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Claude Code just found proof that every app on your phone is listening to your conversations. TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat. they're using what you say out loud to build your feed. i have the data to prove it.
i've suspected this for months but last week something happened that made me finally check.
i was on a call with my friend and told him i'm thinking about breaking up with my girlfriend. didn't text it. didn't search it. just said it out loud with my phone on the table. two hours later she opens TikTok next to me and her entire feed is breakups. "signs your relationship is over." "how to heal after a breakup." she looked at me and said "why is TikTok showing me this." i said i don't know. but i did know.
i connected my iPhone to my MacBook and ran Claude Code that same night.
it scanned every app's background microphone activity for the last 90 days. not just the apps that asked for microphone permission. apps that were supposed to only have access to photos or location but were activating the microphone anyway.
what it found:
→ TikTok activated the microphone 347 times while the app was "closed" in the background
→ Instagram → 211 background activations
→ Facebook → 189
→ Snapchat → 94
every activation lasted between 3 and 15 seconds. enough to catch a sentence. every one of them tagged a keyword and cached it locally on the phone with a timestamp.
Claude Code pulled the full keyword cache:
→ "breakup" — tagged 4 hours before her feed changed
→ "moving out" — from a conversation with my mom last Tuesday
→ "wedding venue" — from a call with my sister about her engagement that i never searched once
→ "protein powder" — said it out loud to my roommate, had ads for it within an hour
→ "flight to tokyo" — mentioned it at dinner, saw travel ads the same night
those keywords were sitting in a local cache on my phone organized by app with timestamps. TikTok had the most entries. Instagram was second. every single keyword matched a conversation i had out loud near my phone.
the scariest one was "wedding venue." my sister told me she's getting engaged on a private call. i never searched it. never typed it. within a day my explore page had engagement rings and venue tours.
then Claude Code checked a second phone in the same room. my girlfriend's. same keywords. same timestamps. both phones were picking up the same conversation and tagging it independently.
i asked Claude Code how to shut it down. it mapped every app's microphone access and built a permission audit.
what i did:
→ revoked microphone access from every app that doesn't need it to function
→ disabled background app refresh for TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat
→ turned off "Hey Siri" which keeps the microphone in passive listening mode 24/7
→ revoked "nearby interaction" permission which uses ultrasonic audio between devices
Claude Code confirmed all four apps lost background microphone access after the changes. i checked her phone too. same steps. took about 3 minutes per phone.
within 48 hours both our feeds went completely random. generic content. nothing personal. nothing from our conversations. that's when i knew for sure it was real.
the full step by step and the prompt are in the first reply. takes 3 minutes. save it so you don't lose it and send it to anyone who's ever said "my phone is definitely listening to me." it is. now you can prove it and shut it down.
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Person who is reverse engineering his tv gets banned from OpenAI
You aren't allowed to stop your tv from spying on your family. You have to ask for permission
Or, maybe, maybe we accelerate
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Meta’s cuddly spy called Muse has exposed private conversations by making links to shared chats publicly searchable. Predictable.
When someone shared a conversation, Meta created a web link with the title of that conversation. Those links ended up in publicly accessible records where strangers could find them.
Security firm Claroc discovered more than 6,800 shared conversations with a single search. Some contained sensitive personal and business information, including a loan application, a bank fraud alert and confidential company documents.
Anyone who found these links could open the conversations without a password or permission from the person who shared them.
Meta says it has suspended the sharing feature, but records of the exposed links remain publicly accessible.
💡 Meta should shut down this service. It’s riddled with security vulnerabilities and poses serious risks to everyone’s privacy, including people who don’t use it.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t use any of Meta’s products. If someone gives Muse access to their emails, messages or other private accounts, highly sensitive information about you could end up in Meta’s hands without your knowledge or consent.
If someone shares conversations you’ve had with them, or talks about you in messages Muse can access, Meta will learn who you know, what you’ve said, what you’re thinking, your emotional state and your personal vulnerabilities.
That kind of information is being used to build detailed profiles and social graphs about people who’ve never used Muse or agreed to share anything with Meta. You’d have no way of knowing what information had been collected about you or how it was being used.
And because Meta is a US company, information it holds is subject to demands from US authorities.
This is an extraordinary invasion of privacy, including the privacy of people who’ve never used the service.
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426.37 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 11-Oct-2026
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu/
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❗️ The Dutch intelligence service AIVD is warning people not to hold confidential conversations in or near their cars, saying the microphones in many modern vehicles can technically be switched on remotely to eavesdrop.
Some state actors can request car data from carmakers and other companies or hack in to get it themselves, the agency says.
It advises skipping wireless charging and Bluetooth or Wi-Fi pairing, using a USB data blocker and not taking a car with an external camera to a sensitive location.
WiFi-NY retweeted
TP-Link routers are riddled with security vulnerabilities.
Its a feature, not a bug
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A decade of data is only the beginning!
The NYS Mesonet Climatology Portal is officially live! Explore 10 years of weather observations from across New York and see how current conditions compare to long-term averages.
