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Apple’s ‘Hide My Email’ reportedly exposing real email addresses

Apple’s Hide My Email privacy feature is under fire after a new vulnerability revealed it was exposing, not hiding iCloud users’ real email addresses.

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Apple's Hide My Email service reportedly reveals users' actual email addresses with little effort — Cupertino has seemingly known about the problem for a year but has yet to fix it

Apple's Hide My Email service still reveals users' actual email addresses with little effort — even though it's been a year since the company was notified about problem.

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Age of Empires II’s goats used as AI building blocks to build a neural network — goaty experiment mocks the idea of chatbot consciousness, Microsoft AI researcher’s project makes an absurdist point about AI consciousness

People seem all-too-ready to anthropomorphize LLMs and AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, reckons a Microsoft AI researcher.

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The curious case of Elias Thorne – and what he tells us about AI inbreeding

A character bearing that name appears in a remarkable number of chatbot-generated stories, writes Arwa Mahdawi. He could be a messenger from the future – or a warning that generative AI is in danger of ‘model collapse’

The Guardian - UK

A 13-word Reddit comment can trick AI search into recommending scams, researchers find

New Cornell research shows just how little it takes to poison the answers from tools like ChatGPT and Gemini — and the queries you're most likely to ask are the easiest to manipulate.

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Several police officers arrested for using controversial Flock AI license plate reader system to stalk romantic partners, says report — investigators have unearthed at least 18 such cases in the US over recent years

Tens of officers have been fired, and some even arrested, for abuse of the Flock license plate reader system used by police departments throughout the US, according to a new report.

Tom’s Hardware

Texas community lost 87 acres that were donated as a park. Then they found out it was sold to a data center developer for $10 million

A $10 gift became a $10 million sale.

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Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for data center development — $10 gift became $10M for city government, with $30M tax expected over next decade

Texas farmland originally donated in 1999 to be used only as a public park has been sold to a data center developer for $10 million.

Tom’s Hardware

Satya Nadella denies claims Microsoft wants to “make people addicted" to AI — as the company shifts from Bill Gates’ software vision to an agentic future

Satya Nadella denies claims Microsoft wants to make people addicted to AI as the company pivots from traditional software to AI agents.

Windows Central

'Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud': Leaked Plans Reveal Microsoft Wants To Make Users Addicted To Its New AI

Leaked Microsoft documents reveal a strategy to make users dependent on its AI assistant, Scout, raising concerns about the ethical implications of habit-forming software.

International Business Times UK

'The Chatbot Asked No Questions': Hackers Reportedly Talked Meta AI Into Surrendering High-Profile Instagram Accounts

Hackers exploited a flaw in Meta's AI support bot to hijack high-profile Instagram accounts by requesting email changes, sparking debate over AI's role in account security.

International Business Times UK

ICE Agents Now Have Access to Data on 20 Million People Through Palantir System: Report

An ICE official recently said that the technology allows for investigative work that previously took hours to be completed in 10 to 15 minutes

Latin Times

Man claims Yu-Gi-Oh cards found in trash have made him "over $60,000" already, with an expert valuing the total haul near $1 million

It's a wild story, and now I need a little lie down

GamesRadar

As License Plate Readers Expand in Texas, Privacy Advocates Are Fighting Back

The Kyle City Council voted to apply for more state grant money for Flock Safety cameras despite a string of local-level contract cancellations of the booming surveillance company’s services.

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International Business Times UK

ICE Facial Recognition Tech: How US Citizens are Being Wrongly Targeted

A US citizen's wrongful detention by ICE agents using facial recognition technology raises alarming privacy and racial profiling concerns. Learn more about the implications of this controversial practice.

International Business Times UK

ICE Officers Confirm Under Oath That Palantir's ELITE App Identified Arrest Targets While Daily Quotas Drove Oregon Raids

In a landmark case, ICE officers have admitted using Palantir's ELITE app to target arrests, raising constitutional concerns in Oregon.

The Guardian - US

ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony

Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’

International Business Times UK

ICE Phishing Scam: Hackers Use 'Support ICE' Emails to Steal Credentials from Professionals and Organisations

Hackers impersonate email marketing platforms with fake 'Support ICE' donation alerts, tricking professionals into revealing login credentials.

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Ring says its leaked plan to 'zero out crime in neighborhoods' doesn't mean mass surveillance

Ring cameras could be used to track a lot more than lost dogs, a leaked email suggests. But the company has hit back at claims that it means mass surveillance.

The Independent UK

Leaked email shows Ring CEO using Charlie Kirk’s assassination to justify expansion of ‘Search Party’ feature: report

The Search Party feature is allegedly part of Ring’s plan to ‘complete what we started,’ although the significance of the declaration is unknown

PC Gamer

Tumbler Ridge mass murderer once created a mass shooting game in Roblox

Roblox says it has terminated the account belonging to Tumbler Ridge shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar, and deleted the game.

The Guardian - US

Palantir beats Wall Street expectations amid Trump immigration crackdown

CEO Alex Karp hails ‘iconic’ financial results despite criticism over contracts with ICE and homeland security

The Guardian - US

How ICE is using facial recognition in Minnesota

Mobile Fortify tech being used to scan faces of citizens and immigrants – but its use has prompted a severe backlash

Fortune

ICE alleged to use Palantir-developed tool that uses Medicaid data to track arrest targets

Big Tech is wrapped up in a growing list of contracts to aid ICE’s immigration enforcement operations.

Latin Times

Developer of ICE-Tracking App Sues Trump Admin Over Pressure on Apple To Prevent Downloads

The lawsuit comes as a House Committee asked Google and Apple over the weekend to explain what steps they are taking to block apps that could "jeopardize the safety of DHS personnel"

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