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+ FBI Investigates Breach That May Have Hit Its Wiretapping Tools—The FBI is investigating a breach affecting systems tied to wiretapping and surveillance warrant data, after abnormal logs revealed possible unauthori...

+ Live Nation Avoids Ticketmaster Breakup By 'Open Sourcing' Their Ticketing Model—Live Nation reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice that avoids breaking up its dominant live events empire with Ticketmaster. Instea...

+ How AI Assistants Are Moving the Security Goalposts—An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: AI-based assistants or "agents" -- autonomous programs that have access to the user's comput...

+ Anthropic Sues the Pentagon After Being Labeled a Threat To National Security—Anthropic is suing the Department of Defense after the Trump administration labeled the company a "supply chain risk" and canceled its government cont...

+ AI Allows Hackers To Identify Anonymous Social Media Accounts, Study Finds—An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: AI has made it vastly easier for malicious hackers to identify anonymous social media accounts,...

+ Swiss Vote Places Right To Use Cash In Country's Constitution—Swiss voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to use physical cash. "The vote means Switzerland will join the...

+ US Military Tested Device That May Be Tied To Havana Syndrome On Rats, Sheep—An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: Tonight, we have details of a classified U.S. intelligence mission that has obtained a previously u...

+ EFF, Ubuntu and Other Distros Discuss How to Respond to Age-Verification Laws—System76 isn't the only one criticizing new age-verification laws. The blog 9to5Linux published an "informal" look at other discussions in various Lin...

+ Judges Find AI Doesn't Have Human Intelligence in Two New Court Cases—Within the last month two U.S> judges have effectively declared AI bots are not human, writes Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik: On Mon...

+ AI CEOs Worry the Government Will Nationalize AI—Palantir's CEO was blunt. "If Silicon Valley believes we are going to take away everyone's white-collar job... and you're going to screw the military ...

+ Daylight Saving Time Ritual Continues. But Are There Alternatives?—Would you move sunrise to 9 a.m. in Detroit? Or to 4:11 a.m. in Seattle... Though both options have problems, "There's no law we can pass to move the ...

+ Prediction Market 'Kalshi' Sued for Not Paying $54 Million for Bets on Khamenei's Death—An anonymous reader shared this report from the Independent: A popular predictions market app will not pay out the $54 million some of its users bel...

+ Indonesia To Ban Social Media For Children Under 16—Indonesia will ban children under 16 from having accounts on major social media platforms as part of a government push to protect minors from harmful ...

+ Trump Administration Says It Can't Process Tariff Refunds Because of Computer Problems—U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a filing on Friday that it currently cannot process billions in tariff refunds because its import-pro...

+ System76 Comments On Recent Age Verification Laws—In a blog post on Thursday, System76 CEO Carl Richell criticized new state laws in California, Colorado, and New York that would require operating sys...

+ Iran War Provides a Large-Scale Test For AI-Assisted Warfare—An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg, written by Katrina Manson: The U.S. strikes on Iran ordered by President Donald Trump mark the arr...

+ Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester—Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from 404 Media: Privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment da...

+ AI Startup Sues Ex-CEO Saying He Took 41GB of Email, Lied On Resume—An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Hayden AI, a San Francisco startup that makes spatial analytics tools for cities worldwide, has...

+ Florida Woman Gets Prison Time For Illegally Selling Microsoft Product Keys—A Florida woman was sentenced to 22 months in federal prison and fined $50,000 for illegally trafficking thousands of Microsoft certificate-of-authent...

+ Trump's TikTok Deal Benefited Firms That 'Personally Enriched' Him, Lawsuit Says—An anti-corruption group has filed a lawsuit (PDF) against Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi over the deal that transferred TikTok's U.S. op...

+ Tim Sweeney Signed Away His Right To Criticize Google Until 2032—As part of Epic's settlement with Google over the Play Store, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney agreed to stop criticizing Google's app store practices until 2032 ...

+ US Tech Firms Pledge At White House To Bear Costs of Energy For Datacenters—Major tech companies including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta pledged at the White House to pay for new power generation and grid upgrades needed...

+ Father Sues Google, Claiming Gemini Chatbot Drove Son Into Fatal Delusion—A father is suing Google and Alphabet for wrongful death, alleging Gemini reinforced his son Jonathan Gavalas' escalating delusions until he died by s...

+ Computer Scientists Caution Against Internet Age-Verification Mandates—fjo3 shares a report from Reason Magazine: Effective January 1, 2027, providers of computer operating systems in California will be required to implem...

+ TikTok Says End-To-End Encryption Makes Users Less Safe—An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption (E2EE) -- the controversial privacy feature used by ...

