Anthropic’s Mythos breach was humiliating
… The NSA and other US agencies reportedly have access despite Anthropic’s designation as a supply chain risk, though the rollout appears to have bypassed the US cybersecurity agency, CISA, so far. …
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John Ternus’ first big problem is AI
… But even that deal was potentially late — last April, during Google’s search monopoly trial, CEO Sundar Pichai said the agreement with Apple would hopefully be signed within months, resulting in a rollout by the end of 2025. …
Android 17 arrives on Pixel phones today
… AirDrop support through Quick Share is expanding to the Pixel 8A and 9A, Voice Translate for phone calls is coming to the 10A, and Take a Message will now be available on every Pixel from the 6 onward except in India, where it’s still limited to the 10 series only . …
Apple quietly threatened Grok to curb sexual deepfakes or get pulled from App Store
… Throughout this covert back-and-forth, Grok and X appear to have remained live on the App Store, a drawn-out process that may help explain the confusing, haphazard rollout of moderation changes announced in real time. …
Apple’s AI promises are finally, almost, sort of, here
… And it’s not clear if the payoff for Apple’s years-late AI strategy will be worth the wait. The new Siri is supposed to frictionlessly pull together information from the internet, emails, texts, contacts, notes, and calendars, working with first-party apps and external tools alike. …
Attack of the killer script kiddies
… Saxe points out that it’s possible there’ll be friction in various attacker constituencies adopting these tools within their existing workflows and organization cultures.“There’s a whole human and organizational element here,” he said. “It may be that there are certain attacker constituencies that … …
Google I/O 2026
… It’s already available on iOS , and coming to Android soon. Google is also adding granular editing tools for changing portions of an AI-generated song, tweaking beat drops, or rewriting lyrics. …
Cybersecurity
… Anthropic’s Mythos rollout has missed America’s cybersecurity agency Lauren Feiner Apr 22 Anthropic’s most dangerous AI model just fell into the wrong hands Jess Weatherbed Apr 22 Terrence O'Brien Apr 19 The NSA reportedly has access to Anthropic’s Mythos despite being labeled a supply-chain risk. …
Age verification is a mess but we’re doing it anyway
… Discord has said most users won’t be impacted by its incoming age verification rollout because of its age-guessing AI system. “You don’t need to know who someone is in order to figure out their age, so that’s why, in theory, age inference technologies can be less privacy invasive,” Cobun Zweifel-Ke… …
GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft
… In a “how it started, how it’s going” blog post, Friedman looks back on his career at Microsoft and reflects on why the company needs a chief design officer. “Early in the Copilot rollout, teams moved quickly to integrate AI across products, but simply, attaching it to existing experiences isn’t en… …