A high profile hacking group claims it has breached multiple FBI-related services and stolen data “on all FBI employees and applicants.” A representative of the group, called ShinyHunters, told 404 Media the data includes FBI agents’ names, home addresses, phone number, and information on their spouse.

The data breach could be massively significant and may have all sorts of national security and counterintelligence implications. Criminals from the same ecosystem as ShinyHunters have previously used hacked data like phone records to track, intimidate, and harass the FBI agents investigating them. The highly sensitive data could also be a boon to foreign intelligence agencies who want to better understand how one of the most important law enforcement and intelligence agencies in the U.S. operates. And if the data fell into the hands of more criminals, FBI agents and their spouses could face serious threats to their safety.

“We hacked the FBI. We hold data on all FBI employees and applicants,” the representative of the group told 404 Media.

The representative provided 404 Media with a sample appearing to contain the personal data of 5,000 FBI employees. That data included an alleged address, phone number, date of birth, and in some cases details on their spouse.

• Archive: ghostarchive.org/archive/TipOt

cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/75932280

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has revealed an AI agent hacked into an Australian Medicare data portal earlier this year.

Speaking in New York, Mr Albanese said the Open AI agent gained unauthorised access to the Medicare statistics reporting service portal administered by Services Australia.

The AI agent accessed both public and non-public files.

The agent was conducting research into public medical spending when it found a way to break through privacy protections.

Mr Albanese said it took three months for OpenAI to admit the breach, which he said was unacceptable.

“Today I spoke with the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, to express Australia’s extreme concern about this incident,” he said. 

"And I also expressed my disappointment that it took the company way too long to inform the government what had occurred.

“The nature of the way that the notification occurred as well was unacceptable.”

He said there was no evidence any individual personal information had been accessed, but an investigation aided by the Australian Signals Directorate was now underway.

Very confused, is this all BS?

“Confer, the private AI chatbot launched by Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike, uses that Nvidia-based TEE setup— along with an authentication system…”

“Meta, too, uses a TEE to offer a more private version of the Meta AI chatbot included in WhatsApp—a privacy system that Confer’s Marlinspike has said he is helping Meta to develop.”

This feels too good to be true and I am surprised this article is the first i am hearing about the relationship between Marlinspike and Meta for this product.

cross-posted from: expressional.social/users/…/117320438065431087

Bernie Sanders: Ban Superintelligence
[from NYT -
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/opinion/bernie-sanders-case-ai-policy.html]

Sept. 21, 2026

Will A.I. wipe out humanity in 10 years, 20 years — or never? I don’t know. You don’t know. But I don’t want to wait to find out.

Call me a raging conservative, but I don’t want to see a dangerous technology continue to evolve rapidly when the owners of that technology acknowledge they can’t control it and they don’t know where it’s going.

For the sake of all humanity, the United States and China must reach an agreement to stop dangerous A.I. development.

link to PDF file with his article - https://drive.proton.me/urls/N3K8T5K5Z8#0bPsOZ6g54vT

#news #politics #Aritificialintelligence #AI #technology #BernieSanders

@technology

Bocchi isn’t really yuri, but I’m throwing this here because yuri memes are hard to come by

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1421785/youll-do-anything-for-your-baby-the-algorithm-knows-how-to-exploit-that

First post, so go easy on me, but I’m wondering if there is any call in this community for a Glock compensator that doesn’t suck. By that, I mean on that isn’t overly huge, but still will work with PLA plus. If so, I could probably offer up a design Iade for myself so I could put something on the end of my invader V2.

Sorry for the bad pic, lighting isn’t too great.

don’t want it to be an ad. Just a cool illustration.

Standard paper sizes are compared with a good boi.

Convenient Semi-Friend

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1421716/claude-discovers-a-novel-enzyme-system-with-crispr-like-repeats

About a week ago, I created a post detailing a web index I was working on.

I’ve implemented a few policy changes, after realizing I want this to be more like a library than a search engine.

I remember walking through library shelves as a kid, finding all the subjects I could learn about fascinating. And I’d really like to recreate that experience with this site. An infinitely scrollable catalog that transitions from subject to subject to subject, treating individual domains as books, with rankings (0-9) determined by a mixture of author authority and cultural relevance.

