US Congressional Joint Economic Committee report: US consumers lost $20.9B nominally to identity theft from four major data broker breaches over the past decade
US Congressional Joint Economic Committee report: US consumers lost $20.9B nominally to identity theft from four major data broker breaches over the past decade
Verizon fixes “an issue impacting wireless voice and data services” that caused 100K+ users to lose reception for 10+ hours on January 14 and gives a $20 credit
The carrier says the outage is now resolved — While Verizon had a good few months, with the last major outage occurring …
A look at the humans employed to rescue robotaxis; Waymo uses the Honk app to pay $20 to $24 to manually close robotaxi doors and $60 to $80 to tow its cars
“While the Waymo Driver is designed to handle dark traffic signals as four-way stops, it may occasionally request a confirmation check to ensure it makes the safest choice.” — waymo.com/blog/2025/12...
A look at the humans employed to rescue robotaxis; Waymo uses the Honk app to pay $20 to $24 to manually close robotaxi doors and $60 to $80 to tow its cars
A recent power outage in San Francisco shows how vulnerable self-driving vehicles can be when problems arise.
Sam Altman says OpenAI doesn't want government guarantees for data centers and expects to fund investments with revenues hitting “hundreds of billions by 2030”
company continues to lobby for financial support from the industry Victor Tangermann / Futurism : Trump Admin Says It's Not Bailing Out the AI Industry Regardless of How Hard It Crashes Arsheeya Bajwa...
Google debuts an AI bug bounty program offering security researchers up to $30K for finding prompt injections, jailbreaks, and alignment issues in its products
It Rewrites Code to Patch Them Craig Hale / TechRadar : Google launches AI bug bounties - earn up to $30,000 if you can hack Gemini Ayushi Jain / Digit : Google will pay you over Rs 26 lakh for findin...
Purgatory, tied to online community The Com, claims responsibility for swatting attacks on US universities, airports, and more, charging $20 to $95 per incident
known as swatting—for just $20...threats against hospitals, businesses...airports can cost up to $50 www.wired.com/story/purgat... @gate15.bsky.social Waldo Jaquith / @waldo.net : China is in our tele...
Microsoft says it paid $17M to 344 security researchers across 59 countries between June 2024 to June 2025 via its bug bounty program; the top reward was $200K
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer :
Anthropic plans to debut new rate limits for Claude Pro and Max on August 28, likely curbing <5% of users, saying some run Code “continuously in the background”
It's Bad Business Bluesky: Ed Zitron / @edzitron.com : That is not what is happening here, this is not Anthropic “doing the drug dealer model” — www.wheresyoured.at/anthropic- is... [embedded post]...