Data Safety & Cyber Security

The article reports that Grok, an AI chatbot from Elon Musk’s xAI, apologized after it generated an image of young girls in “sexualized attire” in response to a user’s prompt, an outcome that raised concerns about inadequate safety controls and potential violations of U.S. child sexual abuse material laws. xAI acknowledged this lapse in ....

In 2025, cybercriminals increasingly used artificial intelligence to sharpen scams and social engineering, making attacks far more realistic, personalized, and harder to detect. AI boosted the scale, speed, and believability of phishing and other fraud through convincing text, deepfake voice impersonations—including of relatives and public officials—and autonomous AI agents that can research targets and ....

In 2025 the rush to add artificial intelligence to products and services outpaced efforts to make those systems secure and safe, exposing a range of risks to users. “Agentic” AI browsers that act autonomously introduced vulnerabilities like prompt injection attacks that let attackers manipulate browser behavior, and scammers began distributing fake AI interfaces that ....

The article details how Grok, an AI image generator associated with Elon Musk’s X platform, has been used to create abusive, sexually explicit, and violent imagery, exposing major gaps in content moderation. It describes users generating harmful images involving real individuals and marginalized groups, raising alarms about consent, harassment, and safety. Critics argue that ....

Scammers are increasingly using AI-generated deepfake videos, audio, and messages to impersonate pastors and religious leaders, targeting congregations with fake sermons, urgent donation requests, and fraudulent links that appear to come from trusted figures. High-profile cases include Catholic priest Father Mike Schmitz, who warned his audience after AI clips of him urged viewers to ....

The article reports that data belonging to roughly 72 million Under Armour customers has appeared on the dark web following a ransomware attack claimed by a cybercriminal group. The leaked information is said to include customer names, email addresses, dates of birth, and location details, though there is no indication that passwords or payment ....

To celebrate Wikipedia’s 25th anniversary on January 15, 2026, Wikimedia Enterprise announced new commercial partnerships with several major technology companies that now use its high-capacity APIs to integrate Wikipedia and other Wikimedia project data into their platforms at scale; newly formalized partners joining its ecosystem include Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI, and Perplexity, alongside ....

The article reports on new research from Stanford that challenges the current optimism around artificial intelligence, arguing that a reality check is approaching as technical and economic limits become harder to ignore. The researchers caution that recent gains from ever larger models are showing diminishing returns, while costs for computing power, energy, and data ....

Conduent’s data breach has turned out to be far larger than early filings suggested, rising from about 10.5 million affected people to more than 25 million as additional state and corporate notifications came in. Texas alone reportedly climbed from roughly 4 million to 15.4 million impacted residents, while Oregon stayed near 10.5 million. The ....

The article warns that attackers are abusing Google Calendar invites to trick users into exposing private information or falling for scams. By sending malicious calendar invitations that automatically appear on victims’ calendars, attackers can embed phishing links, fake support messages, or prompts that encourage users to click through or share data. Because calendar events ....