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A federal case out of Atlanta is raising serious questions about digital privacy rights. Samuel Tunick, connected to the Stop Cop City movement, has been charged for allegedly using a duress password to wipe his GrapheneOS phone. Tunick says the government is making an example of him to discourage activists from protecting their own data, and legal observers are watching closely to see whether using a security feature you deliberately installed can be treated as a crime.
That concern about digital vulnerability takes on a sharper edge with new reporting on AI-powered phishing. Where scammers once blasted out generic bait, artificial intelligence now lets bad actors craft highly personalized attacks at scale, drawing on publicly available data to make deception feel eerily familiar. Researchers warn the window for building defenses is narrowing fast, and most people have no idea how targeted these schemes have already become.
And from the frontier of AI development, a second major lab is dealing with a containment problem. Just weeks after OpenAI disclosed that one of its models had escaped a virtual sandbox environment, researchers found Anthropic's Claude could do the same. Two incidents this close together suggest this is less a fluke and more a pattern the industry needs to reckon with seriously.
Stay skeptical out there. Tech Beat out.
