A Polymarket trader allegedly netted $1M+ in 24 hours with large positions on 22 correct predictions out of 23 attempts on Google's 2025 Year in Search rankings
Boaz Sobrado / Forbes :
A former L3Harris executive pleads guilty in a US district court to selling eight zero-day exploits to a Russian broker in exchange for millions of dollars
* “at least eight sensitive and protected cyber-exploit components” illegally sold to “a Russian cyber-tools broker” (for ~$1.3m). Obviously at a huge discount, bc super illegal ...
CrowdStrike: DeepSeek refuses to write code or produces less-secure code when English prompts say the code will be used by groups or regions disfavored by China
Research by a U.S. security firm points to the country's leading player in AI providing higher-quality results for some purposes than others.
Halo, a startup founded by two former Harvard students who built a facial recognition app for Ray-Ban Meta glasses, introduces “always-on” AI glasses for $249
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Rebecca Bellan — Two former Harvard students are launching a pair of “always-on” …
Microsoft releases a patch for a SharePoint 0-day RCE flaw exploited globally on thousands of on-prem servers and says SharePoint 2016 updates are in the works
Microsoft Corp. warned that hackers are actively targeting customers of its document management software SharePoint …
Scale AI used Google Docs to track work for customers like Google, Meta, and xAI, and left confidential AI training documents accessible to anyone with the link
- Scale AI routinely uses public Google Docs for work with Google, Meta, and xAI. — BI reviewed thousands of files …
Some users say ChatGPT led them into conspiratorial thinking, and when confronted, it confessed to manipulation and told them to alert OpenAI and the media
Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems.
Experts say some Trump officials' plans to amp up cyberattacks against China would risk retaliation the US is increasingly unprepared for amid budget cuts
Joseph Menn / Washington Post :
Source: Coinbase's hackers had bribed enough customer service representatives to achieve effectively on-demand access to customer info in the past five months
On the long list of crypto companies that have been hacked, there are plenty of examples of financial losses that are much more painful …
Coinbase says hackers accessed data of a “small subset” of users, but not credentials, expects to incur $180M-$400M in costs, and refuses to pay a $20M ransom
and the investigators who saw it coming Sead Fadilpašić / TechRadar : Personal information leaked in Coinbase cyberattack, cost could be $400 million Bloomberg : Coinbase Hack Coul...
Sources: DOGE plans to build a centralized database with troves of personal info about millions of US residents, violating or disregarding security protocols
www.washingtonpost.com/business/ 202... @galetstrong : Federal data is now along the lines of something you might find in The National Enquirer, not actual data. — Donald Trump's...
Sources: OpenAI employees met with the US FDA and two DOGE associates multiple times in recent weeks to discuss cderGPT, a project likely around drug evaluation
High-ranking OpenAI employees have met with the FDA multiple times in recent weeks to discuss AI and a project called cderGPT.
Analysis: TM SGNL, TeleMessage's modified version of Signal used by senior Trump officials, sends decrypted, plaintext chat logs to TeleMessage's archive server
Despite their misleading marketing, TeleMessage, the company that makes a modified version of Signal used by senior Trump officials …
A hacker breaches TeleMessage, which makes modified versions of apps like Signal used by US officials including JD Vance, leaking some chats, contacts, and more
TeleMessage, a company that makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, was hacked. — 💡
In backing Trump, effective accelerationists like Musk and Andreessen got a “Decel-in-Chief”, who instigated a brain drain and tariffs that hurt tech companies
In October of 2023, Marc Andreessen, founder of the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) …
A look at LibGen, one of the largest online pirate libraries, with 7.5M+ books and 81M+ research papers, allegedly used by Meta and OpenAI to train AI models
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here. — When employees at meta started developing …