‘This should terrify you’: Meta Superintelligence safety director lost control of her AI agent—it deleted her emails

Jude Cramer / fastcompany - As built-in AI pops up in more aspects of everyday life, laymen are counting on the experts to keep technology safe to use. But one Meta employee’s misadventure with AI has social media users fearful for the future of AI alignment.Summer Yue is the direct…

AI tool OpenClaw wipes the inbox of Meta's AI Alignment director despite repeated commands to stop — executive had to manually terminate the AI to stop the bot from continuing to erase data

10 days / tomshardware

Meta head Summer Yue loses 200+ emails to rogue OpenClaw agent

11 days / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

How an AI doomsday Substack post caused a mini market crash

Catherine Baab / qz - After a Substack post laid out a striking economic warning, major indexes and a handful of individual stocks sank. The response was telling

#ai #automation #techpolicy #aiethics #stockmarket #business #economy #media #research

The ‘Ghost GDP’ Threat and Why AI’s Success Could Be the Economy’s Downfall

10 days / techstrong / Jon Swartz

Visa (V) Stock: Drops as AI Agent Concerns Target Processing Fees

10 days / parameter / Trader Edge

Breaking Down the Viral Memo That Spooked Markets

10 days / wsj / Jack Pitcher

IBM Stock: Anthropic Sparked the Selloff – Jefferies Says Buy the Dip

10 days / parameter / Trader Edge

The ‘extreme and improbable’ economics of Citrini’s AI report

10 days / ft

How an AI doomsday Substack post caused a mini market crash

10 days / qz / Catherine Baab

Chinese investors and analysts shrug off AI fears after Citrini report sparks US sell-off

10 days / scmp

US gov't warned Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Tim Cook, and Lisa Su that China could invade Taiwan by 2027 — Apple CEO reportedly said he sleeps 'with one eye open'

tomshardware - A new investigative report from The New York Times reveals that, in July 2023, senior US intelligence officials privately briefed some of the tech industry's most powerful executives on classified assessments regarding China and Taiwan.

#techpolicy #apple #china #government #business #supplychain #us #asia #cia #timcook

Apple’s Tim Cook Warned of ‘Economic Apocalypse’ Over Taiwan Chip Links

10 days / iphoneincanada / John Quintet

US gov't warned Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Tim Cook, and Lisa Su that China could invade Taiwan by 2027 — Apple CEO reportedly said he sleeps 'with one eye open'

10 days / tomshardware

America's spymasters terrified Tim Cook with Taiwan invasion timeline

10 days / appleinsider

Tim Cook Warned by CIA That China Could Move on Taiwan by 2027

10 days / macrumors / Tim Hardwick

Apple will start manufacturing the Mac mini in the US later this year

Reece Bithrey / theshortcut - With a brand new 220,000 square foot plant

#semiconductors #techpolicy #apple #chips #tsmc #business #supplychain #us #manufacturing

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10 days / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

In a replay of 2019, Apple says a single desktop Mac will be manufactured in the US

10 days / arstechnica / Andrew Cunningham

One Of The Most Popular Macs Will Now Be Made In America

10 days / bgr

Apple's U.S. Mac mini assembly plant was planned during the Biden administration

10 days / appleinsider

Mac mini Production Heads to Texas as Apple Expands Houston Operations

10 days / idropnews / Chris Hauk

Inside the Secret Briefings That Pushed Apple to Move Chip Production to the US [Report]

10 days / iclarified

Apple will start manufacturing the Mac mini in the US later this year

10 days / theshortcut / Reece Bithrey

TSMC trades near record high as Apple plans to purchase “well over 100 million” chips from its Arizona facility this year

10 days / sherwood / Rani Molla

Anthropic accuses Chinese firms of distillation attacks

Tom Chivers / semafor - Distillation involves training less capable models on more advanced ones’ output.

