LinkedIn Job Scams
December 31 2025Interesting article on the variety of LinkedIn job scams around the world:
In India, tech jobs are used as bait because the industry employs millions of people and offers...
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Using AI-Generated Images to Get Refunds
December 30 2025Scammers are generating images of broken merchandise in order to apply for refunds.
Read moreAre We Ready to Be Governed by Artificial Intelligence?
December 29 2025Artificial Intelligence (AI) overlords are a common trope in science-fiction dystopias, but the reality looks much more prosaic. The technologies of artificial intelligence are already pervading many aspects...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Squid Camouflage
December 27 2025New research:
Abstract: Coleoid cephalopods have the most elaborate camouflage system in the animal kingdom. This enables them to hide from or deceive both predators and prey. Most studies...
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Urban VPN Proxy Surreptitiously Intercepts AI Chats
December 24 2025This is pretty scary:
Urban VPN Proxy targets conversations across ten AI platforms: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Grok (xAI), Meta AI.
For each platform, the extension includes...
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Denmark Accuses Russia of Conducting Two Cyberattacks
December 23 2025News: The Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DDIS) announced on Thursday that Moscow was behind a cyber-attack on a Danish water utility in 2024 and a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)...
Read moreMicrosoft Is Finally Killing RC4
December 23 2025After twenty-six years, Microsoft is finally upgrading the last remaining instance of the encryption algorithm RC4 in Windows.
of the most visible holdouts in supporting RC4 has been Microsoft....
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Friday Squid Blogging: Petting a Squid
December 20 2025Video from Reddit shows what could go wrong when you try to pet a—looks like a Humboldt—squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the...
Read moreAI Advertising Company Hacked
December 19 2025At least some of this is coming to light:
Doublespeed, a startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) that uses a phone farm to manage at least hundreds of AI-generated...
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