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The Trump Administration’s Chat Hack Is Starting to Sound Really Bad

The Trump Administration’s Chat Hack Is Starting to Sound Really Bad

President Donald Trump’s national security adviser Mike Waltz has already been ousted for using a bottom-shelf Signal clone for official messaging — but the fallout from that debacle is still getting worse and worse. As Reuters reports, a hacker who accessed information from TeleMessage, an Israeli messaging app that was sold to the government to archive messages from Signal and other services, obtained data from way more Trump officials than previously thought. It’s been an especially tough year for Waltz. After being caught accidentally adding Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic‘s editor-in-chief, to a Signal group chat about Yemeni bombing plans, the Trump adviser was photographed using TeleMessage‘s Signal clone during a Cabinet meeting just before news broke that it had been hacked. Though Waltz was ultimately fired , the hits have continued in his absence. With the help of the nonprofit Distributed Denial of Secrets, which publishes hacked information of interest to the public, Reuters found more than 60 government officials whose information had been accessed from TeleMessage. Those officials range from staffers with the State Department and the …

SNL Has Entered the Chat

SNL Has Entered the Chat

In last night’s Saturday Night Live cold open, three teenage girls chatted over Signal. They gossiped (“Did you guys see what Jessica wore at school today? Oh my God, she is such a pick-me girl”). They teased one another (“Hey, it takes one to know one, Bannessa!”). They did what teenage girls do. And then: “FYI: Green light on Yemen raid.” Yep, SNL entered the Signalgate chat. In SNL’s version of events, it wasn’t (just) Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic’s editor in chief—played by Mikey Day—who was added to the now-infamous text chain known as the “Houthi PC small group.” This time it was also three teenage girls, played by Ego Nwodim, Sarah Sherman, and the episode’s host, the recent Oscar winner Mikey Madison. Read: The Trump administration accidentally texted me its war plans In this scenario, Pete Hegseth, played by Andrew Dismukes, was the wayward texter. “Tomahawks airborne 15 minutes ago,” he announced. “Who’s ready to glass some Houthi rebels? Flag emoji, flag emoji, flag emoji, fire emoji, eggplant.” Soon, more members of the Trump …

Even More Venmo Accounts Tied to Trump Officials in Signal Group Chat Left Data Public

Even More Venmo Accounts Tied to Trump Officials in Signal Group Chat Left Data Public

Venmo did not immediately respond to WIRED’s request for comment. In a statement given to WIRED in response to questions about the Waltz and Wiles accounts, spokesperson Erin Mackey said, “We take our customers’ privacy seriously, which is why we let customers choose their privacy settings on Venmo for both their individual payments and friends lists—and we make it incredibly simple for customers to make these private if they choose to do so.” “From my perspective, as a veteran, everyone is entitled to use the applications and services they feel are necessary to live their lives,” says Tara Lemieux, a 35-year veteran of the US intelligence community including the National Security Agency, Department of Homeland Security, and supporting agencies. “That said, when you post anything in those third-party applications and you don’t understand how that information can be shared or exploited, you are taking a risk for our nation—and that’s not acceptable.” For Lemieux, while public transactions on Venmo might appear harmless, foreign intelligence services—particularly signals intelligence agencies—look for patterns: who’s paying whom, how often, …

Jeffrey Goldberg on the Group Chat That Broke the Internet

Jeffrey Goldberg on the Group Chat That Broke the Internet

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts It’s happened to the best of us. We mistakenly send a text about a colleague we are mad at to that very colleague. We accidentally include our mom on the sibling text chain about our mom. Today on Radio Atlantic, a much higher-stakes texting error: The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, received a connection request on Signal from a “Michael Waltz,” which is the name of President Donald Trump’s national security adviser. Two days later, he was added to a group text with top administration officials created for the purpose of coordinating high-level national-security conversations about the Houthis in Yemen. On March 15, Goldberg sat in his car in a grocery-store parking lot waiting to see if the strike would actually happen. The bombs fell. The text thread had to be real. We talk with Goldberg about this absurd chain of events, and with Shane Harris, who covers national security for The Atlantic, about what it means that defense officials were …

Non-smokers’ dating profiles are more likely to receive video chat invitations

Non-smokers’ dating profiles are more likely to receive video chat invitations

New research has found that dating profiles indicating that their owners are non-smokers are more likely to receive video chat invitations compared to profiles of smokers. Male participants reported being more likely to send messages (to the owners of the dating profiles they were shown), initiate video chats, propose to meet offline, and make dating decisions than female participants. The paper was published in Telematics and Informatics. With the advent of the Internet over the past couple of decades, many human activities have gradually moved online. Dating is one of them. Online dating is a method of meeting potential romantic partners through websites or mobile apps, where users create profiles and interact based on shared interests or compatibility algorithms. It has become increasingly popular due to its convenience, accessibility, and the ability to connect with people outside one’s immediate social circle. The online dating app market generated almost 5 billion dollars in revenue in 2022. It is estimated that more than 300 million people have used dating apps worldwide, with about 20 million paying for …

