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Researchers found that OpenAI's browser, Atlas's omnibox, is extremely vulnerable to serious prompt injection attacks.
Data Privacy

Serious New Hack Discovered Against OpenAI’s New AI Browser

By Victor Tangermann

One man's robot vacuum was constantly communicating with its manufacturer, sending a detailed 3D map of his house halfway across the world.
Data Privacy

Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House

By Joe Wilkins

Russia and China are allegedly deploying their finest babes to seduce tech industry professionals, a tactic known as "sex warfare."
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If You’re a Tech Worker With an Attractive Girlfriend, We Have Extremely Bad News

By Joe Wilkins

Perplexity's Comet AI browser can easily be tricked into following malicious instructions hidden in screenshots.
Cybersecurity

Researchers Find Severe Vulnerabilities in AI Browser

By Frank Landymore

Researchers have found that posting as few as 250 "poisoned" documents online can introduce "backdoor" vulnerabilities in an AI model.
Cybersecurity

Researchers Find It’s Shockingly Easy to Cause AI to Lose Its Mind by Posting Poisoned Documents Online

By Victor Tangermann

Using an $800 consumer satellite dish, researchers were able to pick up text messages, industrial data, military chatter, and more.
Data Privacy

Researchers Alarmed to Discover Satellites Broadcasting Unencrypted Military Secrets

By Joe Wilkins

Over the weekend, a prankster went viral after calling some 50 self-driving cars to "the longest dead end street in San Francisco."
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Man Launches “World’s First Waymo DDoS” by Ordering 50 Robotaxis to Dead End Street

By Joe Wilkins

A sociology scholar is cautioning that we are hurtling toward a "systemic digital crisis" caused by the digital economy.
Hacking

Professor Warns Society Is Veering Toward a Digital Apocalypse

By Joe Wilkins

Photo Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Michael Prince / Fuse / Getty Images
Hacking

Report Warns That AI Is About to Make Your Boss a Panopticon Overlord

By Joe Wilkins

These "SMS blasters" can trick your phone into connecting to them, bombarding anyone in the vicinity with scam texts.
Cybersecurity

Scammers Are Now Driving Around With Fake Cell Towers That Blast 100,000 Texts Per Hour

By Frank Landymore

The ads which cannot be disabled will "strengthen" the "value" of your Family Hub fridges, according to Samsung.
Data Privacy

Samsung Announces Plans to Plaster Your Smart Fridge With Digital Advertisements

By Frank Landymore

After a deadly barrage of Israeli and US bombs, Iranian hackers have threatened to expose 100 GB of juicy Trump emails.
Hacking

Iranian Hackers Threaten to Release Stolen Emails From Trump’s Inner Circle

By Joe Wilkins

Driving a AI wedge between OpenAI and Microsoft is the industry's favorite buzzword: artificial general intelligence, or AGI.
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“Nonsensical Benchmark Hacking”: Microsoft No Longer Believes OpenAI Is Capable of Achieving AGI

By Frank Landymore

The scandalous hack of TeleMessage, the Signal clone infamously used by Trump's former national security adviser, was worse than we thought.
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The Trump Administration’s Chat Hack Is Starting to Sound Really Bad

By Noor Al-Sibai

An Anonymous hacker has allegedly defaced GlobalX Air's website, accessed pilot software, and deleted sensitive company data.
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Trump’s Deportation Airline Just Got Hacked by Anonymous

By Joe Wilkins

A clone of the messaging app Signal, which was used by since-ousted national security advisor Mike Waltz, has been hacked.
Hacking

The Trump Administration Switched to a Sketchy Signal Clone and It Got Hacked, Leaking Messages

By Victor Tangermann