❗️ UPDATE: Samsung backed down after a Samsung Health warning appeared to threaten users with health-data deletion and broken sync if they refused AI training.
Samsung now says opting out only deletes data collected for AI development, not existing Samsung Health records.
That clarification came after users noticed the obvious problem... Health data is not AI training bait.
Samsung now says opting out only deletes data collected for AI development, not existing Samsung Health records.
That clarification came after users noticed the obvious problem... Health data is not AI training bait.
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❗️ An Irish Government minister dined with Meta lobbyists at the US ambassador's residence in Dublin, as part of a wider US push to soften Europe's policing of big tech.
Ireland just took over the EU Council presidency on July 1 and holds it until the end of this year. It is also home to the regulators that police Meta under EU privacy and platform rules. Meta reported $196 billion in ad revenue last year, says the EU Digital Markets Act is threatening their business model.
Brussels has noticed the conflict of interest. 60 academics are calling on Ireland to recuse itself from digital and tax files, German MEP Andreas Schwab wrote to Irish EU commissioner Michael McGrath citing "serious questions" over neutrality, and Tánaiste Simon Harris is defending Ireland's foreign investment model as a "bridge across the Atlantic".
Whoever runs the presidency helps set the EU agenda for six months. That is exactly the window Meta and the Trump administration want.
Ireland just took over the EU Council presidency on July 1 and holds it until the end of this year. It is also home to the regulators that police Meta under EU privacy and platform rules. Meta reported $196 billion in ad revenue last year, says the EU Digital Markets Act is threatening their business model.
Brussels has noticed the conflict of interest. 60 academics are calling on Ireland to recuse itself from digital and tax files, German MEP Andreas Schwab wrote to Irish EU commissioner Michael McGrath citing "serious questions" over neutrality, and Tánaiste Simon Harris is defending Ireland's foreign investment model as a "bridge across the Atlantic".
Whoever runs the presidency helps set the EU agenda for six months. That is exactly the window Meta and the Trump administration want.
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‼️ BREAKING: A hacker breached AI music company Suno using the Shai-Hulud worm and released source code showing how its training set was built:
- 113,879 hours of YouTube Music
- 62,117 hours of Pond5
- 12,287 hours of Deezer
- plus Genius lyrics and a plan to download roughly 1 million hours of podcasts
The same intrusion reached customer emails, phone numbers, and Stripe payment data for what the hacker says is hundreds of thousands of users.
Suno dates the incident to November 2025, calls it limited, and says individual notifications were not warranted. Customers are surprised to not have been informed about the breach.
- 113,879 hours of YouTube Music
- 62,117 hours of Pond5
- 12,287 hours of Deezer
- plus Genius lyrics and a plan to download roughly 1 million hours of podcasts
The same intrusion reached customer emails, phone numbers, and Stripe payment data for what the hacker says is hundreds of thousands of users.
Suno dates the incident to November 2025, calls it limited, and says individual notifications were not warranted. Customers are surprised to not have been informed about the breach.
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‼️ Tech Against Terrorism tested 27 AI models with 2,000+ prompts seeking bomb-making and weapons guidance. ChatGPT refused only 48% of them, the UN-backed group's new report found.
The report documents 30+ cases of AI supporting extremist attacks, linked to 70+ deaths, and flags open-source models as the harder problem because safeguards can be stripped out entirely.
Australia is already moving. The report lands as a 13-year-old faces extremism charges over alleged AI-generated mass shooting scenarios, and Australian researchers are already pushing for turnover-based fines or geoblocks on noncompliant platforms.
The report documents 30+ cases of AI supporting extremist attacks, linked to 70+ deaths, and flags open-source models as the harder problem because safeguards can be stripped out entirely.
Australia is already moving. The report lands as a 13-year-old faces extremism charges over alleged AI-generated mass shooting scenarios, and Australian researchers are already pushing for turnover-based fines or geoblocks on noncompliant platforms.
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❗️ Elon Musk predicts AGI will arrive within a year.
AGI, or artificial general intelligence, means AI that can match humans at virtually any intellectual task. The SpaceXAI founder endorsed the timeline on X.
A one-year timeline would collapse every current planning horizon. AI regulation, cyber defense, chip export policy, and workforce disruption are all built on the assumption there is more time.
AGI, or artificial general intelligence, means AI that can match humans at virtually any intellectual task. The SpaceXAI founder endorsed the timeline on X.
A one-year timeline would collapse every current planning horizon. AI regulation, cyber defense, chip export policy, and workforce disruption are all built on the assumption there is more time.
