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WhatsApp just caught an Italian spyware firm building a fake version of its app for iPhones


WhatsApp has notified approximately 200 users, primarily in Italy, that they were tricked into installing a counterfeit version of the messaging app that was actually government spyware. The fake application was built by SIO, an Italian surveillance technology company that develops spyware for law enforcement and intelligence agencies through its subsidiary ASIGINT. WhatsApp said it […]



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Olympic medalist Taylor Fritz kicked my butt at Mario Tennis

One of the world's highest-rated tennis players explains why he loves competitive video games, and how he keeps his cool on real and virtual courts.

A former Swiss president just filed criminal charges over AI-generated abuse. The target is Grok.


Karin Keller-Sutter, Switzerland’s finance minister and the country’s former president, has filed criminal charges for defamation and insult after Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok was prompted by an anonymous user to generate a torrent of sexist and vulgar remarks about her on X. The complaint, filed on 20 March with the Bern public prosecutor’s office, […]



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SpaceX just filed for the largest IPO in history. The conflicts of interest are staggering.


SpaceX has confidentially filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell shares to the public, according to multiple sources familiar with the registration, setting the stage for what would be the largest initial public offering in history and almost certainly making Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. The offering, internally code-named Project Apex, […]



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More on Apple’s Fun ‘Rewind’ Video

Lex Friedman (with an embedded video to prove it):

If you reverse the new Apple video that plays in “rewind,” it’s the Think Different ad music, pitched up.

Of course it is.

And, regarding that “◀︎◀︎ REW” button where the “REW” was set in bitmapped Chicago 12” but the “◀︎◀︎” was modern, Craig Hockenberry fixed it:

I pretended to be Susan Kare and fixed it, bottom is the original, top is my interpretation.

Before and after of Craig Hockenberry’s pixel art “◀︎◀︎ REW” button.