Under Scrutiny
Eight states sue OpenAI, Anthropic shows its Q3 numbers before an IPO, and spyware rides in on ads.
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Spyware is arriving via ads, according to Citizen Lab, which published the first technical evidence of mercenary spyware distributed through online advertising. Researchers found two Israeli companies manipulated ads to install surveillance software on dozens of computers at Al Jazeera.(paywalled)
Why it matters If ad networks can deliver targeted surveillance tools, even people who never click anything are exposed.
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YouTube Music now labels AI songs with a Made with AI tag on the player page, covering tracks that were altered or fully generated using AI, including partial uses such as composition and vocals.
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Palo Alto patches an exploited zero-day in PAN-OS, a high-severity remote code execution flaw tracked as CVE-2026-0322 that has been used against firewalls. CISA has added it to its catalog of known exploited vulnerabilities.
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WhatsApp now lets anyone join calls as a guest through an invite link, no account required, with free end-to-end encrypted calls, though guests currently have to join from a desktop.
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