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Forbes: “Welcome to Dangerous December. Emergency updates have been released for all iPhone and Android users. Google and Apple issued attack warnings to users around the world, before deploying updates for billions of smartphones. And Google also warns Chrome users are under attack, rushing out an emergency update for all platforms. Dangerous December—Emergency Update Warning …
Ars Technica: “Smart TVs can feel like a dumb choice if you’re looking for privacy, reliability, and simplicity. Today’s TVs and streaming sticks are usually loaded up with advertisements and user tracking, making offline TVs seem very attractive. But ever since smart TV operating systems began making money, “dumb” TVs have been hard to find. …
Brainyacts: 1. A user pulled out an internal company document just by prompting. Let that sink in. A determined user was able to extract, through the chat interface, an internal memo that was never meant to be disclosed. Not “state secret” level, but still: a company document that describes how the model is trained and …
How to Geek: “A few weeks ago, my internet went down. Thankfully, my mobile internet was still working, so I was able to use my phone as a hotspot. Looking online, however, I found that many people who used the same provider for both their broadband and mobile internet had lost access to both and …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, December 7, 2025 – 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 …
How to Geek: “Are you using a VPN and wondering why your internet connection feels slower than it used to? I wondered the same thing, so I set out to measure just how much a VPN affected my internet speed at home. The results somewhat surprised me, though it made sense once I thought through …
LLRX November 2025 Articles and Columns The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health, and the Rule of Law – Part 5 – The fifth in a series of articles by Sabrina I. Pacifici documenting what government resources, data and datasets been taken offline, censored or otherwise altered to block access and significantly …
Forbes – “Microsoft triggered a viral furor when it revealed a Teams update to tell your company when you’re not at work. Now Google has done the same. Forget end-to-end encryption. A new Android update means your RCS and SMS texts are no longer private. As reported by Android Authority, “Google is rolling out Android …
The Verge – Spoiler: the nine-person team works for Anthropic – “…Nearly every major AI company has some kind of safety team that’s responsible for mitigating direct, obvious harms like AI systems being used for scams or bioweapons. The goal of the societal impacts team — which does not have a direct analog at OpenAI, …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 29, 2025 – 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 …
Scale.com: “AI models are now being used in more high-stakes settings, and not every situation goes according to plan. When a model’s safe approach starts to fail, will it stay on the safe path or reach for a harmful shortcut that works instead? Understanding how models behave in those pressure moments is one of the …
MIT Technology Review: “Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of the industry…”
