Remember when government agents didn’t wear masks? While watching us now seems like the least of its sins, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was once best known (and despised) for its multi-billion-dollar surveillance tech budget.… READ MORE HERE…

Image generation paywalled on X after ministers and regulators start asking awkward questions Grok has yanked its image-generation toy out of the hands of most X users after the UK government openly weighed a ban over the AI feature that “undressed” people on command.… READ MORE HERE…

Authentication is basically solved. Authorization is another thing entirely… CrowdStrike has signed a $740 million deal to buy identity security startup SGNL. The move underscores the growing threat of identity-based attacks as companies struggle to secure skyrocketing numbers of non-human identities, including AI agents.… READ MORE HERE…

Company says it dropped the ball, apologizes for wasting people’s time Logitech says an expired developer certificate is to blame after swaths of customers were left infuriated when their mice malfunctioned.… READ MORE HERE…

Prompt injection lets risky commands slip past guardrails IBM describes its coding agent thus: “Bob is your AI software development partner that understands your intent, repo, and security standards.” Unfortunately, Bob doesn’t always follow those security standards.… READ MORE HERE…