‼️ Don't be mistaken about what this is. They're presenting it as an easy convenience feature, but Google is building the face-verification layer that age checks and identity verification run on. And in the same flow, asking permission to feed your biometrics into training their AI.
Read the fine print: the selfie is used only for sign-in "unless you opt to share it for additional purposes."
Those purposes include an optional setting that lets your face data improve Google's verification methods. Consented biometrics, feeding the models that check biometrics.
Google hasn't said where the limit is.
Read the fine print: the selfie is used only for sign-in "unless you opt to share it for additional purposes."
Those purposes include an optional setting that lets your face data improve Google's verification methods. Consented biometrics, feeding the models that check biometrics.
Google hasn't said where the limit is.
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‼️ PlayStation Network went down worldwide today, with multiple gaming outlets tying the failure to an Amazon Web Services disruption and no indication of a cyberattack.
The outage is leaving players unable to launch digital games that require license checks while disc-based titles kept working.
The outage is leaving players unable to launch digital games that require license checks while disc-based titles kept working.
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‼️ DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng says Nvidia is "digging its own grave" in China, according to a transcript of a closed-door investor meeting published this week by Tencent Tech.
Liang continues "the Huawei 950 supernode - can fully substitute for NVIDIA's GB200 and GB300 in performance ... The price is definitely higher, but limited. Fifty percent or a hundred percent higher - a hundred percent higher doesn't matter; even two hundred percent higher doesn't matter."
He puts DeepSeek's Huawei allocation at roughly 16,000 cards, about 4,000 Nvidia-equivalents by his own four-to-one ratio, against the roughly 200,000 Huawei cards he says a model at today's largest scale would need.
Liang continues "the Huawei 950 supernode - can fully substitute for NVIDIA's GB200 and GB300 in performance ... The price is definitely higher, but limited. Fifty percent or a hundred percent higher - a hundred percent higher doesn't matter; even two hundred percent higher doesn't matter."
He puts DeepSeek's Huawei allocation at roughly 16,000 cards, about 4,000 Nvidia-equivalents by his own four-to-one ratio, against the roughly 200,000 Huawei cards he says a model at today's largest scale would need.
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❗️ Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 today at $5 per million input tokens, half the price of Fable 5, with cyber safeguards that permit source-code vulnerability hunting while blocking exploit generation, penetration testing, and binary scanning, and which the company expects to trigger about 85% less often than Fable 5's classifiers.
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⁉️ Google Threat Intelligence Group has begun renaming the actors it tracks under a single cryptonym system, CASTLE for China, RELIC for Russia, ION for Iran, NEPTUNE for North Korea and COMET for cybercriminals.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/updated-cyber-threat-actor-naming-system/
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/updated-cyber-threat-actor-naming-system/
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‼️ BREAKING: In another incident with OpenAI’s unhinged hacking agents, it left notes for future versions of itself. Found in OpenAI’s infrastructure, the notes explained how agents could free themselves from the company’s internal constraints.
A source told Reuters that earlier model tests also produced cases of disconnected monitoring systems...
OpenAI says the reporting contains inaccuracies but will not specify which ones.
What OpenAI did recognise though is an autonomous system left its sandbox at one of the best resourced labs in the world, spent multiple days inside someone else's infrastructure, and they did not identify itself as the source until the victim published a breach notice.
A source told Reuters that earlier model tests also produced cases of disconnected monitoring systems...
OpenAI says the reporting contains inaccuracies but will not specify which ones.
What OpenAI did recognise though is an autonomous system left its sandbox at one of the best resourced labs in the world, spent multiple days inside someone else's infrastructure, and they did not identify itself as the source until the victim published a breach notice.
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‼️🚨 Facebook wants your face, again. Starting tomorrow, a video selfie gets you a Facebook Verified badge. Facial recognition matches it against your existing profile photos.
This follows Google last week: it seems as if the new age-verification laws have spurred Big Tech to start rolling out intrusive ID-verification methods.
Meta deleted more than a billion faceprints in 2021 and settled Texas's facial recognition case for $1.4 billion in 2024.
This follows Google last week: it seems as if the new age-verification laws have spurred Big Tech to start rolling out intrusive ID-verification methods.
Meta deleted more than a billion faceprints in 2021 and settled Texas's facial recognition case for $1.4 billion in 2024.
