Discord’s next big feature could put your conversations on Google Search

Discord plans to make messages from large public servers searchable on Google starting in December, but a new privacy setting lets users keep their conversations off the wider web.

Discord is making its public communities more searchable, and people have concerns

In December, messages from Discord’s public discoverable servers will begin appearing in search engine results.

Apple’s iOS 27.2 gives Siri AI a memory and five more languages
Apple’s iOS 27.2 gives Siri AI a memory and five more languages

Apple released iOS 27.2 on Monday, the first big update to iOS 27, alongside new versions of iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS and tvOS. Most of the new features are for Siri AI, the rebuilt assistant Apple released in beta in September. Siri AI now wor…

Anthropic’s sensitive internal data was exposed, and AI helped make it happen

A cybersecurity startup managed to uncover weaknesses in Anthropic’s internal systems using AI agents. The company says its core AI technology and customer conversations remained secure, but the findings raise bigger questions about how AI companies pr…

Texas sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over ChatGPT’s safety for children
Texas sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over ChatGPT’s safety for children

Texas has taken OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, to court. The state accuses them of misleading Texans about ChatGPT and of failing to protect the young people who use it. Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the 67-page petition in Collin Coun…

Google’s privacy policy now lets Gmail and Photos content shape your ads
Google’s privacy policy now lets Gmail and Photos content shape your ads

Google has changed its privacy policy so that Gmail, Drive and Google Photos content can shape your ads. That applies if you connect those apps to Google services that show ads. The new version of the Google privacy policy took effect on 16 October. Sh…

OpenAI checked fired researchers’ phones for Signal chats, WSJ reports
OpenAI checked fired researchers’ phones for Signal chats, WSJ reports

“I was told that there was a breach of trust because I interacted with a third party through unsanctioned channels,” Tomek Korbak said. Korbak is one of three OpenAI safety researchers fired last month. He spoke to The Wall Street Journal for a story b…

Walmart will let AI agents shop for you, with their own spending limits
Walmart will let AI agents shop for you, with their own spending limits

Walmart will let AI agents shop for customers on Walmart.com and at Sam’s Club, each with its own profile, spending limit and purchase history. The retailer announced Agent Profiles, a gateway built for agents and a set of terms they must follow on Wed…

Meta fixes Muse links that let anyone find loan files and revenue data
Meta fixes Muse links that let anyone find loan files and revenue data

Meta has switched Muse sharing back on. It paused the feature on Tuesday. That came after Ars Technica asked about research showing that anyone could find pages shared from its AI agent. David Singleton, who works on Muse at Meta, announced the fix on …

Will Meta’s $25 Billion Court Loss Change Its Ways? (Spoiler: Probably Not)

A series of judgments and settlements don’t seem to be slowing Meta’s provocative privacy practices.