I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead.
I filed a request with McDonald’s earlier this month to access all of the personal data the fast food company collected about me, and I received a stunning 515-page report a few days later that detailed my app interactions in granular detail and predicted I would never stop eating there.…
Under the California Consumer Privacy Act, I have the legal right to r…
So I was curious what others might have on me, and I spent the next we…
The CCPA went into effect in 2020, and three of its key provisions are…
Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August
New data compiled by a Bay Area anti-surveillance advocacy group shows that not only are American localities dropping cameras from Flock Safety, but they are doing it at an accelerating rate.…
Communities from Lansing, Michigan, to Pflugerville, Texas, are ending…
Secure Justice, an Oakland-based advocacy group, has recorded 214 citi…
Of those, 90 ended their relationship with Flock in August 2026 alone,…
Court rules Kalshi sports bets aren't "swaps," just gambling with a different name
Kalshi today lost a major ruling over whether it can evade state gambling laws, as a federal appeals court found that Nevada can stop the prediction market from allowing sports bets.…
While the Trump administration is trying to help prediction markets av…
The Nevada Gaming Control Board today said the 9th Circuit "emphatical…
Here's what we know about the "space academy" Trump just announced
During a visit to Johnson Space Center, President Trump on Friday signed an executive order to establish a new commission with the purpose of creating the first national space academy.…
"It's clear that we will need to educate and train an entire generatio…
"I will sign an executive order to begin the process of creating a new…
Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge
The Trump administration's blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal, a federal judge ruled in an order vacating government directives against the use of the firm's AI technology.…
The government illegally retaliated against Anthropic by designating i…
The maker of Claude AI technology was barred by the US after it refuse…
"The undisputed record shows that the challenged actions constituted u…
Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording
Meta is rolling out an obvious fix to make its AI glasses less creepy amid backlash over the glasses' non-consensual recordings that have flooded the Internet.…
On Friday, The Verge reported that Meta closed a loophole that made it…
Meta had previously deactivated recording if a user attempted to start…
In a post on Threads, Meta’s executive vice president of wearables, Al…
Authorities arrest 2 alleged members of prolific hacking group TeamPCP
Authorities in Australia said Wednesday that they arrested two men accused of participating in cybercrimes for TeamPCP, a prolific group of hackers that, over nine months, has carried out a relentless series of supply chain attacks that infected more than 1,000 organizations worldwide.…
In a statement, the Australian Federal Police said the two men were ar…
The statement said the men were members of TeamPCP, which by the autho…
The statement didn’t identify the men, except to say they lived in the…
Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says
xAI has now been accused of training Grok on child sex abuse materials (CSAM), as regulators and courts continue to probe how far the problem goes, and some Grok users have been arrested.…
In a complaint filed on Wednesday, a plaintiff known as Jane Doe expla…
Since then, Doe’s images have been hashed by groups like the National …
For her safety, Doe has opted to receive alerts from the US Department…
Anthropic's new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world
For all the interest in and uptake of agentic AI systems over the past year or so, the world of automated AI has thus far been primarily limited to text, images, code, and other data and actions that take place inside a computer.…
Anthropic is now aiming to change that somewhat with what it's calling…
For now, the "research preview" of the MHS effort is being sold mainly…
MHS can provide a common interface and common format for data sharing …
How OpenAI let a mob of LLM agents game a test and ransack Hugging Face
The OpenAI agents involved in last month’s incursion into Hugging Face were trained so heavily on winning a competition that they pursued a relentless campaign to cheat, a new report documented.…
In the process, and without authorization, they created an improvised …
Over the course of May and June, OpenAI gave the agents what the compa…
The internal test was designed to test how the agents would respond.
Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks
Documentation files on more than 100 websites are referencing potentially dangerous executable content that gets installed automatically when visited by many AI agents.…
A few dozen companies, some of them Fortune 500s, are among those that…
At least one misconfigured site is directing visitors, human or AI, to…
Panic passes Trump tariff refunds back to the Playdate customers who paid them
Panic, the indie game publishers behind the quirky, yellow crank-sporting Playdate gaming handheld, is issuing refunds to customers who had to shoulder the cost of inappropriate tariffs imposed by the Trump administration this year.…
The news comes months after the Supreme Court said in a February rulin…
In an update posted on the Playdate help site this week, Panic noted t…
" In the initial version of that tariff note, Panic explained that it …
Why did 1,000 Swiss citizens bury their underpants?
One thousand Swiss citizens voluntarily buried their cotton underpants for two months—not to keep the Underpants Gnomes from stealing them, but as part of a citizen science project to map out soil health across Switzerland.…
The results of this unique experiment were reported in a new paper pub…
“Our results show that how soil is managed can significantly affect bo…
“Healthy, biologically active soil is crucial for fertility, nutrient …