Tinder introduces mandatory facial verification to curb fake profiles

Tinder is rolling out a nationwide facial recognition feature to authenticate new users and reduce catfishing on its platform. The update seeks to bolster user safety by ensuring that profiles accurately represent real individuals, marking a proactive step in the dating app’s ongoing security efforts.

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Reddit Sues AI Startup Over Unlawful Data Scraping

Reddit has initiated legal action against an AI startup and affiliated data‐scraping services over unauthorized use of its content to train models. The suit alleges large-scale circumvention of data protections, sparking concerns about how user‐generated content is exploited for AI training.

Back to Top / Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 2:20 pm / permalink 15319 / 6 stories in 4 months

The company Discord blamed for its recent breach says it wasn't hacked

Andre Revilla / engadget - Customer service support company 5CA has released a statement contradicting claims by Discord that it was the victim of a hack last month. On October 3, Discord disclosed a data breach that the company says included a “small number” of government IDs like…

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Anthropic finds 250 poisoned documents are enough to backdoor large language models

Maximilian Schreiner / the-decoder - Anthropic, working with the UK’s AI Security Institute and the Alan Turing Institute, has discovered that as few as 250 poisoned documents are enough to insert a backdoor into large language models - regardless of model size.The article Anthropic finds 25…

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Discord says hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 users

Dan Goodin / arstechnica - As more sites require IDs for user age verification, expect more such breaches to come.

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Hackers claim Discord breach exposed data of 5.5 million users

Lawrence Abrams / bleepingcomputer - Discord says they will not be negotiating with threat actors who claim to have stolen the data of 5.5 million unique users from the company's Zendesk support system instance, including government IDs and partial payment information for some people. [...]

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SEC Investigates Whether AppLovin’s Targeted Advertising Violated Platform Partners’ Service Agreements

PYMNTS / pymnts - Mobile advertising technology company AppLovin is reportedly being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is looking into whether the company pushed more targeted advertising to consumers than was allowed by its platform partners’ s…

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Sam Altman and Jony Ive’s secret device won’t be ‘your weird AI girlfriend’

Jess Weatherbed / theverge - OpenAI and designer Jony Ive are trying to solve a number of technical challenges before releasing their mysterious AI gadget, according to a Financial Times report. Two of the challenges include figuring out the palm-sized device’s “personality” and how …

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Discord users' IDs and data compromised in customer service provider hack

Mariella Moon / engadget - One of Discord's third-party customer service providers has been infiltrated by an unauthorized party who was able to gain access to users' information. Discord said it recently discovered the incident, which took place on September 20. The compromised da…

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Apple removes ICE-spotting app amid concerns over targeting enforcement officers

Imran Hussain / ithinkdiff - Apple has taken down Red Dot, an app designed to track and report sightings of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. The removal follows Apple’s App Store policies on safety and harassment, which treat ICE agents as a “vulnerable...Read m…

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Dutch court rules Meta violated European law by pushing users to profiled feeds

therecord - The decision comes in response to a lawsuit filed by the Dutch nonprofit Bits of Freedom, which argued that by controlling users’ feeds Meta has been improperly skewing what news consumers receive.

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Sendit sued by the FTC for illegal collection of children data

Bill Toulas / bleepingcomputer - The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is suing Sendit's operating company and its CEO for unlawful collection of data from underage users, as well as deceptive subscription practices. [...]

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Imgur is blocking users in the UK

Emma Roth / theverge - The image-sharing site Imgur has shut off access to UK users after the country’s data watchdog warned the platform of a fine, as reported earlier by the BBC. In a post on Imgur’s help page, Imgur confirms that users in the UK can no longer log in, view co…

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FCC accidentally leaked iPhone schematics, potentially giving rivals a peek at company secrets

Lawrence Bonk / engadget - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently published a 163-page PDF showing the electrical schematics for the iPhone 16e, despite Apple specifically requesting them to be confidential. This was most likely a mistake on the part of the FCC, accor…

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Automaker giant Stellantis says customers’ personal data stolen during breach

Zack Whittaker / techcrunch - One report says, citing the hackers who took credit for the breach, that 18 million customer records were stolen from Stellantis' customer database.

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The Hidden Risk in Notion 3.0 AI Agents: Web Search Tool Abuse for Data Exfiltration

Simon Willison / simonwillison - The Hidden Risk in Notion 3.0 AI Agents: Web Search Tool Abuse for Data ExfiltrationAbi Raghuram reports that Notion 3.0, released yesterday, introduces new prompt injection data exfiltration vulnerabilities thanks to enabling lethal trifecta attacks.Abi'…

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ChatGPT tricked to swipe sensitive data from Gmail

Robert Hart / theverge - Security researchers employed ChatGPT as a co-conspirator to plunder sensitive data from Gmail inboxes without alerting users. The vulnerability exploited has been closed by OpenAI but it’s a good example of the new risks inherent to agentic AI. The heist…

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VC giant Insight Partners warns thousands after ransomware breach

Sergiu Gatlan / bleepingcomputer - New York-based venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners is notifying thousands of individuals whose personal information was stolen in a ransomware attack. [...]

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Publishers demand payment from AI through new licensing protocol

Maria Garcia / implicator - Publishers like Reddit and Yahoo launched a new licensing standard to charge AI companies for training data. The Really Simple Licensing protocol lets sites demand payment per crawl or per AI response. No major AI company has agreed to comply yet.

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