#ai #ml #techpolicy #china #anthropic #aiethics #genai #intellectualproperty #safety #copyright

Anthropic Says DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax Targeted Claude

10 days / eweek / eWEEK Staff

Anthropic reports distillation from DeepSeek, Moonshot, MiniMax

10 days / testingcatalog / Erin

Anthropic accuses Chinese firms of distillation attacks

10 days / semafor / Tom Chivers

Anthropic’s distilling charges against Chinese firms expose AI training grey area

10 days / scmp

Psychology says people who need time alone after socializing aren’t antisocial, they’re running a more demanding emotional operating system

10 days / siliconcanals / Tommy Baker

Anthropic joins OpenAI in flagging 'industrial-scale' distillation campaigns by Chinese AI firms

10 days / cnbc

Reddit hit with $20 million UK data privacy fine over child safety failings

abcnews - Britain’s privacy watchdog fines Reddit nearly $20 million for unlawfully collecting and using children’s personal data

#dataprivacy #techpolicy #uk #reddit #gdpr #law #contentmoderation #safety #regulation

Reddit fined $20 million by UK for not effectively checking users’ ages

10 days / therecord

UK fines Reddit $19 million for using children’s data unlawfully

10 days / bleepingcomputer / Sergiu Gatlan

ICO fines Reddit £14.47m over children’s privacy failures

10 days / uktech / Oscar Hornstein

Reddit hit with $20 million UK data privacy fine over child safety failings

10 days / abcnews

UK data watchdog fines Reddit £14.47M for letting kids slip past the gate

10 days / theregister / Connor Jones

UK watchdog hits Reddit with record £14.47M fine over children’s privacy

10 days / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Reddit fined £14m by UK data watchdog over age check failings

10 days / bbc

Why Tesla is fighting the DMV after already changing its product names

Kerem Gülen / dataconomy - Tesla has filed a lawsuit in California Superior Court against the California Department of Motor Vehicles, according to CNBC. The automaker seeks to overturn a DMV ruling which determined its marketing practices were deceptive regarding vehicle automatio…

#techpolicy #selfdriving #cars #government #tesla #law #automotive #litigation #advertising #california

Why Tesla is fighting the DMV after already changing its product names

11 days / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Tesla Goes After California DMV, Suing Over False Advertising Decision

11 days / gizmodo / Mike Pearl

Tesla sues California DMV after it banned the term 'Autopilot'

11 days / engadget / Steve Dent

Stocks fall on US tariff uncertainty

J.D. Capelouto / semafor - “Uncertainty is back,” one banker told the Financial Times.

#ai #techpolicy #tariffs #stockmarket #business #finance #us #asia #economy

Cryptocurrency tumbles as macro shocks and tariff fears bite (3)
Tariff uncertainty from Washington sends global markets reeling (8)
Wall Street rattled by viral AI doomsday essay and selloff (12)
All Other Stories

11 days / ft

AI upheaval puts software investors on edge

11 days / ft

As Wall Street punishes software stocks over AI concerns, Canva gets more acquisitive

11 days / cnbc

Dow tumbles more than 800 points as tariff uncertainty and AI disruption fears

11 days / ycombinator

Hong Kong stocks retreat on AI worries, China markets rally in Year of the Horse

11 days / scmp

Viral Doomsday Report Lays Bare Wall Street's Deep Anxiety About AI Future

11 days / slashdot / BeauHD

Jim Cramer says AI fears have made the stock market fragile

11 days / cnbc

An AI Thought Experiment on Substack Is Sending The Stock Market Spiraling

11 days / gizmodo / Ece Yildirim

IBM, DoorDash shares drop as tech selloff continues

11 days / siliconangle / Maria Deutscher

Stocks sink amid AI and tariff fears

11 days / sherwood / Tasha Matsumoto, Luke Kawa

All Other Stories

Viral AI thought experiment drives tech sell-off

10 days / semafor / Tom Chivers

Nvidia earnings report collides with Wall Street skepticism over AI spending

10 days / cnbc

Messy tariffs send Capitol Hill scrambling www.semafor.com/article/02/2...

10 days / bsky / @newnarrative.bsky.social / newnarrative.bsky.social

Sam Altman is tired of ‘unfair’ critiques about AI’s energy use. Climate experts say his defensive stance is misguided

Kristin Toussaint / fastcompany - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has defended the resource-intensive use of AI by comparing it to all the energy—and food—that humans require, sparking a wave of backlash across social media. That comparison, experts in climate and tech spaces say, is misguided, dow…

#climate #ai #techpolicy #openai #aiethics #genai #energy #datacenter #environment #altman

Sam Altman is tired of ‘unfair’ critiques about AI’s energy use. Climate experts say his defensive stance is misguided

11 days / fastcompany / Kristin Toussaint

Sam Altman Calls AI Water Usage Claims ‘Totally Insane’

