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AI is increasingly being used in hacking, with cybercriminals using AI to enhance their capabilities and cybersecurity firms using it to find vulnerabilities (www.nbcnews.com)
4 days ago AI

Tea says hackers accessed a database from more than two years ago, leaking 72,000 images, including 13,000 verification photos and images of government IDs (www.nbcnews.com)
27 days ago Database

A look at Tea, a woman-only safety app with 4M users that lets users anonymously assign red or green flags to local men, as it goes viral with 900K new signups (www.nbcnews.com)
27 days ago

After Musk said Grok was improved “significantly”, Grok wrote numerous antisemitic posts, sometimes without any clear prompting; some posts were later deleted (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-7-9

The Iranian government says it has restricted internet access in response to Israeli cyberattacks; some Western communication apps have reportedly been blocked (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-6-18 Israel Iran

In a memo to employees, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says AI “will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains” over time (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-6-18 Amazon AI

Analysis: Community Notes submissions on X fell from a high of 120,000 in January to fewer than 60,000 in May; Musk now rarely mentions the feature (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-6-7

Texas is set to enact one of the strictest bans on social media for minors, with age verification requirements and letting parents request account deletions (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-5-25 Texas

Nansen: the 220 winners of Trump's May 22 dinner contest spent $394M total on the $TRUMP token, with the top seven spending $10M+ each and a third $1M+ each (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-5-22 Trump

Matthew Lane, a 19-year-old from Massachusetts, pleads guilty to hacking two US companies and extorting them for ransoms; source: one of them is PowerSchool (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-5-21

An Arizona man was sentenced to 10.5 years in prison after his deceased victim gave an impact statement to the court via an AI-generated video (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-5-9 AI

The FBI says cybercriminals and online scammers stole a record $16.6B in 2024, up from $12.5B in 2023; over 60s lost $4.8B, including $1.8B via investment scams (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-4-24 FBI

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. praises cell phone restrictions in schools, saying their electromagnetic radiation causes neurological and cellular damage (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-3-23

Lyft says it plans to roll out robotaxis in partnership with May Mobility in Atlanta, starting summer 2025 (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-3-22

Consumer Reports: many voice cloning programs, including ElevenLabs, Speechify, PlayHT, and Lovo, have flimsy barriers to prevent nonconsensual impersonations (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-3-11

Memoir: ex-Facebook employee Sarah Wynn-Williams, who was fired in 2017, says Joel Kaplan sexually harassed her, among other claims; Meta cleared Kaplan in 2017 (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-3-10 Facebook

Sources: the Elon Musk-directed OPM email asking federal staff about recent work requested no links or attachments as part of a plan to feed responses into AI (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-2-25 AI Elon Musk

Shopify says Ye's store, which began selling swastika shirts before a Super Bowl ad boosted traffic to the site, was shuttered because it violated Shopify's ToS (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-2-12 Shopify

The US OPM plans to make each government agency's chief information officer a political appointee who can be fired at will, helping Trump exert more control (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-2-5 Trump

Moderators for 50+ subreddits announce bans of X links in new posts and comments, with several citing Elon Musk's recent gesture that many saw as a Nazi salute (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-1-23 Elon Musk

ByteDance's TikTok and CapCut suspend service in the US, telling users “Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok” (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-1-19 Trump

Trump says he will “most likely” give TikTok a 90-day reprieve after he takes office on Monday “because it's appropriate” (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-1-19 Trump

Some congressional leaders who championed the TikTok law now want to delay the ban from going into effect, showing how much politics has shifted on the issue (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-1-18 Ban

An official says the Biden administration is “exploring options” to implement the law without causing TikTok to go dark for US users on January 19 (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-1-16

Zuckerberg says Meta will restore “free expression” on its platforms, including by replacing its fact-checking program with Community Notes, starting in the US (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-1-7 Zuckerberg

The US Treasury sanctions Iranian and Russian entities over attempted election interference, including a Moscow entity that directed the creation of deepfakes (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-1-1 Russia Iran

Source: Trump meets with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew at Mar-a-Lago, the same day that the company asks the Supreme Court to block the law that could ban the app (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-12-17 Trump Ban

ByteDance asks SCOTUS to block the law that could ban TikTok on Jan. 19; Trump said today he has a “warm spot” in his heart for TikTok, when asked about the law (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-12-17 Trump Ban

In the wake of Salt Typhoon, US officials recommend Americans use encrypted messaging apps to ensure their communications stay hidden from foreign hackers (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-12-4 U.S.

How Indigenous engineers are using AI to preserve Native American languages, building speech recognition models for over 200 endangered Indigenous languages (www.nbcnews.com)
2024-12-2 U.S. AI

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