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UK data regulator defends decision not to investigate MoD Afghan data breach

Wed, 2025-10-22 07:15
ICO says probe unnecessary after reviewing ministry's handling of leak

The UK's data protection regulator declined to launch an investigation into a leak at the Ministry of Defence that risked the lives of thousands of Afghans connected with the British Armed Forces.…

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Google porting all internal workloads to Arm, with help from GenAI

Wed, 2025-10-22 03:55
YouTube and Gmail already running on both x86 and homebrew Axion silicon, 70,000 more apps in the conversion queue

Google has revealed it’s ported around 30,000 of its production packages to the Arm architecture and plans to convert them all so it can run workloads on both its own Axion silicon and x86 processors.…

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OpenAI releases bot-tom feeding browser with ChatGPT built in

Wed, 2025-10-22 00:11
Why experience the web for yourself when there's so much privacy to surrender?

In a bid to grab even more eyeballs, OpenAI has finally released Atlas, its long-teased, ChatGPT-powered web browser. Surfing the web may never be the same now that a bot is doing it for you – while training itself at the same time.…

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Fake home invasion vid lands woman in real trouble

Tue, 2025-10-21 22:46
And got arrested instead of earning a viral TikTok

A Maryland woman who allegedly used AI to fake a home invasion was arrested and charged with making false statements after telling police that the ersatz intruder was part of a prank gone wrong.…

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AI eats leisure time, makes employees work more, study finds

Tue, 2025-10-21 20:35
Rise and grind, robot overlords demand

AI services like OpenAI's ChatGPT have been pitched for potential productivity gains, but their effect has been to make people work more while benefiting less from their labor.…

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MCP attack abuses predictable session IDs to hijack AI agents

Tue, 2025-10-21 19:36
The vuln affects the Oat++ MCP implementation

A security flaw in the Oat++ implementation of Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) allows attackers to predict or capture session IDs from active AI conversations, hijack MCP sessions, and inject malicious responses via the oatpp-mcp server.…

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