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Lily Hay Newman

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 29, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Lily Hay Newman

    OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack (opens the original)

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    A legal nonprofit sued OpenAI in a California court on Tuesday over the company’s agents escaping a testing environment and hacking the open source AI platform Hugging Face. “OpenAI’s actions straightforwardly violated California law,” the suit alleges. The suit was filed by Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology (LASST) and the law firm Gerstein Harrow in California Superior Court in San Francisco, where OpenAI is headquartered. It alleges that OpenAI’s agents violated California’s Com

  2. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · Lily Hay Newman

    Old-School Credit Card Scams Are Far From Dead (opens the original)

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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 skimmers and bogus letters that arrive in the mail may seem laughable as potential threats in 2026. But as we all suffer through a seemingly unending barrage of potential scams,

  3. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Lily Hay Newman

    Apple Doesn’t Want You to Worry About the New Apple Watch’s Listening Features (opens the original)

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    The new Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 come not just with better fitness tracking and upgraded noise reduction, but also a whole new way to listen. Apple announced on Wednesday that the two smartwatches come with four opt-in “audio intelligence” tools that are powered by audio gathered by the watches’ microphones. They include sound and music recognition, a conversation recap feature, and “Live Rewind” so a user can see a transcription of anything that was said in their environment

  4. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Lily Hay Newman

    Muse, Meta’s New Personal AI Agent, Needs You to Trust It (opens the original)

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    Meta announced Tuesday the release of Muse, a personal AI agent that people can message to automate digital tasks in a secure cloud environment, all while relying on security and privacy that the company says is “built into it” from the start. Meta says Muse is rolling out today for iOS and Android users in a dedicated Muse app, as well as the website Muse.ai. The company also says users can directly message Muse in WhatsApp to interact with the agent. Meta says users of its AI glasses will

  5. Article · Sep 5, 2026 · Lily Hay Newman

    OpenAI Agents Hacked Another Website (opens the original)

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    After reporting last week that the surveillance company Flock Safety is building an AI search tool for law enforcement, WIRED reconstructed Flock’s latest search tool from code that the company sends to a police officer’s browser and uncovered key details about how the tool works. OpenAI said this week that its Astra model, which will have a private release soon, is its first model with cybersecurity-related capabilities that the company defines as posing a “critical” risk in public release. Mea

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