How facial recognition software rejects people with facial differences, who number an estimated 100M+ worldwide, blocking them from accessing essential services
An estimated 100 million people live with facial differences. As face recognition tech becomes widespread … Bluesky: @brbarrett , @lhn , @mattburgess1 , and @couts . Forums: r/technews Bluesky: Brian...
Apple announces a “major evolution” of the Apple Security Bounty program, doubling its top award to $2M for exploit chains that could be abused for spyware
$2M Top Payout Usman Qureshi / iPhone in Canada : Apple Doubles Security Bounty Rewards to $2 Million Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer : Apple now offers $2 million for zero-click RCE vulnerabilities Ti...
Anthropic's Threat Intelligence report for August says Claude was weaponized for sophisticated cybercrimes, including a “vibe-hacking” data extortion scheme
and It Could Happen Again Vyom Ramani / Digit : Vibe-hacking based AI attack turned Claude against its safeguard: Here's how Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.2503: Anthropic's Claude helps ...
Sources: xAI was part of a US GSA's AI initiative alongside OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, but the GSA removed xAI after Grok posted antisemitic content in July
A short thread for the reader to try figure out what the common denominator is here. — A. Grok was about to get a lucrative Govt. contract. It went all Nazi, because well, birds of a feather ... 1...
Researchers demonstrate a novel Gemini attack using poisoned Google Calendar invitations to trigger smart home devices; Google fixed the flaws earlier in 2025
For likely the first time ever, security researchers have shown how AI can be hacked to create real-world havoc … Bluesky: @katie-drummond , @mattburgess1 , and @couts . Forums: r/artificial Bluesky: ...
Meta plans to add cloud-based AI features to WhatsApp, like message summarization and composition, using Private Processing so the data is inaccessible to Meta
“People just submitted it. They trust me. I don't know why. Dumb fucks” [embedded post] Andrew Couts / @couts : NEW: WhatsApp has created a new system for processing AI summaries and message sugges...
Sources: Palantir is helping DOGE build an API layer above all IRS databases; DOGE wants Palantir's Foundry software to be the “read center of all IRS systems”
For the past three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with dozens of career IRS engineers … Bluesky: @wired.com , @wired.com , @emptywheel , @sbyrnes , @techviews , @whodat35 ...
Docs: NSO Group, which is still on the US Commerce Department's Entity List, has hired Vogel Group, a lobbying firm with direct ties to the Trump administration
www.wired.com/story/nso-gr... Vas Panagiotopoulos / @vaspanagiotopoulos.com : 1/5 NSO Group is paving a path back Into Trump's 🇺🇸America. — The 🇮🇱Israeli #spyware maker, still on the US Commerce Dep...
Human Security: 1M+ Android TV streaming boxes, tablets, projectors, and car infotainment systems are infected with malware that conscripts them into a botnet
New research shows at least a million inexpensive Android devices—from TV streaming boxes to car infotainment systems … Bluesky: @couts and @lhn . Forums: r/technews Bluesky: Andrew Couts / @couts : N...
Investigation: criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar, where tens of thousands of people are enslaved, are using Starlink to get online
A WIRED investigation reveals that criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands of people are enslaved—are using Starlink to get online. Bluesky: @malwarejake , @...