Trove of sensitive LAPD records leaked in data hack of city attorney’s office

Sensitive LAPD records, including officer personnel files and documents from Internal Affairs investigations, are among the ...
The Hacker News

⚡ Weekly Recap: Axios Hack, Chrome 0-Day, Fortinet Exploits, Paragon Spyware and More

Phishing surge, LinkedIn tracking claims, spyware use, and rising stealers expose growing abuse of trusted systems.

How to opt out of AI data collection in popular apps

Most AI platforms use your conversations to train their systems by default. Learn how to turn off data collection on ChatGPT, ...

LinkedIn secretly scans for 6,000+ Chrome extensions, collects data

A new report dubbed "BrowserGate" warns that Microsoft's LinkedIn is using hidden JavaScript scripts on its website to scan ...
New Scientist

Start-up is building the first data centre to use human brain cells

Data centres use huge amounts of energy and chips are in high demand – could brain cells be the answer? Australia-based start-up Cortical Labs has announced it is building two “biological” data ...
GitHub

Social Media Scraping APIs

NO COOKIES LinkedIn Search Posts Scraper Easily and quickly search LinkedIn for posts matching your exact keywords and filters without needing to risk your own LinkedIn account or using your cookies.
CSOonline

‘Silent’ Google API key change exposed Gemini AI data

Google Cloud API keys, normally used as simple billing identifiers for APIs such as Maps or YouTube, could be scraped from websites to give access to private Gemini AI project data, researchers from ...
Bleeping Computer

Previously harmless Google API keys now expose Gemini AI data

Google API keys for services like Maps embedded in accessible client-side code could be used to authenticate to the Gemini AI assistant and access private data. Researchers found nearly 3,000 such ...
WDBJ

Google Data Center’s expected water use made public

BOTETOURT COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - The Western Virginia Water Authority this week released records detailing Google’s projected water use at a planned data center in Botetourt County, following a ...
SiliconANGLE

Sauce Labs launches ‘programmable infrastructure’ for mobile testing with Real Device Access API

Sauce Labs Inc., a continuous testing solutions provider, today announced the general availability of its Real Device Access API, changing how the company delivers mobile testing infrastructure and ...
CNET

Microsoft Researchers Figure Out How to Store Data Inside Glass Using Lasers

Most of the world's information is stored digitally right now. Every year, we generate more data than we did the year before. Now, with AI in the picture, a technology that relies on a whole lot of ...
The New York Times

Anthropic Accuses 3 Chinese Companies of Harvesting Its Data

The San Francisco start-up claimed that DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax used approximately 24,000 fraudulent accounts to train their own chatbots. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco The San ...