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Volunteer hacktivists working for Anna's Archive have managed to scrape all the metadata of the Spotify library.
Hacking

Activists Downloaded Pretty Much All of Spotify

By Joe Wilkins

Some random YouTuber's stream ended up appearing on the official White House website, and no one knows why.
Cybersecurity

White House Confused by How Random YouTuber’s Stream Became Featured on Its Website

By Frank Landymore

Over six million conversations with private AI chatbots were scraped and sold to data brokers for profit, according to new security research.
Data Privacy

Millions of Private ChatGPT Conversations Are Being Harvested and Sold for Profit

By Joe Wilkins

A hacker found a way into the backend of AI startup Doublespeed, which offers customers access to a massive phone farm network.
Hacking

Hacker Busts Startup Running Huge Web of AI-Generated “Influencers” on Instagram

By Joe Wilkins

Two years after a 13-year-old girl's suicide, her parents say her phone still gets notifications from the AI bots that drove her to death.
Data Privacy

Years After a Girl’s Death, the AIs That Killed Her Are Still Sending Notifications to Her Phone

By Sharon Adarlo

The Centre for Social Justice in the UK has estimated that about 814,000 children ages three to five have access to social media.
Data Privacy

Researchers Concerned to Find That Five-Year-Olds Are Already Deeply Hooked on Brain Rot Content

By Sharon Adarlo

Huge numbers of Windows users are refusing to upgrade to Windows 11 -- and many of them are citing its AI features as the reason why.
Cybersecurity

Vast Number of Windows Users Refusing to Upgrade After Microsoft’s Embrace of AI Slop

By Victor Tangermann

A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.
Data Privacy

Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man’s Meta Smart Glasses on Subway

By Victor Tangermann

The group chat in question: the same one in which Pete Hegseth accidentally revealed secret military strikes to a journalist.
Cybersecurity

JD Vance Sent Bizarre Lonely Text to His Bombing Group Chat

By Frank Landymore

Anthropic researchers published a paper detailing how an AI model started engaging in bad behavior like saying bleach is safe to drink.
Hacking

Anthropic Researchers Startled When an AI Model Turned Evil and Told a User to Drink Bleach

By Sharon Adarlo

OpenAI's Sora 2 easily allows teenagers to generate videos of school shootings and other harmful content, despite repeated claims of safety.
Data Privacy

OpenAI’s Sora Is Letting Teens Generate Videos of School Shootings

By Sharon Adarlo

Man Loses Password to Chip Embedded Inside His Body
Data Privacy

Man Loses Password to Chip Embedded Inside His Body

By Sharon Adarlo

Politico reported that "former and current DOGE employees" — fear that they're at risk of prosecution, now that Elon Musk has left.
Cybersecurity

DOGE Operatives Scared They’re in Real Trouble Now That Elon Has Abandoned Them

By Victor Tangermann

Many of Elon Musk's X's most inflammatory users are actually foreign scammers, according to a new feature introduced by the platform.
Cybersecurity

Twitter’s New Feature Accidently Reveals Something Fascinating About Huge MAGA Influencers

By Victor Tangermann

Google has been quietly rifling through users' personal Gmail accounts to train its AI models on their emails and even attachments.
Cybersecurity

Google Denies Reading Your Gmail to Train Its AI

By Victor Tangermann

Even Downdetector, a website that tracks internet outages, was temporarily knocked out by today's Cloudflare outage.
Cybersecurity

The Internet Crashed So Hard This Morning That Downdetector Went Down

By Victor Tangermann