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Claude Helped a Hacker Find a Way to Issue Tickets to Almost Every US Music Festival

Cheap Seats

Claude Helped a Hacker Find a Way to Issue Tickets to Almost Every US Music Festival

Andy Greenberg

Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs

AI Safety

Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs

Dhruv Mehrotra and Joel Khalili

Top Google Security Staff Warn Search Data Could Be Hacked if EU Rules Change

Don't Look Up

Top Google Security Staff Warn Search Data Could Be Hacked if EU Rules Change

Matt Burgess

LastPass Users Had Their Data Stolen—Again

Security Roundup

LastPass Users Had Their Data Stolen—Again

Lily Hay Newman

The Pentagon Is Looking Into the Dialog Data Exposure for Unmasking National Security Officials

Burn Notice

The Pentagon Is Looking Into the Dialog Data Exposure for Unmasking National Security Officials

Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra

British Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be Trusted

Minority Report

British Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be Trusted

Matt Burgess and Mark Wilding

Dialog Claims It Was Hacked. A Misconfigured Website Left Its Members Exposed

Hack Job

Dialog Claims It Was Hacked. A Misconfigured Website Left Its Members Exposed

Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra

OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic’s Mythos

Patched Up

OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic’s Mythos

Lily Hay Newman

Foul Play

World Cup Scams Are Getting Harder to Spot

Jumana Naim

A Critical Deadline Is Approaching for Windows and Linux Security

Key Components

A Critical Deadline Is Approaching for Windows and Linux Security

Dan Goodin, Ars Technica

Hackers Claim to Leak Stolen Madison Square Garden Data

Security Roundup

Hackers Claim to Leak Stolen Madison Square Garden Data

Matt Burgess and Lily Hay Newman

How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks Its Members

Grade Expectations

How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks Its Members

Dell Cameron, Dhruv Mehrotra, and Yulia Almazova

How to Watch the Knicks Parade on NYC Traffic Surveillance Cameras

Watch Party

How to Watch the Knicks Parade on NYC Traffic Surveillance Cameras

Maddy Varner

The UK Will Scan Asylum-Seekers’ Faces for Age Checks—Despite Knowing the Tech Is Flawed

Check, Mate

The UK Will Scan Asylum-Seekers’ Faces for Age Checks—Despite Knowing the Tech Is Flawed

Matt Burgess, Maddy Varner, May Bulman, and Gabriel Geiger

Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society

Group Chat

Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society

Dell Cameron and Yulia Almazova

‘Dangerous’ AI Models Are Coming No Matter What

Thanks, Capitalism

‘Dangerous’ AI Models Are Coming No Matter What

Lily Hay Newman

Meta Tapped a Pentagon Supplier to Prototype Face Recognition for Its Glasses

Spec Ops

Meta Tapped a Pentagon Supplier to Prototype Face Recognition for Its Glasses

Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra

The FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones

Security Roundup

The FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones

Andy Greenberg and Lily Hay Newman

Grok Is Still Hosting Sexualized Deepfakes of Famous Women

No Permission

Grok Is Still Hosting Sexualized Deepfakes of Famous Women

Matt Burgess

Drug Sites Hijacked Spotify’s Search Ranking Through Fake Podcasts

Leeches

Drug Sites Hijacked Spotify’s Search Ranking Through Fake Podcasts

Dell Cameron