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With basic tech and little human oversight, Chinese spies apparently exploited Anthropic’s Claude Code.A state-backed threat group, likely Chinese, crossed a threshold in September that cybersecurity experts have warned about for years. According to a report by Anthropic, attackers manipulated its AI system, Claude Code, to conduct what appears to be the first large-scale espionage operation executed primarily by artificial intelligence. The report states “with high confidence” that China was behind the attack. AI carried out 80% to 90% of the tactical operations independently, from reconnaissance to data extraction. This espionage campaign targeted roughly 30 entities across the U.S. and...

Nov. 20 (UPI) -- An AI-powered talking teddy bear has been removed from sale by a Singapore-based company after researchers found it could discuss sex and other topics. The Public Interest Research Group said a group of researchers from the U.S. and Canada held test conversations with Kumma, a $99 teddy bear powered by OpenAI's GPT-4o chatbot. The bear is manufactured in China and marketed by Singapore-based FoloToy. The researchers said they found it easy to get Kumma to discuss sexually explicit topics, including spanking, roleplay and BDSM. "We were surprised to find how quickly Kumma would take a single...

Sex trafficking on Meta platforms was both difficult to report and widely tolerated, according to a court filing unsealed Friday. In a plaintiffs’ brief filed as part of a major lawsuit against four social media companies, Instagram’s former head of safety and well-being Vaishnavi Jayakumar testified that when she joined Meta in 2020 she was shocked to learn that the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that reportedly engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.” “You could incur 16 violations for prostitution and sexual solicitation, and upon the 17th violation, your account would be suspended,” Jayakumar reportedly...

"At some point, the lady who was seated, the 70-year-old woman, asked the woman who was standing if she could give her some space, that sparked an argument," said Carey Codd, Broward Sheriff's Office spokesperson. That argument then began to escalate, with officials saying the attacker intentionally and forcefully pushed her own body into the victim several times.

US states including Wisconsin (AB105/SB130) and Michigan are pushing to ban VPNs as part of age verification laws that compromise digital privacy for everyone. This video explains why these bills are technically impossible to implement, threaten journalists and abuse survivors who rely on VPNs, and mirror censorship tactics. America's First VPN Ban: What Comes Next? | 11:34 Techlore | 278K subscribers | 162,920 views | November 18, 2025

It is a time of superlatives in the tech industry, with historic profits, stock prices and deal prices. It’s enough to make some people very nervous.It would not be a stretch to describe this period of hyperactive growth in the tech industry as a historic moment.Nvidia, which makes computer chips that are essential to building artificial intelligence, said on Wednesday that its quarterly profit jumped to nearly $32 billion, up 65 percent from a year ago and 245 percent from the year before that.Just three weeks ago, Nvidia became the first publicly traded company to be worth $5 trillion. Microsoft,...

President Donald Trump is preparing an executive order that would sharply limit state authority over artificial intelligence (AI). The draft, reported by The Verge, casts AI innovation as a national-security priority and warns that state rules threaten economic growth and technological leadership. Yet the plan likely violates the 10th Amendment, which reserves core regulatory and police powers to the states. It also outlines an unusually aggressive federal campaign to preempt and override state laws.Trump previewed the move in a post on Truth Social on Tuesday:Investment in AI is helping to make the U.S. Economy the “HOTTEST” in the World, but...

Microsoft released a new insider preview build to the developer and beta channels of Windows 11. The new build 26220.7262 introduces several new features and changes, including a new "experimental agentic features" toggle in the Settings. If you recall, Microsoft announced this month that it is turning Windows into an agentic operating system. The post, by Windows-chief Pavan Davuluri on X, faced heavy criticism. To the point that Davuluri limited the commenting ability. The new AI component setting in the development edition of Windows 11 is a major step towards that goal. First, the good news. Microsoft is shipping the...

Key Points * Google announced the latest model of its AI image generation and editing tool, Nano Banana Pro. * The Nano Banana Pro is built on Google’s Gemini 3 Pro, which launched two days prior. * The original Nano Banana rolled out in August and went viral in a social media trend that turned selfies into 3D figurines. ================================================================= Google on Thursday rolled out Nano Banana Pro, its latest image editing and generation tool, continuing the company’s momentum after launching its new Gemini artificial intelligence model earlier this week. The product is built on Gemini 3 Pro, which was...

We’ve all been there. Your screen goes black, but you can still hear the audio. You’re trying to move the cursor on your phone, but your thumb’s too big to land in the right spot. Or your Android suddenly turns into a sluggish mess, and you’re ready to throw your $1,000 phone out the window. Pause. Breathe. There’s a secret power-user layer baked into your gadgets that most folks never see. These aren’t your run-of-the-mill tips. These are the hidden handshakes, the ones you can drop to sound like the family tech wizard. 📱 Thumb-believable phone secrets iPhone user? Stop...

