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A surveillance vendor was caught exploiting a new SS7 attack to track people’s phone locations

The new SS7 bypass-attack tricks phone operators into disclosing a cell subscriber’s location, in some cases down to a few hundred meters.

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CaaStle founder charged with fraud, turns herself in

The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York unsealed an indictment against Christine Hunsicker, charging her with wire fraud, securities fraud, money laundering, aggravated identity theft, and lying to financial institutions.

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SpaceX worker injury rates at Starbase outpace industry rivals

SpaceX has been moving at breakneck pace, rapid progress comes at a cost. Worker injury rates at its Starbase facility are almost six times higher than the average, data reveals.

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DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results

DuckDuckGo’s new search feature comes as the internet is being flooded with AI-generated slop.

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Starbase injury rates outpace rivals as SpaceX chases its Mars moonshot

SpaceX has been moving at breakneck pace, rapid progress comes at a cost. Worker injury rates at its Starbase facility are almost six times higher than the average, data reveals.

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Meta refuses to sign EU’s AI code of practice

Meta will not sign the EU’s new rules, calling the implementation “over-reach”

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Netflix starts using GenAI in its shows and films

Netflix said it used gen AI for the first time for a scene in an Argentinean show called El Atonata.

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Perplexity sees India as a shortcut in its race against OpenAI

Perplexity is quietly expanding into India to compete with OpenAI in the next phase of AI adoption.

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‘Utopian’ city California Forever announces huge tech manufacturing park 

Solano Foundry is a 2,100-acre manufacturing park that can host 40 million square feet of advanced tech manufacturing space.

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Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code – without telling users

Claude Code users have been hit with unexpectedly restrictive usage limits. The problems, many of which have been aired on Claude Code’s GitHub page, seem to be concentrated among heavy users of the service, many of whom are on the … Continue reading

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