We start this week with a story from our old friend Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, about how cops can bypass the inactivity reboot on iPhones. After the break, Jason tells us how people are losing their minds over an LLM ‘torture’ prison. In the subscribers-only section, Sam explains what happened in a wild ChatGPT case in New Mexico.

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• ⁠Cops Can Bypass iPhone’s Automatic Reboot to Get Into Locked Phones, Leaked Video Claims⁠
• ⁠Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet⁠
• ⁠Lawyer Cites ChatGPT-Invented Fake Witnesses in Murder Appeal⁠