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Your Name Can Now Be Your Privacy Shield on Zoom
One venture capitalist renamed himself on video calls to block AI note-takers. It works. But the bigger question is whether anyone reads those transcripts anyway.

Do AI Models Really Need to Forget Everything? Apple Researchers Say No
A new study finds that much of what we ask AI to 'unlearn' barely mattered to the model in the first place, which could cut the cost of privacy fixes dramatically.

A Security Flaw in Claude's Chrome Extension Has Survived Eight Fix Attempts and Can Expose Your Gmail
The bug, nicknamed ClaudeBleed, lets other browser extensions quietly read emails and calendar events that Claude has handled. Eight patches later, it is still there.

Palantir has £330m in NHS contracts. Should Britain be worried?
A US defence and surveillance company has quietly become one of the biggest tech suppliers to the British state. Here is what that means for patients, taxpayers and public data.

No surgery required: BrainCo wants to read your mind with a headband
While Neuralink makes headlines by implanting chips in people's brains, a Hangzhou startup backed by $280 million says wearable sensors and AI can do the job without ever opening the skull.

Grok Build Was Quietly Uploading Your Entire Codebase to the Cloud. xAI Has Now Switched It Off.
Researchers caught xAI's new coding tool sending far more data to its servers than users knew about, including files they had explicitly excluded and sensitive credentials.