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DOGE accused of copying entire Social Security database to insecure cloud system

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-28 04:04:23

A Social Security Administration (SSA) official alleged in a whistleblower disclosure that DOGE officials created "a live copy of the country's Social Security information in a cloud environment that circumvents oversight." Chuck Borges, the SSA's Chief Data Officer (CDO), "has become aware through reports to him of serious data security lapses, evidently orchestrated by DOGE officials, currently employed as SSA employees, that risk the security of over 300 million Americans' Social Security da

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Whistleblower claims DOGE uploaded Social Security data to unsecure cloud server

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-28 16:42:51

(Wesley Lapointe for The Washington Post via Getty Images) The Social Security Administration’s (SSA) chief data officer, Charles Borges, has filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uploaded a copy of a key Social Security database to an unsecured cloud environment in June, the New York Times reported. This may have exposed the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans. The complaint alleges that under the authority

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DOGE uploaded live copy of Social Security database to ‘vulnerable’ cloud server, says whistleblower

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-10-28 20:30:30

A top Social Security Administration official turned whistleblower says members of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uploaded hundreds of millions of Social Security records to a vulnerable cloud server, putting the personal information of most Americans at risk of compromise. Charles Borges, the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer, said in a newly released whistleblower complaint published Tuesday that other top agency officials signed off on

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Skylight’s TikTok alternative adds community curators to the mix

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-29 08:21:22

A startup called Skylight is taking a different approach to short-form video. Instead of restricting users to an algorithmic main feed, as is common on social apps, Skylight is building a community around human curators who post and repost videos to build out their own custom feeds others can subscribe to. The option, which launched on Monday in the version 2.0 release of the app, could appeal to users who feel a growing sense of unease about traditional social media platforms and their algorit

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Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar

news.ycombinator.com Rudy Fraser 2025-10-29 20:47:10

If you haven’t been watching closely, you could be forgiven for assuming that Bluesky is a just liberal Twitter clone, or a newfangled imitator of Mastodon. But under the surface, something fascinating has been happening: this is the first time ever that a public benefit corporation with a small team has quickly scaled an open source social network, built on top of decentralized infrastructure, to tens of millions of users. For us at New_ Public, nothing illustrates the potential of this model

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Social media's next evolution: decentralized, open-source, and scalable

news.ycombinator.com Rudy Fraser 2025-10-30 11:47:10

If you haven’t been watching closely, you could be forgiven for assuming that Bluesky is a just liberal Twitter clone, or a newfangled imitator of Mastodon. But under the surface, something fascinating has been happening: this is the first time ever that a public benefit corporation with a small team has quickly scaled an open source social network, built on top of decentralized infrastructure, to tens of millions of users. For us at New_ Public, nothing illustrates the potential of this model

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AI Is Taking Over Our Social Media Feeds, but Maybe Not How You Expect

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-02 11:25:00

You don't have to be chronically online to know that generative AI has infiltrated nearly every part of our online lives. Social media is no exception: Meta's AI chatbot pushes its way into search on Instagram and Facebook, and Grok offers chat and content creation on X. AI video generation features have emerged on Snapchat, YouTube and TikTok. Beyond its reach to users, artificial intelligence is increasingly significant behind the scenes as a professional tool for social media brands and crea

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Scientists Created an Entire Social Network Where Every User Is a Bot, and Something Wild Happened

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-09 12:36:33

It's no secret that social media has devolved into a toxic cesspool of disinformation and hate speech. Without any meaningful pressure to come up with effective guardrails and enforceable policies, social media platforms quickly turned into rage-filled and polarizing echo chambers with one purpose: to keep users hooked on outrage and brain rot so they can display more ads. And given the results of a recent experiment by researchers at the University of Amsterdam, they may be doomed to stay tha

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The looming crisis of AI speed without guardrails

venturebeat.com Gary Grossman 2025-11-13 04:24:27

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now OpenAI’s GPT-5 has arrived, bringing faster performance, more dependable reasoning and stronger tool use. It joins Claude Opus 4.1 and other frontier models in signaling a rapidly advancing cognitive frontier. While artificial general intelligence (AGI) remains in the future, DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis has described this era as “10 times big

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Apple prepares for iPhone 17 launch by expanding its reach

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-14 09:27:09

When Apple announces the iPhone 17 event next week, it will have a new place to spread the message. As noted by South China Morning Post, Apple expanded its social media footprint in China over the weekend. The move comes just in time for Apple’s next product launch that will include iPhone 17, 17 Air, 17 Pro, and 17 Pro Max, as well as Apple Watch Series 11 and Ultra 3, and maybe even AirPods Pro 3. Earlier this summer, Apple joined Threads in a very limited capacity after two years of not ha

