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Social engineering and Signal chats led to new Russian malware attacks, Ukraine says https://therecord.media/ukraine-new-russian-malware-social-engineering-signal-chats

Apple is bringing polls to iMessage group chats and says Apple Intelligence will suggest polls based on a conversation's context (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/09/apple-is-bringing-polls-to-imessage/

Apple is bringing polls to iMessage | TechCrunch
Apple announced at WWDC on Monday that it's bringing polls to iMessage. The feature has been highly requested by users, and is one that has been long adopted by services like WhatsApp and Telegram.

Federal workers fear Trump will fire them after court ruling: ‘We are toast’
After the Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump on Tuesday to resume firing government workers, federal employees rushed to Signal group chats and anxious phone calls, trying to figure out what it meant for them.
Some federal workers cried. Some shook their heads and began updating their resumes. Others — including union leaders — vowed to fight, determined to hang on to the government jobs that …

Federal workers fear Trump will fire them after court ruling: ‘We are toast’
The ruling could usher in a more professionalized round of layoffs, compared to the erratic rush of firings carried out by Elon Musk's U.S. DOGE Service.

I've created an account on Signal.
Let's see if I'm also getting invited to the group chats of the American Nazi Party in power.

Time to Talk: LLM Agents for Asynchronous Group Communication in Mafia Games
Niv Eckhaus, Uri Berger, Gabriel Stanovsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05309 ht…

Time to Talk: LLM Agents for Asynchronous Group Communication in Mafia Games
LLMs are used predominantly in synchronous communication, where a human user and a model communicate in alternating turns. In contrast, many real-world settings are inherently asynchronous. For example, in group chats, online team meetings, or social games, there is no inherent notion of turns; therefore, the decision of when to speak forms a crucial part of the participant's decision making. In this work, we develop an adaptive asynchronous LLM-agent which, in addition to determining what to s…