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Security researchers convinced six AI browsers they were playing a game. The browsers then handed over their users’ passwords and treated it as a win. The firm behind it, LayerX, calls the technique BioShocking, and says it worked on every agent it tried. The list reads like a roll-call of the new AI browser market: […]
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The project ran under the internal name Cannes, and a Meta contractor called Covalen managed it. WIRED reported that hundreds of contractors created dummy under-18 accounts. They sent prompts and images to competitors’ chatbots, then logged the replies in spreadsheets. The effort was active as recently as April 21, 2026. The targets were OpenAI’s ChatGPT, […]
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Your browser has been busy on your behalf. This week brought two reminders that Chrome can put things on your machine you never agreed to. One came from Google. One came from an impostor. Both used the same quiet machinery. Chrome runs on billions of devices, which makes it one of the most powerful pieces […]
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Your phone keeps a minute-by-minute diary of where you go. The US Supreme Court has now ruled that police cannot simply demand it. In a major win for digital privacy, the court said geofence searches need a warrant. The 6-3 decision lands on a practice that has quietly spread through US policing. When investigators have […]
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Most people call them automated licence plate readers, or ALPRs. They sit beside roads and log every car that passes. Flock Safety dominates the market. Engadget reports that Flock makes the vast majority of the 100,000-plus readers now blanketing the US. Calling them licence plate readers undersells them. Reading plates is the main job, but […]
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A pixel has always done one job. On a screen it emits light to build a picture. In a camera it absorbs light to record one. A team in Switzerland has now made one that does both. Researchers at ETH Zurich have built the first bidirectional pixel, in work published in Nature. The same tiny […]
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Cellebrite said it cut off Russia, but Russia used is tools anyway Read More »
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