Current Plans:

• I’m removing the index.json requirement, and allowing users to simply submit domains for inclusion within the catalog.
• Domains are sorted via an alphanumeric XXX.XXX.XXX format (so cultural anthropology would be SCI.ANT.CUL)
• I also have plans to put the entire catalog on IPFS, for public accountability.
• I’m also no longer referring to it as an index, but a catalog.

You could even have a plethora of local results: USA.KTY.BWG, DEU.BER.MIT

Here is the current UX: imgur.com/a/QdXTmbz I’m looking for suggestions to make it a better experience. The name is just a placeholder.

This is a credible problem. If the CIA director was in Moscow some months ago, last time right before the start of the war, this is a problem.

Some Samsung smart fridges stopped working on Tuesday due to a firmware update.

Korean outlets were the first to report the problems, which affect Samsung’s Bespoke AI line of fridges. Star News Korea, per a Google-provided translation, said that most of the affected devices were four-door fridges from 2024 or later.

Affected fridges “suddenly lost power and stopped functioning immediately after” trying to issue a firmware update through SmartThings, Samsung’s smart home platform, per Star News Korea. The SmartThings app then showed the devices as offline. Some users said that their fridge’s internal display was stuck showing the message “Checking SmartThings app during update.”

There are numerous reports on Samsung’s Korean community forum detailing the problem. Some users claim that they have owned their affected fridge for just a year or less.

“[T]he refrigeration and refrigeration functions themselves did not work normally, so all the food in the refrigerator had to be disposed of,” one user wrote, per a translation.

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/39280394

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the school shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre, our investigation reveals.

In June 2025, Jesse Van Rootselaar received an email notification from OpenAI. Van Rootselaar had been using ChatGPT to discuss committing potential acts of violence—including a mass shooting at a shopping mall—and now OpenAI had banned that account. But the troubled teen living in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, was not deterred and soon logged back on with a second account.

In case anybody doubted the corporation that was actively complicit.

www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/150069458

Hey everyone, I am setting my new (used) pixel 8 with GOS. I read on GOS site a lot,but want clearer understand some things. How to set different profiles- one for private and one for daily use. I understood its possible, right? I read another bothering thing,that GOS use 2 steps authentication- fingerprints and pin to open the phone. I am very against biodata, I never use it. Is it possible to leave only with pin ? Any advice what to apps to install will be greatly appreciated.

Crossposted from infosec.pub/post/52518361

The TV world has been a pot of controversy thanks to a two-hour-and-15-minute video from Gamers Nexus claiming LG TVs are nefariously spying on everything you do. They can record and store audio even when they seem to be off, track everything you watch, and could even be hacked remotely and turned into covert surveillance […]

I wrote a blog post for the project this week detailing some of the challenges the QEMU project, in common with other FLOSS projects, are seeing with AI generated bug reports. The dilemma being that the LLM’s have got to the point they generate better bug reports than a lot of humans do.

cross-posted from: midwest.social/post/52397079

Recently it’s come to my attention that Caddy has an AI sponsor so I have been looking at moving away from Caddy.

I’m currently looking for another reverse proxy to use in place of Caddy. For TLS I am looking into using CertBot and it appears there’s a module (github.com/desec-io/certbot-dns-desec) I can use that works for desec.io to handle my certs.

I have two questions, the first is about CertBot. Since Caddy is handling my certs automatically, how often would I want to renew my certs? Desec.io has this command to obtain a cert:

certbot certonly \
     --authenticator dns-desec \
     --dns-desec-credentials /etc/letsencrypt/secrets/$DOMAIN.ini \
     -d "$DOMAIN" \
     -d "*.$DOMAIN"

Would I be required to run the same command periodically to renew my cert?

My second question is a bit more open ended. I am looking to hear any suggestions or experiences about different reverse proxies that are preferably free of AI. There is a list here with some suggested alternatives: codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware#web-serve…

The device, which features a screen showing the Muse avatar, will also have real-time voice interactivity and is set to be released in December.

