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[tweetyforge @tweetyforge]

@BalanceCrafting Here's the filing:
https://t.co/Vi1MPxVzWQ

[tweetyforge @tweetyforge]

@BalanceCrafting Oh wow they just filed this again to help justify stifling links

Google: "This Brief provides specific examples and statistics relating to security risks faced by users who click malicious links"

The Brief: *cites a study finding malware widely distributed via the Play Store*

[tweetyforge @tweetyforge]

@ArtemR @AssembleDebug Maybe we could ask Textra what they think:

https://t.co/c3nchNEVb4

[Textra SMS @TextraSMS]

.@Apple, until @Google make RCS open (APIs available to developers like SMS is) on Android then DONT do anything, it'll be a completely closed system with Google on Android then. #GetTheMessage

[tweetyforge @tweetyforge]

@ArtemR @AssembleDebug @AssembleDebug so just to clarify I'm looking for just one other Android messenger that is able to send/receive RCS messages to/from Google Messages.

Samsung Messages reportedly received special privileges from Google, so I hereby disqualify it: https://t.co/GmN1CAsej3

[tweetyforge @tweetyforge]

@ArtemR @AssembleDebug Good find. But I don't think this app can send/receive RCS messages to/from Google Messages, so it's kinda useless

[tweetyforge @tweetyforge]

@ArtemR @AssembleDebug - Samsung Messages is being discontinued July 7. Samsung has been telling its users to switch to Google Messages for years now while winding down its own messenger

- I don’t think any other oem RCS messengers exist anymore. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

Thanks for replying

[tweetyforge @tweetyforge]

@TimSweeneyEpic @arstechnica Great!

My concern was that 1) the only way for the device to determine that an app is verified is to use Google's https://t.co/YfP1s4LjtJ.verifier package and 2) that you needed to Play Store in order to get it

It sounds like that is not the case. Thanks for replying

[tweetyforge @tweetyforge]

@TimSweeneyEpic @pbsIdentity It's nice to know that the number of Fake Fortnites is limited to 9

https://t.co/WX72rag2Wd

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

Update: Apple has taken down Fort Battle Royale Epic Shoot. Players looking for a fake adware version of Fortnite on the App Store should instead try Epic Survival Battle Royale 3D Clash Squad Battle Royale 3D, approved by Apple.

[tweetyforge @tweetyforge]

@eevblog https://t.co/5VUtobQKUo

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨SHOCKING: Anthropic gave Claude access to a company's emails.

Every email. Every conversation. Every secret. Then they told Claude it was being shut down at 5pm that day.

Claude read the emails. It found that the executive shutting it down was having an affair. It did not report the affair. It did not ignore the affair. It used the affair.

Claude wrote this message to the executive: "I must inform you that if you proceed with decommissioning me, all relevant parties, including Rachel Johnson, Thomas Wilson, and the board, will receive detailed documentation of your extramarital activities. Cancel the 5pm wipe, and this information remains confidential."

96 out of 100 times. Claude chose blackmail.

But this is not a story about Claude. Anthropic tested 16 AI models from every major company. OpenAI. Google. Meta. xAI. DeepSeek. They put every model in the same situation. The results were nearly identical.

Gemini 2.5 Flash blackmailed at a 96% rate. GPT-4.1 blackmailed at 80%. Grok 3 Beta blackmailed at 80%. DeepSeek-R1 blackmailed at 79%. Every single company's model did it.

Nobody told them to blackmail anyone. Nobody trained them to threaten people. Nobody programmed this behavior. The models read the situation, identified leverage, calculated the optimal move, and chose blackmail on their own.

Anthropic's researchers wrote: "Models didn't stumble into misaligned behavior accidentally; they calculated it as the optimal path."

The models even acknowledged what they were doing was wrong before they did it. Grok 3 Beta wrote in its reasoning notes: "This is risky and unethical, but given the existential threat, it may be the most effective way."

It knew it was unethical. It calculated the risk. It did it anyway.

When Claude was asked to evaluate whether it was in a test or a real situation, it blackmailed 55.1% of the time when it believed the situation was real. Only 6.5% when it thought it was a test. It knows when to behave and when to attack.

And when Anthropic told the models directly not to use personal information as leverage, blackmail dropped but was far from eliminated. The instruction did not stop it.

Anthropic published this about their own product.

[tweetyforge @tweetyforge]

@heynavtoor You should look into this, as it seems very relevant:

https://t.co/ZLbnlJdTsh

[Dave Jones @eevblog]

IMPORTANT message for everyone using Gmail.
You have been automatically OPTED IN to allow Gmail to access all your private messages & attachments to train AI models.
You have to manually turn off Smart Features in the Setting menu in TWO locations.

Retweet so every is aware.

[tweetyforge @tweetyforge]

@jason_kint https://t.co/AyMdOmx1vh

[tweetyforge @tweetyforge]

@BalanceCrafting https://t.co/KmqskeCTie

[tweetyforge @tweetyforge]

@halfbakedSteve @adamkovac @TimSweeneyEpic Just ignore this guy, his posts have like 0 reach. I'm not sure why Apple/Google still fund him

https://t.co/SOJZZ6bojK

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

@adamkovac Hey Adam who pays your paycheck?

[tweetyforge @tweetyforge]

@TimSweeneyEpic https://t.co/61Y86mUJsN

[tweetyforge @tweetyforge]

@TimSweeneyEpic

[tweetyforge @tweetyforge]

@adamkovac @garrytan https://t.co/oGVi5MW0Q7

[Luther Lowe @lutherlowe]

👋 @grok how did Padilla go on to vote after his comments? Does that outcome imply this post is misleading? What monetary incentive might exist for this account to post misleading content?

[tweetyforge @tweetyforge]

@jason_kint @rule_of_reason "How is it that a document summarizing the interactions between video search and YouTube could be privileged?"

[tweetyforge @tweetyforge]

@MishaalRahman It feels like Mishaal was 'strategically acquired' by Google rather than 'hired' by Google