Massachusetts votes to pass new privacy rights bill that bans sale of precise location data

The bill is expected to blanket ban companies and startups from selling people’s precise location data across the state.

Britain’s Cosine rallies BT, HSBC, and BAE to build a “sovereign” AI model and cut its reliance on US tech
Britain’s Cosine rallies BT, HSBC, and BAE to build a “sovereign” AI model and cut its reliance on US tech

Britain’s banks, telecoms, and weapons-makers have a new shared anxiety: that the AI they increasingly run on is built, owned, and controlled in the United States. A startup barely three years old is betting they will pay to fix it. Cosine, a UK fronti…

The US wants NATO allies to spend their new defence budgets ripping out Huawei
The US wants NATO allies to spend their new defence budgets ripping out Huawei

The US has found a new use for Europe’s swelling defence budgets: tearing out Huawei. Whether its allies are listening is another matter. The State Department’s China coordinator, Joshua Young, told officials in Brussels last month that NATO members sh…

Meta reveals over 20,000 Instagram accounts hacked and stolen using AI support bot

We now know the scale of last week’s incident as Meta reports it to the Maine AG.

The lawsuits that could give AI its Big Tobacco moment are already here
The lawsuits that could give AI its Big Tobacco moment are already here

In the 1990s, almost every US state sued the tobacco industry. The resulting settlements cost hundreds of billions of dollars and transformed how cigarettes were marketed, sold, and regulated. Senator Ed Markey said in March that Big Tech’s Big Tobacco…

Hackers outsmart Oxford Uni career progression platform – student data potentially compromised

A bug in a third-party system was leveraged to steal emails on a yet undisclosed number of people.

The AI models finding 10,000 vulnerabilities are the same ones China is trying to copy. That is the problem.
The AI models finding 10,000 vulnerabilities are the same ones China is trying to copy. That is the problem.

In May, Google’s Threat Intelligence Group confirmed the first known case of an AI system discovering and weaponising a zero-day exploit that was then deployed in the wild. A criminal actor used a frontier model to find a two-factor authentication bypa…

All the Ways Europe Is Ditching American Technology

A WIRED timeline shows how dozens of governments, companies, and other organizations across Europe are moving, or planning to shift, away from US Big Tech.

Trump signs memo putting ‘most advanced AI’ into military hands and banning vendors from pulling the plug
Trump signs memo putting ‘most advanced AI’ into military hands and banning vendors from pulling the plug

President Trump signed a national security presidential memorandum on Friday ordering the US military and intelligence agencies to accelerate their adoption of cutting-edge AI. The directive, NSPM-11, establishes a framework for “rapid onboarding of th…

OpenAI adds Lockdown Mode to ChatGPT to block data theft from prompt injection attacks
OpenAI adds Lockdown Mode to ChatGPT to block data theft from prompt injection attacks

OpenAI has begun rolling out Lockdown Mode to ChatGPT, a new security setting designed to block attackers from stealing data through prompt injection attacks. The feature disables live web browsing, agent mode, deep research, image retrieval, Canvas ne…