Lucas Ropek

United States

Writer and blogger @gizmodo, covering cybersecurity, privacy, AI, other tech stuff. Opinions/RTs are my own. Send tips and complaints to [email protected].

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How Trump Fumbled the Jeffrey Epstein Problem

23 hours ago | gizmodo.com | Lucas Ropek

Ever since 2016, when he rode down a golden escalator and took his first steps into the U.S. political arena, Donald Trump has had a problem: For the better part of a decade, he enjoyed a close (and quite public) friendship with a man who would later go on to be known as one of the most notorious sexual predators in modern American history. That man, of course, was Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump Wants to Spend $2 Million Investigating Whether DEI Causes Plane Crashes

1 day ago | gizmodo.com | Lucas Ropek

America is a corrupt place, and it’s not infrequent for that corruption to result in less-than-stellar results for the American consumer. Sometimes those poor results manifest as cheap, ineffective products. Other times, they may lead to more serious problems, like cancer-causing chemicals in your food. Sometimes corporate dysfunction has even been known to spur plane crashes.
Trump Wants to Spend $2 Million Investigating Whether DEI Causes Plane Crashes

1 day ago | technewstube.com | Lucas Ropek

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Reddit Sues Anthropic, Accusing It of Illegal Data Use

2 days ago | technewstube.com | Lucas Ropek

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Reddit Sues Anthropic, Accusing It of Illegal Data Use

2 days ago | gizmodo.com | Lucas Ropek

It’s well known that the AI industry rests on shaky legal ground. Companies like OpenAI have built their multi-billion-dollar businesses on the backs of vast tranches of training data, much of which is sourced from copyrighted content. The creators of that content know they’re being ripped off and, more and more, it’s leading to lawsuits. We got another reminder of this conundrum this week, when Reddit sued Anthropic over its use of Redditors’ posts in its training data.
Jeffrey Epstein Reportedly Invested $40 Million in a Company Co-Founded by Peter Thiel

2 days ago | gizmodo.com | Lucas Ropek

Tech billionaire Peter Thiel has spent the last few years gabbing about Jeffrey Epstein—sometimes to fan the flames of conspiracy theory, and, at other points, to tie other well-known tech magnates to the dead pedophile. However, a new report claims that Thiel, himself, had significant financial ties to Epstein prior to the accused sex trafficker’s death in a New York jail cell in 2019.
Democrats Commission $20 Million Study to Figure Out How to Communicate with Bros on YouTube

3 days ago | gizmodo.com | Lucas Ropek

During the 2020 presidential race, the Bernie Sanders campaign decided to tout an endorsement from Joe Rogan. The backlash was swift: Democratic Party insiders and party-aligned activists demanded that Sanders apologize and rescind his support for the endorsement. The general consensus seemed to be that, as an avatar of “regressive” masculinity, Rogan could not be tolerated inside the blue tent.
Michigan Students of Smuggling 'Potential Agroterrorism' Fungus Into the U.S.

3 days ago | gizmodo.com | Lucas Ropek

The Trump administration claims two students from China smuggled a rare fungus into the U.S. that could potentially be used as an “agroterrorism weapon” due to its ability to destroy farm crops. The government has arrested one of the students, while the other is believed to be in China. Trump’s Justice Department has hit Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, with several serious charges, including conspiracy, smuggling goods into the United States, false statements, and visa fraud.
Is MAGA Turning on Trump’s Buddy Palantir?

4 days ago | technewstube.com | Lucas Ropek

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Is MAGA Turning on Trump's Buddy Palantir?

4 days ago | gizmodo.com | Lucas Ropek

Creepy defense contractor Palantir has a new mission: convincing Americans that it’s not actually creepy. The company was been put on the defensive this week after the New York Times published a story detailing its role in the Trump administration’s controversial effort to centralize data on Americans. Earlier this year, the White House made it known that—as part of its DOGE initiative—it planned to eliminate “information silos” throughout the government.