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The Register: No gains, just pains as 1.6M fitness phone call recordings exposed online

Sep 9, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/09/gym_audio_recordings_exposed/ Source: The Register Title: No gains, just pains as 1.6M fitness phone call recordings exposed online Feedly Summary: HelloGym’s data security clearly skipped leg day Exclusive Sensitive info from hundreds of thousands of gym customers and staff – including names, financial details, and potentially biometric data in the form of audio recordings…

Schneier on Security: Generative AI as a Cybercrime Assistant

Sep 4, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/09/generative-ai-as-a-cybercrime-assistant.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Generative AI as a Cybercrime Assistant Feedly Summary: Anthropic reports on a Claude user: We recently disrupted a sophisticated cybercriminal that used Claude Code to commit large-scale theft and extortion of personal data. The actor targeted at least 17 distinct organizations, including in healthcare, the emergency services,…

AlgorithmWatch: Flagged by the Algorithm: Klarna Thought I’m a Fraudster

Sep 3, 2025

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Source URL: https://algorithmwatch.org/en/flagged-algorithm-klarna-fraudster/ Source: AlgorithmWatch Title: Flagged by the Algorithm: Klarna Thought I’m a Fraudster Feedly Summary: Flexible payment company Klarna’s automated systems flagged a user for allegedly failing to pay for an online order. She had been told that a glitch in the platform prevented her from paying, and then Klarna’s algorithms sent her…

New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : Google Pixel 10 Pro Review: This A.I. Phone Can Save Time if You Surrender Your Data

Aug 27, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/technology/personaltech/google-pixel-10-pro-review-ai-phone.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: Google Pixel 10 Pro Review: This A.I. Phone Can Save Time if You Surrender Your Data Feedly Summary: The new artificially intelligent Pixel can help people streamline certain tasks. But that efficiency may not be worth the data you give up, our reviewer writes.…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Piloting Claude for Chrome

Aug 26, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/26/piloting-claude-for-chrome/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Piloting Claude for Chrome Feedly Summary: Piloting Claude for Chrome Two days ago I said: I strongly expect that the entire concept of an agentic browser extension is fatally flawed and cannot be built safely. Today Anthropic announced their own take on this pattern, implemented as an…

Slashdot: Farmers Insurance Data Breach Impacts 1.1 Million People After Salesforce Attack

Aug 26, 2025

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Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/08/25/2154254/farmers-insurance-data-breach-impacts-11-million-people-after-salesforce-attack?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Farmers Insurance Data Breach Impacts 1.1 Million People After Salesforce Attack Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text pertains to a significant data breach involving Farmers Insurance, which affected over 1.1 million customers due to vulnerabilities exploited within Salesforce. This incident highlights critical concerns surrounding third-party…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet

Aug 25, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/25/agentic-browser-security/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet Feedly Summary: Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet The security team from Brave took a look at Comet, the LLM-powered “agentic browser" extension from Perplexity, and unsurprisingly found security holes you can drive a truck…

Cloud Blog: 101+ gen AI use cases with technical blueprints

Aug 21, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/real-world-gen-ai-use-cases-with-technical-blueprints/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: 101+ gen AI use cases with technical blueprints Feedly Summary: A little over a year ago, we published a list of generative AI use cases that has since grown to include more than 600 examples of how organizations are putting AI to work. Yet for many developers and…

The Register: Intel ghosts researcher who found web apps spilled 270K staff records

Aug 20, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/20/intel_website_flaws/ Source: The Register Title: Intel ghosts researcher who found web apps spilled 270K staff records Feedly Summary: Chipzilla quietly fixed the problems without responding to the person who found them Security boffin Eaton Zveare has highlighted some serious holes in the online infrastructure of chip giant Intel – walking through services with…

Slashdot: Male-Oriented App ‘TeaOnHer’ Also Had Security Flaws That Could Leak Men’s Driver’s License Photos

Aug 18, 2025

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Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/08/18/0550252/male-oriented-app-teaonher-also-had-security-flaws-that-could-leak-mens-drivers-license-photos?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Male-Oriented App ‘TeaOnHer’ Also Had Security Flaws That Could Leak Men’s Driver’s License Photos Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses data breaches and security flaws in two dating-advice apps, focusing on the implications of such incidents for user privacy and corporate liability. These issues…

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