Dozens of police officers accused of using license plate cameras to track women
Allegations of personal surveillance and stalking have been made against at least 50 officers
OpenAI reaches one billion active users as it cuts GPT-5.6 prices by up to 80%
The billion-user milestone has yet to translate into profitability
A Coldcard firmware flaw let hackers drain $70 million in Bitcoin in 41 minutes, with losses now topping $88 million
Why it matters: A hardware wallet is supposed to solve one problem: keep your Bitcoin keys somewhere no attacker can reach them. This week showed what happens when the flaw sits inside the wallet itself. A firmware bug that's been shipping in Coldcard devices since 2021 let an attacker guess supposedly random seed phrases from the outside, no physical access, no phishing, no malware required, and drain funds from thousands of addresses. The running total is already past $88 million, and it's still climbing.
New York is suing prediction market Kalshi, calling it an illegal gambling operation
At least 13 other states have filed similar lawsuits against Kalshi and Polymarket
This free font can trick AI scrapers into swallowing gibberish instead of your content
Real text to you, poison to them
X settles with advertising group after accusing it of coordinating a boycott
The agreement ends years of litigation and brings a brand safety program to a permanent close
A third of physical PS5 games and half of Xbox Series discs need downloads to work properly, report shows
Owning the disc no longer guarantees you can play without an internet connection
AI is finding so many Chrome security flaws that Google may start updating it twice a week
Chrome 149 and 150 fixed over 1,000 bugs combined, more than the previous 23 versions
Meta's Reality Labs division lost $4.6 billion in Q2 2026, pushing total losses toward $88 billion
Horizon Worlds is now in maintenance mode, but the losses haven't stopped
Meta is bragging about how its AI keeps people on Instagram, while facing lawsuits over addiction
40 US states are suing Meta for harming children's mental health
Online fraud is a $150 billion nightmare for Americans, but most crimes go unreported
Crypto scams still reign supreme, while AI is making criminals' life easier
Europe is preparing to hit Roblox and ChatGPT with its strictest platform rules
The EU wants more transparency, stronger child protections, and fewer excuses from two of the internet's biggest platforms
Study shows excessive time online is associated with stress, bad moods, and abandoning enjoyable activities
Temporary pleasure and relief may make excessive internet use harder to resist
A missing underscore in a username sent an innocent man to prison for 18 months
Investigators found no evidence linking him to the case, but he was convicted anyway
Microsoft still doesn't know why the Xbox outage stopped physical games from working
Microsoft says its licensing system was never meant to block physical games
These fake download websites look real and rank high on Google, until they swap the links for malware
The operation has run for nearly a year, impersonating 72 popular Windows tools to steal crypto and passwords
A hot potato: The developer behind popular Windows optimization tool Wintoys has uncovered a sophisticated cybercrime operation that mimics dozens of popular Windows apps through duplicate websites built to look uncannily like the real thing. The fraudulent sites reportedly distribute malware capable of compromising user privacy, hijacking account credentials, and draining crypto wallets.
EU will require companies to label AI-generated content starting Sunday
TikTok, Meta, and Google are already adapting to the EU's new AI labeling requirements
Hundreds of shared Claude chats, including resumes and health details, showed up in Google search
The same issue previously affected shared conversations from ChatGPT and Grok
Microsoft laptop with Nvidia RTX Spark leaked and benchmarked before launch
The prototype Surface Laptop Ultra was found "on the side of the road" near Microsoft's HQ
You can now play Morrowind directly in your browser, no installation required
OpenMW-Web shows how far browsers have come at handling real 3D game engines
The Odyssey got bootlegged on X, but the internet cared more about the memes
The joke about who's actually watching "the way Nolan intended" has outclassed any potential leak
It's not just you, Xbox is down again, and physical games aren't safe either
The outage follows a similar PlayStation Network failure just days earlier
Firefox's New Tab page is getting a daily crossword built from AI-summarized news
It joins weather, stocks, to-do lists, timers, and other widgets on the customizable homepage
The EU just fined Google $1 billion for favoring its own services in search and Play Store
Google now has 60 days to comply, or face fines of up to 5% of its global revenue