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Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 24, 2026 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the …
MakeUseOf: “When you set up your home Wi-Fi network, your router’s name—technically called the SSID (Service Set Identifier)—might seem like an innocent detail. After all, it’s just the name you see when looking for available networks, right? Not quite. That simple network name is actually a privacy minefield, and the information it reveals might shock …
PC Mag: “If bad actors get their hands on your personally identifiable information (PII), they can use it to swindle, impersonate, or even endanger you on the internet—and in the real world. One of the prime places to find PII is on Google, and while Google can’t stop that info from appearing on other websites, …
Forbes: “Google has now confirmed the biggest upgrade to Gemini we have seen. This is the culmination of recent iterations, and sees AI link all your Google platforms together to personalize its offering. For some this is a game-changer. For others, it’s terrifying. This upgrade comes first to Google’s AI subscribers in the U.S., but …
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 10, 2026 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and …
404 Media [no paywall]: “A social media and phone surveillance system ICE bought access to is designed to monitor a city neighborhood or block for mobile phones, track the movements of those devices and their owners over time, and follow them from their places of work to home or other locations, according to material that …
Follow on to ICE boosts weapons spending 600% Via EFF: “U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has a new budget under the current administration, and they are going on a surveillance tech shopping spree. Standing at $28.7 billion dollars for the year 2025 (nearly triple their 2024 budget) and at least another $56.25 billion over …
Wired – no paywall: “Google is putting even more generative AI tools into Gmail as part of its goal to further personalize user inboxes and streamline searches. On Thursday, the company announced a new “AI Inbox” tab, currently in a beta testing phase, that reads every message in a user’s Gmail and suggests a list …
“Advanced Passive Reconnaissance Tool for OSINT & Security Research. Generate powerful Google Dorks instantly • 100% Client-Side • Open Source. Google Dorking (also known as Google Hacking) is an OSINT technique that uses advanced search operators to uncover security vulnerabilities, exposed sensitive files, and misconfigurations in web servers and applications. Security researchers, penetration testers, and …
Quartz – The companies building them have decided that’s a risk worth taking: “In October, OpenAI launched Atlas, its ChatGPT-powered browser designed to go head-to-head with Google Chrome. Perplexity has Comet. Opera (remember them?) unveiled Neon. Mozilla, which built its entire brand on being the browser you can trust, just announced an “AI Window” for …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 4, 2026 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the …
Via LLRX – Like Lawyers In Pompeii: Is Legal Ignoring The Coming AI Infrastructure Crisis? (Part I) – Stephen Embry and Melissa Rogo Rogozinski identify the multiple risk factors involved in the increasing usage of AI in the legal sector, including infrastructure gaps between chip capacity, demand for energy sources and building new data centers, as …
