A Kapwing study of the 15,000 top YouTube channels finds 278 of them have only posted AI-generated “slop” videos, amassing 63B+ views and 221M+ subscribers
low-quality AI-generated content designed to farm views, research has found. — The video-editing company Kapwing surveyed 15,000 of the world's most popular YouTube channels — the top 100 in every ...
Sources: DHS is investigating whether six staffers misled CISA's acting director into taking a polygraph that he failed, compounding instability at the agency
“At least six career staffers at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency were suspended with pay this summer after organizing a polygraph test that the agency's acting director, Madhu Got...
Banking tech vendor SitusAMC says it suffered a November 12 hack that could expose sensitive customer data; sources say JPMorgan, Citi, and others are impacted
On November 12, 2025, SitusAMC ("we" or the “Company") became aware of an incident … Connor Jones / The Register : Intrusion at real estate finance biz sparks concern for big banks Eric Geller / Cyber...
Sources: UK companies tell the UK that a planned ban on paying ransoms to ransomware gangs is unlikely to stop attacks and could result in services collapsing
Kieran Smith / Financial Times : LinkedIn: Greg Palmer . Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social LinkedIn: Greg Palmer : Georgina Kon and I spoke with Kieran Smith from the Financial Times about the...
Aikido Security says attackers injected malware into 18 npm packages with 2.6B+ total weekly downloads, after compromising a maintainer's account via phishing
Popular npm packages debug and chalk were recently compromised, exposing developers and organizations to potential malware risk. … Charlie Eriksen : Hello. It feels like the first Monday of the fall ...
UK police arrest four people, a 20-year-old woman and three men aged 17 to 19, in connection to the M&S and Co-op hacks that began in mid-April and caused havoc
Dunno, not making a particular point, other than that I've been around for ages. Don't cause havoc kids, at least not in these kinds of ways. [embedded post] Eric Geller / @ericjgeller.com : British...
Sources: before installing Starlink at the White House in February, DOGE ignored security concerns that the service bypasses traditional WH security controls
“I love @realDonaldTrump as much as a straight man can love another man.” Bluesky: Michael Bonnett Jr / @michael.bonnettjr.com : Oh really? @joemenn.bsky.social, that's quite the assertion to make whi...
Elon Musk departs the Trump administration as a “special government employee”, defending DOGE's mission to reduce wasteful government spending
Now the job falls to the insidious fossil-fuel-funded creep Russell Vought, their henchman at OMB. E.W. Niedermeyer / @niedermeyer.online : “Say what you will about Elon Musk, the man thinks ahead.” ...
Researcher: a Virgin Media O2 network security flaw exposed the locations of tens of million of users for up to two years; Virgin says it has fixed the issue
Company has reported issue to watchdogs and fixed the problem — Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Bluesky: @jjaron and @duncanrobertson . Masto...
Sources: Builder.ai collapsed after it revised its 2024 revenue estimate from $220M to ~$55M and restated its previously reported 2023 sales from $180M to ~$45M
With the sublime @cynthiao.bsky.social and @alexandraheal.bsky.social [embedded post] Mando / @mrmandolino.itch.io : All of this is following the exact same arc that the crypto\NFT bubble did — Like...