Cloudflare Starts Blocking Pirate Sites For UK Users
Cloudflare has begun blocking pirate sites for UK users following an order from the Motion Picture Association (MPA). This action affects almost 200 domains, which now display an Error 451…
Anthropic Rolls Out Claude AI For Financial Services
Anthropic Rolls Out Claude AI For Financial Services Anthropic has launched a specialised version of its Claude AI tools aimed at the financial services sector. This version is designed to…
Reddit Starts Verifying Ages of Users In the UK
Reddit Starts Verifying Ages of Users In the UK Reddit has kicked off age verification for users in the UK as part of compliance with the Online Safety Act, which…
Hugging Face Is Hosting 5,000 Nonconsensual AI Models of Real People
Hugging Face has come under fire for hosting over 5,000 AI image generation models that recreate the likeness of real people without consent. Originally hosted on Civitai, these models were…
Candy Crush-Maker King Lays Off 200 Staff, Replacing Many With AI Tools They Built
Candy Crush-maker King has announced layoffs of approximately 200 employees, focusing particularly on levels designers, user research staff, and UX writers. The company will replace many of these roles with…
Microsoft Uses Chinese Engineers To Maintain Defense Department Systems Under Minimal US Oversight
Microsoft is reportedly using Chinese engineers to maintain computer systems for the U.S. Defense Department with minimal U.S. oversight. A ProPublica investigation reveals that U.S. citizens, dubbed ‘digital escorts’, have…
Curl creator mulls nixing bug bounty awards to stop AI slop
Summary \n Daniel Stenberg, the creator of curl, is considering ending the bug bounty awards due to a surge in low-quality bug reports, referred to as “AI slop.” Maintainers have…
Ex-US soldier who Googled ‘can hacking be treason’ pleads guilty to extortion
Ex-US soldier who Googled ‘can hacking be treason’ pleads guilty to extortion A former US Army soldier, Cameron John Wagenius, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and extortion after accessing telecommunications…
Hackers Can Remotely Trigger the Brakes on American Trains and the Problem Has Been Ignored for Years
Many trains in the U.S. are vulnerable to a hack that can remotely lock a train’s brakes, as reported by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Independent researcher…
Perplexity CEO Says Tech Giants ‘Copy Anything That’s Good’
Summary Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas has expressed concerns about how larger tech firms tend to copy innovative ideas from smaller companies without hesitation. Speaking at Y Combinator’s AI Startup School,…