Will Meta really have to sell Instagram and WhatsApp?

Parish Dev: definitely. The timing was seen when some of these moves were announced for the first time as a kind of suspicious because it was present when these investigations were in Meta and these cases began to apply against large technology companies.

Zoë Schiffer: We will take another short break. And when we go back, we will tell you what to consider it on WARED.com this week. Welcome to Uncleny Valley. I am Zoë Schiffer, Business and Industry Manager at WIRED. I joined today by WIRED writer, Parish Dev. Before we go, Paresh, can you tell our listeners what they should read on Wired.com today, unlike the stories that we mentioned in this episode already?

Parish Dev: Yes. Triad Smorish TIAD, fraud group steals the wealth of the world.

Zoë Schiffer: Is Smisher a Phiriance alternative?

Parish Dev: It is a mixture of hunting with SMS. Unemployed, yes.

Zoë Schiffer: Unemployed. I got it, I got it, I got it.

Parish Dev: I am sure that we all got these text messages, “you have to pay these road fees”, or some parcels cannot be delivered properly. Very annoying. I still get it all the time. I don’t know why our phones cannot stop this, but this story that our colleague, Matt Burgis, talks about how to create a lot of these messages, which are called a kind of these Sumooming messages, from this group of cyber criminals who actually work to improve their fraud programs constantly. Cyber ​​security does not have the upper hand here. My ready -made meals were that we will get more and more of these messages before it improved. This article is part of a wireless chain, evidence of the most dangerous infiltrators you have not heard before. This is dangerous, right? There are people who write their credit card numbers in response to these text messages and steal all their money. This is not great.

Zoë Schiffer: I feel like after I started in Wire, I started receiving messages alleged to be one of the company’s executives asking me to enter personal information, which was well favorable because I just started a new job. I was like, “I don’t know if they were sending me.” But no.

Parish Dev: Perhaps our cybersecurity team was testing us. I don’t know. I also had it.

Zoë Schiffer: They do this from time to time.

Parish Dev: What about you, Zoe? What do you recommend this week?

Zoë Schiffer: Well, in addition to your wonderful writing about the experience, which everyone must read and give people a good overview of what we should expect, we also published an article this morning by Caroline Haskins, another writer on the WIRE Business Office, about a New Mexico man who faces federal accusations of igniting fire in the field of Tesla. This is part of the type of accusations taking place. Pam Bondi, the Prosecutor, Trump and Elon Musk called for people who participate in violent acts against Tesla’s property for really serious crimes. This is the second time that we know that terrorist investigators at the FBI participated in an investigation linked to the type of general reaction against Elon Musk and Tesla in particular. Bondi said that the man concerned will go to prison for 20 years or more, although he has not yet been convicted. We have a lot of details about the allegations in the case, and the things we found in the arrest matter, which is a really good type of an overview of what is happening in it. Parish, thank you very much for joining today.

Parish Dev: Thanks for hosting me.

Zoë Schiffer: This is our offer for today. We will link all the stories that we talked about in the display notes. Make sure to review the Thursday episode of Wadi GharibWhich revolves around monitoring and protests technology and how to move safely in physical spaces and the Internet during this moment. If you like what you heard today, make sure to follow our offer and evaluate it on your favorite PodCast app. If you want to contact us for any questions, comments or suggestions, write to us on [email protected]. Kyana Moghadam and Adriana Tapia produced this episode. Ammar Lal in the total sound mixing this episode. Bran Bandy was a studio engineer in New York. Jordan Bell is our executive product. Conde Nast, the head of the global voice, is Chris Bannon. Katie Dramund is the international editor -in -chief at WIRED.