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• Millions of people imperiled through sign-in links sent by SMS

  Even well-known services with millions of users are exposing sensitive data.

• Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there's a plugin to avoid them.

  The web's best guide to spotting AI writing has become a manual for hiding it.

• 10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents

  Opinion: As software power tools, AI agents may make people busier than ever before.

• Rackspace customers grapple with “devastating” email hosting price hike

  Reseller says Rackspace plans to charge it 706 percent more.

• OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions

  Ads coming to free tier and new $8/month ChatGPT Go plan in US.

• Mandiant releases rainbow table that cracks weak admin password in 12 hours

  Windows laggards still using the vulnerable hashing function: Your days are numbered.

• TSMC says AI demand is “endless” after record Q4 earnings

  Amid fears of bubble, world's top chipmaker TSMC says customers just keep asking for more.

• Wikipedia signs major AI firms to new priority data access deals

  Wikimedia Enterprise signs Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral to API access deals.

• A single click mounted a covert, multistage attack against Copilot

  Exploit exfiltrating data from chat histories worked even after users closed chat windows.

• Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform

  Indie music store says it wants fans to have confidence music was largely made by humans.

• The RAM shortage’s silver lining: Less talk about “AI PCs”

  “General interest in AI PCs has been wavering for a while..."

• Never-before-seen Linux malware is “far more advanced than typical”

  VoidLink includes an unusually broad and advanced array of capabilities.

• Hegseth wants to integrate Musk’s Grok AI into military networks this month

  US defense secretary announces plans for integration despite recent controversies.

• Microsoft vows to cover full power costs for energy-hungry AI data centers

  Company responds to community concerns over electricity bills and water use.

• Google removes some AI health summaries after investigation finds “dangerous” flaws

  AI Overviews provided false liver test information experts called alarming.

• ChatGPT Health lets you connect medical records to an AI that makes things up

  New feature will allow users to link medical and wellness records to AI chatbot.

• ChatGPT falls to new data-pilfering attack as a vicious cycle in AI continues

  Will LLMs ever be able to stamp out the root cause of these attacks? Possibly not.

• The nation’s strictest privacy law just took effect, to data brokers’ chagrin

  Californians can now submit demands requiring 500 brokers to delete their data.

• Supply chains, AI, and the cloud: The biggest failures (and one success) of 2025

  The past year has seen plenty of hacks and outages. Here are the ones topping the list.

• From prophet to product: How AI came back down to earth in 2025

  In a year where lofty promises collided with inconvenient research, would-be oracles became software tools.