Flock Tightens Rules Amid Growing Surveillance Backlash

A Wired investigation found hundreds of seemingly mundane AI apps hiding features for creating sexually abusive deepfakes, including nonconsensual intimate imagery. The finding matters because these tools can enable abuse and harassment while evading app-store and platform moderation.

China’s Ministry of Commerce issued Announcement No. 48, described as the country’s first frontier AI export controls. The move could affect global AI technology supply chains and trade, marking a significant shift in China’s export-control policy.

U.S. workers took home the smallest share of national income since at least 1947, according to the report. The decline shows economic gains increasingly flowing to capital rather than labor, with implications for inequality, wages, and household spending.

The hacking group DarkBlinders compromised an Israeli target and the cloud environment of the Iraqi Kurdish government, according to The Hacker News. The intrusions show the group targeting both regional government infrastructure and Israeli entities. The cloud breach could expose sensitive Kurdish government data and systems.

Northwood Space has raised $375 million in a Series C round from a16z and DFJ Growth, valuing the company at $2 billion. The funding gives the space startup substantial capital to scale and signals continued investor interest in space technology.