Hackers Hate AI Slop Even More Than You Do
…and concerns about Google’s AI search overviews driving down the number of visitors to the forums. For decades cybercrime message boards and marketplaces, often Russian in origin, have allowed scammers to…
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WhatsApp Adds Meta AI Chats That Are Built to Be Fully Private
…Incognito Chat includes a feature that will be on by default but can be turned off to allow its AI model to search the web in an anonymized way for up-to…
Google I/O 2026 Live Blog: All the Gemini and Smart Glasses Updates as They Happen
…It can turn one single photo into 16 related AI-generated images. It can also turn simple audio sketches of riffs or melodies into slick, highly produced songs. In other words, an…
Data Brokers’ and AI Firms’ Opt-Out Forms Are Built to Fail, Report Finds
…her husband Mark in June 2025. Prosecutors say Boelter used people-search data brokers to locate his targets’ home address. EPIC's researchers found that the people-search brokers they audited—Spokeo…
Your Body Is Betraying Your Right to Privacy
…In Orlando, a police officer frustrated with a new policy limiting police access to GEDmatch went to court to obtain a search warrant allowing him to search through all the million-plus…
Why Walmart and OpenAI Are Shaking Up Their Agentic Shopping Deal
…Walmart has good reason to want to get the experience in ChatGPT correct. The chatbot is now bringing in about twice the rate of new customers as search engines, Danker says. He…
AI Podcasters Really Want to Tell You How to Keep a Man Happy
…A person sits in a wood-paneled podcast studio dealing out advice about respect or cheating. While wildly popular, the clips can reinforce traditional gender ideologies. AI podcaster Wisdom Uncle, whose brand…
Chris Hayes Has Some Advice for Keeping Up With the News
…Even in those early days, it had become a black hole for our attention, from relentless news alerts to President Trump’s Truth Social posts to AI-generated Department of War propaganda…
OpenAI Enables Marketing Cookies by Default for Free ChatGPT Users
…On Thursday, OpenAI sent an email to users laying out major changes to the AI company’s privacy policy in the US. “We’ll now use cookies to promote OpenAI products and…
What It Will Take to Make AI Sustainable
…Luccioni has become a leader in trying to create more transparency about AI’s emissions and environmental impacts in her four years at Hugging Face, an AI company, including pioneering a leaderboard…