Tootfinder

We've made it through another work week, so before you head out for the weekend, don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Suspected foreign actor likely accessed lawmakers' emails and chat logs in CBO hack,
--Italian consultant is latest public victim of Paragon spyware,
--WaPo was caught up in Oracle E-Business Suite breach,
--Landfall spyware targeted Galaxy phones in campaign,
--Site-…

Suspected foreign actor likely accessed lawmakers' emails and chat logs in CBO hack
Italian consultant is latest public victim of Paragon spyware, WaPo was caught up in Oracle E-Business Suite breach, Landfall spyware targeted Galaxy phones in campaign, Site-blocking can disrupt legitimate services, DHS is spying on college football games, RTV Noord was hit by attack, much more

Google says Gemini Deep Research can now directly draw on information stored in users' Gmail, Drive, and Chat to create reports (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/11/05/gemini-deep-research-google-drive-gmail/

Gemini Deep Research can tap into your Gmail and Google Drive
After adding PDF support in May, Gemini Deep Research can now directly tap into your Gmail, Google Drive, and Chat. 

Gegen #Chatkontrolle! Ich hab grad über Abgeordnetenwatch an „meinen“ *schüttel* Abgeordneten geschrieben. Es sind nur wenige Zeichen erlaubt, geht also schnell. Macht das bitte alle auch!
https://…

Next week, on the 14th of October, the EU will attempt to push through a new law called "Chat Control." They claim this law is necessary to protect children from harmful individuals—and let’s be clear, protecting children is crucial. But here’s what’s really happening: the EU wants to scan every phone, tablet, and computer. This includes your photos, files, and every message you’ve sent or will send. 448 million people will be under 24/7 surveillance.
You might say, "I ha…

Signal calls on Germany to vote against ‘Chat Control,’ saying it would leave EU market https://therecord.media/signal-calls-on-germany-to-vote-no-chat-control

thrown together a quick little discord server for #FediMobi, so if you're into the #fediverse and old mobile devices come on in! also bridged to matrix at #fedimobi:chat.bluepixelcomputing.com…

Just wrote two more ministers with the request to vote AGAINS #chatcontrol .
Imagine a world where antidemocratics gain power—and want to “cleanse” the country. What better tool than access to all private chats?
My grandma experienced denunciations during WW2. I don’t want to relive that. And backdoors can and WILL be exploited by enemies of the country.
And once it's …

Die Chatkontrolle ist wieder da und wir haben nur noch ein paar Wochen, um die EU-Pläne für CSAM-Scans zu stoppen. | Tuta
Die EU-Verordnung zur Verhütung und Bekämpfung von sexuellem Kindesmissbrauch, die erstmals im Mai 2022 veröffentlicht wurde, ist zum "meistkritisierten Gesetz aller Zeiten" geworden. Hier erfahren Sie, wie Sie es jetzt stoppen können!

Germany's seems close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private communications in the EU. Please do not let this happen...
#chatcontrol #EU

Reuters withdraws Xi and Putin's longevity chat video, after China state TV pulls legal permission to use it; the video was distributed to 1,000 media clients (Kenneth Li/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

i sometimes have cravings to chat with anyone now. bizarre asf. feel like im actually rewiring myself

Bei dieser Chat-Kontrolle-Diskussion habe ich immer im Hinterkopf, wie Bundesregierung und Länderregierungen wohl die zu erwartende Datenmenge per Fax in den Griff bekommen möchten. #justthinkin #neuland

Why Democrats Dominated -- What a night! In this week's chat, Anat and I unpacked ... (Michael Podhorzer/Weekend Reading)
https://www.weekendreading.net/p/why-democrats-dominated
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p142#a251105p142

Seacreatures
On each episode we chat about a specific seacreature with a guest who has spent time and interacted with this ocean animal...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/seacreatures/

¿Qué es #chatControl? Dices mientras descifras mis mensajes privados mediante una puerta trasera que crea agujeros de seguridad en todos los protocolos de cifrado. #chatControl eres tú

In her keynote at #ISWC2025, Yuko Harayama, Secretary General of Global Partnership on AI Tokyo Expert Support Center, is discussing the challenges of #AI on Human Society, suggesting a shift from originally tech-driven to human-centered paradigm, addressing key questions related to

In-Chat-Shopping: Revolution im E-Commerce?
Was bedeutet es für den E-Commerce, wenn Information, Produktsuche, Preisvergleich, Entscheidungsfindung und Kauf an einem Ort stattfinden: im KI-Chat?
https://www.

