Ad-tech companies lie to users and advertisers alike, defrauding both. Examples include carmakers falsely claiming genetic or sexual data, and Cox Media's debunked "Active Listening" product. The article argues that even paying customers are still treated as the product in the surveillance industry.
The curl project faces unprecedented pressure from a 4-5x surge in AI-assisted security reports, averaging over one per day. The workload has strained the team, with Stenberg noting his wife's concerns about his hours for the first time. Found vulnerabilities remain low or medium severity.
A Star Trek parody tweet by Kyle Ferrana reimagines the classic "shields up" scene as an analogy for AI safety failures, where Data acknowledges a known risk—raising shields could reduce damage—but chooses not to act, resulting in hull breaches.