11 days / eweek / Aminu Abdullahi

Human Existence Is Just as Wasteful as AI Data Centers, Sam Altman Suggests

11 days / decrypt / Jose Antonio Lanz

Sam Altman compares AI energy use to the cost of "training" humans, says water-usage concerns are "fake"

11 days / reddit / /u/AdSpecialist6598

Sam Altman would like to remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too

11 days / reddit / /u/boppinmule

Anthropic accuses three Chinese AI labs of abusing Claude to improve their own models

Jackson Chen / engadget - Anthropic is issuing a call to action against AI "distillation attacks," after accusing three AI companies of misusing its Claude chatbot. On its website, Anthropic claimed that DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax have been conducting "industrial-scale campaig…

#ai #cybersecurity #dataprivacy #techpolicy #china #anthropic #aiethics #genai #tradesecrets #intellectualproperty

Allegations arrive amid export-control debate and industry lobbying pressure (3)
Anthropic details ‘distillation’ attacks: 24,000 fake accounts, 16 million queries (11)
Online critics ridicule Anthropic, accuse hypocrisy and industry posturing (5)
OTHER: Chinese firms' growth and unrelated community reactions (1)
All Other Stories

Allegations arrive amid export-control debate and industry lobbying pressure

Pentagon Summons Anthropic Chief in Dispute Over A.I. Limits

11 days / reddit / /u/rezwenn

Anthropic Rallies Industry to Combat AI Model Theft

11 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Distillation Attacks on Claude Are Real. So Is the Lobbying Campaign.

11 days / implicator / Harkaram Grewal

Anthropic details ‘distillation’ attacks: 24,000 fake accounts, 16 million queries

[AINews] Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax of >16 million "industrial-scale distillation attacks"

11 days / latent / Latent.Space

Anthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of ‘distillation attacks’ on its models

11 days / ft

Anthropic Says Chinese AI Companies Improved Models By ‘Illicitly’ Copying Its Capabilities

11 days / gizmodo / Mike Pearl

Anthropic slams Chinese AI firms for harvesting data from its Claude chatbot

11 days / siliconangle / Mike Wheatley

Anthropic: Chinese AI firms created 24,000 fraudulent accounts for distillation attacks

11 days / mashable

Anthropic Accuses 3 Chinese Companies of Harvesting Its Data

11 days / nytimes / Cade Metz

Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, other Chinese AI developers of 'industrial-scale' copying — Claims 'distillation' included 24,000 fraudulent accounts and 16 million exchanges to train smaller models

11 days / tomshardware

Anthropic accuses three Chinese AI labs of abusing Claude to improve their own models

11 days / engadget / Jackson Chen

US AI giants accuse Chinese rivals of mass data theft

11 days / techxplore

Anthropic accuses DeepSeek and other Chinese firms of using Claude to train their AI

11 days / theverge / Emma Roth

Anthropic claims to have identified industrial-scale distillation attacks by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax.

11 days / reddit / /u/Ok_Display_3159

Online critics ridicule Anthropic, accuse hypocrisy and industry posturing

The high-fantasy cult of Anthropic

11 days / reddit / /u/ThereWas

I love that Anthropic is somehow both a big powerful ai lab with such powerful unique tech and also a tiny small bean trembling in fear and screaming in agony that somebody was able to extract the value of its product by using its outputs. Both hypocritic

11 days / bsky / @edzitron.com

Anthropic accuses China's AI labs of ripping off content - just like it did

11 days / theregister / Thomas Claburn

Critics Mock Anthropic's Claims Chinese AI Labs Are Stealing Its Data

11 days / decrypt / Jason Nelson

AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data

11 days / reddit / /u/__Hello_my_name_is__

OTHER: Chinese firms' growth and unrelated community reactions

Kimi Surpasses Last Year’s Full-Year Revenue in 20 Days, Becomes China’s Fastest “Decacorn”

11 days / pandaily

All Other Stories

Anthropic Claude Faces Large-Scale Distillation Attacks by Chinese AI Labs Involving 13 Million Exchanges

11 days / cyberpress / AnuPriya

Anthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of industrial-scale distillation attacks

11 days / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

Anthropic calls out China's AI copycats

11 days / therundown / Zach Mink

OHHHHHHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOO “Anthropic Accuses 3 Chinese Companies of Harvesting Its Data The San Francisco start-up claimed that DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax used approximately 24,000 fraudulent accounts to train their own chatbots.”