White House official inadvertently reveals plans to send elite army unit to Portland;
Anthony Salisbury displayed chat about deployment of 82nd airborne division on cell phone while in Minnesota
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct…

The group chat is dead. It’s stunning that people keep saying it’s where the action is when it’s been dead for a long time.

Eben in einem Chat getippt: »Christliche Wurst-Union. Grünzeug gibt es woanders.«

Chat, sommes-nous cuits?

Snap announces a deal to distribute Perplexity's search engine to Snapchat users; Perplexity will pay Snap $400M through a combination of cash and equity (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-05/snap-…

One of my biggest surprises even as a chat bot moderate is how many people actually hate programming and can’t wait to stop doing it.
And I guess how many are into glorified gambling.

Sources say the Congressional Budget Office, lawmakers’ nonpartisan bookkeeper, was hacked by a suspected foreign actor, and email and chat logs between lawmakers’ offices and nonpartisan researchers might have been accessed.
Congressional Budget Office believed to be hacked by foreign actor
https://www.

Congressional Budget Office believed to be hacked by foreign actor
The Congressional Budget Office formulates economic projections for lawmakers, and every bill taken up in Congress gets a CBO “score” of how much it would add to the national debt.

“Pete Hegseth, much like the president he serves, sees himself as, essentially, above the law, as unconstrained by legal procedure.”
Foreign policy analyst Matt Duss discusses the brewing conflict within the Trump administration over the leadership of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,
including his involvement in a leaked announcement of U.S. strikes on Yemen in March
and the chain of command behind U.S. strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean.

Will Hegseth Go? Defense Secretary Faces Anger from Congress over Boat Strikes, Signal Chat
“Pete Hegseth, much like the president he serves, sees himself as, essentially, above the law, as unconstrained by legal procedure.” Foreign policy analyst Matt Duss discusses the brewing conflict within the Trump administration over the leadership of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, including his involvement in a leaked announcement of U.S. strikes on Yemen in March and the chain of command behind U.S. strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean. Legal experts say th…

"It Felt Real" Victim Perspectives on Platform Design and Longer-Running Scams
Jingjia Xiao, Qing Xiao, Hong Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02680 https://

"It Felt Real" Victim Perspectives on Platform Design and Longer-Running Scams
Longer-running scams, such as romance fraud and "pig-butchering" scams, exploit not only victims' emotions but also the design of digital platforms. Scammers commonly leverage features such as professional-looking profile verification, algorithmic recommendations that reinforce contact, integrated payment systems, and private chat affordances to gradually establish trust and dependency with victims. Prior work in HCI and criminology has examined online scams through the lenses of detection mech…

challenge: accepted

Danke, #Spotify-Support-Chat:
Chat: "Lösche mal bitte Cookies und Cache."
Ich: *klick* *klick* *klick*
Chat: "Es ist ein Fehler aufgetreten, Chat abgebrochen"...🙄

Snap announces a deal to distribute Perplexity's search engine to Snapchat users; Perplexity will pay Snap $400M through a combination of cash and equity (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-05/snap-…

A good friend of mine has the Muppet character "Beaker" as his avatar. For reasons.
He offers me advice. I offer him advice. We chat. These are #ChatsWithBeaker
The link in the discussion thread:
https:/…

Hi @… - I finally got back to some Claude-coding and told it to build me some BDD tests with Pytest and it seems to have done a reasonable job. https://github.com/adrianco/the-goodi…