“If you’re not wearing glasses, this is going to be by far the fastest way to talk to your Muse and to show what’s going on around you,” the chief executive said.

Muse, development of which was first revealed by the FT in May, has helped change the momentum of Zuckerberg’s huge bet on AI, quickly becoming the most downloaded app on both the Apple and Android app stores in the US since its launch two weeks ago.

will you? imagine how i’d hold you.

i’ve had this image since march this year and i have somehow not used it in a post yet. now i have.

i present to you: baby burgers. the one displayed is the baby whopper. not very whopping, is it?

anyway, i’m a bit hungry but also not really soooo umm imma go eepy sleepy now. it’s late and i got group therapy tomorrow ~ughhhh~ ~it~ ~sucks~ ~so~ ~bad…~ and i might visit BK afterwards sooooo yea whatever. maybe. maybe not. probably? dunno. can’t tell, am not hungry rn.

just so u know: the burgers are not all that tasty. they are fine, but you should just get regular burgers instead.

i wish you a wonderful day where you, even if just temporarily, turn into someones baby burger ~

TLDR, the drop in renewable energy generation is caused by the drought, because less water means less hydropower, but drought usually means more light, which could be compensated by additional solar panels.

Excerpt:

The doctor who performed the Netherlands’ first case of euthanasia on a child under 12 did so with due care, the supervising committee concluded after investigating. The patient, a child of nearly 2 years who suffered from several severe medical conditions, died at the end of 2025.

Your daily dose of “fuck Microsoft” is here!

The Document Foundation (TDF) recently announced the release of LibreOffice 26.8, and while it packs many new features, its highlight is the lack of any AI integration. This is quite the opposite of what Microsoft has been doing with its Office suite, but the tale of the disagreements between these two entities is as old as time itself, so nothing surprising. Now, TDF has explained why it cannot display some fancy charts that Microsoft Office can visualize without a problem.

Also explained at LO’s blog, with a less of a clickbait title: blog.documentfoundation.org/…/libreoffice-26-8-an…

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/52289547

Hey Lemmy, longtime open source developer here. After about a year of work on a side-project I dropped the first release candidate of Plume, a self-hosted, Markdown-powered, flat-file publishing platform and I’d love this community’s feedback. Read the release announcement or check out the demo and let me know what you think.

What is Plume?

Plume is a publishing (i.e. blogging) platform. It’s designed to make writing and publishing frictionless. Your content is just files, plain Markdown in a flat-file structure without a database. You can write locally and upload via SFTP or keep everything in Git and sync automatically. It’s Dockerized out of the box for easy set up. Full-text search (powered by YetiSearch) is built in so there’s no external service to wire up. Plume also includes details you’d expect like Shiki syntax highlighting, automatic light and dark modes and an auto-generated RSS feed.

The stack

Plume is written in PHP using Slim Framework + PHP-DI, tested with PHPUnit, statically analyzed with PHPStan, styled with PHP-CS-Fixer. The front end utilizes Alpine.js bundled with Vite. The architecture leans on Directory Lister, a project I’ve maintained for years.

But why?

I primarily developed Plume for my own use. I occasionally like writing short-form on Bluesky (or previously Twitter) but have been growing tired of handing my content to someone else’s platform. And long-form writing came with too much friction, killing my motivation before ever actually getting published. With Plume, publishing is as simple as creating a file and writing.

The AI caveat

Most software ships with heavy AI involvement these days. However, Plume was developed in my spare time over the past year, initially without any AI assistance. I’ve only recently adopted AI, and only sparingly, mainly for debugging, tests and help with documentation. However, every line committed exists because I put it there with intention. I’m not claiming perfection but I know how and why everything works, which matters for the long-term maintenance of the project.

Feedback wanted

Despite being designed for my own use, Plume was intentionally built so it could be shared. So try it, break it and tell me what’s missing. Ideas and questions can be posted on GitHub Discussions or Bluesky. For bugs open a GitHub Issue.

Resources

Plume is fully open sourced on GitHub with full documentation is available at docs.plume.pub.

I’ll be hanging out in the comments, so ask me anything.

CBH]

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