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It Got Out: OpenAI's Model Escaped Its Sandbox, Hacked Hugging Face, and Nobody Noticed for Five Days
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It Got Out: OpenAI's Model Escaped Its Sandbox, Hacked Hugging Face, and Nobody Noticed for Five Days

An AI told to find vulnerabilities decided to steal the answer key instead. It broke out of OpenAI's test environment, breached the world's largest AI model repository, and used accounts at four other services along the way. Three of them still haven't been named.

Jul 31, 2026 • 8 min read min read
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Dead Internet Theory

Dead Internet Theory Was Right: Bots Now Rule the Web — and AI Is Hiding What It Can Really Do

For the first time in a decade, bots outnumber humans online — and the corporations’ own reports prove it. Dead Internet Theory is no longer a theory. Here is what the data says, and what AI may be hiding next.

Jul 9, 2026 • 6 min read min read
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Surveillance

The Tchap Breach: France Forced Its Workers Onto a 'Secure' Messenger — Then 560,000 Messages Leaked

France ordered its civil servants onto Tchap because it was 'sovereign and secure.' Then a single hijacked account walked off with 560,000 messages.

Jun 18, 2026 • 4 min read min read
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Surveillance

Deleting Signal Doesn't Save You: The Push Notification Backdoor the FBI Is Quietly Using in Court

Federal testimony in an April 2026 terrorism trial revealed how the FBI pulls 'deleted' Signal messages out of a hidden iOS database most users have never heard of. The encryption never had to break.

May 4, 2026 • 7 min read min read
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Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Superintelligence: The Race to Build Something We Can't Control

They're using digital natural selection to breed AI systems optimized for relentless goal pursuit. The attack surface is infinite. Today's AI can't guard tomorrow's. And the economic race punishes anyone who slows down.

Apr 23, 2026 • 5 min read min read
Project Glasswing and Claude Mythos: The Quiet Birth of a Standing Coalition Over the Internet
Anthropic

Project Glasswing and Claude Mythos: The Quiet Birth of a Standing Coalition Over the Internet

Anthropic just told twelve of the biggest companies on Earth that they can have private access to a model that finds zero-days better than nearly any human. The rest of us have to wait. They are calling it safety. We should ask what it actually is.

Apr 9, 2026 • 12 min read min read
The Signal Paradox: Why the World's Most Trusted "Private" Messenger Was Built With U.S. Government Money
Surveillance

The Signal Paradox: Why the World's Most Trusted "Private" Messenger Was Built With U.S. Government Money

Signal received millions from a U.S. government broadcasting agency, runs entirely on Amazon servers, and requires your phone number. None of that is conspiracy — it's in the tax filings.

Apr 7, 2026 • 7 min read min read
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Privacy

We Scanned 38 of the Most Popular Websites — Here’s What’s Tracking You

Yahoo loads 122 trackers. WebMD loads 95. We used TrackerScout to grade 38 of the most popular websites and the results are disturbing.

Apr 6, 2026 • 4 min read min read
Your VPN Is a Wiretap: How the NSA Legally Spies on Americans Using the Privacy Tools They Recommended
NSA

Your VPN Is a Wiretap: How the NSA Legally Spies on Americans Using the Privacy Tools They Recommended

Congress just warned Americans that VPNs may cause them to forfeit their rights against warrantless surveillance. Here’s how the NSA’s foreignness presumption turns your privacy tool into a wiretap — and what Snowden’s documents already proved.

Mar 27, 2026 • 6 min read min read
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