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Named “Volta-Autodoxer,” the recently uncovered malware uses AI tools to collect troves of data about victims, from login credentials and credit card numbers to Discord sessions and UberEats receipts.
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General Motors has agreed to pay $220 million to settle a lawsuit over data privacy violations. The settlement resolves legal claims against the automaker related to how it handled driver data.
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Meta has released an AI agent called Muse that analysts and businesses see as potentially disruptive across multiple industries. So far, companies have been downplaying the competitive threat to investors, framing the technology as an opportunity rather than a risk.
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A biotech startup allowed an AI agent to autonomously select a gene therapy and carry out an injection into a live mouse's brain, completing a real laboratory procedure without a human making the final call. The demonstration marks an early but concrete step toward AI systems running independent decisions in biological research.
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As editors turn to imperfect AI detection tools to weed out machine-generated submissions, writers who say they were falsely accused of using AI are left wondering what triggered a positive result.
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In courts across the country, publishers and creators are suing large AI companies for training generative AI models on copyrighted works. It’s easy to see these cases as a David-and-Goliath showdown between authors and publishers fighting for a cut of Big Tech company profits. But this fight is actually much larger. It affects billions of people who aren’t represented in the case at all, including researchers, artists, activists, journalists, people with disabilities, and anyone who accesses and shares content online. That’s why EFF is stepping in to defend the public’s rights in these cases…
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A set of congressional bills introduced this week would establish a dedicated technology office for lawmakers, require greater transparency from data centers, address AI-enabled human trafficking, and tighten cybersecurity standards for cloud infrastructure.
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The FDA released a new Concept of Operations for drug inspections and put forward a proposal on AI policy, among other regulatory developments this week. Details on the scope and specifics of the AI proposal were not disclosed in the available excerpt.
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A China-linked threat group tracked as Vapor Panda used an agentic AI-powered penetration testing tool to compromise 140 targets across more than a dozen countries in under two weeks, according to CrowdStrike. The campaign targeted over 200 organizations in total and is described as ongoing.
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A professional association representing VA physicians and dentists has urged Congress to halt further rollouts of a new electronic health record system until an independent safety review is completed at sites already using the software.
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Secure has launched a subscription-based facial recognition access control service, now available through Ricoh Japan as a sales channel. The offering puts biometric entry systems within reach of businesses that prefer recurring-cost models over upfront hardware investment.
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Maine will receive $2.8 million as part of a data privacy settlement involving General Motors. The settlement relates to GM's handling of driver data, though the full scope of the agreement is not detailed in available reporting.
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Developers of virtual private network (VPN) apps are reporting that their products are again being pulled from Apple’s App Store in Russia. This is an unacceptable crackdown on a vital tool to protect privacy and speech online. Why? VPNs give people a way to control their own online activities. When you visit a website through a VPN, that website only sees the VPN server's location (well, IP address) rather than your actual location. It's like sending a letter through a P.O. box so the recipient doesn't know where you really live. It can also disguise where you’re accessing information from,…
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The Department of Justice's bankruptcy oversight office has called for a consumer privacy ombudsman to help a court determine what user data from Character.AI can be sold in a potential sale, and on what terms.
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People who love AI don't always love telling others they used it.
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Boards of education met as the Office of Civil Rights or a comparable school oversight body addressed artificial intelligence policy, according to a local report from Andalusia, Alabama.
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EPIC submitted comments to the European Data Protection Board urging it to strengthen its draft guidelines on web scraping for AI, arguing the current framework does not go far enough to protect personal data collected from the web.
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The SEC's enforcement chief has said the agency is actively watching how public companies disclose their use of artificial intelligence in regulatory filings. The statement signals that AI-related claims made to investors are now under formal regulatory scrutiny.
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Resolve, a fashion retailer targeting Millennial and Gen Z shoppers, disclosed that hackers breached its systems and stole customer payment card numbers. The company has not publicly detailed the scope of the breach or how many customers were affected.
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The United Nations University is advancing efforts to develop AI governance frameworks that involve multiple stakeholders across sectors and regions. The initiative reflects growing international attention to how AI policy decisions are made and who gets a seat at the table.
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Big tech stocks falter as investors question whether billions being poured into AI can generate returns quickly enough A sell-off of tech stocks that began earlier this month and gained steam with disappointing earnings from leading tech companies drove US markets down by hundreds of billions of dollars Friday. In total, the decline has knocked nearly $1tn in value off the tech-heavy Nasdaq exchange in one week and erased about $2tn in a month. The S&P 500, the index of the 500 most valuable companies in the US, fell by more than 1% Friday, losing hundreds of billions of dollars in market val…
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Howard students need a teacher’s OK to use AI under new school policy Capital Gazette
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EPIC and the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) filed a motion Thursday, October 29th, for a temporary restraining order to block the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) from transmitting data to states and localities about registered voters whom the agencies claim are "likely noncitizens."
Haryana police in India has added photographs of more than 29,000 individuals with criminal records to a facial recognition system. The move expands the state's biometric surveillance infrastructure to aid in identifying and tracking people with prior convictions.
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