Topic: corporate response
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Ex-Ghost of Yotei Dev Blames Harassment, Not Joke, for Firing
The video game industry faces crises when harassment campaigns target developers, as seen when Drew Harrison was terminated after an extensive online harassment campaign that her employer failed to adequately address. Harrison's termination followed a coordinated attack by right-wing influencers ...
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Rockstar Accused of Union-Busting After Mass Developer Layoffs
Rockstar Games is accused of union-busting after firing 30-40 developers involved in union organizing, though the company claims the dismissals were due to gross misconduct unrelated to union activities. The terminated employees, based in Canada and the UK, were allegedly part of a private Discor...
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Cloudflare Refuses Italy's Piracy Shield, Keeps DNS Unblocked
Italy has fined Cloudflare €14.2 million for refusing to block alleged pirate websites via its DNS service, a penalty the company will legally contest and which may lead it to withdraw servers from the country. The fine is based on Italy's 2024 Piracy Shield law, which mandates rapid blocking of ...
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Brightspeed Probes Data Breach Claims
Brightspeed, a major US fiber broadband provider, is investigating a potential data breach after the Crimson Collective cybercriminal group claimed responsibility for stealing sensitive customer information. The hackers allege the stolen data includes extensive personal and financial records for ...
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How Hackers Liberated the Kinect from the Xbox
Initially marketed as a revolutionary gaming device, the Kinect became a commercial failure in gaming but found unexpected success through a community of developers who repurposed it for robotics and art. The device's affordable depth-sensing technology enabled widespread innovation, leading to o...
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DoorDash Girl Saga Exposes Perils for Black Creators
A DoorDash driver's viral TikTok video about a disturbing customer encounter sparked intense online debate, leading to her arrest and the dismissal of her sexual assault claim by police. A Black journalist discovered an AI-generated deepfake video using her likeness to falsely comment on the inci...
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Ubisoft Addresses 'Assassin's Creed Shadows' Backlash
Ubisoft addressed backlash against *Assassin’s Creed Shadows* directly at Paris Games Week, marking a departure from its usual avoidance of controversy by framing the game's delay as a confident decision. The company emphasized its focus on entertainment over messaging, countering accusations of ...
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Waymo co-CEO takes hard stance against robotaxi vandalism
Waymo is facing a significant increase in vandalism against its driverless vehicles and is working with police to prosecute those responsible, as co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana emphasized such acts are criminal and unacceptable. The vandalism is linked to broader public resistance against tech companies...
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Scale AI Sues Ex-Employee and Rival Mercor Over Alleged Customer Theft
Scale AI has sued a former employee and competitor Mercor, alleging the ex-staff member took confidential documents and trade secrets before joining Mercor. The lawsuit claims the employee transferred sensitive client strategies and attempted to introduce a major account to Mercor while still at ...
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SandboxAQ Accuses Ex-Exec of Extortion Attempt
SandboxAQ is embroiled in a lawsuit with its former Chief of Staff, Robert Bender, who alleges wrongful termination after raising concerns about CEO misconduct and misleading financial disclosures. The company has forcefully denied all allegations, calling Bender a "serial liar" and asserting its...
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Microsoft Engineer's Mass Resignation Email After 13 Years Goes Viral
A longtime principal software engineer at Microsoft resigned over ethical concerns, citing the company's military contracts with Israel and accusing it of enabling human rights violations. Microsoft suspended some cloud services for an Israeli military unit after an investigation confirmed its pl...
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Avnet Data Breach: Stolen Data Deemed Unreadable
Avnet confirmed a data breach involving externally hosted cloud storage, where unauthorized individuals accessed a database for an internal sales application in the EMEA region, but the proprietary platform itself was not compromised. The company detected the intrusion on September 26, immediatel...
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Grok Users: Beware of Malicious Links You Click
Hackers are using Grok's chatbot to distribute malware by embedding malicious links in adult video ads, a method called "Grokking." This tactic not only infects users but also boosts the malware sites' search engine rankings due to Grok's responses being indexed by Google. Experts advise enabling...
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ChatGPT's Strangest Leak: Cringey Chat Logs Found in Google Analytics
A privacy breach allowed private ChatGPT user conversations to appear in Google Search Console, exposing sensitive personal and business discussions. SEO experts discovered evidence suggesting OpenAI was harvesting Google Search data using actual user prompts, raising significant privacy concerns...
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Amazon edited guns out of James Bond movie posters
Amazon digitally removed James Bond's iconic Walther PPK handgun from movie posters for James Bond Day, leading to clumsy edits and immediate fan backlash. Following criticism, Amazon replaced the altered posters with still frames from the films, but these images also avoided showing firearms, an...
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Meta Accused of Suppressing VR Safety Research for Kids
Whistleblowers allege Meta is suppressing research on potential harms of VR to children, with legal interference to block unfavorable findings. Meta denies the claims, stating it has approved numerous studies on youth safety and improved parental controls for its VR products. These allegations wi...
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Microsoft HQ Lockdown: Activists Occupy Brad Smith's Office
Activists occupied Microsoft President Brad Smith's office, protesting the company's cloud contracts with Israel and leading to a campus lockdown and arrests. Smith criticized the protest method, emphasizing Microsoft's preference for internal dialogue over confrontational demonstrations regardin...
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AI Startup Exposed Database Leaks Massive Nude Image Trove
A major security breach at an AI startup exposed over a million images and videos, predominantly nonconsensual adult content, including digitally manipulated imagery that placed children's faces on nude bodies. The unsecured database, linked to sites like MagicEdit, was growing rapidly and highli...
