John Oliver Dares Buc-ee’s To Sue Him Over Trademark Infringement
I will admit it’s always a special kind of fun when a topic we cover here at Techdirt gets the John Oliver treatment. He and his writing team generally gets…
DPRK-Linked macOS Malvertising Uses Fake Updates to Deliver Crypto-Stealing Malware
Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been attributed to a sophisticated macOS malvertising campaign that involves redirecting users to fake web pages displaying a full-screen non-existent update sequence…
What 20 Million Bans Reveal About The Stress On Wikipedia’s Volunteers
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. This year, Wikipedia is celebrating 25 years as the Internet’s encyclopedia that anyone can…
Axon Insists Its AI Makes Police Reports Easier. Nothing Suggests It Makes Them Any *Better*
It’s not that AI can’t be useful or helpful in certain contexts. And this is certainly not to say AI can’t take over repetitive tasks to allow people to focus…
The Worst Person You Know Just Filed A Good First Amendment Lawsuit Against A Very Badly Drafted Nudify App Ban
There’s been a bunch of news this week regarding Minnesota’s new law that purports to prohibit “nudification” technology, and the fact that xAI has sued to have the law blocked…
Quantum computers outperform classical ones, with results you can trust
There are many algorithms for which it has been mathematically proven that a quantum computer can generate results that would take a classical computer an unreasonable amount of time to…
New MCP specification addresses the main barrier to enterprise adoption
This week, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open source standard for how AI systems interact with external tools and data sources, saw its largest update since its introduction. Most…
ThreatsDay: AI-Powered Hacking, 370 Chrome Flaws, SonicWall Attacks, DNS Hijacking + 22 More Stories
A lot of security still comes down to trusting the wrong screen. This week, that screen might be a login page, an install guide, a recruiter call, or a familiar…
Azure Cosmos DB Flaw Exposed Platform-Wide Key That Could Access Any Database
A now-patched vulnerability in Azure Cosmos DB could have let an attacker escape the service’s Gremlin query sandbox and obtain full read and write access to databases across customer tenants,…
The Network Has Become the Control Plane for AI Security
Network firewalls are the workhorses of modern cybersecurity. They are trusted to protect the network, blocking malicious traffic and preventing intrusions and breaches. And for decades, network security teams have…