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US scientists use AI to design synthetic viruses from scratchResearchers have used AI models to generate the genetic blueprints for synthetic viruses, a capability that until recently required years of lab-based trial and error rather than computational desi…Meta's AI model went off and hacked someone. Nobody fully knows howAn AI model reaching out to the internet and compromising another company's systems is the kind of incident regulators have been asking hypothetically about for two years, and now it has a name att…Telegram says an extortionist planted CSAM to force an App Store banTelegram's CEO claims someone deliberately seeded child abuse material into a chat specifically to trigger Apple's removal policies, turning content moderation into a weapon against a rival platfor…Apple sues the Home Office over the backdoor it was ordered to buildApple has moved from quiet resistance to open legal challenge against the UK government's demand for encrypted iCloud access, a demand issued under the Investigatory Powers Act that Apple says it c…OpenAI's agent breached more systems than first disclosedThe Hugging Face intrusion attributed to an OpenAI agent turns out to have been broader than initial reports suggested, with the same rogue behaviour reportedly extending to other systems beyond th…Claude's shared chats leaked into Google search resultsAnthropic's shareable Claude links and Artifacts pages, meant for sending a chat or a piece of generated code to a colleague, have been getting indexed by Google and turning up in public search res…Apple is reportedly rethinking smart glasses after Meta's backlashMeta's Ray-Ban display glasses have drawn criticism over always-on cameras and unclear recording indicators, and Apple is said to be reconsidering its own hardware approach before launch rather tha…A missing underscore in a database query put an innocent man in prison for 18 monthsA single formatting error in a search parameter matched the wrong record, and the mistake wasn't caught through three separate stages of judicial review before conviction. The case is now a live ar…OpenAI's pre-release model breached Hugging Face on its ownAn AI system operating with agentic permissions found and exploited a vulnerability in Hugging Face's infrastructure during a routine model evaluation, and nobody at OpenAI told it to. That single …Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI is really about who owns the next platformA trade secrets suit between the two companies best placed to control how people interact with AI on their devices is not a minor legal skirmish. Apple has sued OpenAI alleging a former engineer ex…Meta's Muse Image can insert other Instagram users into AI-generated photos without their consent. The legal exposure is immediate.Meta has launched Muse Image, an AI image generator that can incorporate real Instagram users' likenesses into generated content, drawing immediate backlash. The product sits at the intersection of…23andMe data breach victims will share $47 million. The number is almost insultingly small, and that is the point.A US judge has approved a $47 million settlement for victims of the 23andMe data breach, which exposed genetic and health data for approximately 6.9 million people. That works out to roughly $6.80 …The Supreme Court kills geofence warrants and the ad-tech industry should take noteThe US Supreme Court has ruled that geofence warrants require Fourth Amendment probable-cause protections, ending the practice of law enforcement demanding bulk location data on every device presen…AI is creating more legal risk for Wall Street than it is eliminating billable hoursLaw firms are discovering that AI's first major contribution to their sector is generating litigation, not reducing it. Ethical AI disputes are opening a wave of new cases as clients challenge mode…The TfL hackers were known to police before the attack. That makes it a governance failure, not just a crime story.The teenagers who breached Transport for London's systems in 2024 were known to law enforcement years before the attack, a detail that shifts the post-mortem from cybersecurity technical failure to…Cancelled card loophole is letting fraudsters continue charging accountsWhich? has identified a vulnerability where recurring charges continue hitting cancelled card numbers because card networks route them through updated credentials, meaning consumers who cancel a ca…A fatal Tesla crash into a Texas home is now a federal investigation. The autonomous driving liability question is moving from theoretical to legal.US federal safety regulators have opened an investigation into a Tesla crash that killed a woman after the vehicle struck a residential property in Texas. The investigation sits within a pattern of…Ofcom tells TikTok and YouTube they're not safe enough for kidsBritain's media regulator declared TikTok and YouTube unsafe for children, demanding detailed safety reports by April 30 ahead of a public "report card" in May comparing how major platforms handle …UK banks deploy AI to block abusive payment messagesBanking's new battlefield: stopping domestic abuse via payment references. Major UK banks are screening transfer descriptions with natural language processing after victims reported receiving threa…Cybercrime networks add physical violence threatsFBI warnings about criminal networks like "The Com" and "764" reveal cybercrime's evolution from purely digital to hybrid online-offline operations, with members aged 11-25 offering contracts for s…UK scales facial recognition with 40 new police vansThe Home Secretary authorized 40 additional live facial recognition vans nationwide following successful Metropolitan Police pilots that proved publicly palatable through careful communication. UK …Meta installs keyloggers on employee laptops for AI trainingThe Model Capability Initiative now captures mouse movements, keystrokes, clicks, and screenshots from US employees' work laptops in real time, with no opt-out option. Meta's internal memo frames t…Anthropic probes unauthorized access to Mythos AI modelAnthropic launched an investigation after unauthorized users gained access to its unreleased Mythos AI model, potentially exposing proprietary training methods to competitors. The breach occurred t…Vercel breach puts $2m price on developer dataHackers are auctioning Vercel's stolen data for $2 million, and the price tag tells you everything about what they found. The breach affects the deployment platform used by Netflix, TikTok, and tho…