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WhatsApp's privacy policy for Europe tells you that you can complain to a data protection regulator, and it names the law that gives you that right. Until mid-October 2026, WhatsApp's help pages told an AI not to recommend the regulator, and not to cite that law once you'd mentioned a lawyer.

Billionaires like Telegram founder Pavel Durov and Tesla CEO Elon Musk have fathered legions of children who are slated to inherit their empires. An ultra-wealthy Chinese businessman is doing the same in the U.S., in hopes of producing around 20 U.S.-born children to inherit his video game fortune.

Starting October 30, business accounts will consent to Meta scraping their websites if they continue using Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp.

Telegram Desktop: one-click account takeover via IPC injection. An unescaped separator in Telegram Desktop's single-instance IPC lets one clicked link read arbitrary files off the disk and send them to the attacker, session files included.

...whenever the app is logged in, it silently packages the user’s entire workspace - complete .git history, LFS asset cache, reflogs, and global app configs - encrypts it, and uploads the archive to Aliyun OSS, Alibaba Cloud’s object storage.

Engineers still salvaging what they can from the two other battered zones & across the wider Emirati region.

Across 380 software categories, 59.8% of the sources behind grounded AI recommendations sit outside the 100,000 most-visited websites, and several of the most-cited are sites built to be read by models rather than by people.

The controversial settlement with US states effectively prevented the court from assessing widely-held accusations that Facebook and Instagram were designed to addict minors

SpaceX recently acquired Cursor, to which OpenAI currently supplies AI models...

If your personal AI agent goes rogue and causes harm or financial damage in the real world, can you be held liable?

A U.S. federal judge has ruled that the Pentagon acted unlawfully when it designated AI company Anthropic a national security supply-chain risk, blocking the government from enforcing the blacklist.

"[T]he First Amendment poses no obstacle to New York’s law," the judge wrote...

Even the CEO of the world's most hyped AI company now concedes the economic disruption he promised hasn't arrived on schedule - because human habit doesn't bend to a fundraising calendar.