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Backlash intensified against Discord’s age verification rollout after it briefly disclosed a UK age-verification test involving vendor Persona, contradicting earlier claims about minimal ID storage and transparency. Ars Technica explains: One of the ma… Continue reading Fury Over Discord’s Age Checks Explodes After Shady Persona Test In UK
A handful hog the headlines, but many function-specific agents are available to developers and users. MIT’s latest study explores the broader agentic ecosystem. Continue reading These top 30 AI agents deliver a mix of functions and autonomy
Lenovo’s IdeaCentre Mini x is a compact PC with efficient everyday performance, making it a good alternative to desktops and laptops alike. Continue reading Skip the $1,500 laptop – why Mini PCs are the way to go as RAM prices skyrocket
Users say Pinterest has become flooded with AI-generated images and heavy-handed automated moderation, with artists reporting wrongful takedowns and their hand-drawn work mislabeled as “AI modified.” As the company doubles down on AI features and layof… Continue reading Pinterest Is Drowning in a Sea of AI Slop and Auto-Moderation
Meta is pivoting Horizon Worlds away from its original VR-centric metaverse vision and toward a mobile-first strategy, “explicitly separating” its Quest VR platform from the virtual world. TechCrunch reports: By going mobile-first, Horizon Worlds is po… Continue reading Meta’s Metaverse Leaves Virtual Reality
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Shares of cybersecurity software companies tumbled Friday after Anthropic PBC introduced a new security feature into its Claude AI model. Crowdstrike Holdings was the among the biggest decliners, fall… Continue reading Cyber Stocks Slide As Anthropic Unveils ‘Claude Code Security’
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports: U.S. federal authorities and industry officials are urging hospitals and clinics to address a critical flaw in BeyondTrust Remote Support and Privileged Remote Access software, which if exploited, could give an attacker… Continue reading Hospitals at Risk of BeyondTrust Ransomware Hacks
Goldman Sachs has launched an “S&P ex-AI” index (SPXXAI) that tracks the S&P 500 stocks not related to AI, offering investors a way to “hedge their exposure to the AI trade,” reports Axios. From the report: “Excluding ‘AI enablers’ from the pas… Continue reading Goldman Sachs Launches AI-Free Index
Spain’s police force has announced that it has arrested a 20-year-old man who they claim managed to book luxury hotel rooms worth up to €1,000 a night for just one euro cent.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Spanish police say they have arrested hacker who booked luxury hotel rooms for just one cent
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blog. In the … Continue reading Wikipedia Blacklists Archive.today, Starts Removing 695,000 Archive Links