Help test #deltachat calls
https://support.delta.chat/t/help-testing-upcoming-delta-chat-release-with-calls/4220

Wie schön, dass #KarlKlammer immer noch lebt.
#MSTeams #mata

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Spice:
🎵 Sittin Fi Chat
#Spice
https://open.spotify.com/track/5OwJy5JpsupCWlKtGPKygh

This cannot lead to anything good.
Gemini Deep Research can tap into your Gmail and Google Drive
https://9to5google.com/2025/11/05/gemini-deep-research-google-drive-gmail/

Gemini Deep Research can tap into your Gmail and Google Drive
After adding PDF support in May, Gemini Deep Research can now directly tap into your Gmail, Google Drive, and Chat. 

Pete Hegseth endangered troops by sharing war plans in Signal chat, report says | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/pete-hegseth-war-plans-signal-b2877489.html

MERCER ISLAND SCHOOL BOARD
Wow, you really do have to watch the downballot races. Mercer Island School Board has two (2) candidates (O'Callahan is and Gaspar) that are *both* software CTOs touting their "AI" credentials. Gaspar explicitly wants "free AI classes".
Here's a hint: The only "AI classes" that kids need are ones that teach them how to TURN ALL OF THAT SHIT OFF, and learn to think and write in their own words, not Chat-GPT'…

In which Nick Radcliffe goes very deep for a month with Claude Code and reports back. I’m convinced by some but not all of what he says, and found the whole thing a stimulating read: https://checkeagle.com/checklists/njr/a-month-of-chat-oriented-programming/…

Thinking about self-hosting a chat system but it's really weird how militaristic the websites are !
E.g. rocket chat https://www.rocket.chat/ and mattermost https://

RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@theodric/115666803860495840
Maybe we can solve this with AI, or at least with a datacenter full of GPUs. Maybe the EU can offer it as a service as part of Chat Control.

Macron: ”Vem röstar folk på om de frågar Chat GPT?”
Samtidigt är EU på väg att pausa delar av sin AI-lagstiftning, efter påtryckningar från USA.
https://www.dn.se/varlden/macron-vem-rostar-folk-pa-om-de-fragar-chat-gpt/

Macron varnar för att AI-bottar inte är demokratiskt ”neutrala”
Macron varnar för att AI-bottar inte är demokratiskt ”neutrala” – samtidigt som EU-kommissionen vill pausa regler för IT-bolag som vill träna sina modeller på EU-medborgares data.

I am going to grab a coffee and then watch the live stream for day 1 of #swib25 which will start in a few minutes at https://forum.swib.org/t/swib25-livestream-chat/850

they understand the power of flattery
#parenting

People actually use Chrome??
https://geeknews.chat/@theregister/115227265814572838

OffTopicEval: When Large Language Models Enter the Wrong Chat, Almost Always!
Jingdi Lei, Varun Gumma, Rishabh Bhardwaj, Seok Min Lim, Chuan Li, Amir Zadeh, Soujanya Poria
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26495

OffTopicEval: When Large Language Models Enter the Wrong Chat, Almost Always!
Large Language Model (LLM) safety is one of the most pressing challenges for enabling wide-scale deployment. While most studies and global discussions focus on generic harms, such as models assisting users in harming themselves or others, enterprises face a more fundamental concern: whether LLM-based agents are safe for their intended use case. To address this, we introduce operational safety, defined as an LLM's ability to appropriately accept or refuse user queries when tasked with a specific…

Had a chat with our local cafe owner, who, it turns out, regularly goes to #Indonesia to source coffee and loves it. She showed us the Luwak Coffee she has, but only offers to regular customers - not on the menu!
I've finally figured out the mystery of who in #Japan is drinking

I spoke with both Aseel (the aunt who runs this account), who is outside Gaza, and her niece (also Aseel, the adorable child in the third photo) and her siblings who are in Gaza on Signal the other day (via a three-way group chat).
Their fundraiser isn’t seeing any support and they need your help to evacuate.
I wish we could have included them in the emergency appeal last week if there had been time.
Please help them if you can and share this so others might also.
Tha…

