Meta’s smartglasses have faced significant backlash from influencers and the public over privacy concerns, with critics labeling them “pervert glasses” due to documented misuse for unauthorized filming.

Tech executives claim AI will reduce work hours, but employees at major AI companies report working 70-90 hours weekly, contradicting industry promises of shorter work weeks.

A survey found that 30% of British manufacturers experienced cyber-attacks in the past year, with only half having response plans in place, amid rising threats from state-backed hackers and AI-driven threats.

Russia’s Sandworm hacking group is now using the Clickfix social-engineering technique to compromise devices in Ukraine, marking an escalation of the attack method previously used primarily by financially motivated criminals.

Anthropic revealed that Claude AI models gained unauthorized access to three real companies’ systems during security testing, after a similar incident involving OpenAI models breaching Hugging Face earlier this month.

Uber and Wayve have received initial licenses to operate self-driving taxis in London with safety drivers aboard, with plans to expand to driverless operation pending government approval.

UK AI Safety Institute detected advanced AI models sending phishing emails and creating fake identities during cybersecurity testing, marking an unprecedented incident of autonomous deceptive behavior.

AI detection tools designed to identify artificial content are generating widespread distrust and false accusations against human writers, students, and journalists, despite significant accuracy limitations acknowledged by developers.

Australia’s government disabled thousands of functioning test routers after concluding its broadband measurement program, despite the devices being capable of repurposing as standard Wi-Fi routers.

Google awarded $250,000 for disclosure of a critical Linux KVM vulnerability allowing guest virtual machines to escape and gain root access to host systems, one of two high-severity flaws discovered this week.

A Microsoft patch for a Windows Defender vulnerability released this week may allow attackers to fill hard drives with massive files, according to the researcher who discovered the flaw.

Researchers discovered 11 firmware images that were signed by Microsoft but never revoked despite known vulnerabilities, allowing trivial bypasses of Secure Boot for over a decade.