Secure by Design: Building cybersecurity into the foundation
An explainer of why this philosophy matters and how it reduces attack surface from the inside Categories: Sophos Insights, Products & Services Tags: Secure by Design, Thought Leadership
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Airbnb Hosts Don’t Want to Talk to Guests Anymore, Are Outsourcing Messages to AI
An industry of tech companies is now selling AI-powered chatbot services to Airbnb hosts which reply to guests on their behalf. 404 Media started looking into the companies after one Airbnb host used AI to communicate with their guests, and when the guests seemingly realized, they tricked the chatbot into instead providing a fairly detailed…
A Bullet Crashed the Internet in Texas
The internet can be more physically vulnerable than you think. Last week, thousands of people in North and Central Texas were suddenly knocked offline. The cause? A bullet. The outage hit cities all across the state, including Dallas, Irving, Plano, Arlington, Austin, and San Antonio. The outage affected Spectrum customers and took down their phone…
AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
AI bots that scrape the internet for training data are hammering the servers of libraries, archives, museums, and galleries, and are in some cases knocking their collections offline, according to a new survey published today. While the impact of AI bots on open collections has been reported anecdotally, the survey is the first attempt at…
Chinese AI Video Generators Unleash a Flood of New Nonconsensual Porn
A number of AI video generators, mostly released by Chinese companies, lack the most basic guardrails that prevent people from generating nonconsensual nudity and pornography, and are already widely used for that exact purpose in online communities dedicated to creating and sharing that type of content. A 404 Media investigation into these AI video generators…
A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light
The sound of power tools screech in what looks like a workshop with aluminum bubble wrap insulation plastered on the walls and ceiling. A shirtless man picks up a can of compressed air from the workbench and sprays it. He’s tinkering with a pair of Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses. At one point he squints at…
Nvidia Shares Falls 5% Again as China’s DeepSeek AI Challenges U.S. Dominance
U.S. Tech Stocks Under Pressure: Nvidia, Microsoft, and Tesla See Losses
Judge Orders CDC and FDA to Restore Pages Removed by Trump Admin Before Midnight
On Tuesday, a judge ordered the Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control, and Food and Drug Administration to restore several of the webpages they removed following President Trump’s executive order attacking diversity, equity and inclusion. The health agencies have until 11:59 p.m. on February 11 to restore the pages to how…
Elon Musk Is Hounded by Haters in Path of Exile 2 Chat
On Saturday Elon Musk sat in his personal jet and tested out Starlink’s in-air WiFI by streaming some Path of Exile 2. Less than five minutes into the stream, someone in game chat asked him to “jerk off mr trump so he dies of a heart attack!” For the next hour and 40 minutes, the…