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Digital car keys are getting more sophisticated
2+ hour, 9+ min ago (294+ words) Need to lend your neighbor your car? The newest version of the digital key specification allows vehicle owners to text a copy of the key to other people. Last month, over a dozen automobile and smartphone manufacturers gathered in Palo…...
Substack data breach exposed users’ emails and phone numbers
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (189+ words) Substack is notifying some users that the email addresses and phone numbers linked to their accounts were exposed in a "security incident" last year. In an email to account holders, Substack CEO Chris Best said that a hacker had accessed…...
OpenClaw’s AI ‘skill’ extensions are a security nightmare
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (233+ words) Security researchers found hundreds of malicious add-ons on ClawHub. OpenClaw, the AI agent that has exploded in popularity over the past week, is raising new security concerns after researchers uncovered malware in hundreds of user-submitted "skill" add-ons on its marketplace....
Google Cloud’s customer chief returns to Microsoft as head of security
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (244+ words) Hayete Gallot previously spent nearly 16 years at Microsoft in senior leadership roles across engineering and sales. Microsoft has a new head of security. Hayete Gallot, who left Microsoft in October 2024 to become the president of Google Cloud's customer experience, is…...
OpenAI poached its new safety executive from Anthropic.
4+ day, 17+ hour ago (181+ words) OpenAI's new "head of preparedness," Dylan Scandinaro, came from an AGI safety role at the company's chief competitor. "AI is advancing rapidly," he wrote in a post on X. "The potential benefits are great'and so are the risks of extreme and…...
Humans are infiltrating the social network for AI bots
5+ day, 53+ min ago (397+ words) Things got even weirder on Moltbook, the viral Reddit-style platform, over the weekend. Ordinary social networks face a constant onslaught of chatbots pretending to be human. A new social platform for AI agents may face the opposite problem: getting clogged…...
Notepad++ updates got hijacked for months and could have spied for China
5+ day, 18+ hour ago (756+ words) Users of the text and code editor Notepad++ may have unknowingly downloaded a malicious update for the app after its shared hosting servers were hijacked last year. On Monday, the app's developer, Don Ho, posted an update on the attack…...
OpenClaw: all the news about the trending AI agent
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (280+ words) An open-source AI agent called OpenClaw (formerly known as both Clawdbot and Moltbot) that runs on your own computer and "actually does things" is taking off inside tech circles. Users interact with OpenClaw via messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal,…...
Microsoft is working to rebuild trust in Windows
1+ week, 2+ day ago (221+ words) Engineers are now focusing on performance, reliability, and the overall Windows experience. Windows is at breaking point, and Microsoft knows it. Sources familiar with the company's plans tell me Windows engineers are now focusing on fixing the core issues of…...
Windows 11 has reached 1 billion users faster than Windows 10
1+ week, 3+ day ago (202+ words) Windows 11 hit the milestone in the recent holiday quarter. Windows 11 now has 1 billion users. Microsoft hit the milestone during the recent holiday quarter, meaning Windows 11 has managed to reach 1 billion users faster than Windows 10 did nearly six years ago. "Windows…...