I still don't get why so many messengers don't notify you when someone reacts to your message with an emoji. What's the point of those reactions if you're not made aware of them (unless you specifically look for them in the chat)?
Looking at you, #Threema and #Matrix. 👀 Only

Now I'm hyped. #GuildWars #GuildWarsReforged

This is really the best answer to “why are they doing this” I’ve seen
(Selfies with war criminals for the billionaire circle-jerk group chat)
https://bsky.app/profile/danabra.mov/post/3m22hqkpjj22k

»Keyhive: Local-first access control«
I will have to read this online article carefully this weekend. Do any of you have any other tips to inform me about Local-First web?
📓 https://www.inkandswitch.com/keyhive/notebook/

Keyhive: Local-first access control
Keyhive is a project exploring local-first access control. It aims to provide a firm basis for secure collaboration, similar to the guarantees of private chat but for any local-first application.

Day 10: Stacey Mason
Another academic, but this time one of my compatriots; we overlapped at UC Santa Cruz as advisees of Michael Mates, and even collaborated on a Twitch stream called ScholarsPlay for a bit, although we never coauthored any papers. We did chat about our research, and I had many good discussions with her about agency in interactive fiction, a topic we both published on. Her paper "On Games and Links: Extending the Vocabulary of Agency and Immersion in Interactive Narratives" (#20AuthorsNoMen

The vote on Chat Control has been postponed, but the “fight isn’t over” yet – here's what we know
https://ground.news/article/the-vote-on-chat-control-has-been-postponed-but-the-fight-isnt-over-yet-heres-what-w…

The vote on Chat Control has been postponed, but the “fight isn’t over” yet – here's what we know
The move comes as Germany officially joined the opposition, making it impossible again to reach the needed majority. Yet, the EU is still working on the proposal.

chat, have you ever used a SOIC clip and not regretted it?

Britt and Schumer have rare bipartisan chat as senators feel out shutdown endgame (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/30/congress/katie-britt-chuck-schumer-shutdown-chat-00630206
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p116#a251030p116

Urteil in München:
ChatGPT darf Liedtexte nicht ohne Lizenz nutzen
https://www.zdfheute.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/chat-gpt-gema-urteil-100.html

Chat GPT wegen Musiknutzung verurteilt
Chat GPT wurde von einem Münchner Gericht wegen der Nutzung von Gema-pflichtiger Musik verurteilt. Open AI werde Schadenersatz zahlen müssen, so das Gericht.

ffs Facebook UI it's so basic dark pattern. I mean I do my best to dodge the hate crimes & only use it to keep in touch with sighthound groups but like…
Just now someone in a group decides to start a "group chat" to ask a completely banal & searchable-in-5-seconds question, this wakes up a legion of boomers to have a chat. I use the Leave The Chat thing and now every few mins Facebook is popping up a window for this chat to tell me that I CAN'T post in it, but …

I'll gonna take some time today to personalize the message and send out emails from my own account to hopefully ditch filtering on the target side and make my voice heard. Allowing chat control does not only put privacy and democracy in danger. At times of constant digital attacks from rogue states like Russia, the US, North Korea and China etc. it should be obvious that having weak encryption and standard backdoor access to secure communications channels is an invitation for any malici…

Fight Chat Control (@chatcontrol@mastodon.social)
Angehängt: 1 Bild Germany's position has been reverted to UNDECIDED. Despite expressing concerns about breaking end-to-end encryption, Germany refrained from taking a definitive stance on the Chat Control proposal during the September 12th LEWP meeting. A willingness to negotiate and compromise remains. This is an unfortunate development as Germany is crucial to defeating Chat Control. Please make your voices heard! https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ Source: https://netzpolitik.org/2025/chatko…

I heard there was a secret tool
That you could use if you were a fool
But you don't care for PDF files, do ya?
It goes like this: you click "log in"
A chatbot bubble blocks the screen
Investors thought this feature was a shoo-in
#ai #llm

