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Frontier Airlines site leaks all personal info with just a glance at a boarding pass, researcher claims — booking number and last name nets you every passenger's personal info, including address, passport, TSA PreCheck, and most credit card info [Updated]

… All of that info is usable for identity theft, stalking, or any other number of nefarious criminal activities. The TSA PreCheck code Known Traveler Number is particularly concerning for airlines, as it opens the possibility of an identity thief getting past security checks. …

Jun 18, 2026 · Bruno Ferreira
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Linus Torvalds says flood of duplicate AI-generated vulnerability reports have made Linux security mailing list 'almost entirely unmanageable' — private list 'a waste of time for everybody involved' in switch to new public system

Linus Torvalds declared the Linux kernel's private security mailing list "almost entirely unmanageable" on Sunday in his weekly post to the Linux Kernel Mailing List LKML , blaming a flood of duplicate vulnerability reports generated by researchers running the same AI tools against the same code. …

May 18, 2026 · Luke James
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US government warned Anthropic that Fable 5 had been jailbroken, but firm 'refused' to fix before US implemented export controls — Anthropic defended its decision by saying the jailbreak 'isn’t serious,' Chinese group had reportedly accessed model

… Amazon, which has invested billions in Anthropic and supplies much of its cloud computing , didn’t confirm the details, with a spokesperson telling Semafor that governments often seek its counsel on security risks and that it doesn’t discuss those conversations. …

Jun 14, 2026 · Luke James
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Google Chrome 'silently' downloads 4GB AI model to your device without permission, report claims — researcher says practice may violate EU law, waste thousands of kilowatts of energy

Security researcher Alexander Hanff, also known as "That Privacy Guy," has published a new analysis claiming that Google Chrome is silently downloading a roughly 4GB on-device AI model to users' machines without notice or consent. …

May 6, 2026 · Zak Killian