Paragon’s “zero-click” Graphite program can quietly invade the mobile phone of its target and extract its contents, even from encrypted apps.

How? Screen scraping? That would involve installing malware on each phone.

Indeed, those who don’t have older friends totally underestimate how confused the oldies get by the concept of an alternative phone/messaging app.

News today

https://www.rte.ie/culture/2025/1007/1537249-budget-2026-basic-income-for-artists-scheme-to-become-permanent/

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Wired magazine wrote it up in more detail. It will also reduce spam (which the Secret Service announcement ignores).

Why does one need so many virtual phones for swat threats?

You don’t need phones. They are emulated. Better to call it a SIM farm but phone farm is good enough a term colloquially.

I certainly would be outraged to have a bot assigned to me, as an adult.

Worth trying with kids. They play with dolls after all and imaginary friends.

The example in the article is of a kid patient.

The audience saw the concert poster and thought Massive Attack was a call to arms rather than the name of a band? /s

average of over 60,000 daily active moderators” that month, which, at the time, would mean that 0.1 percent of all mods equals 600 people.

No, it equals 60 people.

I recommended to one person (who I didn’t know well) that she use chatGPT to correct her grammar. It is great for that.

However she then paid for a subscription because she likes the “conversations”. Am feeling guilty now. Better check on her that she isn’t losing the plot.

I always remove the ugly suffix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashanti?wprov=sfla1

What is it for anyhow?

And what about the unwieldy suffix Facebook adds? That must be for tracking reasons but why is it so loooooooooong? Surely a unique identifier wouldn’t require many characters. Is it executable code?

358 instances (so far) of lawyers in Australia using AI evidence which “hallucinated”.

And this week one was finally punished.

ChatGPT is just as stupid.

Not supported for official use because it leaves no trace for the formal record. Not because Signal is insecure.

SimpleX uses Signal tech AFAIK but without requiring phone number or email address.

Or share it over WiFi.

Yes, likes/views is higher but you originally said views/likes is higher.

Could get you arrested in China.