Is Tesla really cooked? Watch as The Verge transportation editor, Andrew Hawkins, walks us through how Elon Musk’s unprecedented takeover of the federal government has transformed public opinion of his car company into something increasingly toxic instead of futuristic, with some owners suddenly selling their cars even at a loss.
An arrest has been made in connection with a recent incident where someone wearing all black threw Molotov cocktails at vehicles and spray painted “resist” on the doors of a Tesla collision center in Las Vegas.
As reported earlier by the Las Vegas Review-Journal and other outlets, Paul Hyon Kim has been arrested and is facing charges including arson as well as the destruction of property, and law enforcement officials said he would also be booked on federal charges later today.
After years of providing breach notifications and useful advice about how to avoid getting hacked, Have I Been Pwned operator Troy Hunt’s personal blog mailing list has become the source of a breach after he fell for a fake spam alert phishing attack this week. He has notified subscribers, and is following up for people who unsubscribed but still had data stored by his provider, Mailchimp.
Read the blog post for details on how they got him (listen to your password manager), how it could’ve been avoided (passkeys!), and what else there is to learn.
While claiming that The Atlantic “is going to be out of business soon,” Trump commented on the Signal group chat scandal in a Newsmax interview Tuesday night.
A day after The Atlantic EIC Jeffrey Goldberg revealed he’d been inadvertently included in a group message on Signal where Trump admin officials discussed details of an upcoming military strike, CBS News reports on an NSA warning from February that the app isn’t approved for “nonpublic unclassified” information. Despite testimony today that no classified material was shared, the NSA noted the danger posed by Russian phishing campaigns attempting to add a linked device and bypass Signal’s encryption for surveillance.
Later on Tuesday evening, Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries shared a letter he’d sent to the president saying Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth “should be fired immediately” over the breach, and watchdog organization American Oversight said it’s filed a lawsuit against several of the officials in the chat.
More than 25 years ago, Napster opened a music IP can of worms, and long after the lawsuits ended, its zombified name has stuck around for connections to iHeartRadio, Rhapsody, and NFTs. Now CNBC reports that something called Infinite Reality has bought the brand, intending to market metaverse music experiences where it will “...create virtual 3D spaces that allow music fans to enjoy concerts or listening parties together, and let musicians or labels sell physical and virtual merchandise.”
