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Open-Source Tool Makes US Presidential Pardons Searchable
A developer built Pardonned.com, a searchable database of US presidential pardons, after wanting to fact-check claims made in videos by Liz Oyer. The site scrap
OpenAI adds $100 ChatGPT Pro tier, mirroring Anthropic's coder-focused pricing
OpenAI has slotted a new $100 ChatGPT Pro tier between its $20 Plus plan and the $200 heavy-use option, closing what had been a $180 pricing gap and directly ma
Operation Atlantic: NCA-led sweep IDs 20,000 crypto fraud victims, freezes $12M
A week-long joint operation coordinated from the UK National Crime Agency's London headquarters identified more than 20,000 victims of cryptocurrency fraud acro
Orange Business Bets on AI and Trust Frameworks for Enterprise Voice
Orange Business is overhauling its approach to enterprise voice communications by integrating AI capabilities and trust-based security models. The initiative ai
Patients Sue Sutter Health, MemorialCare Over Unconsented AI Visit Recording
A proposed class-action lawsuit filed in San Francisco federal court accuses Sutter Health and MemorialCare of deploying Abridge AI to transcribe doctor-patient
Qualys: 88% of weaponized CVEs patched slower than exploited, manual remediation hits hard ceiling
Qualys analyzed over a billion CISA KEV remediation records from 10,000 organizations across four years and found the operational model of enterprise vulnerabil
Simon Willison Shares Podcast Snippet on Kākāpō Parrots
Simon Willison published a short post pointing to a snippet from a 1 hour 40 minute podcast recording with Lenny, with the highlighted clip focused on kākāpō pa
Small, Cheap AI Models Match Mythos on Flagship Vulnerability Finds
Security firm AISLE ran Anthropic's showcase Mythos vulnerabilities through small, open-weights models and found they recovered much of the same analysis. All e
South Korea Guarantees Free 400 Kbps Mobile Data for All Citizens
South Korea has rolled out a universal basic mobile data program giving over seven million subscribers unlimited 400 Kbps downloads once their paid data caps ar
Squid Jigging Fleet Explodes 35x in South Pacific as Catches Crater
The South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization governs 59 million square kilometers of high seas where regulation is structurally weak. Jumbo flyi
Troy Hunt builds Xero auto-suspension after customer drags HIBP invoices 80+ days late
Hunt spent the week dealing with an unnamed enterprise customer whose invoices were running more than six months overdue, averaging 80-day payment cycles agains
Troy Hunt: HIBP team leans harder on Claude agents, $854/week in tokens and counting
Have I Been Pwned is shifting an increasing share of routine work onto Claude-powered agents wired through a custom orchestrator the team calls OpenClaw. Hunt r