NEW: Facebook engineers admit the company's systems make it very hard to know where users' data ends up and how it's used.

"We can’t confidently make controlled policy changes or external commitments such as ‘we will not use X data for Y purpose.’"

vice.com/en/article/akv… We obtained a leaked internal Facebook document that describes the company's challenges dealing with users' data.

Facebook engineers came up with this eloquent metaphor to describe how the company systems work.

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NEW: Hackers took over the official Instagram account of @BoredApeYC and tricked people into giving up control of their wallets.

The hackers stole 134 NFTs, which according to estimates are valued at $2.7 million.

vice.com/en/article/88g… If you want to see a rollercoaster of emotions, log onto the Bored Yacht Club official Discord channel.

“RIP to the apes that got tricked on IG today.”

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Scoop: Syniverse, a cellphone network backbone provider for Verizon, AT&T, Vodafone and others got hacked.

Company refused to disclose details of the hack. Experts say hackers potentially accessed call metadata (callers ID, location) and SMS content.

vice.com/en/article/z3x… Hackers were inside Syniverse systems for years. Breach started in May 2016, and company said it discovered it in May 2021.

This is how bad it could be, according to experts, industry insiders, and a former Syniverse employee.

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I have been a journalist for 10ish years at this point and I am pretty sure that my lasting legacy will be the “You can get better pizza in NYC than in most of Italy” blog.

I still get people reaching out randomly about it. And I’m very proud of that. For example. This is a restaurant in a random town 1 hour away from Milan.

Mind you, they showcase this as a way to entice you to be their patron.

I finally started reading the ProPublica tax investigation and I’m now listening to a sea waves Spotify playlist to offset my rage. Uhm…switching to Rage Against the Machine

NEW: Apple pushed an emergency patch for iPhones just a week after releasing iOS 14.5.

Since the beginning of the year, Apple has patched 12 vulnerabilities that "may have been actively exploited" in the wild.

11 of them in WebKit.

vice.com/en/article/v7e… Bad times for the WebKit devs, and this is another sign that the number of vulnerabilities caught being used in the wild are going up.

But this also shows Apple and other companies are getting better at detecting them.

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Today is a good day, so it's time for a personal story.

Last year I became depressed. It's hard to explain *why* and that's part of the struggle with such an illness. I would routinely feel sad and demotivated. I felt like I was doing shitty work, and I thought about death. I lost joy in many things I would normally enjoy, including spending time with my partner and my friends, and even writing—a job that has been a lifelong dream.

I realized the best way to get out of the hole was for me to take time off from work and focus on self-care.

New: Government spyware vendor Wolf Intelligence left a treasure trove of its own data online for all to see in an open server and a public Google Drive folder.

Leak included data exfiltrated from surveillance targets, customer meetings, and more.

motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/… In case you don't remember Wolf Intelligence, let me refresh your memory.

Their CEO, Manish Kumar, sent an innocent Italian bodyguard to Mauritania. The bodyguard was kidnapped and taken hostage for 20 months after a deal went wrong.
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