What your devices do when you're not looking, and the switch that stops it.
We've All Done Time in Facebook Jail. Nobody Has Ever Met the Sheriff — and You Can't Find a Single Human to Appeal To.
Facebook polices three billion people with an automated force that warns you, then locks you out for days over something you posted years ago — and gives you no human to ask why. I know what the opposite looks like: twelve years ago I emailed the CEO of Amazon, and a human fixed it in five weeks.
My Smart Glasses Record for Meta by Default. I Found the Switches That Make Them Stop.
I almost stopped wearing my Ray-Ban Meta glasses — all I'd heard was that footage gets reviewed by some company to train an AI, with no real oversight. The fear isn't a myth: in April 2025 Meta turned the AI on by default, made your photos and voice usable for training, and removed the opt-out for storing your voice. But you can't fix it by installing anything — the glasses are locked. You fix it in three settings, one network block, and how you wear them. Here's exactly where the switches are.
How to Spot a Fake Online — and Why You Can't Read Your Way Out of Fake Reviews
In 2025–26 research, AI-generated fake reviews fooled human readers at essentially chance level — and defeated automated detectors just as badly. So the only reliable defense is no longer reading the words or studying the image, but reading the patterns around them.
Spy Agencies of Five Nations Just Issued a Rare Joint Warning on AI
The Five Eyes cyber security agencies (US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) issued a rare joint statement warning that frontier AI will transform offensive cyber capabilities 'in months, not years' — days after a US order barring foreign nationals from Anthropic's two most powerful models forced the company to switch them off for everyone.
A Teacher Vented in a Private Chat. An Hour Later, She Was in Handcuffs.
A 22-year-old student teacher joked to friends in a private Snapchat group that she wanted to shoot a kid who deleted her lesson plan. About an hour later, deputies walked into her school and arrested her. The version going viral says Snapchat's AI read the message and called the FBI. Here's what's confirmed — and what isn't.
AI Is Reading What Your Kid Writes at School. Sometimes It Sends the Police.
A viral clip of a teacher arrested over a private Snapchat joke convinced people that AI now reads your messages and calls the FBI. That case was never actually confirmed — but the system aimed at millions of schoolkids is real, documented, and has already jailed 13-year-olds over jokes.
Anthropic's Newest Model Lasted Three Days
In one week, Anthropic launched its most powerful model, got caught quietly hobbling it, apologized — and then watched the U.S. government pull it off the market entirely. Two of those stories are connected. The third one isn’t, and that’s the part to get right.