Smart Glasses Hit a Privacy Reckoning, Plus 3 Stories
Smart glasses trigger privacy and workplace scrutiny; an exploited Acronis hosting flaw needs patching; Russia’s MAX exposes super-app trust; and Claude now leads 26% of Anthropic’s AI R&D.
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AI Labs Want to Slow Down, Plus 2 Tech Stories
Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI leaders are calling for a slower pace at the AI frontier; Check Point VPN flaws need urgent patching; and $400 million High-NA machines point to the future of chipmaking.
California Tightens Tech Rules for Kids, Plus 3 Stories
California signed 13 new child-tech laws covering social media, AI chatbots and online safety. Plus: WatchGuard ransomware, Anthropic’s AI misuse report and Clearview AI’s profiling prototype.
Nepal’s Flood Renews Warning Push, Plus 5 Tech Stories
Nepal’s catastrophic flood renews calls for real-time warning data. Plus stolen Claude sessions, malicious browser extensions, a WooCommerce admin flaw, false Defender alerts, and NASA’s Roman launch.
PaperCut Is Under Active Attack, Plus 4 Tech Stories
PaperCut NG/MF is under active attack and needs Emergency Patch Release 2. Plus: DHS data demands, McKesson’s breach, a Lucid recall, and Anthropic’s music lawsuit.
Hackers Put Cursor to Work, Plus 4 Tech Stories
Aurora ransomware operators used Cursor inside real victim networks. Today’s brief also covers a critical Avada update, an 8.7-million-person airport breach, Anthropic’s Pentagon court win, and Google’s EEA search-policy change.