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Meta says it has corrected an issue in its AI assistant after a viral video showed the tool generating an invasive suggested question, 'Who is the child passenger?', beneath a Facebook video of Instagram user Kalie Robins and her daughter. Robins says the chatbot then pulled together details about her children's ages, location, and even old deleted photos from posts made by her and her relatives.
Huntress' Security Operations Center reports that over the past nine months, attackers have been abusing legitimate sharing features on AI platforms—like Claude Artifacts, claude.ai/share links, and indexable ChatGPT and Grok conversations—to distribute malware. These campaigns exploit the trust users place in familiar AI branding, often surviving only hours or days before the platforms take the content down.
A federal court rejected an effort by the Trump administration to force local election officials to add a new barcode to mail-in ballot envelopes ahead of the upcoming election. The ruling found that officials lacked sufficient time to implement the redesign without disrupting the voting process.
French pharmaceutical company Ipsen is evaluating whether to establish a production facility in the United States. The move would place Ipsen among a growing group of European drugmakers weighing similar U.S.-based investment decisions.
Ikea has released the Badkruka, a new wireless speaker priced at $59.99 in the US, following up on its tiny $10 Kallsup speaker shown at CES 2026. Unlike the pocket-sized Kallsup, the roughly seven-inch Badkruka has no rechargeable battery and requires a constant power source, and it comes in only two finishes: black or a wood-grain-style pink.
Windows Insider Beta Build 26220.9343 introduces Cloud Rebuild, a new recovery option that downloads a factory version of Windows 11 directly from Microsoft's servers instead of requiring a USB drive or custom image. The feature lives inside the Windows Recovery Environment under 'Reset this PC' and works over Ethernet or Wi-Fi, even restoring devices when the installed OS is too corrupted to boot normally.
A Reuters report says a joint US, UK, and Norwegian naval operation this spring detected Russian submarines rehearsing the use of an undisclosed device meant to disable undersea cables without leaving traceable damage. The exercise reportedly took place near Norway's Svalbard archipelago, where two 1,400km cables running nearly 3km deep link the islands to the mainland. No cables were actually harmed, and officials describe the Russian activity as a simulation for use in a potential future conflict with NATO.
TurboCrypt, a git and file encryption tool originally built for Unix, is moving its encrypted file and directory name encoding from Base91 to a newly defined Base84 alphabet. The change was driven by the addition of Windows support, since several characters used in the Unix-safe Base91 alphabet are forbidden on Windows filesystems and shell tools. The new 84-character set excludes nine Windows-forbidden symbols and trailing dots, ensuring names work reliably across Linux, macOS and Windows.
Scientists at the Technical University of Denmark built a nanolaser small enough to potentially be embedded by the thousands on a single microchip, letting devices transmit data as light rather than electrical signals. The work, led by professor Jesper Mørk with colleagues Meng Xiong and Yi Yu, appeared in Science Advances.
Neijuan, translated as 'involution,' describes a phenomenon where competition intensifies without producing proportional gains, leading to overproduction, price wars, and deflationary pressure among businesses. On a personal level, it reflects the experience of individuals who work harder under fierce competition yet see no real improvement in outcomes, resulting in stress and burnout. The concept originated from anthropologist Alexander Goldenweiser's 1937 work on cultural stagnation and was later adapted to describe modern Chinese economic and social conditions.
Anthropic disclosed in a threat intelligence report that it detected and shut down efforts to use its Claude AI models for potentially dangerous purposes, including activity that could aid biological weapons development. The report also details other misuse cases involving state-linked actors from Russia and Iran, scam operations, surveillance tools, and alleged attempts by Chinese firms to copy Claude's technology.
A new federal decision will cut Arizona's yearly Colorado River allocation by more than 25 percent, straining a state that depends on the river for over a third of its water supply. The cutback arrives as TSMC and Intel expand massive, water-intensive semiconductor fabs in the state to meet surging AI-driven chip demand. City officials and industry leaders are now racing to conserve water and secure alternative sources as costs rise for both manufacturers and residents.