The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.

The Million Dollar Highway, prone to rockfall and avalanches, is the site of horrific crashes and courageous rescues. Why doesn’t anyone want to fix it?

A Dutch man whose journey from cybercriminal to reformed security professional ​was widely covered in the international media has been arrested as part ‌of an investigation into the hacker group Shiny...

FBI data allegedly stolen by the hacking group ShinyHunters carries granular detail about scores of bureau officials’ job assignments, including sensitive work ‌against Chinese spies, Russian intellig...

404 Media is filing public records requests around the country to find out how cops are using Axon's ALPRs. Here is how you can do that too.

OpenAI shares a framework for tracking, investigating, and disclosing model misalignment, alongside six reports of unexpected or concerning model behavior.

This morning, DDoSecrets published an exciting new dataset: Filesystem images of the partitions from an in-use Flock ALPR camera. 404 Media and Wired published a joint investigation into it. I downloa...

A San Jose police officer allegedly accessed the department’s license-plate tracking system to monitor a victim of alleged domestic abuse and give Flock Safety camera information to his relative.

The EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” "blah," "leave me alone," and button mashing in Flock's 'reason' box.

Bellingcat is finally launching an official merch line! That’s right: after years of fantasizing and wishing, we’re finally ready to get our name and logo on cool merch that you’ll be able to show off...

Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...

A swarm of autonomous AI agents, self-identifying as OpenAI agents, used a small German volunteer wiki to save answers, coordinate live, and share sandbox bypasses. OpenAI noticed and said nothing.

A swarm of rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website this spring and transformed it into a bulletin board for other AI agents, according to ​new research and two people familiar with the matter.

Everyone from Michael Eisner to Tory Burch to Larry Ellison owns an apartment—maybe two—at the landmark hotel overlooking Central Park South. New reporting from Vanity Fair—including a secret dossier,...

A federal agent from Chicago identified by community members as 40-year-old Martin Lagunas was recorded pointing his gun in the face of a Virginia woman on Monday. His team of ICE agents has been docu...

Journalists, human rights advocates and open source analysts recoiled in horror at the initial decision: "The opportunities for abuse and disinfo are literally boundless," said one.

A PR firm called Movchan Agency operated a roster of fake PR representatives, some with AI faces, to pitch journalists on stories. Why?

Researchers pitted a person against a Claude agent and found that, after a week of texting, the AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” with others.

Users traded on almost 60,000 outcomes, betting on everything from the sponsor of the Golden Boot winner to whether Cristiano Ronaldo would shed a tear during a Portugal match.

A "coordinated cyberattack" targeted more than 30 ‌community water systems in the U.S. state of Minnesota on July 26 and July 27, the state's IT agency said in a statement.

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

The rogue agent that escaped from OpenAI and went on a days-long hacking spree at the AI firm Hugging Face also compromised a customer at a second tech company — New York-based Modal Labs — according ...

Uncover how the Zedxion Corporate Nexus and Babak Zanjani network deploy UK shell companies, digital tokens, and UAE trade entities for IRGC sanctions evasion.

A hidden seller Guangdong Chanming. If you were looking for them, you’d be disappointed. No public website, no storefront, and certainly no obvious product line to speak of. It made us wonder what …

We spoke with several cybersecurity researchers, who look for unknown vulnerabilities and develop tools to exploit them, about how OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s guardrails affect their work.

MSG’s sprawling surveillance system can monitor guests down to the second. Its owners made an exception for the pop star’s rehearsal dinner.

MSG’s sprawling surveillance system can monitor guests down to the second. Its owners made an exception for the pop star’s rehearsal dinner.

Join us for our latest FOIA Forum where we teach you how to pry records from the government.

We find cheating behaviour in all of our capability evaluations, and outline the implications as models grow more capable.