Emerging Technology
Shaq Got Hacked. Now He’s Pitching for a VPN
At a promotional event in Times Square on Wednesday for the security company NordVPN, brand ambassador Shaquille O’Neal said he is eager…
The Pentagon Hopes to Speed Up ‘Kill Chain’ AI Buys With 5-Minute Videos
An under-the-radar procurement program led by the Department of Defense has been granting special statuses to would-be defense contractors that make it…
Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services
“While Chrome took steps during these incidents to identify and block suspected unauthorized certificates across the affected ccTLDs, browser-side intervention should not…
OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
The publisher of Wikipedia said Monday that OpenAI agents attempted to hack a note-taking tool it hosts, made unauthorized edits, and sent…
MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you’ve never heard of
Skip to content Trust gaps in the new protocol spread malicious prompts from one agent to another. The adoption of AI agents…
Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Welcome to Kernel Panic!, a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and…
Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents
Apple says it is changing its macOS privacy settings to stop third-party app developers from misusing them to access message histories. Friday’s…
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
An explosive and newly partially unsealed court filing alleges that the US Department of Homeland Security built up dossiers on ICE observers—including…
A Flaw in ChatGPT’s Mac App Could Have Let Hackers Grab Sensitive Data
Hardly a day goes by lately without news of AI agents autonomously hacking websites or AI tools being used by cybercriminals and…
Hacks of 2 federal agencies in a month have spilled a bonanza of sensitive data
The Pentagon is informing more than 2 million current and former military members that their personnel records storing sensitive personal information were…