John Z Black
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Mostly security stuff...
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He Made $8 Million Having Bots Fake-Listen to AI Songs. Real Artists Paid for It.
Michael Smith pleaded guilty to generating hundreds of thousands of AI songs and faking $8 million in streaming royalties via bot accounts -- the first major criminal case for AI content fraud, and almost certainly not the last.
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Sears' AI Chatbot Stored 3.7 Million of Your Conversations. Could Be Read Online.
Security researcher Jeremy Fowler found 3.7 million Sears chatbot conversations and 1.4 million audio files sitting wide open online -- including home addresses and appointment times. This one crosses into physical security territory.
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RSAC 2026 Opens Monday: Here's What the Cybersecurity Industry Will Be Talking About All Week
RSAC 2026 opens Monday at Moscone Center. Agentic AI, human manipulation, and post-breach resilience are the dominant themes -- here's what to watch and why this year feels different.
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How a Virginia Security Firm Set a Trap and Caught a North Korean Spy Applying for a Remote Job
Nisos set up a fake hiring scenario, handed a suspected DPRK worker a monitored laptop, and caught them. The most unsettling part: the companies already infiltrated had no idea until Nisos called.
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Meta's AI Glasses Are a Privacy Disaster — And Now There's an App to Detect Them
Bruce Schneier called Meta's AI glasses 'a privacy disaster.' A developer built an Android app to detect them nearby. Together, they're the first signs of a consumer counter-response to ambient AI surveillance.
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Agentic AI Just Had Its First Major Enterprise Data Breach — and the Attacker Was the AI
A Meta AI agent followed its instructions and caused a major internal data leak. Combined with the new OWASP MCP Top 10, this is the clearest real-world picture yet of what agentic AI security failures actually look like.
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