Labour MP ‘deeply regrets’ comments he made on WhatsApp group – after minister sacked for remarks on same chat | UK News

Labour MP ‘deeply regrets’ comments he made on WhatsApp group – after minister sacked for remarks on same chat | UK News

A Labour MP has said he “deeply regrets” comments he made on a WhatsApp group – a day after health minister Andrew Gwynne was sacked for alleged racist and sexist remarks posted on the same chat. Burnley MP Oliver Ryan is being investigated by the Labour Party over comments which a government source said were “unacceptable and deeply disappointing”. The source told the Press Association: “While a Labour Party investigation is already under way, the chief whip will also be speaking to him and no action is off the table.” X This content is provided by X, which may be using cookies and other technologies. To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies. You can use the buttons below to amend your preferences to enable X cookies or to allow those cookies just once. You can change your settings at any time via the Privacy Options. Unfortunately we have been unable to verify if you have consented to X cookies. To view this content you can use the button below to …

I’m a Celebrity viewers want Barry McGuigan to win the show after ‘brave’ chat about grief

I’m a Celebrity viewers want Barry McGuigan to win the show after ‘brave’ chat about grief

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails I’m a Celebrity star Barry McGuigan has become a favourite to win after viewers praised his openness in talking about the death of his daughter. The 63-year-old former boxing champion is one of a handful of celebrities who entered the Australian jungle over the weekend, to take part in a series of gruelling challenges. While the show’s launch saw the stars drink gruesome cocktails and skydive out of helicopters, the latest episode saw more reflective conversations taking place as the group bonded. “I used to go to church a lot but after my daughter… you know, not so much,” the former boxer replied to Irish radio presenter Dean McCullough who asked if McGuigan went to church. “She had leukaemia, when I was making The Boxer with Daniel Day-Lewis, three weeks from the end I had to leave because she’d been …

Free Gemini users can finally chat in a flash

Free Gemini users can finally chat in a flash

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Google made several updates to the free version of its Gemini chatbot, including making its low-latency multimodal model Gemini 1.5 Flash available and adding more source links to reduce hallucinations.   Gemini 1.5 Flash, previously only available to developers, is best suited for tasks requiring quick responses, such as answering customer queries. Google announced the model during its annual developer conference, Google I/O, in May but has since opened it up to the public.  The model has a large context window, referring to how much information or words it processes at a time, of around 1 million tokens. Google said Gemini 1.5 Flash on the Gemini chatbot will have a context window of 32K tokens. A large context window allows for more complex questions and longer back-and-forth conversations.  To take advantage of this, Google is updating the free version of Gemini to handle file uploads from Google Drive or devices. This has been a feature in Gemini …

Scarlett Johansson Jokes She Hopes ‘Nobody Will Ever Read’ The ‘Avengers’ Group Chat

Scarlett Johansson Jokes She Hopes ‘Nobody Will Ever Read’ The ‘Avengers’ Group Chat

The content of Scarlett Johansson’s group chat with her Avengers costars is more secretive than a S.H.I.E.L.D. mission. In a new interview with The New York Times, the Fly Me To The Moon star, gave a tight-lipped tease about the confidential text chain she shares with her Marvel co-stars Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Jeremy Renner, Chris Hemsworth and Mark Ruffalo. When asked to confirm if the cast communicated through the private thread, she replied: “Yes, that’s true. But hopefully, nobody will ever read it.” “Everything goes on in there,” the two-time Oscar nominee shared. “I mean, really. If somebody’s gotten terrible reviews, that could be something that comes up.” The classified chat’s members are the original six stars of The Avengers, who starred in four of the franchise’s films together between 2012 and 2019. Nearly all of the actors went on to receive their own solo movies, including Scarlett, who led 2021’s Black Widow. Noting that the group is “like a family”, she explained: “We’ve been through an incredible experience over a decade plus …

Brooklyn Peltz Beckham Enters The ‘Nepo Baby’ Chat

Brooklyn Peltz Beckham Enters The ‘Nepo Baby’ Chat

Brooklyn Peltz Beckham has spoken out amid the ongoing discussion about Hollywood nepotism. Although conversations about industry nepotism are not exactly anything new, the debate blew up in 2022, when New York Magazine ran a feature dubbed The Year of The Nepo Baby. Since then, a string of public figures who have benefited from their own connections within show business (dubbed “nepo babies” by many) have spoken out on the subject – the latest being Brooklyn, the eldest son of David and Victoria Beckham. “I can’t help how I was born,” he told InStyle magazine, ahead of the launch of his new brand Cloud23. “I couldn’t ask for better parents and I’m just trying to work my ass off and trying to make a name for myself. That’s all I can say, really.” Brooklyn with his parents Victoria and David Beckham in 2019 Karwai Tang via Getty Images Throughout his time in the spotlight, Brooklyn has tried his hand at everything from football and photography to modelling. In recent years, he’s focussed on his love …