Despite Cease-Fire, Iran Continues Cyberattacks Against U.S. Targets

Iran has continued its cyberspace operations since the cease-fire with the United States began on April 8, according to Western cybersecurity experts and former U.S. intelligence officials. In doing so, Tehran is trying to keep up pressure on the United States and Israel but also positioning itself to mount a bigger retaliation if peace talks do not resume.

U.S. Lawyers Warn Clients About Confidentiality Limits on AI Services

As people increasingly turn to artificial intelligence for advice, some U.S. lawyers are telling their clients not to treat AI chatbots like trusted confidants when their freedom or legal liability is on the line. These warnings became more urgent after a federal judge in New York ruled, opens new tab this year that the former CEO of a bankrupt financial ​services company could not shield his AI chats from prosecutors pursuing securities fraud charges against him.

European Commission Threatens Meta Over WhatsApp AI Limits

Meta Platforms Inc. has been threatened with an interim European Union ban on policies that allegedly block rival AI firms from operating on WhatsApp, unless the tech giant offers fixes that appease the bloc’s concerns. In a so-called supplementary statement of objections, the European Commission said it intends to “impose interim measures to prevent these policy changes from causing serious and irreparable harm on the market, subject to Meta’s reply and rights of defence.”

FCC Gives Netgear Temporary Exemption from Ban on Foreign Routers

The FCC has just granted Netgear a conditional approval to import its future consumer routers, cable modems, and cable gateways into the U.S. through October 1, 2027 — even though the company builds those devices in Asia and has not announced any plan to bring manufacturing to the United States. Neither the FCC’s announcement nor Netgear’s announcement explain why Netgear was granted the temporary exemption.

Judge Denies Anthropic's Preliminary Injunction in Pentagon Dispute

A federal appeals court denied Anthropic’s request for relief from the Defense Department declaring the company a supply-chain risk, complicating the legal battle between the U.S. government and one of the country’s leading artificial-intelligence companies. While Anthropic has sustained financial harm from the Pentagon’s actions, the appeals court said that it didn’t feel strongly enough to override the government on a matter of national security.

Pro-Iranian Group Claims Credit for Attacks on Chime, Pinterest

A pro-Iranian cybercrime group has claimed responsibility for cyberattacks on Chime Financial Inc. and Pinterest Inc. that knocked the websites of both companies offline. Chime, a San Francisco-based fintech company, was hit with a distributed-denial-of-service attack on April 1, according to a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be named to discuss internal information.

Cybersecurity Experts Increase Warnings as AI Tools Increase in Power

As Anthropic and its chief rival, OpenAI, prepare to release new and more powerful artificial intelligence systems, cybersecurity experts are increasingly vocal in their warnings that A.I. is fundamentally changing cybersecurity. Technology from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and other companies could allow hackers to identify security holes in computer systems far faster than in the past, vastly raising the stakes in the decades-long fight between hackers and the security experts guarding computer networks.

North Korean Cyberattack Likely Took Weeks to Carry Out

A North Korean cyberattack that briefly hijacked one of the most widely used open source projects on the web took weeks to carry out as part of a long-running campaign to target the code’s top developers. The hijacking of the Axios project on March 31 was in part successful because it relied on well-resourced hackers building rapport and trust with their intended target over a long period of time to increase their odds of a successful eventual compromise.

Apple Again Wants Supreme Court to Review Commissions in Epic Games Case

The legal battle between Epic Games and Apple is escalating once again, as Apple is asking for the Supreme Court to review when and how it can charge commissions on mobile purchases made via third-party payment systems. The business has requested a motion to stay on a lower court ruling regarding the fees Apple charges to software developers using those external financial systems rather than the App Store.

OpenAI Wants California, Delaware to Probe Musk's 'Anti-Competitive Behavior'

OpenAI urged the California and Delaware attorneys general to consider investigating Elon Musk and his associates' "improper and anti-competitive behavior", ​ahead of a trial between the two sides set ‌to begin this month. Musk sued OpenAI, its CEO Sam Altman and others in 2024, accusing them of violating OpenAI's founding mission as it ​restructures to a for-profit entity.

Lawsuit Accuses Perplexity of Sharing User Data with Meta, Google

Perplexity AI Inc. was accused in a lawsuit of surreptitiously sharing the personal information of its users with Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google in violation of California privacy laws. As soon as users log into Perplexity’s home page, trackers are downloaded onto their devices, giving Meta and Google full access to the conversations between them and Perplexity’s AI Machine search engine, according to the proposed class-action complaint filed Tuesday in federal court in San Francisco.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Targets U.S. Tech Companies

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said that it plans to target major U.S. technology companies across the Middle East, including Apple, Microsoft and Google, amid the ongoing war. In a statement published by Sepah News, the IRGC’s official news outlet, the military arm named 18 companies that it accused of being involved in planning and tracking targets for U.S. attacks.

Anthropic Sends Thousands of Takedown Notices for Claude Code

Anthropic is racing to contain the fallout after accidentally exposing the underlying instructions it uses to direct Claude Code, the popular artificial-intelligence agent app that has won the company an edge with developers and businesses. Anthropic representatives have used a copyright takedown request to force the removal of more than 8,000 copies and adaptations of the raw Claude Code instructions — known as source code — that developers had shared on programming platform GitHub.

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