TechCrunch
OpenAI's AI agents leaked 53 user images onto public hosting sites, and the company can't even figure out whose they were. Privacy, it turns out, is just a suggestion.
BBC World
Grindr pays £26m to settle claims it shared users' HIV status with third parties, but insists it did nothing wrong - just a 'historical' misunderstanding.
The Verge
Governor Abbott hits pause on Flock camera funding after a report reveals $30M in surveillance spending, uniting left and right in a rare moment of agreement.
TechCrunch
Apple listens to users, keeps Hide My Email addresses on @icloud.com, and privacy survives another day.
ZDNet
OpenAI's new Computer History feature tracks your Mac activity for ChatGPT - but it's not encrypted, so hackers might enjoy your timeline too.
ZDNet
OpenAI's ChatGPT now remembers everything you've ever told it, synthesizes a dossier about you, and might get it hilariously wrong - all while you can't fully delete what it knows.
The Verge
AI training startup Shift offers free home cleaning in New York - with plans to expand to London - in exchange for filming every chore, because apparently robots can't learn to fold laundry without watching you do it first.
ZDNet
900 million ChatGPT users may want to peek behind the chatbot's curtain - here's how to audit, delete, or nuke your data before OpenAI trains its next model on your deepest secrets.
Ars Technica
Apple fixed a bug that let cops read deleted Signal messages from push notifications - because your self-destructing texts apparently weren't self-destructing enough.
TechCrunch
Apple patches a bug that let the FBI read 'deleted' Signal messages from iPhones, because apparently 'delete' is just a suggestion.
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