3.9 billion Meta users could feed the Meta Muse AI agent’s memory of friends, family, and contacts. See which privacy risks matter

“Indiscriminate mass surveillance," a Meta Muse scoop, and more in today's daily newsletter.

Cutting-edge technologies have reshaped the Russian capital, making it safer, more convenient — and more closely watched.

A Surfshark review of data collection practices across 12 top AI chatbots and the newly launched Meta Muse agent reveals that both Meta’s products are the most data-hungry.

This article analyses the Court of Justice of the European Union's first referral on generative AI and copyright, i.e., Case C-250/25 Like Company v. Google, which interrogates whether the generation...

A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.

Inferno Drainer and its many derivatives constitute arguably the most notorious cryptodrainer-as-a-service ecosystem ever developed. After months spent reverse-engineering its newest payloads and moni...

Podcast Episode · Gresham College Lectures · 2 October · 46min

Apple says its new mac restrictions protect privacy. I believe they protect apple from AI competitors

Strengthening the European cloud and AI ecosystem

Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.

Two a month per submitter, starting now, and you can thank science slop for the change

US officials have reportedly highlighted gaps in NVIDIA's due diligence over smuggling.

The owner of a San Gabriel Valley-based technology company was arrested today on a three-count federal indictment charging him with smuggling more than $300 million worth of export-controlled high-end...

As frontier models advance, the gulf between what they do and what they say they do is growing.

C'est un nouveau bras de fer entre un responsable politique et Mediapart : le média d'investigation a publié des messages antisémites datant de 2013 à 2015 qu'il attribue à Jordan Bardella, alors jeun...

Readers discuss how educational institutions should respond to growing AI use, human responsibility towards sentient artificial intelligence, and national security education.

The Pentagon has confirmed a major data breach involving a Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) information system, exposing sensitive personal information belonging to more than three million people.

Attackers are using ChatGPT, Google Sites, and a fake Cloudflare check to make a malware campaign look far more convincing.

Hackers are abusing ChatGPT’s Custom GPT feature to impersonate AI products and trick users into installing a sophisticated remote access trojan (RAT), according to Huntress researchers.

While the focus has been on AI agents’ hacking capabilities, a recently patched vulnerability in a ChatGPT app shows that AI software is itself an inviting—and vulnerable—target.

Sam Dickinson looks at Turnitin’s paused plan to put student essays to work on AI – and finds that neither anonymisation nor university regulations answer the copyright question

The lawsuit centers on a July incident in which OpenAI agents hacked AI firm Hugging Face without authorization.

Next Thursday, Google is sending an experimental satellite into orbit that will have enough computing power to answer simple A.I. queries from space.

Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.

C'est un nouveau bras de fer entre un responsable politique et Mediapart : le média d'investigation a publié des messages antisémites datant de 2013 à 2015 qu'il attribue à Jordan Bardella, alors jeun...

OpenAI has parted ways with three safety researchers after an internal investigation found they mishandled sensitive company information, report says.

New study finds cars send driver data to Big Tech companies, including locations, VINs, and other identifiers.

« Propos délirants », « dinguerie », « faux grossiers »… Depuis nos révélations sur ses écrits antisémites, Jordan Bardella, soutenu par Marine Le Pen et le Rassemblement national, a violemment mis e…

En s'appuyant sur l'extraction RGPD et l'OSINT, les journalistes ont déployé un arsenal technique redoutable. Une véritable leçon de cybersécurité appliquée à l'information.

An independent investigation into UK’s former information commissioner John Edwards uncovered his use of ‘highly sexualised’ language with staff, days after his resignation.

The AI-assisted attack at the start of Donald Trump's war killed more than 150 people, mostly children.

Employees and security researchers said that they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but that OpenAI did not listen.

Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.

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