The Rise of the Drone Boats
A Lethal Miniature Aerial Missile System launches munitions from a MARTAC T-38 Devil Ray unmanned surface vehicle, attached to U.S. Naval Forces Central Command’s Task…
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UK Secret Order Demands That Apple Give Access to Users’ Encrypted Data
As Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency rampage through United States federal institutions, WIRED reported extensively this week on DOGE’s members, activity,…
ACLU Warns DOGE’s ‘Unchecked’ Access Could Violate Federal Law
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) told federal lawmakers on Friday that Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have seized control over…
DOGE Teen Owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC’ and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers
At Path Network, Coristine worked as a systems engineer from April to June of 2022, according to his now-deleted LinkedIn resume. Path has at times…
The Collapse of USAID Is Fueling Human Trafficking and Slavery at Scammer Compounds
“Our partners say that for some survivors they are in touch with inside the scam centers, even if they can somehow manage to get out,…
Despite Catastrophic Hacks, Ransomware Payments Dropped Dramatically Last Year
But in fact, both law enforcement operations may have been more successful than they appeared. AlphV, after receiving its $22 million ransom from Change Healthcare,…
Meet the Hired Guns Who Make Sure School Cyberattacks Stay Hidden
Schools have faced an onslaught of cyberattacks since the pandemic disrupted education nationwide five years ago, yet district leaders across the country have employed a…
Foreign Hackers Are Using Google’s Gemini in Attacks on the US
The rapid rise of DeepSeek, a Chinese generative AI platform, heightened concerns this week over the United States’ AI dominance as Americans increasingly adopt Chinese-owned…
DeepSeek’s Safety Guardrails Failed Every Test Researchers Threw at Its AI Chatbot
“Jailbreaks persist simply because eliminating them entirely is nearly impossible—just like buffer overflow vulnerabilities in software (which have existed for over 40 years) or SQL…
Exposed DeepSeek Database Revealed Chat Prompts and Internal Data
“It’s pretty shocking to build an AI model and leave the backdoor wide open from a security perspective,” says independent security researcher Jeremiah Fowler, who…
The Trial at the Tip of the Terrorgram Iceberg
Brandon Russell, arguably one of the most influential figures in the American neofascist revival of the past decade, is on trial this week over an…
DeepSeek’s Popular AI App Is Explicitly Sending US Data to China
The final category of information DeepSeek reserves the right to collect is data from other sources. If you create a DeepSeek account using Google or…