Windows Charset Conversion Feature Exploited to Execute Remote Code
Security researchers have uncovered a critical vulnerability in Windows stemming from its “Best-Fit” character conversion feature.
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OCT Medical Devices 2025: AI innovation to increase cybersecurity risks in 2025
Growing sophistication of medical devices make it likely that 2025 will be another challenging year for cybersecurity and medical devices.
4K Blu-Ray of 22-Year-Old ‘Master and Commander’ Is Sold Out Everywhere, Being Scalped on eBay
August—2025. The new limited edition 4K Blu-ray of the 2005 film Master and Commander has sold out everywhere. Secondary markets are now battlefields. There are two kinds of people in this world: those who read the above sentences and feel an intense pain and yearning for comradery and combat on the high seas, and those…
US takes aim at healthcare cybersecurity with proposed HIPAA changes
Security experts welcome proposed changes to the regulation’s security rules while warning about political uncertainty, feasibility, and the potential cost to healthcare orgs.
LeBron James’ Lawyers Send Cease-and-Desist to AI Company Making Pregnant Videos of Him
The creators of an AI tool and Discord community that allowed people to create AI videos of NBA stars says that it got a cease-and-desist letter from lawyers representing LeBron James. This marks one of the first known times that a high-profile celebrity has threatened legal action against an AI company for enabling the creation…
Viral ‘Challah Horse’ Image Zuckerberg Loved Was Originally Created as a Warning About Facebook’s AI Slop
The viral AI-generated bread horse image that Mark Zuckerberg “loved” on Tuesday was originally created as a meme by a Polish news organization to warn about the dangers of AI-generated slop on social media. The image became a viral sensation on the Polish internet but broke containment and began going viral more widely; it was…
Faster, safer, stronger: Sophos Firewall v22 security enhancements
Hardened kernel, remote integrity monitoring, an enhanced anti-malware engine, and more.
Judge Rules Training AI on Authors’ Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not
A federal judge in California ruled Monday that Anthropic likely violated copyright law when it pirated authors’ books to create a giant dataset and “forever” library but that training its AI on those books without authors’ permission constitutes transformative fair use under copyright law. The complex decision is one of the first of its kind…
Behind the Blog: Vile Media and Fine Sciences
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss doxed Teslas, the concept of “amplification,” and how we’d much rather be looking at cooking videos than all this mess. EMANUEL: This week I published one of…
ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a post on X Tuesday that ChatGPT is officially getting into the fuckable chatbots game, with “erotica for verified adults” rolling out in December. “We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many…