Big Tech bent the knee for Trump in 2025

Sure, we've seen millions poured into lobbying and other means of influence during every presidency, but the last two years set a whole new bar. Business leaders, including those from almost ever [...]

Meta's AI support agent bound recovery emails for anyone who asked. Your SOC never saw an alert.

Meta's AI support agent bound recovery emails to accounts for whoever asked, and SOCs never saw an alert. An authorized agent writes a log of legitimate transactions, so nothing in the detection [...]

How Murderbot’s Chris and Paul Weitz adapted All Systems Red for TV

For Paul and Chris Weirtz, Murderbot — the upcoming TV adaptation of Martha Wells' sci-fi novella All Systems Red — was an experiment: Can you have a hero who tries to do nothing?<br /> [...]

YouTube may reinstate channels banned for spreading covid and election misinformation

Channels once banned by YouTube for spreading false information regarding the COVID-19 pandemic or the 2020 election may soon have the opportunity to get their channels back, in a decision transparent [...]

Google’s SynthID watermark just debunked its first high-profile deepfake: a hoax image of Mitch McConnell

Google’s SynthID watermarking system scored its first high-profile real-world win this week after Snopes used it to debunk an AI-generated image of Senator Mitch McConnell that had gone viral on Red [...]

Microsoft patched a Copilot Studio prompt injection. The data exfiltrated anyway.

Microsoft assigned CVE-2026-21520, a CVSS 7.5 indirect prompt injection vulnerability, to Copilot Studio. Capsule Security discovered the flaw, coordinated disclosure with Microsoft, and the patch was [...]

Google's election AI Overviews are opaque, rely on few sources, and sometimes take sides

Using access granted under the EU's Digital Services Act, the German advocacy group AlgorithmWatch ran 4,480 election-related search queries on Google and analyzed the AI Overviews that came back [...]

What will happen to TikTok? A look at the potential buyers.

TikTok may be back online, but the app’s future in the United States is still far from certain. President Donald Trump’s executive order delaying enforcement of the ban was only a temporary reprie [...]

Anthropic calls Pentagon's supply chain risk label illegal and vows to challenge it in court

Anthropic is pushing back against the Pentagon. The AI company says it will go to court after being classified as a supply chain risk, a designation normally reserved for foreign adversaries, because [...]