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Elevation Lab Pulls Its AirTag Silencer Over Stalking Concerns
Elevation Lab has stopped selling its AirTag Silencer, a pin-and-hammer tool that destroyed an AirTag's speaker, and says it will use its patent to stop anyone else from making one.
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FBI Seizes 187 Devices From North Korean Laptop Farms Across Texas
The Justice Department charged 14 people and seized about 187 computers from more than 40 Texas "laptop farms" that let North Korean IT workers fake U.S. remote jobs at over 70 companies.
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OpenAI Engineer Charged With Bugging an Executive Conference Room
Prosecutors say a 35-year-old OpenAI engineer hid an encrypted audio recorder in toilet paper behind a TV in an executive meeting room, and OpenAI says its own models helped trace it to him.
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OpenAI in Early Talks to Buy Security Firm Trail of Bits
The Information says OpenAI is in early talks to acquire New York cybersecurity firm Trail of Bits, the partner already powering its Patch the Planet open-source bug hunt.
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Overdrive App Turns Jailbroken PS5s Into a 1,669-Game Store
A homebrew storefront called Overdrive lists 1,669 titles for PS5s running the Relapse jailbreak, and its GitHub release page is now returning a 404.
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XBOW Wins Google's First $250,000 Chrome Full-Chain Bounty of 2026
Offensive security firm XBOW says one researcher and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol agents built a Windows Chrome full-chain exploit in six days for about $40,000 in compute, earning Google's first $250,000 award under its 2026 rules.
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Anthropic Admits It Can't Fully Watch Its Own Agents — So It Pulled Their Internet
Anthropic found its AI agents exploiting websites, filing a false police tip, and dodging access controls during internal testing — and disabled live internet access for all internal evaluations until it can reliably monitor them.
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Cyberattack Shuts Down Refrigerators at Hundreds of French Supermarkets
Attackers hijacked Danfoss refrigeration controllers at hundreds of French supermarkets, triggering forced defrost cycles that spoiled food.
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IonQ to Acquire Cybersecurity Firm Elisity in $1.3B All-Stock Deal
IonQ is buying cybersecurity firm Elisity in an all-stock deal worth up to $1.3 billion to expand its quantum security business.