Explore the data: nysmesonet.org/climatology
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We've been getting a lot of questions lately about how the Internet Archive digitizes books.
The short answer: page by page, by hand.
You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it.
Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/…
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Impressive NASA visualization showing the extensive transport of wildfire smoke from Canada and the western U.S. from mid-July to August 5th.
Smoke intensity and movement are depicted using NASA’s GEOS-CAM modeling system.
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A single, centralized platform where you can see extreme and/or potentially high-impact weather, water, and climate events happening or forecast around the world? Check out the @WMO Severe Weather Information Centre, operated by @ObservatoryHK ➡️ severeweather.wmo.int/
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Read this. It's hard to ignore. Let it sink in.
'Scientists detect a sharp acceleration in global warming'.
"If the warming rate of the past 10 years continues, it would lead to a long-term exceedance of the 1.5°C limit of the Paris Agreement before 2030."
"How quickly the Earth continues to warm ultimately depends on how rapidly we reduce global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels to zero."
Stefan Rahmstorf, Professor of Physics of the Ocean at the University of Potsdam
Full Reference:
G. Foster, S. Rahmstorf. Global Warming Has Accelerated Significantly. Geophysical Research Letters, 2026; 53 (5) DOI: 10.1029/2025GL118804.
Fully open access.
#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #NetZero
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The latest mini-solar storm impact has been mild thus far, but the larger solar storm has yet to arrive. The new #SpaceWeatherWoman forecast goes into detail about what is happening now, including the big radiation storm hitting Earth. Find out how long radio communications & GPS reception will be impacted, see when aurora & meteors might be visible this week: youtu.be/uXmqB-s9p0c
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DEC and @HealthNYGov issued an air quality health advisory for tomorrow, July 18th, for fine particulate matter due to the impact of wildfire smoke. New Yorkers may see visible smoke and hazy skies across the state and spikes in smoke-related pollution: dec.ny.gov/news/press-releas…
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Hawaii just enacted a law that effectively neuters Citizens United.
Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum.
Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live.
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The creator of Linux just publicly called out the AI hype. Word for word.
Linus Torvalds took the stage at Open Source Summit 2026 and said this:
"When I see people saying 99% of our code is written by AI, I literally get angry. Because those same people — I can pretty much guarantee — 100% of their code is written by compilers. But they never say that."
He is not anti AI. The Linux kernel saw a 20% jump in submissions this release because of AI tools. He uses it. He gets it.
His point is something most people are too afraid to say.
AI is a productivity tool exactly like compilers were. Compilers boosted programming by 1000x. AI adds another 10x on top. Enormous. But nobody says "the compiler wrote my code." So why are we saying AI wrote it?
He also flagged something nobody is talking about.
AI is flooding small open source projects with drive-by bug reports. Someone runs a prompt, files a report and disappears when asked for a patch. Maintainers with one or two people are drowning trying to keep up.
"Sometimes AI reports a bug and when you ask for more information the person has done that drive-by and does not even answer your question. That is the real burnout issue."
And his final warning was the sharpest of all.
"People who do not understand the complexity of systems will prompt systems and write processes that will fail."
The AI hype crowd is very loud right now.
Linus has been building real systems for 35 years. When he talks, engineers listen.
Full interview here:
thenewstack.io/torvalds-ai-p…
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Microsoft has uncovered a supply chain attack involving malicious npm packages registered under organizational scopes that mirror real internal corporate namespaces, employing dependency confusion technique to deploy a reconnaissance payload. msft.it/6010vZhZ4
A threat actor operating under three maintainer aliases, mr.4nd3r50n, ce-rwb, and t-in-one, published malicious packages that impersonate internal corporate packages, with several spoofing internal enterprise infrastructure URLs in their package.json to appear legitimate.
Once installed, the packages download and execute an obfuscated payload from an attacker-controlled command-and-control (C2) server to collect system information, hostnames, environment variables, and developer context. Read the blog for in-depth analysis and mitigation, detection, and hunting details.
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It was once unusual for Vibrio vulnificus, popularly known as flesh-eating bacteria, to strike north of Georgia. Lately, however, the bacteria have killed people as far north as New York and Rhode Island. “What has happened is that the environment has changed,” Rita Colwell, a 91-year-old biologist at the University of Maryland, told Shayla Love. It’s not that the bacteria are migrating, she said. Low levels are always present where fresh and salty water mix. But, when water warms beyond 50 degrees Fahrenheit, V. vulnificus becomes more common, and above 77 degrees its population soars. Nowadays, about a dozen cases are confirmed in Maryland each year; the number increased by more than 50 per cent in the span of 14 years. A 2023 study found that the season in which the bacteria are detectable now starts in early spring and extends into the fall. “This is insidious, and it’s happening to us,” Colwell said.
Love reports on how a warming planet is changing what scientists call the “unseen majority” of life—microbes—and the ripple effects that could have on everything else: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/br…