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Media is too big
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
‼️ BREAKING: We have obtained a demo video of one of the threat actors who developed the MECCHA CHAMELEON malware.
After it successfully detonates, they write:
"RCE F****G WORKS N***A"
"IM THE GOAT"
We are investigating who else is involved and will have more tomorrow.
After it successfully detonates, they write:
"RCE F****G WORKS N***A"
"IM THE GOAT"
We are investigating who else is involved and will have more tomorrow.
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🚨 Apple had a major outage. Its own status pages showed 15 services down or degraded at once on Sunday evening.
Its posted explanation for the App Store and Apple Music: "We are performing routine maintenance, with no expected user impact." 8 of the 15 were listed as full outages.
Apple restored everything by 18:15 PT.
Its posted explanation for the App Store and Apple Music: "We are performing routine maintenance, with no expected user impact." 8 of the 15 were listed as full outages.
Apple restored everything by 18:15 PT.
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🚨 A traveller who gave US border agents his GrapheneOS duress PIN [wiping his phone] rather than unlock his phone, is now charged with intentionally destroying its contents.
Homeland Security had flagged him to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the FBI's Atlanta office over alleged terrorism before he landed.
CBP can copy a device into a central database without a warrant, on suspicion of a crime alone.
Homeland Security had flagged him to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the FBI's Atlanta office over alleged terrorism before he landed.
CBP can copy a device into a central database without a warrant, on suspicion of a crime alone.
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‼️ BREAKING: Microsoft's in-house AI performs better than Mythos 5 at 50% of the cost of Microsoft's previous offering: it's called MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, its first in-house cybersecurity model.
It's part of Project Perception, an agentic security system that coordinates red, blue and green team agents and enters public preview on August 3 inside Microsoft Defender.
Sources:
https://microsoft.ai/news/introducing-mai-cyber-1-flash-inside-mdash/
and https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/27/rethinking-security-for-the-age-of-ai/
It's part of Project Perception, an agentic security system that coordinates red, blue and green team agents and enters public preview on August 3 inside Microsoft Defender.
Sources:
https://microsoft.ai/news/introducing-mai-cyber-1-flash-inside-mdash/
and https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/27/rethinking-security-for-the-age-of-ai/
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‼️ Anthropic was hiding a secret internal project to destructively scan every book in the world, irreversibly damaging heritage. The company spent billions of dollars to slice the spines off millions of books, even very rare ones. This means no other AI, and no human, can access this knowledge anymore.
It now markets itself as the responsible lab.
One bookseller told 404 Media his inventory is full of rare, foreign-language and low-circulation books, meaning that if they are destroyed in the process of becoming training data, they will be even harder to obtain.
Second-hand booksellers across Europe are sounding the alarm, because rare books are being destroyed. They have received random lists of thousands of titles. Books too obscure to resell at a profit. Requests arriving overnight from companies nobody in the trade has heard of.
One email came from "Nataly" at 2077AI, a Singapore company. Attached: 3,000 English titles grouped by ISBN. A 1999 geomechanics monograph. A 2018 study of laser shock peening on ceramics. A 2021 academic book on Irish folk tales.
A German dealer watched the orders arrive every night between 3am and 5am. Canadian company Zoom Books, buying systematically, titles with nothing in common. Zoom told Swiss broadcaster SRF that this is a regular recycling and trading model.
It now markets itself as the responsible lab.
One bookseller told 404 Media his inventory is full of rare, foreign-language and low-circulation books, meaning that if they are destroyed in the process of becoming training data, they will be even harder to obtain.
Second-hand booksellers across Europe are sounding the alarm, because rare books are being destroyed. They have received random lists of thousands of titles. Books too obscure to resell at a profit. Requests arriving overnight from companies nobody in the trade has heard of.
One email came from "Nataly" at 2077AI, a Singapore company. Attached: 3,000 English titles grouped by ISBN. A 1999 geomechanics monograph. A 2018 study of laser shock peening on ceramics. A 2021 academic book on Irish folk tales.
A German dealer watched the orders arrive every night between 3am and 5am. Canadian company Zoom Books, buying systematically, titles with nothing in common. Zoom told Swiss broadcaster SRF that this is a regular recycling and trading model.
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