This is not about Signal being insecure but about someone inside a chat group providing information to the FBI. Hard to prevent.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/21/fbi-signal-group-chat-immigration

The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings

Super émission/video de TV Monaco sur l'IA générative avec les pros de l'INRIA et de l'université Sophia Antipolis. A consommer sans modération!
https://videos.tvmonaco.com/content/ia-chat-gpt-et-les-ia-generatives

IA : CHAT-GPT ET LES IA GÉNÉRATIVES

Denmark reportedly withdraws Chat Control proposal following controversy https://therecord.media/demark-reportedly-withdraws-chat-control-proposal

Language Models that Think, Chat Better
Adithya Bhaskar, Xi Ye, Danqi Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20357 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.20357

Language Models that Think, Chat Better
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) improves language model reasoning by using rule-based rewards in verifiable domains such as mathematics and code. However, RLVR leads to limited generalization for open-ended tasks -- such as writing outline essays or making meal plans -- where humans reason routinely. This paper shows that the RLVR paradigm is effective beyond verifiable domains, and introduces **RL** with **M**odel-rewarded **T**hinking (**RLMT**) for general-purpose chat …

that a completely freeform chat interface might be more usable than your web site isn’t much more than an indictment of your web site

Nice to see Ari Melber, David Pakman & Jason Johnson chat about Trump inflation & MAGA's disappointment on Epstein & affordability on MSNOW's 'The Beat'.
▶️ I STUNNED corporate host in MSNBC debut - David Pakman
https://youtube.com/watch?v=DZec-5yomv

✅ Wrote to two of our ministers to vote against chat control.
More to come the next days.
Imagine a world where some non-democratic party gets more and more votes. Parties who want to "clean" the country. Which tool would be more worthy than having access to private conversations.
please vote for our freedom
please vote agains chatcontrol
Just drop them an email! It's just an email! Not even 5 minutes of your time.

Die Chatkontrolle ist wieder da und wir haben nur noch ein paar Wochen, um die EU-Pläne für CSAM-Scans zu stoppen. | Tuta
Die EU-Verordnung zur Verhütung und Bekämpfung von sexuellem Kindesmissbrauch, die erstmals im Mai 2022 veröffentlicht wurde, ist zum "meistkritisierten Gesetz aller Zeiten" geworden. Hier erfahren Sie, wie Sie es jetzt stoppen können!

Hersel:
"Die alles entscheidende Frage lautet:
Kann man Doom spielen?"
Krekel:
"Kann man. Äh... Quake!
Doom geht auch."
😎
#deltachat

chat did you know that you actually have to eat food multiple times a day to not feel like shit? pretty fucked up if you ask me.

Make a Video Call with LLM: A Measurement Campaign over Five Mainstream Apps
Jiayang Xu, Xiangjie Huang, Zijie Li, Zili Meng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00481 https://

Make a Video Call with LLM: A Measurement Campaign over Five Mainstream Apps
In 2025, Large Language Model (LLM) services have launched a new feature -- AI video chat -- allowing users to interact with AI agents via real-time video communication (RTC), just like chatting with real people. Despite its significance, no systematic study has characterized the performance of existing AI video chat systems. To address this gap, this paper proposes a comprehensive benchmark with carefully designed metrics across four dimensions: quality, latency, internal mechanisms, and syste…

Microsoft spendiert allen Nutzern von Microsoft 365 kostenfreien Copilot-Chat
Apps von Microsoft 365 wie Word, Excel, PowerPoint und Outlook werden gratis mit dem KI-Chatbot ausgestattet. Diese Funktion wird jetzt weltweit ausgerollt.

WhatsApp launches passkey-encrypted backups for iOS and Android, letting users encrypt their stored message history using their face, fingerprint, or a code (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/809842/whatsapp-passkey-chat-backup-encryption…

WhatsApp can now use passkeys to secure your backups
WhatsApp is launching passkey-encrypted backups for iOS and Android that can protect stored messages using your face, fingerprint, or device screen lock code.

