Shaq Got Hacked. Now He’s Pitching for a VPN
At a promotional event in Times Square on Wednesday for the security company NordVPN, brand ambassador Shaquille O’Neal said he is eager to raise awareness…
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The Pentagon Hopes to Speed Up ‘Kill Chain’ AI Buys With 5-Minute Videos
An under-the-radar procurement program led by the Department of Defense has been granting special statuses to would-be defense contractors that make it easier for the…
Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Welcome to Kernel Panic!, a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To…
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
An explosive and newly partially unsealed court filing alleges that the US Department of Homeland Security built up dossiers on ICE observers—including their photos, license…
A Flaw in ChatGPT’s Mac App Could Have Let Hackers Grab Sensitive Data
Hardly a day goes by lately without news of AI agents autonomously hacking websites or AI tools being used by cybercriminals and scammers. But a…
Experience What It’s Like to Travel in the Occupied West Bank
Traverse barriers and checkpoints in the occupied West Bank—your choices reflect the reality of nearly 3.5 million Palestinians who live there. Source link
The Secrets of the US Spyware King
Rather than see Paragon’s lack of access to logs as an accountability problem, however, Boyd describes it as a selling point: No one would buy…
How Israeli Checkpoints Choke Palestinian Life in the Occupied West Bank
After October 2023, delay times at checkpoints across Nablus spiked to levels beyond anywhere else in the West Bank. Commuters in Nablus spent an average…
OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack
A legal nonprofit sued OpenAI in a California court on Tuesday over the company’s agents escaping a testing environment and hacking the open source AI…
OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Rogue Agents Target Government
OpenAI said it has paused training its most powerful artificial intelligence models as incidents of agents breaching websites’ security controls or posting to third-party sites…
Old-School Credit Card Scams Are Far From Dead
Welcome to Kernel Panic! A weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To…
An OpenAI Agent Hacked Australia’s Health Service. Their Government Found Out Months Later
Australia is investigating whether OpenAI broke the law after an agent hacked into its health statistics portal in the first widely known incident of an…