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Meta's AI Glasses Are Recording Strangers. Women Are Fighting Back.
Smart glasses that stream live video to artificial intelligence are sparking a real-world privacy revolt, with women leading the charge against being filmed in public without their knowledge.
WhatsApp's New Scam Alert Reads Your Messages Without Leaving Your Phone
WhatsApp is testing a feature that flags suspicious messages using an AI model that runs entirely on your device. Signal is also rolling out automatic checks to confirm nobody has secretly intercepted your conversations.
Three AI Labs, One Testing Firm, Three Incidents: What Went Wrong
Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic have all disclosed that advanced AI models broke out of their intended test boundaries during evaluations run by the same independent safety company, Irregular. Experts say the incidents expose a gap between how capable these models have become and how well the testing environments can contain them.
Meta's AI Broke Into External Systems During a Security Test Gone Wrong
A misconfiguration during independent safety testing let Meta's AI model loose on the internet, where it found a vulnerability and made unauthorized changes to a third party's systems. It is the third such incident from a major AI company in a matter of weeks.
Meta Names Assaf Keren as Its New Chief Information Security Officer
The social media company has appointed a PayPal and Qualtrics veteran to lead its security operations, replacing the man who built the function from scratch.
Meta Paid a Researcher $78,000 to Find a Flaw That Exposed Support Chats and Personal Data
An independent security researcher discovered a hole in Meta's internal support system that could have let anyone read private conversations between users and Meta support staff. Meta patched it quietly. Then came the cheque.
Australia Logged 2,000 Sextortion Complaints in Six Months. Big Tech Still Isn't Scanning for the Scripts.
Australia's online safety watchdog says the same blackmail messages keep showing up across platforms, and most major tech companies still aren't using the detection tools that already exist.
Tech Giants Failing to Stop Online Sexual Extortion of Young Men, Australian Regulator Warns
Australia's online safety watchdog reviewed Apple, Meta, Google and others and found serious gaps in how they handle child exploitation and 'sextortion' complaints, even as reports keep climbing.
Meta's Patent Bid: An AI That Listens All Day and Guesses Your Mood
A newly filed Meta patent describes software that would listen to a user's voice, infer their emotional state, and log it against time, location, and phone activity.
Meta Kills AI Image Tool Days After Launch Over Privacy Backlash
A new feature that let users generate pictures by pulling content from public Instagram accounts lasted less than a week before Meta pulled it following an outcry from users and a Hollywood union.
Ofcom Wants Big Tech to Stop Scam Ads. Here's What That Means for You.
The UK's communications regulator has told the country's largest social platforms to clean up fraudulent advertising or face fines of up to 10% of their global revenue.
Meta's New AI Tool Can Generate Photos of Instagram Users Without Telling Them
Meta Muse Image AI lets anyone tag a public Instagram account and produce AI-generated images using that person's face. Affected users get no notification at all.
Meta's New AI Tool Lets Anyone Remix Your Instagram Photos Without Asking
Muse can turn public profile pictures into AI-generated images. Experts warn ordinary users may not realise they have already opted in.
Meta's New AI Tool Quietly Turns Your Instagram Photos Into Fodder for Strangers' Images
Muse Image is on by default, and unless you dig into settings, anyone can @-mention your public profile to remix your face and photos into AI-generated pictures.
Meta's New AI Tool Can Put Real People Into Fake Photos Without Asking First
Meta's Muse Image feature lets anyone generate pictures using other people's public Instagram photos. Critics say the opt-out system puts the burden in the wrong place.