How 3.5B WhatsApp numbers were scraped and exposed

Researchers exploited WhatsApp's API vulnerability to scrape 3.5 billion phone numbers. Learn how this massive data breach happened and protect yourself.
The Hacker News

ToddyCat's New Hacking Tools Steal Outlook Emails and Microsoft 365 Access Tokens

ToddyCat upgrades tools like TCSectorCopy and TomBerBil to steal corporate email and browser data, targeting Outlook and ...
CNET

Wikipedia Asks AI Companies to Stop Scraping Data and to Start Paying Up

The free internet encyclopedia is the seventh-most visited website in the world, and it wants to stay that way. Imad is a senior reporter covering Google and internet culture. Hailing from Texas, Imad ...
The New York Times

How A.I. Can Use Your Personal Data to Hurt Your Neighbor

Dr. Kasy is the author of the book “The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits).” Imagine applying for a job. You know you’re a strong candidate with a standout résumé. But you don ...
SiliconANGLE

Reddit is suing Perplexity and AI data scraping firms for using its data without permission

Reddit Inc. has launched lawsuits against startup Perplexity AI Inc. and three data-scraping service providers for trawling the company’s copyrighted content to be used to train AI models. Reddit ...
Inc

Reddit Sued Perplexity for Data Scraping—and Compared the Startup to a ‘North Korean Hacker’

On Wednesday, Reddit filed a lawsuit against AI company Perplexity and three other companies alleging the AI company illegally scraped Reddit data through the use of data scraping companies based in ...
Reuters

Reddit sues Perplexity for scraping data to train AI system

Oct 22 (Reuters) - Social media platform Reddit (RDDT.N), opens new tab sued artificial intelligence startup Perplexity in New York federal court on Wednesday, accusing it and three other companies of ...
The Verge

Reddit sues Perplexity for allegedly ripping its content to feed AI

Reddit is selling your posts to AI companies, and now it’s suing to stop the ones who won’t pay. Reddit is selling your posts to AI companies, and now it’s suing to stop the ones who won’t pay. is a ...
ZDNet

You can use Anthropic's popular Claude Code tool on the web now - how to get access

This means you can start coding sessions outside the terminal. It is available in research preview for Pro and Max users. Anthropic's Claude Code tool has become a go-to-assistant for developer's ...
VentureBeat

Google's AI can now surf the web for you, click on buttons, and fill out forms with Gemini 2.5 Computer Use

Some of the largest providers of large language models (LLMs) have sought to move beyond multimodal chatbots — extending their models out into "agents" that can actually take more actions on behalf of ...
Bleeping Computer

LinkedIn sues ProAPIs for using 1M fake accounts to scrape user data

LinkedIn has filed a lawsuit against Delaware company ProAPIs Inc. and its founder and CTO, Rehmat Alam, for allegedly scraping legitimate data through more than a million fake accounts. ProAPIs ...