Los Angeles Times

New California tool can stop brokers from selling your personal online data. Here’s how

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. California launches DROP, an online platform enabling residents to request all registered data brokers delete ...
The Hill

USDA threatens to withhold SNAP funding from Democratic states over data demands

The Trump administration is planning to block Democratic-led states from accessing billions of dollars in federal funding under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) if they continue ...
PCGamesN

A limited-time Escape From Tarkov code lets you add its controversial director to your game

Escape From Tarkov game director Nikita Buyanov has always been a divisive presence, unafraid to speak his mind and ready to give much as he gets from the extraction shooter's hardcore community. He's ...
Bleeping Computer

Code beautifiers expose credentials from banks, govt, tech orgs

Thousands of credentials, authentication keys, and configuration data impacting organizations in sensitive sectors have been sitting in publicly accessible JSON snippets submitted to the JSONFormatter ...
Bleeping Computer

NPM package caught using QR Code to fetch cookie-stealing malware

Newly discovered npm package 'fezbox' employs QR codes to retrieve cookie-stealing malware from the threat actor's server. The package, masquerading as a utility library, leverages this innovative ...
Forbes

Vibe Coding Gains Traction Via Users Writing Prompts That Spur AI To Automatically Generate Usable Software Code

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I closely examine the relatively new field ...
Center for American Progress

The Trump Administration Is Using Americans’ Sensitive Data To Build a Digital Watchtower

The Trump administration’s abusive efforts to repurpose millions of federal records and funnel them into a centralized government database represent a systemic shift toward a consolidation of ...
CoinDesk

U.S. Justice Department Official Says Writing Code Without Bad Intent 'Not a Crime'

A senior official at the U.S. Department of Justice knew the crypto audience in Wyoming had fresh software developer convictions on its mind when he told them on Thursday that his department doesn't ...
Wired

Data Brokers Face New Pressure for Hiding Opt-Out Pages From Google

United States senator Maggie Hassan is pressing major data brokers after an investigation by The Markup/CalMatters and copublished by WIRED found at least 35 firms hid opt-out information from search ...
Quanta Magazine

The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil.

The new science of “emergent misalignment” explores how PG-13 training data — insecure code, superstitious numbers or even extreme-sports advice — can open the door to AI’s dark side. There should ...
TechRepublic

Anthropic’s Claude Code Arms Developers With Always-On AI Security Reviews

Anthropic’s Claude Code Arms Developers With Always-On AI Security Reviews Your email has been sent Claude Code just got sharper. Anthropic has rolled out an always-on AI security review system that ...
MIT Technology Review

A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data

Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models. Millions of images of passports, credit cards ...