OpenClaw AI agent found falling for phishing attacks, spills user data

Phishing simulation on an OpenClaw email agent with various configuration profiles showed that it was susceptible to tactics ...

How a machine learning engineer built a churn prediction model that transformed a subscription platform’s retention strategy

A subscription technology platform with over 100,000 users was losing customers each month despite having access to ...
votebeat

Here’s why California’s election results take time

Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. This news analysis was originally distributed in Votebeat’s free weekly newsletter.
Microsoft

AI brands as bait: How threat actors are using the AI hype in social engineering

As threat actors operationalize AI to accelerate attacks, they are also leveraging the wider global interest around AI itself as a social engineering lure. In recent months, Microsoft Threat ...
winbuzzer.com

Perplexity Lets AI Agents Write Their Own Search Code

Perplexity introduced Search as Code as a reference architecture for AI-written Python search workflows, following its 2025 real-time Search API. The new approach shifts the pitch from repeatedly ...
The Hacker News

⚡ Weekly Recap: Instagram Account Hacks, Android Zero-Day, GitHub Worm and More

Your weekly cybersecurity recap: a GitHub supply chain worm, an exploited Android flaw, Instagram account takeovers, and a ...
POWER Magazine

Fives ProSim Launches ProSimPlus Python API, a New Generation of Python Driven Process Simulation

Fives ProSim, a subsidiary of the Fives Group and an expert in industrial process simulation and optimization, announces the release of ProSimPlus Python API. This new solution enables users to run ...
Variety

‘The Python Hunt’ Review: An Entertainingly Garish Documentary Account of a State-Sanctioned Culling Spree

Xander Robin's fluorescent, stranger-than-fiction film follows a variety of American oddballs chasing grisly snake-hunting glory in the annual Florida Python Challenge. Where that doc series had the ...
AppleInsider

Apple Store education purchase verification process expands to US

Education customers in the US will need to verify eligibility to make a discounted purchase, as Apple expands its verification process to the US and other countries. Starting on Friday, May 8, Apple ...
Law

Output vs. Process: When Attorneys Should — and Shouldn't — Use AI

Every legal task produces two things: output and process. Firms that compete on output alone will find themselves in a race to the bottom against tools that do not bill by the hour and never will. The ...
TechCrunch

Some kids are bypassing age-verification checks with a fake mustache

Some age-verification systems are no match for enterprising children, who have found that drawing on a fake mustache with a makeup pencil is enough to skirt the blocks of adult websites. U.K.-based ...
9to5Mac

Pornhub is now using Apple’s own age verification feature in the UK

Apple first launched its own age verification feature in the UK back in March, before rolling it out to other countries. The move is intended to comply with a growing trend for age verification ...