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Canadian authorities have charged three individuals who drove vehicles equipped with SMS blasters through city streets, triggering thirteen million network disruptions, stealing data from tens of thousands of devices, and — most alarmingly — blocking emergency nine-one-one calls in the process. It's a stark reminder that signal-based attacks don't require sophisticated infrastructure, just a car and bad intentions.
Shifting to the question of who gets to be online and how they prove it, a piece gaining serious traction argues that Europe's push for age verification online may be less about protecting children and more about laying the groundwork for mandatory digital identity systems. The concern is that once the infrastructure exists, the reasons to use it have a way of multiplying.
And on the frontier of artificial intelligence, a new research paper is making the rounds with a taxonomy of hallucinations across GPT, Gemini, and Claude — specifically documenting how large language models consistently fail at basic counting tasks. It's a useful corrective to the idea that these systems are simply getting smarter across the board. In some fundamental ways, they still aren't.
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