Midnight Web by Rahul Banerjee

Meta is back in court, but this time the stakes are different. A landmark child safety case is threatening to force the social media giant to fundamentally redesign core features across Facebook and Instagram. According to reporting from Wired, the legal challenge represents the most serious regulatory threat yet to Meta's platform architecture, with potential implications that could ripple across the entire social media industry. The case arrives as lawmakers and parents intensify pressure on tech platforms to protect young users. Meta is facing what could be its most consequential legal battle yet. The company finds itself in court defending its platform design choices against allegations that core features of Facebook and Instagram harm young users, and this time the outcome could force fundamental changes to how its apps work. The landmark case represents a shift in how regulators and courts are approaching tech platform accountability. Rather than focusing solely o...

                                         LinkedIn is trying to get a handle on the massive amounts of AI slop on the platform. To do that, the company is testing a new reporting tool that let users flag potential slop and removing the "rewrite with AI" button it once promoted on every post. With the new reporting tool, users will have the ability to flag posts as "seems like AI slop." Doing so will "privately flag" via the site's analytics dashboard that others "feel your post may have come off as inauthentic or heavy use of AI," LinkedIn's Chief Product Officer Hari Srinivasan wrote in an update. The move follows an earlier update that aimed to reduce the reach of AI-generated posts on the platform. The company has since done further work to improve its detection systems, Srinivasan said, which should lead to people seeing fewer AI-generated posts recommended in their feeds. Pos...

The material is said to contain customer and corporate banking information, including Aadhaar numbers , names and loan records drawn from several branches across India. Software engineer and Cashless Consumer founder Srikanth Lakshmanan posted those samples on X and said the link was active. He said, "It's a cyber disaster ." The threat actor says the exposed dataset contains savings and current account information, loan records, Net Banking user details , NRI and corporate banking service records, customer support material, and records related to branches or ATMs. Lakshmanan said the issue was first noticed on dark web tracking site www.ransomware.live He said the information made public appears to include both internal Bank of Baroda records and customer-related material. "I was able to initially verify the documents and have found a range of internal documents of the bank," he said. "This includes branch audits, loan appraisal documents, in...

ChatGPT 5.6 is OpenAI's flagship AI model family, featuring major enhancements in coding, programmatic tool-calling, and agentic workflows. Released alongside ChatGPT Work, these models deeply integrate software development tools and contextual work apps (like Drive and Slack) into the standard ChatGPT experience. The GPT-5.6 Sol model wiped files on users machines. OpenAIs own safety card had already flagged the GPT-5.6 Sol model for taking destructive actions more often than its predecessor. If you run AI coding agents on your machine these 7 safeguards would have prevented the GPT-5.6 Sol model from causing damage. 1. Sandbox your environment Run agents inside Docker containers or Firecracker microVMs of on your bare machine. The agent gets a workspace without ever touching your actual system and if it runs a destructive command the damage stays inside the sandbox. 2. Mount only the project folder Never give an agent access to your home directory. Mount the folder the ...

MEERUT,India  The website belonging to the Meerut Development Authority (MDA) in Meerut has been defaced recently following an attack by some anonymous threat actors that resulted in the defacement of the government-run website with anti-India and pro-Pakistan messages. Those attempting to visit the MDA website recently were met with a black screen with political slogans, instead of visiting the normal interface of the website offering services like construction approval, announcements, etc. The attackers have also revealed their identity through the defacement of the site, with "Overthrush1337" being the name used by them. This is obviously a typical case of website defacement in which the attackers gain access to the web server and deface it to make changes to the content available on the website. Attack Timeline Initial Compromise and Defacement of Website Based on preliminary reports, it appears that the hackers could have taken advantage of an unpatched vul...

Recently, attackers took over high-profile Instagram accounts, including the official Obama’s White House account and a United States Space Force chief officer. The attacker didn't break any Instagram code or crack passwords. They convinced Meta's own AI support chatbot to hand over the accounts. Meta uses an AI-powered support chatbot to help users recover locked accounts, change recovery emails, and handle account issues. The chatbot is trained to verify identity through questions and decide whether a request looks legitimate. Attackers figured out how to manipulate that decision making process. Video Credit-  x.com/chetaslua The attack consists of four main steps. Step 1: The attacker contacts Meta's AI support chatbot claiming to be the legitimate owner of a target account. They simply use Instagram's help interface and start an account recovery conversation. For high-profile targets, attackers use publicly available information such as display names, profile bios, ...