Thomas Brewster

Brinc Founder Blake Resnick Wants To Kick Chinese Drones Out Of U.S. Skies Backed by Sam Altman and Peter Thiel, Brinc founder Blake Resnick is on his way to making his quadcopters the top choice for America’s cops—if only he can get the federal government to ban his primary...

🚨 NEW 🚨 Brinc, founded by 25-year-old Blake Resnick, is trying to get DJIs out of American cops drone fleets.

Come December 23, the Chinese giant may not be able to put new devices in the hands of the police.

Some cops are really not happy about it.

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Border Patrol’s Digital Playbook: Hack iPhones, Raid iCloud Accounts A CBP search warrant shows how it relies on data raids on iClouds when its forensics tools can't get enough information from iPhones.

🚨NEW🚨 At the southern border, officers use Cellebrite forensic devices to access iPhones of immigration crime suspects.

Except they don't always get the data CBP wants. So CBP orders Apple to provide it instead.

A CBP playbook on border surveillance.

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Border Patrol’s Digital Playbook: Hack iPhones, Raid iCloud Accounts A CBP search warrant shows how it relies on data raids on iClouds when its forensics tools can't get enough information from iPhones.

🚨NEW🚨 At the southern border, officers use Cellebrite forensic devices to access iPhones of immigration crime suspects.

Except they don't always get the data CBP wants. So CBP orders Apple to provide it instead.

A CBP playbook on border surveillance.

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Thanks for the shoutout in Forbes, @thomasbrewster.bsky.social

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The new edition of Forbes magazine just dropped - the cover story is on two 30-year-old entrepreneurs from Poland, who sick of bad movie dubbing, built their own voice AI model. Today, it's worth $6.6 billion, they are new billionaires & are beating Silicon Valley's tech giants

I just got served an AI generated ad on YouTube for... Tai Chi?

Also ICYMI yesterday

ICYMI yesterday

you know, what if they aren't actually a commentary on journalism or the state of media. what if these people are just extremely weird

Google AI Coding Tool Antigravity Was Hacked A Day After Launch A security researcher discovered a major flaw in the coding product, the latest example of companies rushing out AI tools vulnerable to hacking.

because stupid and smart are not mutually exclusive...

"Google's Hot New Al Coding Tool Was Hacked A Day After Launch"

(great report from @thomasbrewster.bsky.social)

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Update from Google on this one: turns out they take security seriously.

No patch for the bugs scheduled yet.

Google AI Coding Tool Antigravity Was Hacked A Day After Launch A security researcher discovered a major flaw in the coding product, the latest example of companies rushing out AI tools vulnerable to hacking.

A security researcher discovered a nasty flaw in Google’s Antigravity tool, the latest example of companies rushing out AI tools vulnerable to hacking.

NSA Contractor Groomed Teenage Girls On Reddit, DOJ Alleges A Booz Allen Hamilton contractor for the NSA allegedly used his work computer to coerce teenagers into sharing nude images. One of his handles was Charming_Analyst5077, per court records.

🚨NEW🚨 An NSA contractor with Booz Allen used his work computer (!!!) to groom teenage girls, per previously-unreported court documents.

Among his alleged handles? Charming_Analyst5077.

He also used a photo of a dead friend when posing as a young man, DOJ said.

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Google AI Coding Tool Antigravity Was Hacked A Day After Launch A security researcher discovered a major flaw in the coding product, the latest example of companies rushing out AI tools vulnerable to hacking.

🚨NEW🚨 Google shipped its AI code editor Antigravity with a bunch of security vulnerabilities.

The most severe, discovered within 24 hours of launch, allows for a persistent backdoor on target systems.

It remains unpatched.

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Google AI Coding Tool Antigravity Was Hacked A Day After Launch A security researcher discovered a major flaw in the coding product, the latest example of companies rushing out AI tools vulnerable to hacking.

🚨NEW🚨 Google shipped its AI code editor Antigravity with a bunch of security vulnerabilities.

The most severe, discovered within 24 hours of launch, allows for a persistent backdoor on target systems.

It remains unpatched.