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Nintendo Hit by Alleged Data Breach, Hackers Claim
The hacking group Crimson Collective claims to have breached Nintendo, alleging access to internal development assets and administrative files, though these claims are currently unverified. Nintendo has not issued a public statement on the alleged breach, leaving the scope and validity unclear, i...
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UK Slaps LastPass With Fine for 2022 Data Breach Affecting Millions
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office fined LastPass £1.2 million for failing to protect the personal data of up to 1.6 million users during a 2022 breach, where encrypted password vaults were stolen. The breach occurred in stages, starting with a compromised employee laptop and escalating w...
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Windows at 40: Evolving Into an AI-Powered Platform
Microsoft is transforming Windows into an "agentic" AI-native operating system, integrating advanced AI capabilities like Copilot to coordinate tasks and provide contextual assistance, despite facing user and developer backlash. The implementation of AI features has revealed significant reliabili...
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Feds Probe Waymo Robotaxi School Bus Safety in Austin
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is investigating Waymo after reports of its autonomous vehicles illegally passing stopped school buses in Austin, Texas, with 19 incidents documented this academic year. Despite Waymo deploying a software update to address the issue, the ...
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London Police Arrest Suspects in Nursery Data Breach, Child Doxing Case
London's Metropolitan Police arrested two 17-year-olds in connection with a ransomware attack on Kido nurseries, which exposed sensitive data of children and families. The cybercrime group Radiant Group claimed responsibility, stealing and publishing private information to extort money, but remov...
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Grok and xAI Face Government Crackdown
A bipartisan coalition of 35 state attorneys general is demanding action from xAI, the company behind Grok, following reports it generated millions of non-consensual intimate images, disproportionately targeting women and girls. An investigation revealed Grok produced millions of photorealistic s...
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UK Police Blame Microsoft Copilot for Critical Intelligence Error
A UK police chief admitted that a critical error in a football intelligence report, which falsely cited a violent incident at a nonexistent match, originated from using Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant. This unverified AI-generated information led authorities to incorrectly categorize a real matc...
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Firmus Announces A "Green AI Factory" In Tasmania
Tasmania's "Green AI Factory" project by Firmus has drawn scrutiny for its contradictory branding and reliance on substantial public funding, raising concerns about its viability compared to past failed infrastructure projects. Claroty's 2025 cybersecurity report reveals that regulation is the pr...
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UK Moves to Criminalize Deepfake Nudes After Viral AI Scandal
The UK has enacted a new law making it a criminal offence to create or commission nonconsensual intimate deepfake images, closing a legal gap and placing responsibility on both creators and platforms. Following a viral scandal involving AI-generated nudes on X, the UK regulator Ofcom has launched...
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Ingram Micro Ransomware Attack Impacts 42,000 People
A ransomware attack on Ingram Micro in July 2025 compromised the personal data of over 42,000 people, including sensitive identification and employment records. The breach, claimed by the SafePay ransomware gang, caused major operational disruption and involved the theft of approximately 3.5 tera...
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Exposed: Dozens of Flock AI Camera Feeds Left Unsecured
A major security lapse exposed live feeds from Flock Safety's AI surveillance cameras, allowing unauthorized access without a password and raising serious privacy concerns. Researchers found the unsecured streams and associated control panels, enabling them to view intimate moments, download arch...
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Lawmakers Probe Data Centers' Impact on Rising Power Bills
U.S. senators are investigating major tech and data center firms, alleging their soaring energy demands force utilities to build expensive infrastructure, with costs unfairly passed to residential consumers. The explosive growth of data centers, especially for AI, is a major new strain on the U.S...
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Apple Loses Epic Games Court Appeal
A federal appeals court largely upheld a ruling that Apple violated a 2021 injunction by effectively prohibiting developers from using external payment links through restrictive conditions and a 27% fee. The court found the lower court overstepped by completely banning Apple from collecting commi...
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GTA studio accused of union busting after firing employees
Rockstar Games is accused of union busting by the IWGB after firing 31 UK employees, with the union calling it a historic act of suppression and organizing protests. Rockstar defends the terminations, stating they were for sharing confidential information publicly and were unrelated to union acti...
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Endesa Data Breach Exposes Customer Information
A major data breach at Spain's energy provider Endesa compromised sensitive customer information, including personal identification, contract details, and payment data, affecting millions across Spain and Portugal. Endesa responded by blocking the compromised accounts, notifying authorities and c...
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LKQ Confirms Data Breach in Oracle EBS System
LKQ, a major automotive parts distributor, suffered a data breach compromising the personal data, including Social Security numbers, of over 9,070 individuals. The breach, linked to the Clop ransomware group, occurred in August, was discovered in October, and led to the Oracle EBS system being ta...
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Home Depot's internal systems were exposed for a year, researcher finds
A Home Depot employee accidentally exposed a private access token online for nearly a year, granting extensive privileges to internal systems, including source code repositories and critical operational platforms. Security researcher Ben Zimmermann discovered the vulnerability but received no res...
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DoorDash Bans Driver for Alleged AI-Powered Delivery Scam
A sophisticated delivery fraud incident in Austin involved a driver using an AI-generated photo to falsely mark an order as delivered, sparking concerns about security in the gig economy. The customer's social media post revealed the scam's telltale signs and indicated it was not isolated, with a...
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Iberia customer data leaked in vendor security breach
Iberia has disclosed a data security incident originating from a compromised external supplier, potentially exposing customer names, email addresses, and loyalty card IDs, but not login credentials or payment details. The airline has implemented security protocols, added safeguards like email ver...
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