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A Washington Post review found chatbot transcripts surfacing in a dozen public court cases in two years. Conversations with an AI carry none of the legal protection that covers a doctor, a lawyer or a therapist, and on a work account an administrator can usually read them outright. Here is who has access to what.

The FBI’s new alert describes a phishing attack that never asks for your password. You approve a permission screen on a real Microsoft or Google page, and the attacker keeps reading your mail afterward. Resetting your password does nothing. Here is the setting that actually cuts them off.

A Taiwanese man opened his robot vacuum’s app to talk to his wife, found a live camera feed and another man, and hit record. The footage won him NT$500,000 in civil damages and a five month sentence for unlawful recording. Most robot vacuum owners have never checked who can still log in.

Brave 1.94 on desktop adds Email Aliases, disposable addresses you can generate inside any signup form. Five are free, mobile is coming, and a paid tier is planned. Here is what it actually fixes and what it does not.

Anthropic started contacting Claude users on August 30 after infostealer malware on their own computers lifted active login sessions. Because the attackers replay session cookies, two factor authentication never gets a chance to fire.

Simon Weckert’s Digital Camouflage shirt genuinely stops YOLO object detectors from registering that a person is there. The pattern is not decoration, it is math. Here is what it beats, and the much longer list of what it does not.

Sponsored listings are now live in Apple Maps across the US and Canada, and there is no toggle to remove them. The Personalized Ads switch in Settings does nothing here, and the one setting that does work breaks the app.

Instinct’s AI assistant sent an email without approval and kept summarizing an inbox after access was revoked. Days later, investors valued it at $2.5 billion.

A blank grey icon called Android Pulse appeared in Play Store updates last weekend, and it turned out to have been running on phones since March. Here is what Google’s hidden system service actually does, what the data safety listing declares, and why the reaction was harsher than the app deserved.

Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley blames faulty SIM cards for cameras that were viewable on the open internet, and says 0.05 percent were affected. Researchers found 67 live feeds with no password at all. The two explanations do not quite line up.