A Kids-Safety Bill Heading to a U.S. House Vote Might Change the Internet
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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.…
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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…
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Proton Calls Windows GDID Spyware
A US federal complaint revealed how the FBI used Microsoft's barely documented Global Device ID to trace an alleged Scattered Spider member through his VPN. Proton…
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A US Government Body Paid Cybercriminals $1 Million
Leaked negotiation logs and payment tracing published by Ransom-ISAC show a public-sector victim paid a seven-figure ransom over data-leak threats alone. Circumstantial evidence points…
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UK Wants to Use Autonomous AI to Protect Critical Infra
The National Cyber Security Centre and DSIT want federated AI agents defending government and critical systems at machine speed, and they are asking frontier labs, industry and academia…
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Accenture Breached: Confirms Security Incident
A threat actor known as 888 is selling what they claim is 35GB of Accenture source code and cloud credentials. Accenture says it has fixed the source of…
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Signal Launched Verified In-App Chat to Combat Phishing
Signal's verified "Official Chat" has reached iOS, giving every user a single authenticated channel from the company. It arrives after state-linked phishing campaigns…
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US commanders overrode stale-intelligence warnings before strike that destroyed Iranian school
Warnings embedded in the Pentagon's own targeting databases flagged Iran intelligence as years out of date. Senior officers approved strikes anyway, sources told CNN, including the…
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Judge approves $46.75 million payout for 23andMe breach victims
A federal bankruptcy judge has signed off on the settlement covering an estimated 6.9 million people whose genetic and personal data was exposed in the 2023 breach.…