Meet the Gods of AI Warfare
…technology officer during the second Trump administration who was described to me as an early Maven “frenemy,” told me in late 2025 that Maven Smart System itself uses up too much bandwidth…
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Cybercriminal Twins Caught After They Forgot to Turn Off Microsoft Teams Recording
…Now, the alleged administrator of the market has reportedly been tracked down and charged, more than seven years after the illicit marketplace disappeared from the internet. Owe Martin Andresen was arrested during…
Welcome to the Great American Satellite Age
…The Trump administration’s recent decision to relax some regulatory hurdles has also helped, according to Bhatti. “A lot of the hoops that you would jump through are gone, and that's…
Apple’s Next Chapter, SpaceX and Cursor Strike a Deal, and Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto
…Data aggregation analysis tool powers everything from businesses to the US military's targeting systems, and more recently, that's meant like targeting systems specifically on immigrants. So the way that CEO…
Your iPhone Gets Stolen. Then the Hacking Begins
…Some of these exposed their administration login pages and also advertised tools to unlock phones. Ultimately, the researchers identified multiple groups on Telegram pushing the “unlocking” services. While they sell different tools…
It Takes 2 Minutes to Hack the EU’s New Age-Verification App
…A spokesperson told The Register that members in Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, and Spain were also similarly hit through a single system that records member visits to clubs. No passwords, which Basic…
That Ex-CIA Agent in All Your Feeds Is After a Pardon From Donald Trump
…Pay a person with enough influence over the president enough money, and a pardon could become a possibility, Trump administration critics suggest. During Trump’s first term, Kiriakou tried that route. In…
What It Will Take to Make AI Sustainable
The rush to build out AI at all costs has been reinforced by the Trump administration, which is also rolling back environmental protections. Despite these headwinds, Sasha Luccioni, an AI sustainability researcher…
Silicon Valley Is Spending Millions to Stop One of Its Own
…So we built a system that let you track individual loans, search for loans, moving from tape to tape, and found numerous examples of that exact pattern: Banks realizing there was a…
Your Body Is Betraying Your Right to Privacy
…Through this system, the FBI collects “voice profiles, palm prints, faceprints, iris scans, tattoos, and, of course, fingerprints,” with the goal of using this information to identify suspects (and victims). The system…