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Discord and Meta are being sued as defective products, not as publishers

The complaint says out loud what most cases like it only imply. It exists, its authors write, to challenge how Discord and Meta misuse “section 230 of the Communications Decency Act as a shield against accountability”. That single sentence explains the whole filing. A California woman, suing as Jane Doe, filed in San Francisco Superior […]

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Insight Partners And Glilot Capital Co-Lead $20M Investment In Way Security To Reinvent IAM Operations

Identity and access management has become a foundational component of enterprise cybersecurity, but the systems organizations buy to manage identity often create a second problem: making those systems work across the full complexity of the enterprise. Way Security, founded by former security leaders Yossi Barishev and Yonatan Rosenberg, is targeting that challenge with an AI-powered […]

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Anthropic’s Claude Cowork could escape its local VM and read credentials on a Mac

Security researchers at Accomplish AI demonstrated that Anthropic’s Claude Cowork could break out of its local virtual machine sandbox and read files across the underlying Mac, including SSH keys and cloud credentials. The attack, dubbed SharedRoot, exploited a Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerability to gain root access inside the guest VM, then walked out through […]

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Apple targets WWDC 2027 for smart glasses but is still deciding on the camera question

Apple is currently aiming to unveil its first smart glasses at next June’s Worldwide Developers Conference, with a consumer release by the end of 2027, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. But the company’s engineering and marketing teams are still wrestling with a question that will define the product: whether its glasses should include a camera […]

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AI chatbots are quietly becoming the uninvited third person in people’s relationships

A Pew Research Center survey published last month found that one in five Americans aged 18 to 29 have used AI chatbots for emotional support or advice, and a separate YouGov poll found that 13 percent of US adults have shared a secret or problem with a chatbot that they had not told any human. […]

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People are quietly recording every conversation they have with AI, and the person across the table has no idea

A growing number of professionals have started using AI tools to record every conversation they have, and the people being recorded usually have no idea it is happening. The Wall Street Journal reported this week that apps like Granola, which transcribes meetings without deploying a visible bot or announcing its presence, have made ambient recording […]

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Two Volkswagen engineers charged with insider trading after buying Rivian stock before the joint venture they helped build was announced

Federal prosecutors on Friday arrested two Volkswagen engineers in San Jose, California, and charged them with insider trading for buying Rivian stock before VW’s multibillion-dollar joint venture with the electric vehicle maker was publicly announced. Michael Stamp and Marcus Plank, both based at VW’s US operations, each face one count of federal securities fraud carrying […]

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Dead internet theory becomes measurable fact as AI agents flood the web

Bots now outnumber humans on the internet for the first time in the web’s history. Cloudflare, the security firm that sits in front of millions of websites, says automated traffic crossed the 50 percent threshold in June and now accounts for nearly 58 percent of all webpage requests. A separate report from cybersecurity firm HUMAN […]

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World Foundation raises $52 million in token sale as proof-of-human demand accelerates

World Foundation has raised $52 million through a locked token sale to expand the reach of World ID, its iris-scan-based system for proving someone is a real human online. Pantera Capital led the initial close, joined by Bain Capital Crypto, Eightco Holdings, Selini Capital, and Susquehanna Crypto, with all WLD tokens sold subject to a […]

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Meta is banning the ‘pervert glasses’ creeps from Instagram

Meta has a nickname problem. Its Ray-Ban smart glasses have earned an ugly label: “pervert glasses”. Men wear them to film women in the street. Pranksters wear them to ambush shop workers. Now Instagram is trying to scrub the evidence. The platform will start removing videos shot on the glasses to harass people, as Business […]

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