Apple’s AI pitch will live or die by its privacy promise
…Whatever device you access the new AI from, Apple says the processing will be roughly the same: Queries will be handled on-device where possible and in its secure Private Cloud Compute…
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Google’s AI future demands trust — and your personal data
…Google is even planning to give Gemini Spark access to local files on Mac computers, similar to OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent platform that poses a range of security risks. During…
Age verification is a mess but we’re doing it anyway
…Meta, for example, uses an AI-driven system to identify and place teens on Instagram into more restrictive accounts. Google and YouTube also started scanning accounts for users suspected to be under…
GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft
…GitHub is also struggling with security issues. GitHub rushed to fix a critical vulnerability in less than six hours in March, after Wiz Research used AI models to uncover a vulnerability in…
The only way to fight deepfakes is by making deepfakes
…money to their accounts. Before I logged in to the call with Holland, I got a pop-up notification on Zoom: > This meeting is being analyzed. Pindrop Security and its third-party…
YouTube is courting creators — and sponsors — with streaming shows
…AI tools to help advertisers find those channels. Rahma told The New York Times this week that when he started posting his series on YouTube, the company offered to help him secure…
Researchers gaslit Claude into giving instructions to build explosives
Anthropic has spent years building itself up as the safe AI company. But new security research shared with The Verge suggests Claude’s carefully crafted helpful personality may itself be a vulnerability…
Speech and Moderation
…any alternate usernames and email addresses; the date he opened his account; his credit card, driver’s license and Social Security numbers. A community organizer’s guide to Signal group chats Key…
Elon Musk grilled by senator over X Money plans
…Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) writes that X Money could pose a risk to “consumers, our national security, and the stability of the financial system,” citing Musk’s “track record operating X.” Musk…
Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses
…LinkedIn spokesperson. * Microsoft used its own AI model to find security vulnerabilities. Microsoft’s MDASH multi-model agent is the leader on the CyberGym security evaluation framework, and the company has used…