US judge rules a police Flock search was unconstitutional mass surveillance
US judge rules a police Flock search was unconstitutional mass surveillance

A federal judge in Oklahoma has ruled that a deputy’s warrantless search of Flock’s licence plate reader network broke the US Constitution. In an order dated 1 October, Judge Sara Hill called the system “a type of indiscriminate mass surveillance”. Jas…

Apple adds new Full Disk Access controls on Macs because of AI agents
Apple adds new Full Disk Access controls on Macs because of AI agents

Apple will add new controls to Full Disk Access on the Mac. Users will only be able to give an app that level of access “with very explicit user action”. The company announced the change on its developer news site on Friday and said AI agents were the …

AI giants targeted by scraping bots — ChatGPT and Perplexity enter the most-scraped websites list for the first time
AI giants targeted by scraping bots — ChatGPT and Perplexity enter the most-scraped websites list for the first time

ChatGPT and Perplexity are now being scraped as businesses attempt to monitor brand mentions and citations.

‘The agent itself has become its own entity to secure’: Bitdefender’s new free Mac tool goes after flaws that let attackers fool AI models
‘The agent itself has become its own entity to secure’: Bitdefender’s new free Mac tool goes after flaws that let attackers fool AI models

Bitdefender launches AI Guardian for AI agents with real-time control over tools, files, and credentials.

Federal judge calls Flock ‘indiscriminate mass surveillance’

A federal judge ruled that a sheriff’s deputy violated a woman’s Fourth Amendment rights when using Flock to search for her license plate without a warrant. 

US charges California man with smuggling $300mn of AI servers to China
US charges California man with smuggling $300mn of AI servers to China

US authorities have arrested a California man accused of smuggling more than $300mn of computer servers packed with AI chips to China, the Justice Department said on Thursday. Greg Lui, 38, of San Gabriel, also known as Yiu Kong Lui, was arrested on We…

OpenAI safety employee resigns, claiming the company’s ‘culture is broken’

By his own admission, David Robinson is “something of a cliché”: an employee at a leading AI company who issues a dire warning while resigning from their job.

Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family

Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.