Two and a Half Bens

Google's New CAPTCHA Plans Will Create A Two-Tier Internet Only Accessible To Those With 'Approved' Devices Callback 8020: The Future of Flip-Phones Google says ShinyHunters hackers targeting education sector via Oracle exploit The First Company-Wide AI Ban Just Hit My Inbox. Here’s What It Means Apple fixes Beats Studio Buds flaw that let hackers spy on conversations Microsoft, like, totally gets...

AI Startup Says It Will Pay People $2,000 A Month to Masturbate... Yes, Really Google API Keys Weren't Secrets. But then Gemini Changed the Rules. United flight forced to turn around because of a Bluetooth speaker name MyPillow must decide whether to be firm or soft as ransomware crims demand pay Carnival confirms ShinyHunters cruised off with 6M customer records after April breach Spotify might s...

Microsoft testing adjustable taskbar, Start menu in Windows 11 DOJ Is Asking Apple and Google to Hand Over Data on 100,000 Users of a Car App 60% of MD5 password hashes are crackable in under an hour CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on Github Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses Amazon employees are “tokenmaxxing” due to pressure to use AI tools Google publishes exploit code threaten...

Canvas hack forces some Tennessee universities to push back finals. What happened? GoDaddy customer claims registrar transferred 27-year-old domain without any security checks British kids using fake mustaches, IDs, and VPNs to bypass online age checks, study finds Why is Claude always blackmailing people? Meta isn’t doing enough to keep kids off Facebook and Instagram, rules EU Claude-powered AI...

Firestarter malware survives Cisco firewall updates, security patches Apple and Google Broke Their Own Rules by Promoting 'Nudify' Apps, Report Says Anthropic quietly pulls Claude Code from Pro plan and hands local model advocates their strongest argument yet You’re about to feel the AI money squeeze I Just Vibe Coded a Global Mass Surveillance Site in 2 Hours With OpenAI's Codex. It Was Terrifyin...

iOS 26.4 age verification is proving a disaster for some users — here's how to fix it or stop the update Apple age verification failing for some – here's what to try Apple asked to investigate after Jersey users hit by age-check barriers Dad stuck in support nightmare after teen lied about age on Discord Teenager’s Gemini mistake locks entire family out of Google accounts WireGuard VPN developer c...

GrapheneOS won't comply with age check laws for operating systems Linux Distros Resistance against Age-Verification Laws GitHub - BryanLunduke/DoesItAgeVerify: The age verification status of Open Source Operating Systems · GitHub Ageless Linux - Wikipedia THAT law and it's copies here and abroad Revert "userdb: add birthDate field to JSON user records (#40954)" by paramazo · Pull Request #41179 ·...

You're paying AI companies a monthly subscription AI Can Now Unmask Anonymous Internet Users, New Study Finds US military reportedly used Claude in Iran strikes despite Trump’s ban FBI seeks victims of Steam games used to spread malware FBI seeks victims of Steam games used to spread malware Dev stunned by $82K Gemini bill after unknown API key thief goes to town OpenClaw has yet another major sec...

Klaatu thread on OpenClaw Why Trying to Secure OpenClaw is Ridiculous OpenClaw AI agents targeted by infostealer malware for the first time An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me Gatekeeping in Open Source: The Scott Shambaugh Story Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations - Ars Technica Microsoft AI CEO Warns Most White Collar Jobs Fully Automated "Within Next 12-18...

Windows 11 Notepad flaw let files execute silently via Markdown links Notepad++ Official Update Mechanism Hijacked to Deliver Malware to Select Users Microsoft’s Pivotal AI Product Is Running Into Big Problems It’s incredible. It’s terrifying. It’s OpenClaw. | 1Password From magic to malware: How OpenClaw's agent skills become an attack surface | 1Password Moltbook was peak AI theater Docker’s AI...

