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An NYT reporter finds AI-generated, unauthorized biographies of herself and other journalists on Amazon, where AI-made b...

Kashmir Hill / New York Times: An NYT reporter finds AI-generated, unauthorized biographies of herself and other journalists on Amazon, where AI-made books with elusive “authors” p...

Generated book slop

Upon discovery of a generated biography on Amazon about her, NYT journalist Kashmir…Tags: biography, Kashmir Hill, New York Times

Journalist Kara Swisher made her mark on Silicon Valley. Her next target: The 2028 campaign

Kara Swisher is everywhere.She’s filling in for Joy Behar on ABC’s The View. Appearing alongside Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada 2. Starring in a CNN documentary. Preparing a...

The Business of Helping the Ultra-Wealthy Vanish From the Internet

A growing industry now sells executives and high-net-worth clients something increasingly difficult to secure on their own: a smaller digital footprint.

Someone Used A.I. to Write an Unauthorized Biography of Me. I Don’t Recommend Reading It.

Someone used A.I. to write my biography. Thousands more of those books are polluting Amazon. Who is behind all this drivel?

Meet Sarah Kendzior: The bestselling author who traded her writing desk for a $17-an-hour garden centre job and found un...

Kash Patel Loses Lawsuit Against Blogger Who Called Him A 'Googly-Eyed Kremlin B*tch'

A federal judge in Nevada has thrown out FBI Director Kash Patel's $10 million (!!!) defamation lawsuit against blogger Jim Stewartson — the guy Patel sued for calling him a "Kreml...

Kylie Meta Glasses: Launching Surveillance Tech As A Style Accessory

This Kylie-Meta partnership represents the most preposterous version of this playbook yet: that women aren’t just a market segment being sold pink hardware, they are also being sol...

The CEO of America’s most powerful surveillance company spent $200 million on places nobody can find him

Alex Karp, the co-founder and chief executive of Palantir Technologies, has quietly assembled a real estate portfolio worth more than $200 million across a reported 20 properties w...

Security Roundup: Apple’s Hide My Email Service Fails to Hide Your Email

Plus: Alleged Scattered Spider hacking member extradited, dozens of license plate reader errors, and Indian officials are concerned about WhatsApp’s username rollout.

Scott Galloway: I Got ‘Doxed’ by Mamdani

Pivot co-hosts Galloway and Kara Swisher discuss the bumpy pied-à-terre tax rollout.

78 Victims, One Lazy Key, and a Firebase Named After India’s Ruling Party

A researcher’s account of dismantling a fake traffic-challan APK that hides an SMS-intercepting, UPI-hijacking trojan — and stumbling onto…Continue reading on Medium »

A profile of Kaley Glenn-Mills, the plaintiff in K.G.M. v. Meta et al., who was awarded $6M in damages in a landmark LA...

Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: A profile of Kaley Glenn-Mills, the plaintiff in K.G.M. v. Meta et al., who was awarded $6M in damages in a landmark LA jury trial over social media ad...

Kash Patel Posts Salty Response to MS Now Report on His ‘Lavish Lifestyle’: ‘My Jet Ski Is Gold Plated’

FBI Director Kash Patel gave a fiery snapback to an MS NOW piece questioning how long he would be supported by President Donald Trump. The post Kash Patel Posts Salty Response to M...

Booted from Malaysia, tech guru Balaji Srinivasan finds a new patron for his ‘nomad’ commune: Kazakhstan

It's been a weekslong saga involving crypto-friendly tech utopianism, tensions over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and even China’s real estate crash.

Gwyneth Paltrow Responds After Being Called the “Most Out-of-Touch Celebrity” Over Sam Altman Dinner Invite

Gwyneth Paltrow faced intense digital backlash after news broke of an exclusive Hamptons dinner for OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, exposing a growing rift between celebrity elites and publ...

The Creators at OpenAI’s Wildflower Farms Retreat—and the Backlash That Followed

OpenAI invited about 30 creators to a luxury retreat in the Hudson Valley. Attendees including Grace McCarrick and Nat Lucy faced criticism after sharing posts from the trip to the...

Grim New Details From the Life of the Plaintiff in Social Media’s ‘Big Tobacco’ Case

The anonymous social media addiction lawsuit plaintiff known as “K.G.M.” has stepped out of the shadows.

Elon Musk’s Grok Faces a Trust Crisis After Developers Flag a Major Privacy Concern

Developers say Grok uploaded their private code without consent. Sam Altman called it ‘concerning.’

Kash Patel Lawsuit Against Blogger Who Called Him A “Kremlin Asset” Tossed

DEI Hire FBI Director Kash Patel's lawsuit against a blogger is officially in Valhalla after a federal judge tossed it.

Bill Gates’ Daughter Knew For Months That Her App Claimed Sales It Didn’t Drive, Report Claims

"whatever we can do to keep these cookies dropping will be amazing thank you," Gates' co-founder allegedly texted an engineer.

The A.I. Giants Weren’t Prepared for This

Jasmine Sun, a writer covering technology, takes us into the backlash against A.I. data centers.

The Hidden Life of a UPI ID

Originally appeared on Josh Software.@ybl to @oksbi: the hidden architecture, ownership, and lifecycle of India’s payment identity. Open Google Pay. Tap “Create UPI ID.” Wait two s...

The Tech Titans and Billionaire Heirs Who Own America’s Newsrooms

The country’s most visible newsrooms are increasingly shaped by tech founders, investors and heirs with power far beyond journalism.