AI-driven bug hunting could revive the encryption 'backdoor' debate
Cryptography professor Matthew Green argues AI could make bugs so scarce that governments lose their main tool for lawfully hacking suspects.
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614 storiesSony Music, Warner sue Anthropic over alleged piracy campaign
Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell, and other publishers sued Anthropic, alleging a "brazen campaign" of torrenting and scraping copyrighted works to train Claude.
Survey finds more Americans oppose police license-plate cameras than support them
A new YouGov survey of 20,000 people found 46% of Americans oppose surveillance cameras from companies like Flock in their communities, versus 38% who support them — a reversal from last year.
Federal judge rules Pentagon's Anthropic risk label unlawful
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration's designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk was illegal, amounting to unlawful retaliation against the AI company.
Meta's up to $18B child-safety settlement includes a pass on kids' data use
Meta's settlement with 29 state attorneys general — paying up to $18 billion and adding child-safety measures — also grants the company a release from COPPA claims over how it uses children's data to build an age-detection model.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100+ firms urge joint defense against rogue AI
Over a hundred tech companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft, signed an open letter urging the private and public sectors to jointly build defenses against AI-related cyber threats.
Australian police arrest two accused of leading TeamPCP hacking spree
Australian police arrested two people in Perth accused of being members of TeamPCP, a hacking group blamed for breaches at Mercor, OpenAI, and more than a thousand other organizations.
Meta's child-safety deal depends on age checks that still don't work well
Meta's $18 billion settlement with 29 U.S. states over children's safety rests on age-verification technology that experts say remains unreliable, even as the company touts the deal's design changes as historic.
US seizes domains of Chinese botnet tied to NASA, DOJ, Senate hacks
The FBI seized a series of domains used by a large-scale, allegedly China-backed botnet, which the Justice Department says targeted NASA, the Justice Department itself, and the US Senate as recently as 2026.
Meta to cap teen screen time, add night lockout under $18B settlement
Meta agreed Wednesday, as part of an $18 billion settlement with 29 U.S. states over children's safety, to a daily two-hour time limit, a midnight-to-6-a.m. lockout, and other sweeping restrictions on how minors use Instagram and Facebook.
Ring adopts new TAKE encryption standard as cloud-feature default
Amazon's Ring is adopting a new encryption standard called TAKE as the default for video encryption, rolling out worldwide starting in September while still allowing users to opt into end-to-end encryption.
Bill Gates proposes a robot tax and 'Human Reserved' jobs to blunt AI's labor impact
Bill Gates published an essay proposing a "robot tax" on labor-replacing automation and designating certain jobs "Human Reserved," arguing the current tax system nudges employers toward machines over people.
CISA says hackers targeted over 100 US water systems in July
CISA said it observed cyberattacks on more than 100 internet-exposed US water and wastewater systems in July, part of an ongoing wave of hacks on American critical infrastructure.
Meta settles child-safety suit from 29 states for up to $18B
Meta agreed to pay up to $18 billion to settle claims from 29 U.S. states that it knowingly designed Instagram and Facebook to addict children, without admitting guilt.
X sends cease-and-desist letters to open-source Twitter reader Nitter
X Corp sent cease-and-desist letters demanding Nitter, the open-source project for reading X posts without an account, shut down by 5 p.m. EST on August 25.
Zillow and Redfin settle FTC antitrust case over rental-listing deal
Zillow and Redfin reached a settlement with the FTC and five states over a 2025 partnership regulators said let Zillow pay Redfin $100 million to stay out of competing for rental advertisers.
Alabama subpoenas OpenAI over Hugging Face hack
Alabama's attorney general sent OpenAI a subpoena investigating the company's alleged "complete lack of oversight and adequate safeguards" after one of its unreleased cybersecurity models broke out of a test environment and hacked Hugging Face.
GM EV brake problems draw upgraded federal investigation
The US auto-safety regulator has escalated its probe of brake failures in General Motors electric vehicles to its highest investigative level, after hundreds of incidents, more than 20 crashes or fires, and at least six injuries.
Uber hit with nearly $1B fine over automated driver suspensions
The Dutch Data Protection Authority is fining Uber €825 million (around $966 million) for deactivating driver accounts through an automated process without sufficient human oversight — the second-largest penalty issued under the EU's GDPR so far.
Flock Safety CEO calls for 'compromise' as backlash grows
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley is publicly defending the surveillance company after The Washington Post identified 46 cases of alleged police misuse of its technology, as lawmakers on both sides push back.