Hacker News: spenvo

New comment by spenvo in "The Three-Second Theft: Why AI Voice Fraud Outruns Every Defence"

spenvo — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:23:36 +0000

This old post of mine may be of interest, where I point out: "After a bit of threat modeling, it becomes apparent that future spearphishing robocalls may not directly con you, but rather “farm” your voice data by asking you benign questions, and use that to train a voice model to penetrate more deeply into your network." A lot of this writing has been on the wall forever and many (I'm sure otherwise smart people in) mission critical industries like banking, ISPs, and more refused to even acknowledge the risks.

2021 - "Despite the prevalence of deepfake audio tech, banks and ISPs rush ahead with “voice print” authentication" https://keydiscussions.com/2021/12/07/despite-the-prevalence... ends with a section called "The next crisis: robocalls that spoof the voices of victims at scale"

New comment by spenvo in "LinkedIn is a cesspool of scammers and identity theft"

spenvo — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 06:32:59 +0000

Good luck actually unsubscribing from LinkedIn emails. The dark pattern they employ (or at least used to employ, for many many years) is to just periodically add new "categories" of email to send you, that you haven't yet unsubscribed from. Back in ~2015, out of frustration I changed my LinkedIn email to a throwaway

A Farmer Arrested for Going 5 Seconds over His Time Limit at Data Center Meeting

spenvo — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 20:16:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gadgetreview.com/arrest-him-the-moment-police-handcuffed-a-farmer-for-going-5-seconds-over-his-time-limit-at-data-center-meeting

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48701342

Points: 114

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New comment by spenvo in "Supply chain attacks: is a Kessler Syndrome for OSS a risk worth acknowledging?"

spenvo — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:48:41 +0000

The odds of the OSS ecosystem existing in a permanent state of compromise have risen dramatically this year. (still not close, but the explosion in supply chain attacks is concerning)

Supply chain attacks: is a Kessler Syndrome for OSS a risk worth acknowledging?

spenvo — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:16:58 +0000

Article URL: https://keydiscussions.com/2026/06/10/is-a-kessler-syndrome-for-software-a-risk-worth-acknowledging/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48480432

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Cloudflare: bots have passed human traffic online, a year faster than expected

spenvo — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 01:05:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/bots-have-now-passed-human-traffic-online-cloudflare-boss-laments-says-agentic-traffic-wasnt-expected-to-eclipse-real-people-until-next-year

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48406778

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

Senior U.S. Officials Eye Government Shares in AI Giants

spenvo — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:42:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.notus.org/technology/trump-ai-stake-openai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48406178

Points: 4

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Marvell stock pops 33% after Huang says it may be the next trillion-dollar firm

spenvo — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:50:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/02/jensen-huang-nvidia-marvell-technology-trillion-dollar-ai.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48376082

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

AI costs how much? GitHub Copilot users react to new usage-based pricing system

spenvo — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:17:14 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/ai-costs-how-much-github-copilot-users-react-to-new-usage-based-pricing-system/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364716

Points: 13

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The vibes in SF feel frenetic – The divide in outcomes is massive

spenvo — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:47:47 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/deedydas/status/2055491938464489888

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162693

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Ahead of Race to IPO, OpenAI Discussed Spinning Out Robotics, Hardware Divisions

spenvo — Tue, 05 May 2026 01:59:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ahead-of-race-to-ipo-openai-discussed-spinning-out-robotics-hardware-divisions-18c89706

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48017231

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Palantir Comes to Campus

spenvo — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:12:07 +0000

Article URL: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/palantir-yale-conference-ai.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48010593

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Only Elon Musk can fire Elon Musk from SpaceX, filing shows

spenvo — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:52:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/only-elon-musk-can-fire-elon-musk-spacex-filing-shows-2026-04-29/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949290

Points: 24

# Comments: 20

OpenAI Wants Codex to Shut Up About Goblins

spenvo — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:04:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/openai-really-wants-codex-to-shut-up-about-goblins/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942954

Points: 7

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New comment by spenvo in "Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return"

spenvo — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:53:40 +0000

PSA: this is true (the defaults), but there's a "Help improve Claude" setting that you can disable here https://claude.ai/settings/data-privacy-controls It's my understanding that, as long as this is off, Anthropic does not train on Claude Code conversations, inputs/outputs -- if anyone knows otherwise, please tell and provide a link if possible.

Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles exit OpenAI as company continues to shed side quests

spenvo — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:45:12 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/17/kevin-weil-and-bill-peebles-exit-openai-as-company-continues-to-shed-side-quests/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47810948

Points: 7

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US court declines to block Pentagon's Anthropic blacklisting for now

spenvo — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:37:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/us-court-declines-block-pentagons-anthropic-blacklisting-now-2026-04-08/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697147

Points: 36

# Comments: 13

Big Banks Seeking a Piece of SpaceX's IPO Must Subscribe to Elon Musk's Grok

spenvo — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:08:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/business/spacex-ipo-grok-elon-musk.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629960

Points: 9

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New comment by spenvo in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

spenvo — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:08:05 +0000

Meta's own research (and its use of it) has shown that it repeatedly ignores well-substantiated facts about the harms of its products. Now that Section 230 seems like a flawed shield, I fear the takeaway for other companies will be: never conduct honest research in the first place to preserve plausible deniability.

Meta has always wanted the appearance of caring about safety (helps them attract talent and keep mission-related morale high), while nearly always prioritizing growth (save for tiny blips of time, like in 2017 when the fallout of the cambridge analytica stuff was hitting a crescendo), whereas companies like X are run by people explicitly disinterested in putting significant resources into safety, especially research.

I will also add that, for the past few years, Meta and X both have become extremely hostile to external researchers of their platforms, shutting down access to tools and data.

Kalshi Has Been Temporarily Banned in Nevada

spenvo — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:28:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/nevada-bans-kalshi-prediction-market/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47457789

Points: 6

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