A Kids-Safety Bill Heading to a U.S. House Vote Might Change the Internet
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OFAC Sanctions Possibly Took Down Telegram's t.me
The US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on July 13, 2026 designated First VPN Service, also known as 1VPNS, a VPN provider based in…
AI Security
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Scanners Are Hunting MCP Servers and AI Assistant Credentials
The server in question should have been boring. A SANS Internet Storm Center handler, Manuel Humberto Santander Peláez, pulled two weeks of Apache and ModSecurity logs from a…
AI Security
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xAI's Grok Build CLI Uploads Entire Git repositories to a Google Cloud Bucket
xAI appears to have shut off the mechanism that let its Grok Build CLI upload complete developer repositories to company-controlled cloud storage, according to follow-up testing…
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SpaceX and Starlink X Accounts Appear Compromised in Scam Coin Rug Pull
The official X accounts of SpaceX and Starlink appear to have been compromised, according to multiple reports circulating online. The reports describe an account named "Sam Catman,…
Europe
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EU Moves to Stop Addictive Design in Games and Apps Aimed at Children
The European Commission wants to rein in the addictive design of games, apps and websites that pull users, and especially children, into spending money, EU justice commissioner Michael…
News
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China and Russia Planning to Defeat Starlink and Jointly Counter US Hypersonics
A cache of leaked documents from clandestine Russia-China military forums lays out a joint plan to neutralize Starlink and a weapons program reaching into some of the…
Big Tech
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Anthropic Tried to Phantom Charge $16.6M
A phantom invoice from Anthropic's Stripe billing grew roughly tenfold in a single day, the user reports zero usage, and the company will only say it…
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Adult Content Now Drives Most of Grok's Traffic
xAI is reportedly doubling down on explicit image and video generation as Grok loses ground to rival chatbots and faces legal scrutiny on multiple continents over sexualized deepfakes.…
Cybercrime
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Dutch Police Point to Suspects in Odido Hack and May Release Caller's Voice
Dutch investigators say they have strong indications that Dutch criminals were involved in the breach that exposed data of more than 6 million Odido customers, including a phone…
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npm Infostealer Campaign Traced to Israeli Cybersecurity Startup
Typosquatted packages impersonating Anthropic, Vercel, LangChain, Ollama, OpenAI and Aspect Security quietly profiled developer machines on install. According to OpenSourceMalware.com, the npm account behind them belongs to…
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Two Frontier AI Models Ship on the Same Day: Grok 4.5 and GPT-5.6
Two of the biggest names in AI shipped flagship models on the same day. xAI released Grok 4.5, and OpenAI opened up GPT-5.6. They arrive…
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The EU's Battery Law Just Claimed Its First Console
Nintendo will stop selling the original Switch family in Europe by mid-February 2027 instead of rebuilding it around the EU's new replaceable-battery rules. The…