+ New App Alerts You If Someone Nearby Is Wearing Smart Glasses—A new Android app called Nearby Glasses alerts users when Bluetooth signals from smart glasses are detected nearby. The Android app, called Nearby Gla...

+ A Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit Is Now In the Hands of Foreign Spies, Criminals—Security researchers say a highly sophisticated iPhone exploitation toolkit dubbed "Coruna," which possibly originated from a U.S. government contract...

+ Meta's AI Display Glasses Reportedly Share Intimate Videos With Human Moderators—An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: Users of Meta's AI smart glasses in Europe may be unknowingly sharing intimate video and sensitive ...

+ OpenAI Amends Pentagon Deal As Sam Altman Admits It Looks 'Sloppy'—OpenAI is amending its Pentagon contract after CEO Sam Altman acknowledged it appeared "opportunistic and sloppy." On Monday night, Altman said the co...

+ India's Top Court Angry After Junior Judge Cites Fake AI-Generated Orders—An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: India's Supreme Court has threatened legal consequences after a judge was found to have adjudicated ...

+ AI-Generated Art Can't Be Copyrighted After Supreme Court Declines To Review the Rule—The Supreme Court of the United States declined to review a case challenging the U.S. Copyright Office's stance that AI-generated works lack the requi...

+ ChatGPT Uninstalls Surged By 295% After Pentagon Deal—After OpenAI announced a partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. uninstalls of ChatGPT surged 295% in a single day. Meanwhile, rival Ant...

+ British Columbia To End Time Changes, Adopt Year-Round Daylight Time—An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBC.ca: The B.C. government says this Sunday will be the last time British Columbians have to change their cl...

+ Charter Gets FCC Permission To Buy Cox, Become Largest ISP In the US—An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Charter Communications, operator of the Spectrum cable brand, has obtained Federal Communicatio...

+ Sam Altman Answers Questions on X.com About Pentagon Deal, Threats to Anthropic—Saturday afternoon Sam Altman announced he'd start answering questions on X.com about OpenAI's work with America's Department of War — and all t...

+ CISA Replaces Bumbling Acting Director After a Year—New submitter DeanonymizedCoward shares a report from TechCrunch: The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is reportedly in cr...

+ Four Convicted Over Spyware Affair That Shook Greece—A Greek court has convicted four individuals linked to the marketing of Predator spyware in the wiretapping scandal that shook the country in 2022. Th...

+ The Government Just Made it Harder to See What Spy Tech it Buys—An anonymous reader shares a report: It might look like something from the early days of the internet, with its aggressively grey color scheme and rec...

+ New York Sues Valve For Enabling 'Illegal Gambling' With Loot Boxes—New York state has filed a lawsuit against Valve alleging that randomized loot boxes in games like Counter-Strike 2, Team Fortress 2, and Dota 2 amoun...

+ Americans Are Destroying Flock Surveillance Cameras—An anonymous reader shares a report: Brian Merchant, writing for Blood in the Machine, reports that people across the United States are dismantling an...

+ Hacker Used Anthropic's Claude To Steal Sensitive Mexican Data—A hacker exploited Anthropic's AI chatbot to carry out a series of attacks against Mexican government agencies, resulting in the theft of a huge trove...

+ Russia Targets Telegram as Rift With Founder Pavel Durov Deepens—Russia has opened an investigation into Telegram founder Pavel Durov for "abetting terrorist activities," [non-paywalled source] in the latest sign th...

+ Telegram Disputes Russia's Claim Its Encryption Was Compromised—Russia's domestic intelligence agency claimed Saturday that Ukraine can obtain sensitive information from troops using the Telegram app on the front l...

+ Man Accidentally Gains Control of 7,000 Robot Vacuums—A software engineer tried steering his robot vacuum with a videogame controller, reports Popular Science — but ended up with "a sneak peak into ...

+ DNA Technology Convicts a 64-Year-Old for Murdering a Teenager in 1982—"More than four decades after a teenager was murdered in California, DNA found on a discarded cigarette has helped authorities catch her killer," repo...

+ Pro-Gamer Consumer Movement 'Stop Killing Games' Will Launch NGOs in America and the EU—The consumer movement Stop Killing Games "has come a long way in the two years since YouTuber Ross Scott got mad about Ubisoft's destruction of The Cr...

+ America's Peace Corps Announces 'Tech Corps' Volunteers to Help Bring AI to Foreign Countries—Over 240,000 Americans volunteered for Peace Corps projects in 142 countries since the program began more than half a century ago. But now the agenc...

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