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• Trump admin lashes out as Amazon considers displaying tariff costs on its sites

  "This was never approved and is not going to happen," says Amazon.

• AI-generated code could be a disaster for the software supply chain. Here’s why.

  LLM-produced code could make us much more vulnerable to supply-chain attacks.

• ChatGPT goes shopping with new product-browsing feature

  ChatGPT will now recommend products to be bought offsite—but no sponsored ads just yet.

• Backblaze responds to claims of “sham accounting,” customer backups at risk

  Short seller publishes report detailing allegations about Backblaze's financials.

• iOS and Android juice jacking defenses have been trivial to bypass for years

  New ChoiceJacking attack allows malicious chargers to steal data from phones.

• New study shows why simulated reasoning AI models don’t yet live up to their billing

  Top AI models excel at math problems but lack reasoning needed for Math Olympiad proofs.

• FBI offers $10 million for information about Salt Typhoon members

  FBI accepts tips by TOR in likely attempt to woo China-based informants.

• In the age of AI, we must protect human creativity as a natural resource

  Op-ed: As AI outputs flood the Internet, diverse human perspectives are our most valuable resource.

• New Android spyware is targeting Russian military personnel on the front lines

  Trojanized mapping app steals users' locations, contacts, and more.

• Annoyed ChatGPT users complain about bot’s relentlessly positive tone

  Users complain of new "sycophancy" streak where ChatGPT thinks everything is brilliant.

• Company apologizes after AI support agent invents policy that causes user uproar

  Frustrated software developer believed AI-generated message came from human support rep.

• OpenAI releases new simulated reasoning models with full tool access

  New o3 model appears "near-genius level," according to one doctor, but it still makes mistakes.

• Researchers claim breakthrough in fight against AI’s frustrating security hole

  Prompt injections are the Achilles' heel of AI assistants. Google offers a potential fix.

• 4chan has been down since Monday night after “pretty comprehensive own”

  Early info is unreliable, but the site has been mostly unavailable for hours.

• OpenAI continues naming chaos despite CEO acknowledging the habit

  OpenAI's brand-new "GPT-4.1" has a funky name but reasonable performance for the price.

• Amid Trump tariff chaos, Nvidia launches AI chip production on US soil

  New announcement seems aimed at appeasing Trump, signals company shift.

• That groan you hear is users’ reaction to Recall going back into Windows

  Snapshotting and AI processing a screen every 3 seconds. What could possibly go wrong?

• Researcher uncovers dozens of sketchy Chrome extensions with 4 million installs

  Even weirder: Why would Google give so many the "Featured" stamp for trustworthiness?

• Researchers concerned to find AI models misrepresenting their “reasoning” processes

  New Anthropic research shows AI models often fail to disclose reasoning shortcuts.

• OpenAI helps spammers plaster 80,000 sites with messages that bypassed filters

  Company didn't notice its chatbot was being abused for (at least) 4 months.