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Anthropic's Claude is at the center of a significant privacy story this evening. Shared conversations and AI-generated artifacts created inside Claude turned up publicly searchable on both Google and Bing over the weekend, after users discovered that simple search operators could surface a long list of chats — some containing sensitive personal and health information. Anthropic hasn't yet explained how web crawlers gained access to content users likely assumed was private.
On the malware front, a newly detailed threat called SparkKitty has been found lurking inside apps that made it through both Apple's App Store and Google Play. The malware quietly scanned photos on infected devices, hunting specifically for cryptocurrency wallet seed phrases — the master keys that give anyone full access to a digital wallet. It's a reminder that even curated app stores aren't airtight.
And turning to financial markets, prediction market traders on Polymarket and Myriad have pushed the odds of a surprise Federal Reserve rate hike in July up to twenty-seven percent — a jump of double digits in just twenty-four hours. That's a notable swing, and it signals real uncertainty about where monetary policy is headed in the near term.
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