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The Tweens Down Under: Life Without Social Media in Australia

wired.com Charley Locke 2025-11-14 18:00:00

Starting on December 10, many Australian teenagers will no longer be as online as their peers in other countries. The Social Media Minimum Age Bill, passed in 2024, stipulates that a person must be at least 16 years old to have an account on platforms like Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube. Across the world, people young and old are increasingly recognizing the negative impacts that social media has on adolescents. Nearly half of teenagers in the US claim these platforms harm people thei

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HR giant Workday discloses data breach amid Salesforce attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-14 21:53:49

Human resources giant Workday has disclosed a data breach after attackers gained access to a third-party customer relationship management (CRM) platform in a recent social engineering attack. Headquartered in Pleasanton, California, Workday has over 19,300 employees in offices across North America, EMEA, and APJ. Workday's customer list comprises over 11,000 organizations across a diverse range of industries, including more than 60% of the Fortune 500 companies. As the company revealed in a Fr

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The Supreme Court lets Mississippi's social media age-verification law go into effect

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-17 03:14:05

The Supreme Court has decided not to weigh in on one of the many state-level age-verification laws currently being reviewed across the country. Today, the top court chose not to intervene on legislation from Mississippi about checking the ages of social media users, denying an application to vacate stay from NetChoice. The Mississippi law requires all users to verify their ages in order to use social media sites. It also places responsibility on the social networks to prevent children from acce

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Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on Org Mode

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 18:00:25

Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on an Org Mode file over HTTP. Quickstart Create a file called social.org . M-x find-file RET social.org RET Edit the file and add your basic information: #+TITLE: Bob's journal #+NICK: Bob #+DESCRIPTION: I'm a software developer and I love open source. #+AVATAR: https://my-awesome-website.com/avatar.jpg #+LINK: https://my-awesome-website.com #+FOLLOW: foo http://foo.org/social.org #+FOLLOW: jane https://jane.com/social.org * Posts ** :

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Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on an Org Mode

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 05:55:35

Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on an Org Mode file over HTTP. Quickstart Create a file called social.org . M-x find-file RET social.org RET Edit the file and add your basic information: #+TITLE: Bob's journal #+NICK: Bob #+DESCRIPTION: I'm a software developer and I love open source. #+AVATAR: https://my-awesome-website.com/avatar.jpg #+LINK: https://my-awesome-website.com #+FOLLOW: foo http://foo.org/social.org #+FOLLOW: jane https://jane.com/social.org * Posts ** :

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Instagram is developing a feature that helps users find shared interests

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-11-21 03:35:41

Instagram is working on a feature called “Picks” that aims to help users find common interests. The Meta-owned social network confirmed to TechCrunch that Picks is an internal prototype and isn’t being tested externally. The feature was first spotted by reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi, who often finds unreleased features while they’re still under development. According to screenshots shared by Paluzzi, people select their favorite movies, books, TV shows, games, and music, or their “Picks.

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Researchers Made a Social Media Platform Where Every User Was AI. The Bots Ended Up at War

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-11-23 12:05:57

Social platforms like Facebook and X exacerbate the problem of political and social polarization, but they don’t create it. A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands put AI chatbots in a simple social media structure to see how they interacted with each other and found that, even without the invisible hand of the algorithm, they tend to organize themselves based on their pre-assigned affiliations and self-sort into echo chambers. The study, a prep

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HMRC using AI to scour suspected tax cheats' social media

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-24 08:11:48

HMRC using AI to scour suspected tax cheats' social media 50 minutes ago Share Save Tom Gerken Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images HMRC has confirmed it uses artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor social media posts as part of criminal investigations into suspected tax cheats. It said the tech would not replace "human decision-making" and was subject to legal oversight. "Greater use of AI will enable our staff to spend less time on admin and more time helping taxpayers, as well as be

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Basic Social Skills Guide

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-28 03:19:01

The basic guide covers the core concepts of social interaction. It contains three sections made up of seventeen in-depth lessons, and it's 100% free. If you find the basic guide helpful, please share it with your friends or your favorite social skills forum. Also, don't forget to check out the member's guide once you finish reading the basic guide. Good luck, and enjoy improving your social skills! Think of Foundations as the introduction to the guide. It explains how to get the most out of th

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James Gunn Doesn’t Want You to Trust Anything About ‘The Batman Part II’ Until It Comes From Him

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-11-28 12:30:44

The Hollywood rumor mill is nothing new, especially when it comes to high-profile projects, but social media can encourage speculation to spiral out of control. While DC’s James Gunn is no stranger to chaos, one recent rumor prompted him to take to social media to warn against believing things that don’t come through verified channels—a position Gunn can take, being the rare studio head who’s terminally online enough to nip disinformation in the bud. Gunn put his foot down regarding the specula

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Two teens charged in attack on former DOGE official Edward ‘Big Balls’ Coristine

techcrunch.com Connie Loizos 2025-11-29 20:45:20

In Brief Two 15-year-olds have been charged with unarmed carjacking after allegedly attacking Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, the 19-year-old software engineer and former Neuralink intern who became a prominent figure in the Trump administration’s cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). According to reports citing local authorities, Coristine — who left DOGE in June but quickly returned to federal service at the Social Security Administration to help improve the agency’s website

