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Eight US states sue OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT harms children

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Attorneys general in Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska and West Virginia filed separate lawsuits against OpenAI on 14 October. Each claims ChatGPT has hurt young users and that the company misled the public about its safety. Reuters, which first reported the suits, called them the most significant coordinated state action yet against an […]

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Meta says hackers stole code and data on 1,500 people, SecurityWeek reports

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“This was not a vulnerability in any Meta product, and Meta’s internal systems were not breached,” a Meta spokesperson told SecurityWeek. Hackers got into some of Meta’s GitHub repositories and took personal data on about 1,500 people. Most of them are Meta employees in the US, and Meta is now notifying them. Eduard Kovacs reported […]

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MapQuest now shows Flock and other surveillance cameras on its map

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MapQuest has added a surveillance layer to its app that shows known outdoor cameras and licence plate readers, including those made by Flock Safety. Users can switch it on in Map Options, next to the traffic and incidents layers. The update follows a surge in MapQuest downloads in September. MapQuest has added a layer to […]

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Musk says SpaceX will cover Grok Bot purchase mistakes and leaked cards

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“To buy stuff, you can just take a picture of your credit card, drop it in the chat and Grok @Bot will scour the Internet for the best deal on the item you want and order it.” Elon Musk posted that advice on X on Saturday. On Thursday he added a promise for when Grok […]

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Friends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agents

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There’s a growing trend in the consumer tech world: gadgets designed to spy on everything and everyone around you, regardless of whether or not anyone else actually consented to it. Now, with the advent of “AI personal assistants” like Meta’s Muse, you’re being cheerfully asked not just to give up your own data, but also […]

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Flock CEO defends surveillance technology amid national backlash: ‘We shouldn’t pause progress’

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At TechCrunch Disrupt, Flock CEO Garrett Langley defended his company’s surveillance technology despite growing privacy concerns, arguing that its crime-fighting benefits outweigh the risks of abuse.

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Japan steps up cyber warnings as data leaks hit millions of customers

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Japan’s government has told ministries, local authorities and companies to step up their cyber defences. A wave of attacks has exposed the data of millions of customers. The National Cybersecurity Office sent the instructions on Friday, the Associated Press reported. “The attacks are getting increasingly sophisticated,” Digital Transformation Minister Toshiharu Furukawa said this week. The […]

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A college in Illinois tried to cancel its Flock contact and it refused

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In April of 2025, Elgin Community College had six Flock safety cameras installed to “enhance the safety and security of students.” But by September of that year, the school’s administration grew concerned that Flock was sharing data with Customs and Border Patrol, that camera feeds were not properly secured, and that both law enforcement and […]

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Turkey’s social media ban for under-15s starts on 1 November

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Turkey will bar social media platforms from serving children under 15 from 1 November, under rules published in the country’s Official Gazette, Inci Ozbek reported for Bloomberg. Platforms must check users’ ages when they sign up, using a token from Turkey’s e-government system. Anyone found to be under 15 must be blocked. Existing accounts must […]

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