A single click on a Microsoft link could have drained your inbox. Here’s how SearchLeak worked.
A single click on a Microsoft link could have drained your inbox. Here’s how SearchLeak worked.

Security researchers at Varonis Threat Labs have disclosed a vulnerability chain in Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise Search that could have let an attacker steal emails, calendar entries, and indexed files with a single click. The attack, which Varonis…

Seattle has been using AI to listen to every 911 medical call since 2023. Nobody was told.
Seattle has been using AI to listen to every 911 medical call since 2023. Nobody was told.

The Seattle Fire Department has been using artificial intelligence to listen to every 911 medical call in the city since December 2023, according to a GeekWire investigation published this week. The AI, built by Copenhagen-based startup Corti, monitors…

Meta face recognition for its glasses came from a Pentagon contractor, WIRED reports
Meta face recognition for its glasses came from a Pentagon contractor, WIRED reports

The Meta face recognition system for its smart glasses was built on software licensed from Rank One Computing, a Pentagon and police contractor, according to a WIRED investigation. Reporters Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra found a leaked, still-active …

NewCore raises $66m to give AI agents a corporate identity
NewCore raises $66m to give AI agents a corporate identity

NewCore has come out of stealth with $66m to solve a problem most companies have not named yet: who, or what, is logging into their systems. The identity-security startup, based in Tel Aviv and San Francisco, is building a platform to govern both human…

Google is about to disable uBlock Origin and every other Manifest V2 extension in Chrome
Google is about to disable uBlock Origin and every other Manifest V2 extension in Chrome

Google is weeks away from permanently disabling every Manifest V2 browser extension in Chrome, a change that will kill uBlock Origin and fundamentally limit what content blockers can do inside the world’s most popular browser. Chrome 150, scheduled to …

The scam economy is now bigger than Denmark’s GDP, and it is accelerating
The scam economy is now bigger than Denmark’s GDP, and it is accelerating

Global financial fraud cost victims an estimated $442 billion in 2025, roughly equivalent to the economic output of Denmark, according to Interpol’s 2026 Global Financial Fraud Threat Assessment. The figure, corroborated by the Global Anti-Scam Allianc…

Spotify removed 57,000 fake podcast episodes promoting illegal drugs, but only after a senator forced its hand
Spotify removed 57,000 fake podcast episodes promoting illegal drugs, but only after a senator forced its hand

Spotify has removed more than 57,000 fake podcast episodes and banned 3,500 accounts tied to illegal drug promotion after a US Senate investigation exposed the scale of the problem. The episodes, spread across more than 3,000 shows, used AI-generated a…

US government orders Anthropic to kill Fable 5 and Mythos 5 in unprecedented AI model recall
US government orders Anthropic to kill Fable 5 and Mythos 5 in unprecedented AI model recall

The US government has ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its two most capable AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, in what appears to be the first time Washington has forced a commercial AI product offline. The directive, which Anthropic says it receiv…

Agentjacking: a fake bug report can hijack your AI coding agent
Agentjacking: a fake bug report can hijack your AI coding agent

Security researchers have found a way to hijack AI coding agents with nothing but a fake bug report. They call it Agentjacking. It needs no malware, no stolen password, and no breach of the target. The attack, disclosed by Tenet Security, turns the cod…

The UK is about to ban under-16s from social media. Its own child-safety charities are worried.
The UK is about to ban under-16s from social media. Its own child-safety charities are worried.

A UK under-16 social media ban, for years a fringe idea, is now days from becoming government policy. Ministers are expected to outline the plan to Parliament on Monday, ahead of the 18 June Makerfield by-election, according to POLITICO, which cited pe…