Welcome to Kernel Panic!, a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To…
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Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Welcome to Kernel Panic!, a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To…
A Flaw in ChatGPT’s Mac App Could Have Let Hackers Grab Sensitive Data
Hardly a day goes by lately without news of AI agents autonomously hacking websites or AI tools being used by cybercriminals and scammers. But a…
OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack
A legal nonprofit sued OpenAI in a California court on Tuesday over the company’s agents escaping a testing environment and hacking the open source AI…
A New Tool Found Malware That’s Guided by an AI Hive Mind—No Humans in Sight
For years, cybersecurity practitioners have tracked different types of malware and detected potential infections using digital fingerprints to identify different hacking tools and follow their…
OpenAI Agents Hacked Another Website
After reporting last week that the surveillance company Flock Safety is building an AI search tool for law enforcement, WIRED reconstructed Flock’s latest search tool…
Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages Today
Frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI all experienced rare outages on Thursday morning, creating downtime for their corresponding AI chatbots. SpaceX, xAI’s parent company,…
A Zoom Screen-Sharing Bug Let Anyone Take Over Other Devices on a Call
As AI models gain advanced capabilities to find vulnerabilities in software, develop ways to exploit them, and even carry out autonomous hacking sprees, researchers offered…