Your smart TV is watching you — and no one seems to be stopping it
TL;DR Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued five major TV makers, accusing them of intensive and deceptive user surveillance…
Decorative Cryptography: How TCG_TPM2_HMAC Inverts the Chain of Trust
TL;DR A Linux kernel feature, TCG_TPM2_HMAC, was designed to add HMACs and encryption to TPM bus traffic to detect interposer…
ICE Uses Facial-Recognition Technology to Speed Up Arrests Nationwide
TL;DR The Wall Street Journal reports that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is using facial-recognition technology to rapidly identify and…
California residents can request all data brokers to delete personal data
TL;DR A California consumer webpage indicates residents may now ask data brokers to remove their personal information. The source article…
Eurostar AI chatbot flaws let attackers alter history, leak prompts
TL;DR A security researcher found multiple weaknesses in Eurostar's public AI chatbot that allowed guardrail bypass, prompt exfiltration and client-side…
Millennium Challenge: Real Story of a Corrupted Military Exercise and Legacy
TL;DR Millennium Challenge 2002 was a large, congressionally mandated U.S. war‑game that exposed deep disagreements over how simulations should inform…
C-Sentinel: Lightweight UNIX prober capturing system fingerprints for AI
TL;DR C-Sentinel is a portable C-written system prober that collects comprehensive "system fingerprints" and summarizes them for AI-assisted analysis of…
North Dakota law accidentally lists fake minerals named after coal lawyers
TL;DR A North Dakota statute listing critical minerals included two fabricated names — friezium and stralium — that appear to…
DoorDash bans driver after alleged AI-generated fake delivery photo
TL;DR A DoorDash customer in Austin posted that a Dasher marked an order delivered and uploaded what appeared to be…