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Man Used a Robot Vacuum to Catch His Wife Cheating Samsung SmartThings firmware update bricks "smart" refrigerators The AI Industry Has a Jurassic Park Problem More AI caught trying to break into systems - this time US & Canadian gov't Anthropic has a press release showing how well their latest model (GLM 5.3) breaks into other systems Gemini getting in on the model-escaping hype OpenAI says rogue agents may have affected more than 100 organizations Micro Center requires photo ID and signed no-export pledge to buy Nvidia RTX 5090 gaming GPU — buyer forced to sign declaration disclosing install location and promise GPU will remain in the US It’s not just LG. Every TV company is spying on you Nearly 3 million people's personal data was exposed in a Pentagon breach that went undetected for months ESA Says It Has Two Lawsuits Pending Against 'Illegal' Private Minecraft Servers How Cloudflare addressed a cross-tenant data exposure vulnerability in Containers Microsoft deletes nonprofit customers' M365 data — and says it can't get it back NightmareEclipse BigDiskBuster blocks antivirus updates Microsoft to block Entra ID script injection attacks starting October Executive Producer: Sir bigl0af Follow SirBemrose, Pheonix, and PhoneBoy on Mastodon

Attacker stole a METR API key, used $600K worth of credits, and no one noticed for weeks DefCon 34 - Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later - Cliff Stoll⁩ US says Chinese firms extracted billions of tokens from frontier AI models This shirt is like an AI invisibility cloak ASCII smuggling isn't just an AI security risk Anthropic wants Claude to analyze your bank account and financial data ESA Says It Has Two Lawsuits Pending Against 'Illegal' Private Minecraft Servers Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Really Works Boston dumps Flock, says it shared data nationwide in violation of contract September Windows Server updates break Remote Desktop Services Microsoft fixes bug that wiped Windows desktop settings AWS puts AI vulnerability detection to the test, and false positives pile up New Microsoft Defender 'ShieldCrash' zero-day grants SYSTEM access AI doctor assistants make life-or-death choices very differently from humans AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack Governor Newsom issues executive order to accelerate independent oversight and advance the creation of an AI kill switch Waymo pulls over, calls cops on riders with a ghost gun Executive Producer: Sir bigl0af Follow SirBemrose, Pheonix, and PhoneBoy on Mastodon

SNICKERS® HUNGR.AI | Even AI Can Get Hungry SNICKERS Built a Digital Candy Bar For When Your AI Your Acts "Hungry" Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code Data centers’ ‘oh s--t’ moment Four major AI models suffer rare overlapping downtime Comcast Turns Millions Of Routers Into Motion Sensors - The Same WiFi Signals Can ID You With 99.5% Accuracy AI is designing viruses – what could possibly go wrong? New CrowdStrike 'FalconFlank' zero-day grants SYSTEM privileges Hackers abuse npm mirrors to host phishing redirect pages Over 1,000 AI agents worked together in OpenAI hack, report reveals Reddit is ending anonymous browsing on old Reddit, and longtime users are not happy 88 ID-verification breaches exposed billions of records, highlighting the growing risks of collecting sensitive identity and biometric data. How to Blow Up a Data Center I Asked 100 Companies for My Data. I Got Deletion Notices Instead California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt Executive Producer: Sir bigl0af Follow SirBemrose, Pheonix, and PhoneBoy on Mastodon

Young US adults are increasingly wary of AI, concerned it will take jobs Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and other US tech giants are hiding $1.65 trillion in AI debt Hey, Your AI Is Showing DraculaGPT to destroy entry-level medical jobs Prior authorization consumes more clinician full-time-equivalents than the entire projected US physician shortage A GITHUB MISCONFIGURATION LET KIMI K3 CHEAT A CYBERSECURITY BENCHMARK. Hackers want your nudes. Here’s how to keep your privates, private Edge to end Manifest v2 support. Firefox gloats Patchmageddon: The race to patch software vulnerabilities before zero-day cyber-exploitations proliferate A San Francisco ‘tech prankster’ got 50 Waymos ordered onto the same street, exposing robotaxis’ cyber/airbag problem Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux is outpacing Ubuntu on physical hardware Booksellers suspect AI firms are buying and then destroying rare books AI hallucinated case law in insurance company’s filings in L.A. County house fire dispute Shield Font ShieldFont uses ligatures to poison AI scrapers Over 70 Years of PBS Video History Has Been Lost as a Denver Cloud Storage Vendor Shuts Down Without Warning Executive Producer: Sir bigl0af Follow SirBemrose, Pheonix, and PhoneBoy on Mastodon

Passkeys by default and retirement of Microsoft-provided SMS and voice authentication - Microsoft Entra ID miniOTP-2-i programmable Two-Factor Security Token with time sync Microsoft August 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 400 flaws, 3 zero-days New Microsoft Defender 'ShieldBreak' zero-day grants SYSTEM privileges Executive Producer: Sir bigl0af Follow SirBemrose, Pheonix, and PhoneBoy on Mastodon