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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Someone Boarded a Plane at Heathrow Without a Ticket or Passport
December 19 2025I’m sure there’s a story here: Sources say the man had tailgated his way through to security screening and passed security, meaning he was not detected carrying any banned items. The...
Read moreDeliberate Internet Shutdowns
December 17 2025For two days in September, Afghanistan had no internet. No satellite failed; no cable was cut. This was a deliberate outage, mandated by the Taliban government. It...
Read moreChinese Surveillance and AI
December 16 2025New report: “The Party’s AI: How China’s New AI Systems are Reshaping Human Rights.” From a summary article:
China is already the world’s largest exporter of AI powered...
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Against the Federal Moratorium on State-Level Regulation of AI
December 15 2025Cast your mind back to May of this year: Congress was in the throes of debate over the massive budget bill. Amidst the many seismic provisions, Senator Ted...
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