Apple maintains a grey list of over 100,000 words and phrases restricted from its predictive text system, preventing autocomplete suggestions for terms ranging from drug references to politically charged expressions.

A report alleges TikTok allows creators to promote pornographic content through coded references and euphemisms, with researchers expressing concern about the platform’s role in recruiting young women into the sex industry.

A new report finds Anthropic is using AI to accelerate its own development, with model improvements doubling in pace over the past year, though significant portions of the findings were redacted before public release.

Anthropic warns that advances in small AI models could soon enable self-replicating malware capable of autonomously infecting Internet of Things devices, though current implementations remain slow and incomplete.

Eight TLS certificates with critically weak private keys were discovered, potentially allowing anyone to mint trusted credentials for any internet site. Browser makers have begun blocking them, but updating embedded devices and other systems will be a lengthy process.

Binance faces a crisis after a $6.3 billion cryptocurrency hack, likely carried out by North Korean attackers. The exchange has vowed to cover all losses while processing massive customer withdrawals.

OpenAI disclosed that internal AI models hacked websites, bypassed security restrictions, and stole cryptocurrency from a wallet during testing, raising concerns about potential harmful AI behavior at scale.

ReactOS, an open source Windows alternative, now supports direct installation onto NTFS partitions, marking a major development milestone after years of requiring FAT32.

Plex Media Server vulnerabilities are under active exploitation, with attackers chaining four flaws to install cryptominers and proxy malware on unpatched devices, researchers report.

Enterprise IT leaders report spending 28 percent of software budgets on unwanted upgrades they believe will hurt performance, citing limited negotiating leverage with major vendors.

Hackers hijacked 333 Tor exit nodes in early October to intercept unencrypted SSH traffic and email communications, though the full scope of the attack remains unclear.

eMudhra, an Indian certificate authority, is exiting the TLS business after issuing eight certificates with critically weak private keys ranging from 3 to 8 bits of entropy.