Security News
Security Roundup
AI Found a Root Bug in Linux That Everyone Missed for 15 Years
Plus: The Pentagon is training amateurs to become part of its hacker army, a Flock license plate reader error led to cops surrounding a car reviewer, and more.
By Dell Cameron and Lily Hay Newman

OnlyScams
OnlyFans Models Are Accidentally Making Hacked Government Websites Disappear
By Matt Burgess

Security Roundup
Apple’s Hide My Email Service Fails to Hide Your Email
By Matt Burgess and Lily Hay Newman

AI Safety
Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs
By Dhruv Mehrotra and Joel Khalili

Don't Look Up
Top Google Security Staff Warn Search Data Could Be Hacked if EU Rules Change
By Matt Burgess


Burn Notice
The Pentagon Is Looking Into the Dialog Data Exposure for Unmasking National Security Officials
By Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra

Hack Job
Dialog Claims It Was Hacked. A Misconfigured Website Left Its Members Exposed
By Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra

Patched Up
OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic’s Mythos
By Lily Hay Newman

Key Components
A Critical Deadline Is Approaching for Windows and Linux Security
By Dan Goodin, Ars Technica

Security Roundup
Hackers Claim to Leak Stolen Madison Square Garden Data
By Matt Burgess and Lily Hay Newman

Grade Expectations
How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks Its Members
By Dell Cameron, Dhruv Mehrotra, and Yulia Almazova

Check, Mate
The UK Will Scan Asylum-Seekers’ Faces for Age Checks—Despite Knowing the Tech Is Flawed
By Matt Burgess, Maddy Varner, May Bulman, and Gabriel Geiger

Group Chat
Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society
By Dell Cameron and Yulia Almazova


Spec Ops
Meta Tapped a Pentagon Supplier to Prototype Face Recognition for Its Glasses
By Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra




Encrypt Everything
Signal Alums Reveal ‘Encrypted Spaces,’ a System for Making Private Collaboration Apps
By Andy Greenberg

Move Fast, Fix Things
CISA Tells US Agencies to Fix Security Bugs in as Little as 3 Days Thanks to AI Threats
By Lily Hay Newman

Face Palm
Wrongful Arrest Exposes Failures in One of the Oldest Police Face-Recognition Tools in the US
By Dell Cameron