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US frontier AI companies warn authorities over sophisticated distillation attacks — China warns of 'countermeasures' if America tries to constrain domestic AI models (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-18 | by Jon Martindale | tags: distillation attacks, frontier ai models, deepseek

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US authorities accuse Chinese AI companies of industrial-scale campaigns to copy American models (engadget.com)

2026-09-09 | by Mariella Moon | tags: deepseek, moonshot ai, model distillation

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Authorities arrest 2 alleged members of prolific hacking group TeamPCP (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-28 | get Yubico YubiKey 5 NFC → | tags: teampcp, supply chain attacks, cisco

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US authorities say Siemens controllers used for water and other infrastructure are being targeted by hackers — agencies claim threat actors use AI tools to generate exploitation scripts (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-22 | by Jowi Morales | get Yubico YubiKey 5 NFC → | tags: siemens s7-series, cisa, ai tools

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Japanese authorities use new tool to identify initial torrent uploaders — anti-piracy group says it identified seeder on popular anime torrenting website without torrent swarm monitoring (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-11 | by Bruno Ferreira | tags: nyaa, coda, bittorrent

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Authorities Alarmed When Person With Measles Spends Entire Day Frolicking Around Universal Studios (futurism.com)

2026-08-07 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: cases, health, hours

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Authorities Investigating Mysterious Deaths of 15 Elephants at Kenyan National Park (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: kenyan national park, elephants, pesticides

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South Korean Authorities Scrambling to Save Stock Market From AI Bubble (futurism.com)

2026-07-29 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: korea composite stock price index, sk hynix, korea exchange

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Telegram literally gives Russia the middle finger after founder Pavel Durov is charged with aiding terrorism (techspot.com)

2026-07-29 | by Rob Thubron | tags: telegram, pavel durov, fsb

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A Feature That Makes Your Phone Data Self-Destruct in Authorities’ Hands May Soon Have Its Day in Court (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-25 | tags: self-destruct, atlanta, authorities

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China’s War on ‘Lying Flat’ Comes for Companion Chatbots (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-15 | tags: authorities, authorities seen, behavior

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Dutch police bust investment fraud ring stealing over €100 million (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-07-15 | tags: authorities, dutch, million

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Evidence Grows That Taco Bell Infected Massive Number of Customers With Explosive Diarrhea (futurism.com)

2026-07-15 | by Frank Landymore | tags: authorities, bell, chain

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The EU Just Took a Major Step Towards a ‘Social Media Plus’ Ban for Minors (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-13 | tags: authorities, authorities said, ban impact

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Los Angeles law enforcement will stop using Flock cameras (engadget.com)

2026-07-13 | by Anna Washenko | tags: authorities, cameras, department

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Metal balls from space are popping up on Australia's beaches (engadget.com)

2026-07-10 | by Will Shanklin | tags: agency, authorities, balls

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Supermicro denies that its offices were raided by Taiwanese authorities in Nvidia GPU smuggling case — company says that it coordinated with the police and provided access to investigated employees’ workstations and gadgets (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-02 | by Jowi Morales | get Supermicro Workstation Security Kit → | tags: alleged, controls, employees

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Taiwanese Authorities Reportedly Raid Supermicro in Move That Could Signal Big Change For AI Chip Exporters (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-30 | get Supermicro Server Motherboard → | tags: supermicro, taiwan, ai chips

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Why the social media ban is about so much more than social media (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-06-20 | by Zoe Kleinman | get Digital Privacy and Security Kit → | tags: big tech, social media, internet regulation

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Authorities dismantle 'AudiA6' ransomware crypto-laundering service (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-06-11 | get Ransomware Crypto-Laundering Guide → | tags: accounts, cryptocurrency, europol

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An Arizona Lake Just Lost All Its Fish (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-08 | get Aquatic Life Oxygenator → | tags: approximately, approximately fish, arizona

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Signal, DuckDuckGo, and NordVPN threaten to exit Canada if metadata surveillance law passes (techspot.com)

2026-06-07 | get NordVPN Privacy Bundle → | tags: access, access read, addition

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Finland deploys new system to detect threats to undersea cables — distributed acoustic sensors measure vibrations from the seabed and informs the authorities and operators of suspicious activities (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-06 | by Jowi Morales | get Undersea Cable Monitoring Kit → | tags: cables, finland, finnish

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GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-06 | tags: apps, cheap, legitimate

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Police have yet to catch a thief who used a Waymo to steal yoga clothes (engadget.com)

2026-06-04 | by Lawrence Bonk | get Waymo One Autonomous Vehicle → | tags: able, authorities, burglar

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Authorities Alarmed as Mysterious Figures Emerge From Sewers (futurism.com)

2026-06-01 | by Victor Tangermann | get Sewer Inspection Camera → | tags: sewer, brooklyn, manhole

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Supermicro says it assisted Taiwanese authorities in server smuggling bust that led to three arrests — company issues statement on working with US, Taiwan to block illicit diversion of servers to China (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-28 | by Jake Roach | get Supermicro Server Security Kit → | tags: supermicro, servers, taiwan

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Leaks reveal US authorities concerned about the rise of ‘anti-tech extremists’ as AI data center issues become increasingly contentious — critics say this could lead to surveillance, criminalization of peaceful opposition (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-28 | by Jowi Morales | get AI Privacy & Security Kit → | tags: anti-tech extremists, ai data centers, homeland security

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Taiwan authorities arrest three on suspicion of smuggling Nvidia chips to China — operation allegedly used Japan as transshipment point before forwarding banned Supermicro servers to Hong Kong (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-27 | by Jowi Morales | get Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 → | tags: nvidia, supermicro, taiwan

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European police dismantles €50 million crypto investment fraud ring (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-04-29 | get Crypto Security Ledger → | tags: cryptocurrency, europol, albanian authorities