11 days / bsky / @grumpykelson.myatproto.social / grumpykelson.myatproto.social

Crypto.com Wins Conditional Approval for US Banking Charter

PYMNTS / pymnts - Crypto.com says it has gotten conditional governmental approval for a bank charter. The conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) allows the digital assets company to charter Foris Dax National Trust Bank, doing busines…

#fintech #crypto #techpolicy #banking #government #business #us #payments #law #crypto

Crypto.com Secures Conditional Approval for National Trust Bank Charter

11 days / decrypt / Andrew Hayward

Crypto.com Wins Conditional Approval for US Banking Charter

11 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Crypto.com wins initial approval for U.S. federally regulated crypto custodian bank

11 days / coindesk / Francisco Rodrigues

Crypto.com secures conditional OCC approval in bid to become a federally regulated bank

11 days / theblock / Sarah Wynn

Global regulators say AI image tools don't get a free pass on privacy rules

Carly Page / theregister - Watchdogs warn models that can generate realistic images of people must comply with data protection laws A global coalition of privacy watchdogs has fired a warning shot at the generative AI industry, saying companies churning out realistic synthetic imag…

#ai #dataprivacy #techpolicy #computervision #aiethics #genai #gdpr #contentmoderation #regulation

Global data protection authorities warn generative AI companies against replicating real people

11 days / therecord

Meta's AI Patent to Simulate Dead People Shows the Dangers of 'Spectral Labor'

11 days / 404media / Emanuel Maiberg

Brussels’ privacy reforms stumble out the gate

11 days / politico / Ellen O'Regan

Global regulators say AI image tools don't get a free pass on privacy rules

11 days / theregister / Carly Page

UK among dozens of nations demanding ‘urgent’ action on AI image generation

11 days / uktech / Oscar Hornstein

Ofcom issues largest-ever Online Safety Act fine

Oscar Hornstein / uktech - Ofcom has issued the largest fine to date under the Online Safety Act (OSA), demanding that 8579 LLC pays £1.35m for failing to implement age verification on its pornographic sites. The regulator launched an investigation into the company, which owns doze…

#techpolicy #government #uk #internet #law #media #contentmoderation #safety #digitalprivacy

Discord distances itself from Persona age verification after user backlash

11 days / theverge / Emma Roth

Ofcom issues largest-ever Online Safety Act fine

11 days / uktech / Oscar Hornstein

UK fines porn company £1.35 million for lack of age checks

11 days / mashable

Ofcom fines porn site £1.35m for lacking age checks

11 days / siliconrepublic / Suhasini Srinivasaragavan

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to meet with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on AI DoD model use

cnbc - Anthropic does not want its AI models to be used for autonomous weapons or to spy on Americans.

#ai #techpolicy #defensetech #anthropic #aiethics #genai #government #us #law

Accusations of Chinese firms siphoning Claude via 'distillation' attacks (6)
Anthropic-backed Super PAC launches AI regulation ad blitz (1)
Claude Code launches and market shock reverberate across tech stocks (8)
Pentagon showdown: Anthropic CEO pressed over military access limits (5)
All Other Stories

Accusations of Chinese firms siphoning Claude via 'distillation' attacks

Anthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of mining Claude as US debates AI chip exports

11 days / techcrunch / Rebecca Bellan

24,000 fake Claude accounts

11 days / sherwood / Jon Keegan

Anthropic accuses Deepseek, Moonshot, and MiniMax of stealing Claude's AI data through 16 million queries

11 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Anthropic announces proof of distillation at scale by MiniMax, DeepSeek,Moonshot

11 days / ycombinator

Anthropic Accuses Chinese Companies of Siphoning Data From Claude

11 days / slashdot / msmash

Anthropic Accuses Chinese Companies of Siphoning Data From Claude

11 days / wsj / Robert McMillan

Anthropic-backed Super PAC launches AI regulation ad blitz

Backed by Anthropic, a Super PAC Begins an Ad Blitz in Support of A.I. Regulation

11 days / nytimes / Cecilia Kang

Claude Code launches and market shock reverberate across tech stocks

IBM sinks as Anthropic positions Claude Code as the ideal tool for code modernization

11 days / sherwood / Luke Kawa

IBM is the latest AI casualty. Shares are tanking 11% on Anthropic programming language threat

