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Absolute horror story of a long-time Apple customer who was locked out of their devices and account with no recourse after redeeming a suspected bad gift card.

Gift card scams are on the rise & increasingly difficult to spot, and can have devastating consequences.

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/apple-nuking-a-customer-account-over-a-bad-gift-card-is-a-warning-for-everyone/

Apple nuking a customer's account over a bad gift card is a warning for everyone

One long-time Apple customer was left with no recourse after a bad gift card triggered a full account and device lock-out.

~this week in security~

When you email issues to Obsidian Entertainment (the video game company) their AI support hallucinates and tells you to email Obsidian (the note-taking company) instead.

The perils of trusting an LLM with your customer support.

Apple will make hacking iPhones much, much more difficult via memory integrity enforcement (ARM memory tagging). This technology will make many classes of exploits impossible. In all models of iPhone 17. If you're a concerned HVT/VIP, buy the new iPhones. https://security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement/
Memory Integrity Enforcement: A complete vision for memory safety in Apple devices - Apple Security Research

Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) is the culmination of an unprecedented design and engineering effort spanning half a decade that combines the unique strengths of Apple silicon hardware with our advanced operating system security to provide industry-first, always-on memory safety protection across our devices — without compromising our best-in-class device performance. We believe Memory Integrity Enforcement represents the most significant upgrade to memory safety in the history of consumer operating systems.

Memory Integrity Enforcement: A complete vision for memory safety in Apple devices - Apple Security Research

How do you become a successful CEO in a tech company? Some tips:
+ Must be able to fire a large number of employees
+ Must be able to buy back stock in large quantities
+ Must be able to replace as many jobs as possible with AI
+ Must be able to justify firing and make it all about you

Can you do all that and sleep peacefully?

Five years ago, during our research on link previews, we discovered that Meta servers download every shared file in Facebook Messenger and Instagram DM in full—even if it’s gigabytes in size. Now, looking back, it would be interesting to know if Meta used these files to train their AI models. Meta insisted it wasn’t a bug. When we published videos demonstrating the issue, they asked YouTube to take them down. YouTube removed one video and gave us a strike.

#Privacy #LLM

https://youtu.be/9a_5hoBL7s0?feature=shared

Link Previews: Instagram servers download any link sent in Direct Messages even if it's 2.6 GB

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Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for #LibreOffice and #Linux https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-denmark-is-dumping-microsoft-office-and-windows-for-libreoffice-and-linux/ by @sjvn

Europe doesn't trust the US government or its tech powers, so its countries are looking elsewhere.

Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux

Before the Danish government announced its move, Denmark's largest cities, Copenhagen and Aarhus, had already announced plans to phase out Microsoft software and cloud services. Here's why.

ZDNET

I’m 37 years old and living with end-stage kidney disease in Oregon. I urgently need a living kidney donor. My blood type is A+. NKR covers all costs—travel, lodging, medical, and time off work.

Please visit https://www.nkr.org/PZG643 to learn more. Even if you can’t donate, sharing this post could help me find a match. #KidneyDonation #OrganDonation #ESKD #DonateLife #GiveLife #ShareYourSpare #BeADonor #Transplant #MedicalMiracle

Michael Maattanen Needs a Kidney | Can You Help?

Michael Maattanen Needs a Kidney | Can You Help?

The reason why the old IE versus Firefox match was won by Firefox is because it just did one job: "connect to a web server and display pages," and nothing else. Then these execs hijacked foundations for personal gain, and now here we are in 2025. It is messed up.

This is unpopular opinion, but for Firefox to live, Mozilla, as it currently operates, needs to die.

They forgot their core user base hates cloud and AI features. They want a simple browser that connects to web servers and displays pages. Meanwhile, executive are getting fat salaries and bounces while begging users for money on AI and other privacy intrusion projects like adding perplexity directly to Firefox. They lost their vision long time ago.

Coinbase confirmed that over 69,000 customers had personal and financial information stolen in its recent data breach.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/21/coinbase-says-its-data-breach-affects-at-least-69000-customers/

Coinbase says its data breach affects at least 69,000 customers | TechCrunch

The crypto giant said the unauthorized access to customer data dates back to late December 2024.

TechCrunch