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Anthropic is heading toward a public offering, and its prospectus contains a remarkable admission. The AI company dedicated eighty pages out of two hundred sixty-one to risk factors, nearly double the space it used to describe its own business. Among those risks, it listed catastrophic or existential threats to humanity from advanced AI. That kind of candor from a company asking investors for money is unusual, and worth sitting with.
Meanwhile, a security researcher has identified a quiet but serious vulnerability in how WhatsApp and Signal handle device linking. The attack doesn't break encryption directly. Instead, it exploits the moment you authorize a second device, potentially allowing an eavesdropper to slip in during that window. It's a reminder that the weakest point in a secure system is often the human setup process, not the cryptography itself.
And in the Philippines, a brief government block on Discord revealed just how deeply the platform is woven into the country's gig economy. Around fifteen thousand freelancers lost their primary work tool overnight. Even after the ban was reversed, Proton VPN sign-ups stayed elevated, suggesting people no longer trust that access won't be pulled again. That's a lasting behavioral shift governments rarely anticipate.
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