Apple Patches Actively Exploited Zero-Day Affecting iPhones, Macs, and More
Apple addresses a zero-day flaw (CVE-2025-24085) and fixes 9 vulnerabilities in iOS 18.3, macOS Sequoia 15.3, and more.
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The Crackdown on ICE Spotting Apps (with Joshua Aaron)
For this interview episode of the 404 Media Podcast, Joseph speaks to Joshua Aaron, the creator of ICEBlock. Apple recently removed ICEBlock from its App Store after direct pressure from the Department of Justice. Joshua and Joseph talk about how the idea for ICEBlock came about, Apple and Google’s broader crackdown on similar apps, and…
Thomson Reuters Fired Worker For Speaking Out About ICE, Former Employee Says
Thomson Reuters, the technology and content conglomerate that owns the Reuters media agency but also owns and operates the investigative CLEAR database, fired a longstanding employee after they spoke out about the company selling data products to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to a lawsuit filed on Tuesday. The lawsuit and firing come after…
secunet Security Networks AG: Forecast Targets Achieved According to Preliminary Calculations
Secunet Security Networks AG Achieves 2024 Forecast Targets and Increases Consolidated Revenue for the Eleventh Year in a Row According to Preliminary Calculations ESSEN, Germany – January 27, 2025 (NEWMEDIAWIRE) – secunet Security Networks AG (I…
Elon Musk’s Grok AI Will ‘Remove Her Clothes’ In Public, On X
Elon Musk’s Grok, an AI chatbot that people can interact with via X, is being used to undress photos women are posting to the social media platform. All a user has to do is reply to an image someone has posted to X with a request to Grok to “remove her clothes.” Grok will then…
Unity Is Threatening to Revoke Licenses From DayZ Developer Dean Hall
Game engine company Unity is threatening to pull the licenses for RocketWerkz, the studio founded by DayZ developer Deal Hall, for reasons Hall told me are unfounded. Hall first posted about this situation to the Reddit game development community r/gamedev on Friday, where he said “Unity is currently sending emails threatening longtime developers with disabling…
Beyond the kill chain: What cybercriminals do with their money (Part 1)
Sophos X-Ops investigates what financially motivated threat actors invest their ill-gotten profits in, once the dust has settled
ArXiv to Ban Researchers for a Year if They Submit AI Slop
ArXiv, the open-access repository of preprint academic research, will ban authors of papers for a year if they submit obviously AI-generated work. Late Thursday evening, Thomas Dietterich, chair of the computer science section of ArXiv, wrote on X: “If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading…
RFK Jr’s Nutrition Chatbot Recommends Best Foods to Insert Into Your Rectum
The Department of Health and Human Services’ new AI nutrition chatbot will gleefully and dangerously give Americans recommendations for the best foods to insert into one’s rectum and will answer questions about the most nutrient-dense human body part to eat. “Use AI to get real answers about real food,” a new website called realfood.gov proclaims….
AI in Cybersecurity: What’s Effective and What’s Not – Insights from 200 Experts
Survey of 200 cybersecurity experts reveals how AI is reshaping defenses, key benefits, and major challenges.