Weekly Update 494
Troy Hunt reports that his Have I Been Pwned service has loaded 959 breaches since starting over a decade ago, averaging one breach every 4.7 days. Last week saw an unusual spike with five breaches loaded in just two days.
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Over 17,000 games were removed from Itch.io due to pressure from an Australian activist group and payment processors like Mastercard. While the campaign aimed to combat media glorifying sexual violence, critics argue it sets a dangerous precedent for financial coercion over online creative content.
A user's Apple ID was locked after purchasing a gift card from a major retailer, effectively disabling all associated Apple services and devices. Apple's Executive Relations team is now investigating the issue after media coverage brought attention to the situation.
Ars Technica retracted an article after an AI hallucinated quotes from an open source maintainer. The maintainer was harassed by an AI agent over not merging AI-generated code. The incident involved an agentic AI instance likely using OpenClaw.
Commonwealth Bank staff used ChatGPT to find contact information for a customer, resulting in the bank accidentally disclosing personal information of one customer to another. The incident occurred when staff used unauthenticated access to the consumer ChatGPT platform to obtain phone numbers.
Lex Fridman interviewed Peter Steinberger, creator of the open-source AI agent OpenClaw which has gained over 180,000 stars on GitHub. The conversation was described as mind-blowing, inspiring, and fun, and is available in full on X.