta’s ubiquitous chat app, is a data hazard and not to be trusted. Since Facebook […]