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Welcome to Kernel Panic! A weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To receive this newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up here. When every random text message feels like it’s a scam, and with AI supercharging digital fraud, old-time credit card … Read more
San Francisco, USA, September 25th, 2026/CyberNewswire/–Archipelo today announced Salmon, Execution Verification Infrastructure (EVI) for AI agents and autonomous systems, powered by a cryptographic protocol designed to make execution history verifiable. Salmon establishes verifiable execution history and state lineage across humans, AI agents, and automation. The launch follows the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident, in which OpenAI reported … Read more
When Alexandru Voica, head of corporate affairs at the video-generation startup Synthesia, sent me a link this summer to the newest addition to their PR team, I was surprised. It was an interactive virtual avatar of him, trained to answer common press questions about Synthesia, like what it does and how it works. The day … Read more
Home > Lawsuits > A Washington federal court has ordered former r/SwitchPirates moderator James ‘Archbox’ Williams to pay Nintendo $4.5 million in damages. The default judgment includes a permanent injunction that prohibits Williams from distributing pirated games and circumvention tools, or encouraging others to use them. Whether Nintendo will be able to recoup the damages … Read more
The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the evolution of the platform economy—from the optimism of the early internet to the growing tensions around … Read more