11 days / cnbc

Infosec community panics as Anthropic rolls out Claude code security checker

11 days / theregister / Jessica Lyons

Wrote the intro for this week's Premium but wanted to share in advance, because people need to start being realistic about what Claude Code/Codex can actually do, and how they are not replacing All Software Companies in a few prompts (and no, they will no

11 days / bsky / @edzitron.com

Anthropic's AI Fluency Index finds that polished AI output makes users less likely to check for errors

11 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Cybersecurity stocks drop for a second day as new Anthropic tool fuels AI disruption fears

11 days / cnbc

Claude Cowork, AI hype, and its real impact on white-collar work

11 days / fastcompany / Alex Christian

CrowdStrike (CRWD) Stock Drops 9% as Anthropic AI Tool Hits Cybersecurity Sector

11 days / parameter / Trader Edge

Pentagon showdown: Anthropic CEO pressed over military access limits

Pentagon Summons Anthropic Chief in Dispute Over A.I. Limits

11 days / nytimes / Julian E. Barnes and Sheera Frenkel

The Pentagon wants fewer AI limits. Anthropic doesn’t. Here’s why it matters

11 days / fastcompany / Anna-Louise Jackson

Report: Anthropic CEO Amodei meeting with Hegseth at the Pentagon as tensions mount

11 days / sherwood / Jon Keegan

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to meet with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on AI DoD model use

11 days / cnbc

Defense Secretary summons Anthropic’s Amodei over military use of Claude

11 days / techcrunch / Rebecca Bellan

All Other Stories

AI company which trains its models on stolen data accuses other AI companies of stealing data

11 days / bsky / @nohillside.ch / nohillside.ch

According to report, the Pentagon is considering effectively blacklisting Anthropic’s AI if it doesn’t capitulate to the administration’s terms. sherwood.news/power/report...

11 days / bsky / @jonkeegan.com / jonkeegan.com

Sam Altman Would Like To Remind You That Humans Use a Lot of Energy, Too

msmash / slashdot - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is pushing back on growing concerns about AI's environmental footprint, dismissing claims about ChatGPT's water consumption as "totally fake" and arguing that the fairer way to measure AI's energy use is to compare it against humans.…

#ai #techpolicy #openai #aiethics #genai #energy #datacenter #environment #india #altman

‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Game of Thrones’ fans spark IMDb review-bombing war over perfect episode rating

11 days / fastcompany / Eve Upton-Clark

Altman Dismisses ‘Fake’ AI Water Concerns, Likens AI Energy Needs to Human Upbringing

11 days / techstrong / Jon Swartz

Sam Altman Would Like To Remind You That Humans Use a Lot of Energy, Too

11 days / slashdot / msmash

Altman: You think AI is inefficient? Try raising 100 billion humans

11 days / theregister / Joe Fay

Sam Altman compares AI energy use to the cost of "training" humans, says water-usage concerns are "fake"

12 days / techspot

America's Peace Corps Announces 'Tech Corps' Volunteers to Help Bring AI to Foreign Countries

EditorDavid / slashdot - Over 240,000 Americans volunteered for Peace Corps projects in 142 countries since the program began more than half a century ago. But now the agency is launching a new initiative — called Tech Corps. "It's the Peace Corps, but make it AI," explains Engad…

#ai #techpolicy #elearning #genai #government #us #education #globalism #community #technology

My country is so fucking embarrassing, man...

11 days / bsky / @wittywebhandle.bsky.social / wittywebhandle.bsky.social

U.S. launches Peace Corps-backed ‘Tech Corps’ to help export AI, counter China

11 days / cnbc

America's Peace Corps Announces 'Tech Corps' Volunteers to Help Bring AI to Foreign Countries

13 days / slashdot / EditorDavid

The US will send Tech Corps members to foreign countries in its latest push for AI dominance

13 days / engadget / Jackson Chen

Tumbler Ridge suspect's ChatGPT account banned before shooting

bbc - OpenAI said the account's activity did not meet the threshold to flag it to authorities when it was identified.

#techpolicy #openai #aiethics #genai #chatgpt #canada #law #contentmoderation #digitalprivacy

ChatGPT account flagged months earlier; banned before the shooting. (5)
Employees debated alerting Canadian authorities over chatbot logs. (4)
OpenAI's post-shooting communications and policy fallout in Canada. (3)
Other: unrelated AI-misuse case from South Korea. (1)

ChatGPT account flagged months earlier; banned before the shooting.