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Trump's Truth Social launches AI search powered by Perplexity

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-02 08:22:50

Truth Social, President Trump's social media platform, is beta testing an AI search feature powered by Perplexity . Truth Search AI is launching first on the web version of Truth Social, with plans to begin a public beta for the feature on iOS and Android in the near future. "We're excited to partner with Truth Social to bring powerful AI to an audience with important questions," said Dmitry Shevelenko, chief business officer at Perplexity. The controversial AI company has found itself embroile

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Truth Social’s AI search is powered by Perplexity, but the platform can set limits on sources

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-12-02 12:18:23

AI startup Perplexity is powering a new AI-powered search engine on Truth Social, President Donald Trump’s social media platform. The search engine, dubbed Truth Search AI, is already available on the web version of Truth Social, with public Beta testing on its iOS and Android apps planned for “the near future.” Trump Media said in a press release that Perplexity’s tech provides “direct, contextually accurate answers with transparent citations” which will help Truth Social “exponentially incre

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Trump Media Is Testing an AI Search Engine Powered by Perplexity

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-03 08:35:09

President Donald Trump's media company, Trump Media, is beta-testing a new AI search feature, Truth Search AI, on the Truth Social platform. The Florida-based company announced the news on Wednesday in a press release. Trump Media and Technology Group is perhaps best known for its social-media program Truth Social. The company is separate from the New York-based Trump Organization. "We're proud to partner with Perplexity to launch our public Beta testing of Truth Social AI, which will make Tru

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One of the biggest newsletter platforms now syndicates to Bluesky and Mastodon

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-12-10 08:17:52

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Newsletter platform Ghost now lets publishers syndicate their posts across social web platforms like Bluesky, Threads, and Mastodon. With Ghost’s free social web syndication feature, which is built on top of the ActivityPub protocol, “just as people can visit your Ghost website in any bro

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Character.AI is adding a social feed to its app

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-12-11 03:00:00

Given the fact that social media apps these days are full of AI-generated videos, AI-native apps seem keen to cash in on the trend. The latest to jump on that bandwagon is Character.AI, which said on Monday that it is adding a social feed to its mobile apps that allow users to create AI characters and chat with them. The social feed, which first came to the company’s web platform in June, lets users share images, videos as well as their chatbots with other users. Users can also share snippets o

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Launch HN: Societies.io (YC W25) – AI simulations of your target audience

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-13 11:13:12

Hi HN, we’re Patrick and James! Artificial Societies ( https://societies.io ) lets you simulate your target audience so you can test marketing, messaging and content before you launch them. Here’s a quick product demo: https://www.loom.com/share/c0ce8ab860c044c586c13a24b6c9b391?... Marketers always say that half their spend will be wasted - they just don’t know which half. Real-world experiments help, but they’re too slow and expensive to run at scale. So, we’re building simulations that let y

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Twitter’s former Trust and Safety head details the challenges facing decentralized social platforms

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-12-14 22:24:40

Yoel Roth, previously the head of Twitter’s Trust and Safety, now at Match, is sharing his concerns about the future of the open social web and its ability to combat misinformation, spam, and other illegal content, like child sexual abuse material (CSAM). In a recent interview, Roth worried about the lack of moderation tools available to the fediverse — the open social web that includes apps like Mastodon, Threads, Pixelfed, and others, as well as other open platforms like Bluesky. He also remi

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Hackers stole Social Security numbers during Allianz Life cyberattack

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-12-18 03:00:08

Hackers who breached U.S. insurance giant Allianz Life earlier this month stole reams of customer Social Security numbers, according to notifications filed with several U.S. states and seen by TechCrunch. Allianz Life disclosed the July 16 breach this past weekend, confirming to TechCrunch the unidentified hackers stole the personally identifiable information belonging to the “majority” of its 1.4 million customers, as well as financial professionals and some Allianz Life employees. The compan

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I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-19 03:15:35

I think I'm officially a side project collector. I've had it all: A SaaS for freelancers... that I never had time to finish because I'm a freelancer. A revolutionary AI tool that I abandoned as soon as GPT-4 came out. And the famous "anti-social media social network" (spoiler: it was just me). I buy a domain name → I code for 3 all-nighters → I lose interest → I start again. My Google Domains look like a graveyard of unfinished dreams. But honestly, I've never learned so much, nor enjoyed

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DOGE accused of copying entire Social Security database to insecure cloud system

Whistleblower claims DOGE uploaded Social Security data to unsecure cloud server

DOGE uploaded live copy of Social Security database to ‘vulnerable’ cloud server, says whistleblower

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Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar

Social media's next evolution: decentralized, open-source, and scalable

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Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on an Org Mode

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Researchers Made a Social Media Platform Where Every User Was AI. The Bots Ended Up at War

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Twitter’s former Trust and Safety head details the challenges facing decentralized social platforms

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