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Valve is phasing out physical Steam gift cards due to scammers

After over a decade, Steam will no longer sell physical gift cards in stores. In a support page spotted earlier by Windows Central, Valve says it will no longer restock its gift cards once they run out, citing scammers who “continue to have an impact on Steam customers and other unsuspecting individuals.” In its post, […]

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Wrongful Arrest Exposes Failures in One of the Oldest Police Face-Recognition Tools in the US

The ACLU is suing two Florida police departments over the arrest of a Fort Myers man in a child-abduction case, saying officers treated a flawed face recognition match as a near-certain ID.

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Ethical proxy sourcing challenges: how to stay on the right side

Proxy servers aren’t exactly a high-profile tool – and yet, they power much of AI infrastructure. A proxy server is another device with its own IP address that you use to access the web. In aggregate, they let you open many webpages through automated means without encountering CAPTCHAs or other roadblocks. Lacking proxies, companies wouldn’t […]

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Anthropic Offers Mythos Upgrade for Cyber Partners and a ‘Safe’ Version for the Rest of You

Anthropic is releasing Claude Mythos 5 to trusted organizations and Claude Fable 5 to the public, a version it says can’t be used for cyberattacks.

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Anthropic says Mythos is too dangerous for the public. It just gave 150 more organisations access.

Anthropic has said its Mythos model is so good at finding software vulnerabilities that releasing it publicly could help attackers steal data or disrupt critical infrastructure. It has also, as of early June, expanded access to 150 additional organisations, bringing the total to roughly 200 across 15 countries. The tension is deliberate. Anthropic’s argument is that […]

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France’s ‘sovereign’ messenger Tchap was breached, and officials and the hacker disagree on how badly

France built its own encrypted messenger so civil servants would not have to trust WhatsApp or Telegram. Now that messenger has been breached, and the government and the attacker cannot agree on how much was taken. France’s National Cybersecurity Agency, ANSSI, detected a compromise of Tchap on 7 June, and the Digital Affairs Directorate (DINUM), […]

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