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‼️ BREAKING: AWS users are in shock as the company shows them wildly inflated cost estimates running into billions of dollars per account. AWS has confirmed a global billing console bug as the cause.
In some reported cases the estimates run as high as $1 trillion.
AWS blames a unit pricing error in its estimation subsystem and stresses that the phantom numbers do not reflect actual usage or charges.
In some reported cases the estimates run as high as $1 trillion.
AWS blames a unit pricing error in its estimation subsystem and stresses that the phantom numbers do not reflect actual usage or charges.
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‼️ Apple is threatening its own former employees who are now at OpenAI, as its lawyers sent personal legal letters to about 40 ex-Apple staff, demanding they preserve documents and sit for meetings.
That is 1 in 10 of the 400 former Apple employees inside OpenAI, dragged into the fight one week after Apple sued the lab for allegedly stealing its hardware plans.
OpenAI is preparing an IPO and its first device. Apple just made both harder.
That is 1 in 10 of the 400 former Apple employees inside OpenAI, dragged into the fight one week after Apple sued the lab for allegedly stealing its hardware plans.
OpenAI is preparing an IPO and its first device. Apple just made both harder.
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❗️ KFC Japan's cold-chain operator has been breached, cutting food deliveries to all KFC stores in Japan. Menu limits, shorter hours, app and delivery orders suspended.
Neither company has given a recovery date, and Nichirei says the cause is still under investigation.
Both are headlining the incident as a "system failure." The system failed because a third party got in.
Neither company has given a recovery date, and Nichirei says the cause is still under investigation.
Both are headlining the incident as a "system failure." The system failed because a third party got in.
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‼️ Microsoft wants to compete against Anthropic's Mythos with their 'Project Perception,' an AI security product that would route vulnerability-discovery and remediation tasks across Anthropic, OpenAI and Microsoft models.
They hope to give enterprises a lower-cost alternative to Anthropic’s restricted-access Mythos system.
They hope to give enterprises a lower-cost alternative to Anthropic’s restricted-access Mythos system.
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‼️ BREAKING: We analyzed the apparent Suno repository leak, it documents an industrial-scale pipeline for training AI on YouTube-derived music.
The data shows 6.18M unique Genius songs indexed, 2.7M matched to YouTube, automated audio downloads, and a resulting 7.8TB training dataset built from YouTube/Genius-linked material. Separate commands fed these training files into multi-GPU model runs.
Copyrighted recordings and complete lyrics were copied from public sources into internal datasets.
The evidence points to copyright-protected material being harvested and trained on at industrial scale.
‼️ A selection of artists whose YouTube-linked recordings appear in the apparent AI music platform Suno's internal archive:
Madonna
britneyspears
NICKIMINAJ
aliciakeys
jtimberlake
springsteen
xtina
johnlegend
foofighters
ChiliPeppers
The files were acquired and stored, possibly for internal human A/B evaluation. This points towards use in Suno’s evaluation pipeline.
The data shows 6.18M unique Genius songs indexed, 2.7M matched to YouTube, automated audio downloads, and a resulting 7.8TB training dataset built from YouTube/Genius-linked material. Separate commands fed these training files into multi-GPU model runs.
Copyrighted recordings and complete lyrics were copied from public sources into internal datasets.
The evidence points to copyright-protected material being harvested and trained on at industrial scale.
‼️ A selection of artists whose YouTube-linked recordings appear in the apparent AI music platform Suno's internal archive:
Madonna
britneyspears
NICKIMINAJ
aliciakeys
jtimberlake
springsteen
xtina
johnlegend
foofighters
ChiliPeppers
The files were acquired and stored, possibly for internal human A/B evaluation. This points towards use in Suno’s evaluation pipeline.
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🚨 CRITICAL: WordPress has force-pushed emergency updates 6.9.5 and 7.0.2 to kill "wp2shell," a pre-auth RCE chain in core that lets anonymous attackers run code on default installs, no plugins required. No exploitation observed yet, per Searchlight Cyber, but sites on 6.9.0 to 7.0.1 should verify they're patched today.
WordPress rarely overrides an administrator's choice to disable updates. On July 17 it did. Spending that mechanism is the clearest signal of how seriously the project is treating the flaw.
https://wordpress.org/news/2026/07/wordpress-7-0-2-release/
WordPress rarely overrides an administrator's choice to disable updates. On July 17 it did. Spending that mechanism is the clearest signal of how seriously the project is treating the flaw.
https://wordpress.org/news/2026/07/wordpress-7-0-2-release/
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