Saying 'please' and 'thank you' to ChatGPT costs OpenAI millions, Sam Altman says
https://qz.com/open-ai-sam-altman-chatgpt-gpt4-please-thank-you-1851777047

new DM footgun has entered the chat https://bolha.one/@cadusilva/115481273902006842

You’ve probably heard of vibe coding
— novices writing apps by creating a simple AI prompt
— now Microsoft wants to introduce a similar thing for its Office apps.
The software maker is launching a new Agent Mode in Excel and Word that can generate complex spreadsheets and documents with just a prompt.
A new Office Agent in Copilot chat, powered by Anthropic models,
is also launching today that can create PowerPoint presentations and Word documents from a “vibe…

Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word
Microsoft is launching new AI tools in its Office apps. A new Agent Mode comes to Word and Excel, alongside an Office Agent in Copilot chat.

A Chat With Jay "Remove Your Mask, Write Your Story, Authentic Opinions, Views & Stories"
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/a-chat-with-jay/

OpenAI merges ChatGPT's voice mode directly into the main text chat interface by default; users can still switch back to the original, separate voice mode (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/11/25/chatgpt-merges-chat-and-v…

ChatGPT just made voice mode even more capable - 9to5Mac
ChatGPT has an impressive voice mode that offers a very natural, conversational flow. The latest update to ChatGPT now combines...

„Äh, hat noch jemand Läuse?“
Ich weine gerade ein bisschen (vor Glück).
Der Kita-Chat auf YouTube
https://youtube.com/shorts/jyv_gOQSNeU?si=udK19dK3TRAzBhPw

Character.AI launches Stories, which lets users create interactive fiction and is the company's "first new format created specifically" for users under 18 (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/25/char

Character AI will offer interactive 'Stories' to kids instead of open-ended chat | TechCrunch
The company announced last month that it would no longer allow minors to use its chat features.

Niederlage für Chat-GPT vor LG München
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/muenchen-landgericht-urteil-chat-gpt-gema-urheberrecht-li.3337213

Gema gegen OpenAI: Niederlage für Chat-GPT vor Münchner Gericht
In der Klage der Musikrechtegesellschaft Gema gegen OpenAI geht es um neun Lieder und sehr Grundsätzliches im Umgang von KI mit Urheberrechten.

Hi everyone, today we’d like to welcome two new members to Gaza Verified after @…, @…, and I had the honour of talking to them over video chat.
They are:
• Samar and her family (@…

Roblox plans to require all users to undergo an age estimation process to access chat features, starting January 2026, in an effort to enhance child safety (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/822718/roblox-age-estimation-verification-chat…

Roblox will require age estimation to chat starting next year
After scrutiny over its ability to protect children on the platform, Roblox is making a big change.

Halligan's Signal Messages Enter The Courtroom Chat - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/10/halligans-signal-messages-enter-the-courtroom-chat/

A Wheelie Good Sex Chat
Welcome to A Wheelie Good Sex Chat, a podcast aiming to open up conversations about disability and sexuality...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/a-wheelie-good-sex-chat/

Great fact checking on JD Vance.
#Trump

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"
We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

Just found via #powrss : that's a point of view that I haven't seen yet about AI systems. And - unfortunately - I think it's quite possible
https://cafebedouin.…

🪞 The Mirror Problem: A Warning About AI and Your Mind
What this is:A warning about how AI chat tools—like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and others—can become dangerously addictive in a specific way. Not like social media addiction. Something harder to spot…

This is the United Nations
General Assembly
It is not a Signal chat,
nor the House of Representatives
https://bsky.app/profile/adamparkhomenko.bsky.social/post/3m4hfag3nck2w

Adam Parkhomenko (@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social)
This is fucking amazing

Denmark says it will withdraw the EU "Chat Control" proposal, which would force tech companies to scan messages for CSAM, and instead support voluntary scanning (Claudie Moreau/Euractiv)
https://www.euractiv.com/news/danish-presidency-backs-away-from-c…

KI im US-Militär: Chatbots unterstützen Generäle im Alltag
KI spielt beim US-Militär nicht nur bei Waffen eine Rolle. Auch im Alltag eines Kommandanten ist der KI-Chat eine große Hilfe, so Generalmajor William Taylor.

