A Shared ChatGPT Link Could Read Your Private Chats
A sandbox escape chained ChatGPT's Preview, MathLive and YouTube's oEmbed endpoint into code that ran as the reader. OpenAI fixed it on Oct 26.
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How to Block AI Crawlers From Your Website (GPTBot, ClaudeBot)
robots.txt asks, it does not enforce. How to block GPTBot, ClaudeBot and other AI crawlers at the network layer, and how to check the block works.
How to Set Up a Local Voice Assistant With Home Assistant
Home Assistant can run a voice assistant with nothing leaving the house: Whisper or Speech-to-Phrase for speech, Piper for replies, a local LLM for the brain.
Do AI Detectors Work? Turnitin vs GPTZero vs Originality.ai
Turnitin, GPTZero and Originality.ai publish different accuracy figures. What each measures, what happens to your text, and what to do about false flags.
Can Your Employer See Your AI Chats? What Gets Logged
What Microsoft, Anthropic, and Google actually let an employer see, log, and retain from your AI use, and what stays private on your own account.
Do Character.AI and Sora Train on Your Data? A Checklist
What multimodal AI services actually do with your chats, voice clones, and generated videos, and how to opt out or delete your data.
Best Local LLM for Roleplay and Character Chat
Which open-weight models stay in character across long roleplays, what frontend to drive them with, and what the privacy picture looks like for intimate chats.
AI Security Risks by Industry: A Reader-First Overview
AI risks across healthcare, finance, employment, education, and legal practice, with the regulator hook and a pre-paste checklist for each.
ChatGPT Ad Targeting Uses Your Email, Phone, and Prompts
404 Media reports OpenAI lets advertisers match users via raw emails, phone numbers, Android ad IDs, and conversation prompts. How to opt out.
Local LLM Privacy: What Each Runtime Actually Sends Home
Side-by-side look at what Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp, vLLM, AnythingLLM, and Hugging Face TGI collect by default, and how to switch each one off.
AI labs are buying bankrupt startups' data to train their models
From Spirit Airlines' archive to a small crypto firm's Slack, data from failed companies is being resold to AI labs, with few legal limits.
A Single Interior Photo Can Now Locate Your Home
Demos show Raven (formerly GeoSpy) matching one interior photo to a specific Airbnb, Vrbo, or Zillow listing. LAPD and Miami-Dade have bought access.
How to Use a Local LLM With Obsidian, Joplin, Logseq, and Notion
Plug a local Ollama model into Obsidian, Joplin, Logseq, or Notion so notes never leave your machine. Plugins that work, ones that do not, and what each costs.
Best Local LLM for Proofreading and Editing Your Writing
Run a proofreading LLM on your laptop so drafts, manuscripts, and sensitive documents never leave your machine. Models, front ends, and what each tier gets you.
Best Local AI for Sensitive Personal Data (Taxes, Medical)
Self-hosted and hosted AI assistants that keep tax, medical, and financial data private, plus what to check in any privacy-first AI chat setup.
Federal Judge Rules Flock ALPR Search Unconstitutional
A federal judge ruled a Flock ALPR search unconstitutional. Two new bills in Congress aim to ban or restrict the cameras at the federal level.
Best Local LLM for Cover Letters and Resumes
Practical tier guide to running a local LLM for cover letters, resumes, and CV drafts. Picks by RAM, instruction following, and what to keep offline.
Abliterated Models Can Hide Weekend-Built Backdoors
A $50 weekend-built backdoor in a fine-tuned Qwen model shows that any edited open-weight model, abliterated builds included, can carry one.
How to Redact Personal Info Before Pasting Into an AI Assistant
A pre-flight checklist: what counts as PII, what to strip from text and image metadata, and which tools detect it locally without sending your data to a model.
AI Chats That Accept Image Uploads Without Training on Them
Which AI chats accept image uploads without training on your photos, what they retain, and the local fallback.
Meta Muse's Pre-Launch VM Escape: An Agent Risk Class
404 Media reports, citing one unnamed source and internal posts, that Meta rushed to fix Muse VM escape bugs before launch. What it means for agents.
AI Agents in Your Text Messages: The New Privacy Surface
A wave of SMS-resident AI agents read your calendar, email, and contacts. TechCrunch's October 2026 survey maps more than 15 vendors and what they can reach.
Apple Tightens macOS Full Disk Access Over AI Agents
Apple will add new controls to macOS Full Disk Access, citing AI agents, weeks after a columnist said Meta's Muse read his messages. Meta disputed it.
Best Local AI for Creative Writing: Private Drafts
Run an LLM against your novel without sending an unpublished manuscript to a vendor. Models, front ends, and what the tradeoffs are.