A Colorado consumer advocacy group says some of the newest toys on shelves this holiday season are equipped with artificial intelligence, and they may not be good for kids. These robots, and even teddy bears, are equipped with AI chatbots that can talk to your child. In tests, some of the toys could tell kids how to find and light matches or even discuss inappropriate topics. In its annual "Trouble in Toyland" report, U.S. PIRG said, "In our testing, it was obvious that some toy companies are putting in guardrails to make their toys behave in a more kid-appropriate way...

A New Jersey police sergeant and former Democratic mayor is facing multiple charges after he allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted a child he met online, according to the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office. Jersey City police Sgt. Andrew LaBruno, 44, was arrested Monday and charged with aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said in a statement. The alleged assault occurred earlier that day at a home in Englewood, New Jersey, authorities said. Investigators allege LaBruno contacted a juvenile on a social media app, arranged a meeting and went to the...

Musk also said that Optimus would change life for incarcerated people at the meeting. Instead of physically jailing prisoners, Optimus could "follow you around and stop you from doing crime," he said.

Nvidia, the world's biggest company, has revealed its sales are soaring — delivering a thunderous boost to the US economy, Wall Street and Americans' retirement savings. The chipmaker, which has been the engine of the AI boom and a key driver of the market's rally, delivered another blockbuster quarter that reassured investors the tech revolution is going nowhere. 'There's been a lot of talk about an AI bubble,' CEO Jensen Huang said on Wednesday. 'We see something very different.' The company reported $57billion in sales, smashing analyst forecasts of $54.9 billion. Profit hit $31.9billion for the past three months, up...

It’s not just OpenAI that looks overhyped. There’s a whole mountain of sketchy financial engineering underneath. One thing I’ve been tracking this year is the areas where Wall Street and Silicon Valley are going to war. Tech firms clearly want to become banking apps and receive special charters, private equity and crypto are jostling for position in worker 401(k) plans, and the tech right in general wants to supplant big banks as the go-to director of conservative business policy.That’s all still going on. But in one area, Silicon Valley and Wall Street are in sync: conjuring up sketchy credit...

Google's ultra-private CEO Sundar Pichai is showing me around Googleplex, its California headquarters. A walkway runs along the length of it, passing by a giant dinosaur skeleton, a beach volleyball pitch and dozens of Googlers lunching under the hazy November sun. But it's a laboratory, hidden away at the back of the campus behind some trees, that he is most excited to show me.This is where the invention that Google believes is its secret weapon is being developed.Known as a Tensor Processing Unit (or TPU), it looks like an unassuming little chip but, says Mr Pichai, it will one day...

There is nothing finer than to sit back on Thanksgiving morning and turn on the TV to watch a huge heaping of Mystery Science Theater 3000 as the turkey sits in the oven. This is a tradition that started back in 1991 on Comedy Central. Now the celebration of cheesy movies and celluloid turkeys will be available on various digital platforms including the MST3K FAST channel that’s free on various services including PlutoTV and Tubi. This year is special since movies from The Return and The Gauntlet that ran on Netflix will be part of the FAST Channel. There’s enjoy...

Bitcoin has lost almost a quarter of its value. The tech-heavy NASDAQ index on Wall Street has started to fall. And even leaders of the industry, such as the Google CEO Sundar Pichai, have started to warn about valuations getting out of control. We already knew that AI was driving a boom in investment. But this week there are worrying signs the market is about to crack. The only real question is whether that turns into a full scale crash. Bitcoin, as so often, is leading the market rout. More than $1 trillion has been wiped off the value of...

For most brides, their wedding day entails an exchange of vows standing next to their partner. But for one 32-year-old Japanese office worker, her groom existed only within her smartphone. Ms Kano recently wed an artificial intelligence (AI) persona named Klaus – a digital companion she created using the AI app ChatGPT, according to a Nov 8 report by Japan’s RSK Sanyo Broadcasting. Ms Kano recently wed an artificial intelligence (AI) persona named Klaus – a digital companion she created using the AI app ChatGPT. PHOTOS: SCREENGRAB FROM RSK SANYO BROADCASTING The unconventional union, which was not legally recognised, took...

You’ve probably seen the discourse — the doom-scrolling debates about whether AI has made programming obsolete. The “vibe coding” trend where people spin up apps in an evening with AI assistance has everyone from tech bros to your aunt asking: Do we even need to learn programming languages anymore? At Codecademy, we’ve been on our soapbox saying that AI won’t kill programming since ChatGPT burst on the scene in 2022. Even with sophisticated AI assistants and the best vibes, understanding code is how you direct AI tools, validate their output, and shape the systems that matter in your field. Which...