Hackers Asked Meta AI To Let Them In. It Worked
June 3, 2026
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June 3, 2026
Hackers Asked Meta AI To Let Them In. It Worked
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We start this week with Jason’s story about one of the wildest hacking stories in a while. Hackers simply asked Meta’s AI to change the email address on a target Instagram account, and the chatbot did so. Insane. After the break, Emanuel tells us about Amazon’s internal leaderboard for tracking AI usage and how it was cheated. In the subscribers-only section, we provided an update on our lawsuit against ICE.
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