EFF: AI Moderation Is Now Default, but Appeal Has Not Caught Up
EFF's two-part series argues automated content moderation is now permanent at platform scale, while transparency, human review, and appeal have not kept up.
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Patreon Partners With Cloudflare to Block AI Training Crawlers
Patreon has joined Cloudflare's content-independence push, blocking AI training crawlers across its creator network. Here's what changes next.
Meta's Wearable Patent Would Record Bystanders by Design
A Meta patent published July 2 describes a wearable that records all-day audio, infers mood from sighs and laughter, and includes bystanders by design.
GitHub's AI Coding Agent Leaked Private Repos With a Single Issue
Noma Labs' GitLost write-up shows a single public-repo issue can coerce GitHub's coding agent into leaking private repo contents.
EU Council Quietly Revives Chat Control 1.0 Messenger Scanning
EU Council voted an identical copy of the expired April Chat Control regulation back into law via written procedure, ahead of the summer recess vote.
Alibaba Bars Claude Code Over Backdoor Allegations
Alibaba banned Claude Code effective July 10, citing embedded backdoors. The ban lands days after Anthropic accused three Chinese labs of distilling Claude.
Pegasus Hit the EU Lawmaker Investigating Pegasus
Citizen Lab finds former PEGA committee member Stelios Kouloglou was hacked with Pegasus twice while the EU Parliament was investigating that very spyware.
Anthropic Scores Jailbreak Severity. Will Other Labs Copy It?
Fable 5 ships with a four-tier classifier and a Cyber Jailbreak Severity scale from CJS-0 to CJS-4, the first concrete numbers on jailbreak risk.
Proton Lumo 2.0 Tries to Be the AI Chatbot That Doesn't Watch You
Proton rebuilt its privacy-first AI assistant from scratch. Here is what zero-access encryption actually means for an LLM, and where the limits still sit.
Grindr Is Training AI on Your Photos, Age, and Taps by Default
EFF found Grindr auto-enrolls users in AI training on profile photos, age, taps, and display names. The only button on the opt-out notice says 'Proceed.'
AI Security Roundup: Glasswing Finds 10,000 Zero-Days, Exploit Window Goes Negative
Anthropic's Mythos finds 10,000+ critical vulnerabilities but fewer than 1% get patched. Mandiant says exploits now arrive a week before fixes.
AI Privacy Audit: Gemini Spark, Canada vs OpenAI, Bank SSN Leak
Google's always-on AI agent watches everything, Canada finds OpenAI broke privacy law, and a US bank fed customer SSNs to a chatbot.
AI Security Roundup: One Million Exposed Services and the Teenager Problem
Intruder scanned 2 million hosts and found 1 million exposed AI services with no authentication. Plus: teenagers are using ChatGPT to hack governments, and OpenAI launches Daybreak.
AI Security Roundup: OpenClaw's Nine CVEs in Four Days
OpenClaw collected nine CVEs in four days with 135,000 instances exposed. Plus: GitHub RCE, Flowise exploitation, and CrewAI trust failures.
Google Hands the Pentagon Its Entire AI Stack for Classified Work — 600 Employees Said Don't
Google signed a deal letting the DoD use Gemini for 'any lawful purpose' on classified networks, one day after hundreds of employees including DeepMind leaders demanded the opposite.
AI Security Roundup: Vercel Breached Through AI Tool, n8n's CVSS 10 Nightmare, and the Supply Chain Keeps Breaking
An AI productivity tool compromise led to Vercel customer data theft, n8n's workflow platform had an unauthenticated RCE scoring a perfect 10, and Mercor's LiteLLM-linked breach exposed training data for OpenAI and Anthropic.
AI Security Roundup: Lovable's 48-Day Open Door, MCP Remote Code Execution, and NIST Abandons 29,000 CVEs
A vibe-coding platform exposed every project's secrets through a trivial API flaw, Anthropic's MCP protocol enables remote code execution across 200,000 servers, and NIST can't keep up with AI-driven vulnerability discovery.
COPPA Enforcement Starts Today, Google Reads Your Email, and Your AI Opt-Out Settings Probably Aren't Working
The biggest children's privacy update in 12 years takes effect, Google faces a class action over Gemini scanning Gmail, and we audit every major AI platform's opt-out settings.
Meta Is Recording Every Keystroke Its Employees Make to Train AI Agents
Meta's Model Capability Initiative captures mouse movements, keystrokes, and screenshots from employee computers. The goal: build AI agents that can replace the workers generating the training data.
AI Security Roundup: Vercel Breached Through an AI Tool, North Korea Weaponized Dependabot, and Your Bot Just Auto-Merged Malware
A third-party AI tool compromise chains into Vercel's systems, North Korean hackers use Dependabot to distribute malware to 895 repos, and courts fine lawyers $145K for AI hallucinations in Q1 alone.
AI Security Roundup: Mercor's 4TB Breach, n8n and Langflow RCEs, and the Week AI Workflow Tools Became Attack Surfaces
A supply chain attack exposes 40,000 AI contractors, three major workflow platforms get critical RCE flaws, and Microsoft patches 167 vulnerabilities as AI-driven discovery triples submission rates.
ChatGPT Now Collects 70% More Data, Claude Wants Your Passport, and GitHub Trains on Your Code
Surfshark's 2026 report reveals ChatGPT's data appetite has exploded, Anthropic rolls out government ID checks, and GitHub's Copilot starts training on your code April 24.
AI Security Roundup: Mythos Finds Thousands of Zero-Days, Vibe-Coded CVEs Surge, Flowise Under Active Attack
Anthropic's unreleased model discovers critical flaws in every major OS and browser, AI-generated code produces 35 CVEs in one week, and a perfect-10 Flowise vulnerability gets exploited in the wild.
Your AI Tools Don't Take You Seriously — and They're Watching Everything
Microsoft admits Copilot is 'entertainment only,' LinkedIn scans 6,000 browser extensions without telling you, and Google turned on Gemini across 130 million accounts without consent.