Remember when deepfake detection was supposed to save us from AI-generated misinformation? Yeah, that lasted about six months. Every time someone builds a better detector, someone else builds a better deepfake that beats it. We’re in an arms race we can’t win. I tested five commercial deepfake detection tools on the …

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There’s a compression library called xz-utils. You’ve never heard of it. It’s in every Linux distribution, most servers, probably your phone. One guy maintains it. Or he did, until recently. This year, someone found a backdoor in xz-utils. Not a bug. A deliberate backdoor, carefully hidden over months through seemingly …

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