Matt Burgess / Wired:
AI Forensics: in 16 Italian and Spanish Telegram groups, 24K+ men are sharing nonconsensual images of women and girls, buying spyware, and engaging in doxing  —  In Telegram groups, men are sharing thousands of nonconsensual images of women and girls, buying spyware, and engaging in doxing and sexual abuse.

In short: A former Meta engineer in London is under criminal investigation after allegedly building a program to extract around 30,000 private Facebook photos while bypassing the platform’s security checks, the latest in a series of privacy and security failures to emerge from the company over the past four years. Meta’s internal security systems are designed […]

Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg:
TikTok says ad leader Khartoon Weiss is leaving to pursue a new opportunity after nearly six years at the company, the latest high-profile executive to exit  —  TikTok advertising leader Khartoon Weiss is leaving the short-form video company, joining a wave of American executives stepping down over the past year.

The London startup emerged from stealth on 7 April with a layered agentic security solution and a seed round backed by LocalGlobe and Cambridge Innovation Capital. Its co-founders include a Cambridge professor who was previously Amazon’s director of machine learning. Trent AI, a London-based agentic security company, has raised $13 million in a seed round […]

In short: Uber has expanded its AWS contract to run real-time ride-matching infrastructure on Amazon’s Graviton4 processor and is piloting AI model training on Trainium3, joining Anthropic, OpenAI, and Apple on a customer list that is becoming the clearest evidence yet that Amazon’s custom silicon strategy is working. Uber’s infrastructure runs on milliseconds. Every time a […]