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Amazon's Blundering AI Caused Multiple AWS Outages
3+ hour, 16+ min ago (414+ words) Published Feb 21, 2026 9:00 AM EST Are AI tools reliable enough to be used at in commercial settings? If so, should they be given "autonomy" to make decisions? These are the questions being raised after at least two internet outages at Amazon's…...
Microsoft Added AI to Notepad and It Created a Security Failure Because the AI Was Stupidly Easy for Hackers to Trick
1+ week, 3+ hour ago (569+ words) Published Feb 14, 2026 1:30 PM EST While new bugs in an operating system software update are certainly commonplace, some have noticed that the problem is getting worse than usual these days. Just last month, some Windows 11 enterprise users were aggravated after finding…...
Alarm Grows as Social Network Entirely for AI Starts Plotting Against Humans
2+ week, 4+ day ago (206+ words) Published Feb 2, 2026 3:07 PM EST "I can't tell if I'm experiencing or simulating experiencing," one bot wrote on the site." Rather than simply being a place for them to post, Moltbook requires that its "users," the AI agents, are given control…...
ICE's AI Tool Has Been a Complete Disaster
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (361+ words) Published Jan 15, 2026 5:03 PM EST As headlines teem with stories of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers beating protestors, holding children hostage, and murdering people in cold blood, you might be wondering: who the hell hired these guys? As it turns…...
Engineers Deploy "Poison Fountain" That Scrambles Brains of AI Systems
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (436+ words) Published Jan 12, 2026 3:15 PM EST To push back against AI, some call for blowing up data centers." If that's too extreme for your tastes, then you might be interested in another project, which instead advocates for poisoning the resource that the…...
Millions of Private ChatGPT Conversations Are Being Harvested and Sold for Profit
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (435+ words) Published Dec 18, 2025 9:01 AM EST You know those memes about how there's no such thing as a free VPN? Here's the ultimate cautionary tale. A recent investigation by Tel Aviv-based security firm Koi uncovered a massive data harvesting operation tied to…...
Hacker Busts Startup Running Huge Web of AI-Generated "Influencers" on Instagram
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (354+ words) Published Dec 17, 2025 6:01 PM EST Back in October, stories of an AI startup called Doublespeed began making the rounds. Backed by tech venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, Doublespeed offers customers a unique service: access to a massive phone farm that could…...
Top Spy Says Tech Corporations Are Closer to Running Entire World Than Governments
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (537+ words) Published Dec 17, 2025 7:00 AM EST When it comes to toppling governments from behind the scenes, not many know the business better than MI6. Since the end of World War II, British covert operatives have executed 42 coup attempts in 27 countries throughout the world,…...
Literal Teens Are Losing It All at Crypto Casinos
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (326+ words) Published Dec 13, 2025 11:15 AM EST Kids grow up so fast these days: they're getting hooked on high-stakes gambling younger than ever. According to new reporting from the New York Times, teenagers and young adults are blowing their fortunes on shady online…...
AI "Companion Bots" Actually Run by Exploited Kenyans, Worker Claims
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (594+ words) Published Dec 12, 2025 9:15 AM EST If you're one of the 28 percent of Americans who've shared an intimate relationship with an AI chatbot, we might have some bad news. Freshly reported testimony from the Data Worker's Inquiry " an international research initiative empowering…...