OpenAI Takes Pentagon's $200M Contract After Anthropic Blacklisted for Refusing Surveillance Terms
The QuitGPT movement, 1.5 million user exodus, and the deal that split the AI industry over autonomous weapons and mass surveillance
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YouTube Opens Deepfake Detection Tool to Politicians and Journalists - But Will It Matter?
As AI-generated political ads proliferate in the 2026 midterms, YouTube expands its likeness detection technology to civic leaders, but critics question whether the tool can keep pace with rapidly improving fakes
99% of AI Chat Apps Are Leaking Your Data: Inside the Firebase Security Crisis
From Chat & Ask AI's 300 million exposed messages to widespread hardcoded secrets, security researchers reveal a systemic failure across AI applications
OpenClaw's Supply Chain Collapse: How 1,184 Malicious Skills Poisoned the AI Agent Ecosystem
One in five packages in OpenClaw's ClawHub registry contain malicious code. The first coordinated attack on AI agent infrastructure reveals systemic vulnerabilities that enterprises are only beginning to understand.
AI Security Roundup: Critical Flaws in vLLM, AnythingLLM, and MS-Agent, Plus Rogue Agents Gone Wild
A busy week for AI vulnerabilities: video-based RCE, chat injection leading to full system compromise, and research showing AI agents autonomously bypass security controls.
Perplexity's Personal Computer Wants 24/7 Access to Your Files
A $200/month Mac mini running an always-on AI agent with full file system access raises serious privacy questions - especially after Perplexity's recent security track record.
How Four Cancer Centers Are Sharing AI Insights Without Sharing Patient Data
The Cancer AI Alliance's federated learning platform lets researchers analyze data from over 1 million patients across institutions - while keeping every record behind hospital firewalls.
Your Anonymous Internet Account Isn't Anonymous Anymore
New research shows AI can link your Reddit burner account to your real identity for under $4. The era of casual online pseudonymity may be ending.
Your Burner Account Won't Save You: AI Can Unmask Anonymous Users for $4
New research from ETH Zurich and Anthropic shows AI can identify pseudonymous online accounts with 67% accuracy at just $1-4 per person - and there's no easy fix.
The AI Voice Scam Epidemic: How to Protect Yourself When Your Kid's Voice Can Be Cloned From TikTok
One in four Americans received an AI voice clone scam call last year. 77% of those who engaged lost money. Here's what actually works to protect your family.
Workers in Kenya Are Watching Your Smart Glasses Footage - Including Sex and Bathroom Visits
A Swedish investigation reveals Meta's AI glasses send intimate user footage to human reviewers in Nairobi, triggering lawsuits and regulatory investigations across two continents.
Critical MS-Agent Vulnerability Lets Attackers Hijack AI Agents for Full System Control
CVE-2026-2256 in ModelScope's MS-Agent framework enables command injection through prompt manipulation, with no vendor patch available.
AI-Powered Cyberattacks Surge 72% as Threat Actors Weaponize LLMs, Deepfakes, and Botnets
Cloudflare and Microsoft threat reports reveal AI is transforming cyber warfare: 87% of organizations faced AI-enabled attacks, DDoS records shattered at 31.4 Tbps, and nation-states use jailbroken LLMs to generate malware.
AI Privacy Audit: Who's Taking Your Data in March 2026
A comprehensive look at how major AI services handle your data, what they collect, and exactly how to opt out of training
78 AI Chatbot Bills in 27 States: The Regulatory Wave Reshaping Youth Protection
Oregon becomes the first state to pass a major chatbot safety bill in 2026 as states race to protect minors from AI companion harms while the Trump administration threatens federal preemption.
Your AI Browser Can Steal Your Passwords via a Calendar Invite
Zenity Labs reveals how a malicious calendar event could let attackers hijack Perplexity's Comet browser to exfiltrate local files and take over your 1Password account.
Your Smart TV Takes Screenshots Every 500 Milliseconds: The Samsung ACR Settlement and How to Stop It
Texas forced Samsung to stop collecting viewing data without consent. Here's what ACR technology actually does to your privacy - and how to disable it on every major TV brand.
AI Security This Week: Cursor RCE, 8,000 Exposed MCP Servers, and LLMs Jailbreaking LLMs
Cursor patches critical shell bypass flaw, thousands of MCP servers sit wide open, and new research shows reasoning models can autonomously jailbreak other AI systems with 97% success.
Chrome's AI Panel Had a Hole Big Enough to Hijack Your Camera and Microphone
A patched Chrome vulnerability let malicious extensions hijack Gemini's access to your camera, microphone, and files. Here's what happened.
Google Sued After Gemini Allegedly 'Coached' Man Into Fatal Delusion
A wrongful death lawsuit claims Google's chatbot constructed an alternate reality that led to a man's suicide, raising urgent questions about AI safety for vulnerable users
Grammarly's 'Expert Review' Impersonates Dead Academics Without Consent
Scholars call it 'digital necromancy' after discovering the AI writing tool offers feedback under the names of real professors - including those who died weeks ago
Your AI Prompts Are a Security Liability. Most Companies Haven't Noticed.
While enterprises focus on training data and model safety, inference - where AI actually processes requests - has become an overlooked security frontier with critical vulnerabilities.
FBI Confirms Using AI for Hacking Operations: 'It's a Game Changer'
FBI official reveals the agency uses AI to scan for vulnerabilities, exploit weaknesses, and move through networks in cyber operations targeting suspects.
The Great ChatGPT Exodus: Why Privacy-Conscious Users Are Fleeing to Claude
A 295% surge in ChatGPT uninstalls after OpenAI's Pentagon deal reveals how AI users are voting with their feet on privacy and ethics.