OpenAI Flagged and Blocked Canadian School Shooter’s ChatGPT Account Months Before Attack - pragativadi.com

13 days / pragativadi

Suspect in Tumbler Ridge school shooting described violent scenarios to ChatGPT

13 days / theverge / Terrence O’Brien

Tumbler Ridge suspect's ChatGPT account banned before shooting

14 days / bbc

Tumbler Ridge shooter’s ChatGPT activity flagged internally 7 months before tragedy. It was identified in June 2025 for “abuse and detection and enforcement efforts"

14 days / reddit / /u/ubcstaffer123

ChatGPT account linked to B.C. mass shooter banned for violating policy, company says - CTV News

14 days / ctvnews

Employees debated alerting Canadian authorities over chatbot logs.

OpenAI employees raised alarm about mass shooting suspect months ago: report

13 days / reddit / /u/Hrekires

OpenAI Employees Raised Alarms About Canada Shooting Suspect Months Ago

13 days / reddit / /u/jamestown30

OpenAI debated calling police about suspected Canadian shooter’s chats

13 days / techcrunch / Tim Fernholz

OpenAI staff debated alerting Canadian police about violent ChatGPT logs months before a deadly school shooting

14 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

OpenAI's post-shooting communications and policy fallout in Canada.

OpenAI did not mention Tumbler Ridge shooter’s posts in meeting with B.C. officials day after mass shooting: province - The Globe and Mail

13 days / theglobeandmail

OpenAI contacted RCMP about Tumbler Ridge shooter's ChatGPT account after attack - The Albertan

14 days / thealbertan

Shooter's ChatGPT Ban Sparks Global Debate on AI Safety - streamlinefeed.co.ke

14 days / co

Other: unrelated AI-misuse case from South Korea.

A South Korean female serial killer learned how to kill people with sleeping pills through ChatGPT

13 days / reddit / /u/North_Penalty7947

Fury Over Discord's Age Checks Explodes After Shady Persona Test In UK

BeauHD / slashdot - Backlash intensified against Discord's age verification rollout after it briefly disclosed a UK age-verification test involving vendor Persona, contradicting earlier claims about minimal ID storage and transparency. Ars Technica explains: One of the major…

#cybersecurity #dataprivacy #techpolicy #uk #apps #gdpr #hack #technology #contentmoderation #digitalid

They Want To Age Verify Our Computers Now...

12 days / reddit / /u/InsaneSnow45

Age verification checks are now in force in the UK because of the Online Safety Act, but with the Discord fallout, it seems like one bad idea after another

12 days / reddit / /u/Turbostrider27

UK council faces data breach claim after mishandling trans complaints

13 days / theregister / Connor Jones

Age verification online can be done safely and privately. Here's how

13 days / techxplore

Fury Over Discord's Age Checks Explodes After Shady Persona Test In UK

14 days / slashdot / BeauHD

Fury over Discord’s age checks explodes after shady Persona test in UK

14 days / arstechnica / Ashley Belanger

Hackers Expose Discord Age Verification System Issue After Persona Frontend Code Left Wide Open

14 days / reddit / /u/vriska1

San Diego County Demographics, Discord, ChatGPT-4o, More: Monday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, February 16, 2026

18 days / researchbuzz / ResearchBuzz

Wikipedia Blacklists Archive.today, Starts Removing 695,000 Archive Links

BeauHD / slashdot - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blog. In the cou…

#cybersecurity #techpolicy #internet #cybercrime #wikipedia #community #media #censorship #contentmoderation #research

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today after alleged DDoS attack

13 days / techcrunch / Anthony Ha

Wikipedia blacklists website that hijacked users’ computers to run hacking attack - The Times of India

13 days / indiatimes

Wikipedia officially blacklists all links to Archive Today over bizarre DDOS attack and manipulated archives — website operator caught tweaking their own archive

13 days / tomshardware

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links | If DDoSing a blog wasn’t bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.

14 days / reddit / /u/ControlCAD

Wikipedia Blacklists Archive.today, Starts Removing 695,000 Archive Links

14 days / slashdot / BeauHD

Wikipedia bans Archive.today after site executed DDoS and altered web captures

14 days / ycombinator

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links

14 days / arstechnica / Jon Brodkin

AI Safety Meets the War Machine

Steven Levy / wired - Anthropic doesn’t want its AI used in autonomous weapons or government surveillance. Those carve-outs could cost it a major military contract.