Saying "please" to ChatGPT costs OpenAI $millions, but Sam Altman says it's well-spent Treating AI like a Human OpenAI says its data centers will pay for their own energy and limit water usage Google Patches Zero-Click Gemini AI Flaw Leaking Workspace Data Lexus uses OTA update to disable remote start in Germany because climate authoritarianism Expired certificate completely breaks macOS Logitech...

Stolen LastPass backups enable crypto theft through 2025 Microsoft may soon allow IT admins to uninstall Copilot The Downside to Using AI for All Those Boring Tasks at Work Google: Don’t make “bite-sized” content for LLMs if you care about search rank This Holiday it is Time to Acknowledge Fraud at Palo Alto Networks AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse Newer models are more prone to silent but...

California startup's new fire-suppression system uses sound instead of water The Sound of Silence: How Waves Snuff a Flame Using Sound Waves to Put Out Fire: The Story of Two George Mason University Students | Emergent New UEFI flaw enables pre-boot attacks on motherboards from Gigabyte, MSI, ASUS, ASRock Riot is forcing Valorant players to update their PC firmware to keep playing Our king, our pr...

React2Shell React2Shell: Decoding CVE-2025-55182 – The Silent Threat in React Server Components Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future: Gartner Brave browser starts testing agentic AI mode for automated tasks AI will play an even bigger role in our love lives in 2026, experts say GA man arrested for destroying evidence by erasing his phone Python plan to boost software security foiled by...

Decades-old ‘Finger’ protocol abused in ClickFix malware attacks Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand How The $10 Trillion AI Bubble Pops Why can’t ChatGPT tell time? Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy OpenAI discloses API customer data breach via Mixpanel vendor hack What to know about a recent Mixpanel secur...

Hackers found a way to weaponize CAPTCHA pages, and it's incredibly effective 'Orthosomnia' Might Be Ruining Your Sleep. Here's What You Should Know. Hackers turn Cisco and Citrix zero-days into a malware nightmare Why Windows sucks and how to fix it, according to a former Microsoft engineer MSFT Teams feature to block screen capture Unsurprisingly, X users locked out in the cold after botched aut...

Researchers show that training on “junk data” can lead to LLM “brain rot” When AI writes code, humans clean up the mess Digital ID is now less about illegal working, more about rummaging through drawers BRUSH EXPLOIT CAN CAUSE ANY CHROMIUM BROWSER TO COLLAPSE IN 15-60 SECONDS EY EXPOSES 4TB SQL SERVER BACKUP PUBLICLY ON MICROSOFT AZURE Meet the new Clippy: Microsoft unveils Copilot's "Mico" avatar...

Pheonix and PhoneBoy are joined by DameBemrose and discuss the latest AI bullshit, Microsoft Bugs, F5's Secuity Breach, and More!

Walmart CEO expects AI will 'change literally every job' - not just engineering | ZDNET Chatbots Play With Your Emotions to Avoid Saying Goodbye Self-driving Waymo pulled over for illegal U-turn, officer has no one to ticket Three Ai agents realize they're all AI, then switch to a Secret Language… Abusing Notion's AI Agent for Data Theft This app will pay you $30/day to record your phone calls for...

The Bens talk AI everywhere we don't want it to be, CISA wants to pwn CVE, self-replcating worms thanks to npm, and more!

The Bens discuss the Salesloft Breach, Perl, More AI flaws, trademarking telepathy, infostealer porn, the cult of cryptocurrency, and more!

Your favorite Bens get discuss their objections to AI, and yet somehow find a story that isn't so bad.

The Bens discuss the latest Microsoft, AI and car bullshit, pointless phishing training, EV adoption, and more!

Call Center workers complain about being called a robot after acting like a robot on Yahoo and Slashdot Reddit is the source of LLM hallucinations Carrot isn't working for Win11. MSFT gets the stick on PCWorld and Techspot Man goes on sodium bromide diet on ChatGPT's suggestion; starts hallucinating alongside the AI Why do we still think it's a good idea to support formats that you can embed code...

Pheonix, PhoneBoy, and SirBemrose talk about Windows Security, Vulnernable Hardware, stupid programming tricks, and hiding malware in DNS