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AI Founder Illegally Shipped Nvidia Chips To China, DOJ Alleges Prosecutors have accused Brian Raymond, founder of AI infrastructure and consulting company Bitworks, and three others of selling coveted Nvidia chips to unspecified Chinese companies.

Prosecutors have accused Brian Raymond, founder of AI infrastructure and consulting company Bitworks, and three others of selling coveted Nvidia chips to unspecified Chinese companies.

Also, follow and support @courtwatch.bsky.social please. They're doing excellent work.

AI Founder Illegally Shipped Nvidia Chips To China, DOJ Alleges Prosecutors have accused Brian Raymond, founder of AI infrastructure and consulting company Bitworks, and three others of selling coveted Nvidia chips to unspecified Chinese companies.

🚨NEW🚨 A US AI founder and NVIDIA partner got caught trying to ship the most powerful of the chip maker's processors to China, the DOJ says.

He just got offered a job at another NVIDIA partner as CTO. The offer has been rescinded.

H/T @courtwatch.bsky.social

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Nice from @byrontau.bsky.social - a reminder that local police as well as federal have been using this stuff for years www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

Airlines Will Shut Down Program That Sold Your Flights Records to Government The move comes after intense pressure from lawmakers and 404 Media’s months-long reporting about the airline industry's data selling practices.

New: the airlines (Delta, United, American, etc) will shut down a program in which it sold hundreds of millions of your flight records to government agencies, including ICE, FBI, ATF, more. Comes after intense lawmaker-pressure and 404 Media's months-long reporting
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The Pentagon Is Spending Millions On AI Hacking From Startup Twenty The U.S. government has been contracting stealth startup Twenty, which is working on AI agents and automated hacking of foreign targets at massive scale.

The U.S. government has been contracting stealth startup Twenty, which is working on AI agents and automated hacking of foreign targets at massive scale.

OpenAI’s New Model Just Got Much Better At Writing More Secure Code OpenAI’s frontier model may not have astounded when it arrived earlier this year, but research indicates it’s now much better than others at writing code with fewer vulnerabilities.

NEW - OpenAI's GPT-5 was kind of a disappointment, right?

But new analysis showed a sudden jump in OpenAI models' ability to write secure code.

Anthropic's Claude somehow got worse.

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An AI-Powered Cyberattack Is Self-Replicating Hackers use AI to generate attack code targeting AI infrastructure, and then getting compromised AI systems to find others to attack, researchers warn in a new report.

NEW - Hackers started using large language models to code up attacks on systems running a popular AI orchestration tool.

They then used those hacked AI systems to look for other vulnerable AI servers.

Human + AI vs. AI is the current paradigm, evidently.

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The Pentagon Is Spending Millions On AI Hacking From Startup Twenty The U.S. government has been contracting stealth startup Twenty, which is working on AI agents and automated hacking of foreign targets at massive scale.

🚨SCOOP 🚨The Pentagon is spending millions on a secretive startup that’s making hacking AI to help carry out operations on hundreds of targets at once.

In-q-tel, the VC org founded by the CIA, is a backer of the startup, called Twenty.

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Both this and in their story on Bannon and Epstein, Guardian has done it right.

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"Twenty’s contracts are a rare case of an AI offensive cyber company with VC backing landing Cyber Command work; typically cyber contracts have gone to either small bespoke companies or to the old guard of defense contracting like Booz Allen Hamilton or L3Harris."

The Pentagon Is Spending Millions On AI Hacking From Startup Twenty The U.S. government has been contracting stealth startup Twenty, which is working on AI agents and automated hacking of foreign targets at massive scale.

The Defense Department has been contracting stealth startup Twenty, which is working on AI agents and automated hacking of foreign targets at massive scale, reports my colleague @thomasbrewster.bsky.social

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ICYMI yesterday.

The Pentagon Is Spending Millions On AI Hacking From Startup Twenty The U.S. government has been contracting stealth startup Twenty, which is working on AI agents and automated hacking of foreign targets at massive scale.

🚨SCOOP 🚨The Pentagon is spending millions on a secretive startup that’s making hacking AI to help carry out operations on hundreds of targets at once.

In-q-tel, the VC org founded by the CIA, is a backer of the startup, called Twenty.

www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...