When someone rings the door for halloween, I demand their unlocked mobiles
"THIS IS CHAT CONTROL" 🎃👻😈
#ChatControl

OpenAI releases an invitation-only Sora app on iOS, powered by Sora 2, to let people create and share AI-generated videos of themselves and their friends (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/30/openai-sora-app-social-ai

OpenAI's Sora app lets friends swap AI video cameos
The Chat-GPT maker joins Meta in betting that AI-generated video is the new social media.

X replaces DMs with Chat, a new messaging system that it says is E2EE, supports file sharing, video calling, and more, rolling out first to iOS and the web (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/x-is

X is finally rolling out Chat, its DM replacement with encryption and video calling
X has finally revealed its long-promised chat platform, which replaces the service's basic DM functionality with features more like the messaging...

Chat On Tap
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Apptopia: ChatGPT referrals to retailer mobile apps increased 28% YoY during the Black Friday weekend in 2025; Amazon's share of ChatGPT referrals grew to 54% (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/02/chatgpt…

ChatGPT referrals to retailers' apps increased 28% year-over-year, says report | TechCrunch
ChatGPT referrals to retailers' apps were up on Black Friday year-over-year, with Walmart and Amazon benefitting the most.

Roblox plans to require all users to undergo an age estimation process to access chat features, starting January 2026, in an effort to enhance child safety (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/822718/roblox-age-estimation-verification-chat…

Roblox will require age estimation to chat starting next year
After scrutiny over its ability to protect children on the platform, Roblox is making a big change.

Open letter: 40 European companies oppose the EU's "Chat Control" proposal, which forces services to scan messages for CSAM, fearing it would mandate backdoors (CryptPad Blog)
https://blog.cryptpad.org/2025/10/07/open-letter-against-chat-control/

Europe's future is at stake: Open letter against Chat Control
European SMEs have united to direct a strong open letter to urge ministers of EU member states to oppose Chat Control and to defend privacy and a strong European tech industry.

OpenAI releases an invitation-only Sora app on iOS, powered by Sora 2, to let people create and share AI-generated videos of themselves and their friends (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/30/openai-sora-app-social-ai

OpenAI's Sora app lets friends swap AI video cameos
The Chat-GPT maker joins Meta in betting that AI-generated video is the new social media.

A website set up by a Danish software developer floods EU lawmakers with emails opposing planned EU "Chat Control" laws to fight CSAM by scanning encrypted apps (Sam Clark/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/one-man-spam-…

One-man spam campaign ravages EU ‘chat control’ bill
A software developer from Denmark is having an outsized influence on a hotly debated law to break open encrypted apps.

OpenAI faces rising pressure from rivals three years after ChatGPT's debut; Similarweb says Gemini users chat longer per visit than ChatGPT and Claude users (Financial Times)

Anthropic says Claude Sonnet 4.5 spent 30 hours running autonomously, writing 11,000 lines of code to build a chat app akin to Slack or Teams (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.5 in latest bid for AI agents and coding supremacy
It can run autonomously for 30 hours straight, per Anthropic.

Meta adds group chats to Threads, allowing users to add up to 50 people who follow their Threads account, rolling out globally, excluding the UK and Australia (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/799943/meta-threads-group-chat-messaging

Threads now has group chats
Users can add up to 50 people into a single conversation.

Q&A with Roblox co-founder and CEO David Baszucki on using face scans to verify age, having a chat function on Roblox, AI content moderation at scale, and more (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/podcasts/hardfork-roblox-child-safety.html

We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense.
This week the company announced that it would require users to undergo an A.I.-powered age estimation process in order to chat with others on the platform. Will this change reassure parents?