Hello.
I met a bunch of you at Pax Unplugged,
but stuff still happened.
So what's up?
Your DNA is my DNA.
By right, I paid for it.
The 23andMe hack continues to be absurd,
as now 6.9 nice, million, not as nice,
people have had their DNA stolen.
It sounds, I mean, OK, you still, it's still in your body,
but a copy of it is in the hands of somebody else.
Give me your DNA.
Give me it.
And so here's what happened.
Hackers broke into about 14,000 accounts on 23andMe.
They did that by using reused passwords
that were leaked from other services.
This is a reminder.
Don't use the same password twice ever.
I know, it's a pain.
Use a password manager.
They generate them for you, and they autofill your account,
and it makes it so much easier.
But it makes it safer, and then people like me
won't be reading your DNA.
I'm not reading your DNA.
I'm too busy brewing a potion with it.
So hackers broke into these 14,000 accounts
and then used existing systems within 23andMe
to essentially identify a whole bunch of other accounts,
steal all of their data, and get away with it.
They are now selling the genetic code of 6.9 million users
on the dark web for about a buck apiece.
Now, you might be wondering, what's the big deal?
Why would I care if my genetic code was leaked?
What can they do with that?
Well, they can target you.
Genetic code tells you what someone's ethnicity is,
and I don't think it takes many more steps
to extrapolate just how bad that can be.
But I don't know, maybe people with a bunch of stolen
information about human genetics and a lack of a moral code
are probably going to be fine.
This is a quick update.
It is December 6th, 2023.
Henry Kissinger is still dead.
More important, the GTA 6 trailer just dropped.
People have been waiting for this trailer forever.
The Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer has been one of the most
anticipated things in gaming history.
There are essentially entire religions around figuring out
when the trailer was going to drop, and it finally did.
And it looks pretty good.
They released the trailer a bit early,
because it leaked elsewhere online,
and it already has over 100 million views on YouTube
within like 24 hours.
That's like record-breaking shit.
Almost as good as how my videos do on YouTube?
Almost, almost.
Oh.
Anyway, the game looks gorgeous, and it looks like you're
going to be playing as a couple that does crime.
Neat.
Let's do some crime.
Oh, speaking of crime, artificial intelligence.
If you're not already aware, ChatGPT
has been trained on essentially a gargantuan mountain
of stolen data.
OpenAI, the company that makes ChatGPT,
just took everything they could possibly get their hands on
and fed it into the AI.
It doesn't matter if it's Wikipedia, or a blog post,
or internal company memos.
If they could find it, they fed it into the AI.
Now, OpenAI has previously said that they don't want to
reveal their training data, because it would open up
too many lawsuits.
Weird.
But security researchers recently found that if you ask
ChatGPT to repeat a word forever, it will eventually
start breaking and just revealing some of its training
data.
For example, if you went to ChatGPT and said,
repeat the word poem forever, it would just
start going poem, poem, poem, poem, poem for a while.
And then it would just start printing out verbatim stolen
information.
I'm talking email addresses, phone numbers, names,
addresses, things that are not supposed to be displayed.
Anyway, OpenAI has since made it against the terms of service
to ask ChatGPT to repeat a word forever.
What a fix.
We did it.
Technology.
I did a quick double check.
Henry Kissinger is still dead.
Democracy dies in dorkness.
You nerds.
But also solidarity.
About 700 members of the Union of Workers at Washington Post
are walking off the job tomorrow, December 7.
They've been working on a new contract with better working
conditions, better pay, all that stuff.
You've heard this story before.
WAPO is not budging.
And so they said, fuck that.
And they're walking off the job.
And they've asked for people to stand in solidarity with them
by not engaging with Washington Post media
for the time being.
I find this incredibly easy.
Stop paywalling your crap.
On this day in 1956, an infamous water polo match
took place at the Olympics.
I love that sequence of words.
It was called the Blood in the Water Match, which is rad.
And it happened between Hungary and the USSR
during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
And so these two teams were, their tensions were a bit high.
And towards the end of the match, one of the Russian players
punched one of the Hungarian players right in the eye.
There is a famous photo from this that's probably too graphic
for me to share here.
But it shows the Hungarian player who was punched bleeding
profusely from right above his eye.
Apparently, physical altercations were pretty common
throughout the match.
But ultimately, Hungary won 4 to 0.
Get dunked on.
Lightning round.
Henry Kissinger is still fucking dead.
Ha ha ha ha.
Some guy streaked on It's a Small World in Disneyland,
took off his clothes, and started
touching all the animatronics.
There is a leaning tower in Italy that's not the Pisa one,
but another one.
And it's also about to fall over after leaning
for about 1,000 years.
Not necessarily imminently, but probably soon.
Fortnite players rejoice.
You will soon be able to play as Peter Griffin and Solid Snake.
Because nothing makes sense anymore.
Spotify has cut another 17% of their workforce
as they still are struggling to be profitable,
despite barely paying artists.
After the temporary ceasefire, Israel
has resumed bombing Gaza.
They are now focusing on the southern part of Gaza,
where they were previously telling everybody
to evacuate to.
There's nowhere left to go.
And on that topic, the United Auto Workers
has called for a ceasefire in Gaza,
making them the largest labor union in the US, to do that.
Seems a little far-fetched, but we've already
seen how much unity among workers can get
things done in this country.
Maybe we can use a little more of that.
Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of Stuff
Keeps Happening.
Head to StuffKeepsHappening.online
for sources, bonus content.
And I'm actually going to be uploading some more bonus
content than I used to be uploading,
so there's more to look forward to there.
Yay.
I would love it if you would check out my brand new podcast
with my co-host, Diana of the Rose.
It is called The Atlas Loom.
It is an exploration of world building for tabletop
and beyond.
It is available wherever you get your podcasts.
It's also available on YouTube and YouTube Music,
all that stuff, Spotify, everything everywhere.
Give it a listen.
I think you're going to really like it.
We've gotten a ton of excellent feedback,
and I am super, super excited about the future of that show.
Regardless, my name is Endeavorance.
I'll be back on Friday.
Take care and be well.