A former Gizmodo writer changed his name to ‘Slackbot’ and stayed undetected for months

Hiding on Slack isn’t all that hard, apparently; you just have to pretend you’re a bot. That’s what IT Brew’s Tom McKay did when he left Gizmodo in 2022, and he went undetected by the site’s management for months. In a post on X, McKay shared some screenshots of the new “Slackbot” persona he took … Read more

Drone in Jordan attack that killed U.S. troops likely went undetected

U.S. forces probably did not detect the approach of the Iranian-made drone that killed three American soldiers last week at a remote base in Jordan, and there was no air defense system on site capable of shooting it down, the military’s initial assessment of the attack has found. The early findings, which have not been … Read more

Meta Will Crack Down on AI-Generated Fakes—but Leave Plenty Undetected

Meta, like other leading tech companies, has spent the past year promising to speed up deployment of generative artificial intelligence. Today it acknowledged it must also respond to the technology’s hazards, announcing an expanded policy of tagging AI-generated images posted to Facebook, Instagram, and Threads with warning labels to inform people of their artificial origins. … Read more