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The "Bluetooth Headphone Jacking" talk at #39c3 was awesome, too. They reversed a popular SOC that powers Bluetooth earbuds and headphones. They found that (even without being paired to the headphone), they could dump flash and RAM from the device. Then they dumped a bunch of info from the device - e.g. the #Bluetooth address and "master" encryption keys used for the communication with paired devices (e.g. a #phone). Then they impersonated the headphone from their laptop and connected to the phone (pretending to be the headphone). The headphone (or the laptop impersonating the phone) has permissions to do some things on the phone, e.g. accept calls, increase/decrease volume, etc. Then they started recovering access a #WhatsApp account via some account recovery mechanisms. That required some one-time security key which would normally be delivered via SMS, but that could be delivered via phone call as a fallback option, too. Since the phone thought it was connected to the Bluetooth headphone, phone call audio would go to the laptop via Bluetooth. As the cherry on top, they escalated into the victim's #Amazon account. Scary shit. #YouCannotBeParanoidEnough #security

The idea came to Moylan on a rainy day in April 1986 when he hopped in one of Ford's employee fleet cars to drive to a meeting at another building.

For the first decade of Galaxy Science Fiction’s 30-year-run, Ed Emshwiller illustrated a total of eight Christmas-themed issues featuring the same character. The version of Santa Claus on these 1950s-era covers had an appearance exactly in line with mid-century America's expectations, but for one big difference: He had four

WASHINGTON—Touting his latest executive order as a historic win for the U.S. economy, President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was mandating a 5,000% increase in all numbers nationwide. “Effective immediately, 100 will now be 5,100 and—I’m reading off the official statistics from my people—500 will be 25,500,” said Trump, speaking from the Oval Office […] The post Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers appeared first on The Onion.

: More than half of internet-exposed instances already compromised

AI Generated Video via McDonald's Thanks to the rise in popularity of generative AI, mainstream companies like Coca-Cola and Google are jumping on the bandwagon to plop out new advertisements. There’s just one issue: pretty much everybody hates it. This year, McDonald’s decided to get in on the corporate slopfest with a 45-second Christmas spot cooked up for its Netherlands division by the ad agency TBWA\Neboko. The entire thing is AI, and revolves around the thesis that the holiday season is the “most terrible time of the year.” Humbug aside, the ad assaults the viewer with rapidly-changing scenes played out in AI’s typically nauseating fashion. Because most videos generated with AI tend to lose continuity after a handful of seconds, short and rapidly-changing scenes have become one of the key tells that the clip you’re watching is AI. Similar to Coke’s 2025 Holiday ad, the McDonald’s spot is like a visual seizure, full of grotesque characters, horrible color grading, and hackneyed AI approximations of basic physics. Though the abomination of an ad only has 20,000 views on YouTube, backlash in the comments was so intense that McDonald’s shut down comments over the weekend, before delisting the video entirely. (Some marketing research databases managed to scrape the clip, if you’re curious.) “The future is here, and it’s not looking good,” one poster mused under an aggregator account on Instagram. “So a company with that amount of resources couldn’t create a full production with a big team of people to work together and create something actually worth while?” asked another. “Brilliant.” Following the outcry, The Sweetshop — the production company hired by TBWA\Neboko to create the ad — released an incredibly defensive statement justifying their work. “For seven weeks, we hardly slept, with up to 10 of our in-house AI and post specialists at The Gardening Club [our in-house AI engine] working in lockstep with the directors,” Sweetshop’s CEO wrote. Sweetshop even went so far as to argue that the amount of labor hours wasted cleaning up AI hallucinations justified the horrible end product. “We generated what felt like dailies — thousands of takes — then shaped them in the edit just as we would on any high-craft production,” they said. “This wasn’t an AI trick. It was a film.” “I don’t see this spot as a novelty or a cute seasonal experiment,” the CEO continued. “To me, it’s evidence of something much bigger: that when craft and technology meet with intention, they can create work that feels genuinely cinematic. So no – AI didn’t make this film. We did.” Though this seems to be McDonald’s first AI commercial, it isn’t the corporation’s first brush wish the tech. Back in March when the Studio Ghibli AI pictures were all the rage thanks to ChatGPT, McDonald’s Mexico jumped on the trend, posting AI memes on its social media accounts. (Those didn’t fare much better.) So while the contractors behind the campaign seem content to pat themselves on the back, the public sentiment seems clear: if we have to be constantly blasted with obnoxious ads, they could at least be made by a human. **More on fast food:**_Taco Bell’s Attempt to Replace Drive-Thru Employees With AI Is Not Going Well_ ## Joe Wilkins ### Correspondent I’m a tech and transit correspondent for Futurism, where my beat includes transportation, infrastructure, and the role of emerging technologies in governance, surveillance, and labor. * * * *