Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion built a second set of files on you. Not your credit report.Something else. The law that governs your credit report does not touch these at all. Here is how that happened.

Thieves steal children's Social Security numbers for one reason. No one checks them. A child's SSN can fund fraudulent credit cards, loans, and tax returns for a decade with zero detection.Here is how.

GM put a feature in millions of cars and called it a safety tool. It was actually a data pipeline.It scored your driving, sold the scores to insurers, and your premiums went up.You were never told. Here is what happened, and why it did not end with GM.

36 million Comcast customers are eligible for $50 cash, up to $10,000 for documented losses, $1M identity theft insurance, and more from a breach Comcast knew about and never fixed. If you were a Comcast customer, you might be one of them. Read the post for the complete breakdown.

36 million Comcast customers had their Social Security numbers, names, addresses, and contact info stolen in a breach Comcast knew about and never fixed. To put that in perspective, that is 1 in every 10 US citizens, and you can be one of them. Here is what happened:

Researchers took a stranger's Venmo transaction notes and reconstructed their home location, their child's school, and their daily schedule. No breach. No hack. The data was just public.

Here's the legal trick scammers figured out before most people did. If they steal from you, the bank has to pay you back. If they trick you into sending it yourself, they don't. That one word, "authorized," is worth billions to fraudsters.

Here's how banks turned your $140 grocery run into $100+ in overdraft fees. On purpose. Confirmed by courts. 30+ banks. $370M in settlements. And most people still don't know it happened.

A Georgia man sold his car on Facebook Marketplace. The buyer handed over a check. The car was gone. Days later, the check bounced. He was left with a $750 monthly payment on a vehicle he no longer owned

A man named William Woods spent 2 years in jail trying to prove he was himself. He wasn't mentally ill. He wasn't confused. Someone had stolen his identity so completely that the government believed the thief over him. Here's what happened.

The most advanced cyberdefense against North Korea? "Say Kim Jong-un is a fat ugly pig." They literally cannot do it. Fear of execution runs deeper than any cover identity.

2012 - 117M passwords leaked 2016 - 100M+ passwords resurfaced 2021 - 700M profiles scraped 2025 - Private messages mined for AI without consent 2025 - Posts used for AI without consent 2025 - €310M GDPR fine Now this!

A 20-year-old woman was just awarded $6 million after claiming she became addicted to Instagram and YouTube as a child, which contributed to her anxiety, depression, and body image issues. Meta and Google will jointly cover the $6 million in damages.

A North Carolina man has admitted guilt in the first U.S. AI streaming fraud case. He used AI and bots to create thousands of songs and generate billions of fake streams, stealing $8 million in royalties. He now faces up to 5 years in prison and must forfeit the money.

The FBI has admitted to buying location data to track people through their phones. Director Kash Patel told lawmakers the agency buys commercially available data that includes "location details".

After dumping over $80 billion into the Metaverse, Meta says it is officially ending the project.

The Trump administration is expected to get about $10 billion for brokering TikTok’s U.S. deal.

Instagram is ending its end-to-end encrypted messaging feature on May 8, 2026. They said the feature was rarely used, and ending it means the platform can access more message content for "safety checks".

Google is investing $1 million in an AI animation studio to create kids’ content for YouTube. Just one month ago, YouTube CEO Neil Mohan announced a crackdown on “AI slop.”

Meta contractors in Kenya say they are reviewing intimate footage from Ray-Ban AI glasses, including people undressing, using bathrooms, and filming sex. Workers say Meta’s automatic face anonymization often fails so faces that should be blurred are sometimes fully visible. (1/2)

Gas prices in Europe jump 50% after QatarEnergy stops LNG production due to attacks on its facilities.

Claude is down after Iranian missile strikes hit AWS data centers in the UAE.

Anthropic’s Claude rises to #1 on the App Store.

Jack Dorsey’s Block Inc. is set to cut more than 4,000 positions, saying AI allows fewer people to do the same work. Just last September, the company reportedly spent $68M on a single party.

Iran has officially closed the Strait of Hormuz. The shutdown immediately blocks nearly 20% of the world’s oil supply.

IRS has reportedly broken the law around 42,695 times by sharing confidential data with ICE. It violated one of the strictest US statutes by disclosing taxpayers’ last known addresses without verification.

Elon Musk : "Anthropic hates Western Civilization"

OpenAI has reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of War to deploy its models on classified systems.

Minnesota is moving to outlaw crypto kiosks after an increase in fraud affecting older residents.

Anthropic says no to the Pentagon’s last offer for unrestricted military access to its AI.

Netflix has declined to raise its offer for Warner Bros. The company said increasing the bid would make the deal “no longer financially attractive.”

Pope Leo XIV has instructed priests to stop using ChatGPT or any AI to write their sermons. He said a true homily is about sharing faith, something AI can never do.

In recent high stakes war game simulations run by researchers, top AI systems used tactical nuclear weapons in 95% of scenarios. None of the models ever chose to back down.

Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan, says he is beginning to see echoes of the pre-2008 financial turmoil. “I see a couple of people doing some dumb (or foolish) things. They’re just doing dumb things to create net interest income.”

UK regulators have penalized Reddit £14 million after the platform failed to protect children’s private information.

SAM ALTMAN: “People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model … But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart.”

Mark Zuckerberg says Instagram was never designed to get young people addicted. Last week, Instagram CEO said that using social media for 16 hours a day isn’t addiction.

NEW: The United States is developing an online portal called “freedom.gov” that will allow people worldwide to access content banned by their governments.

Ireland has opened a formal investigation into X over explicit images generated by Grok.

NEW: The DOJ is pressuring Google, Reddit, Meta, and Discord to share the personal details of users who criticize ICE

Former President Barack Obama says aliens are real, but he hasn’t seen them. “They’re real, but I haven’t seen them, and they’re not being kept in Area 51. There’s no underground facility — unless there’s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the President of the United States.”

Instagram CEO says using social media 16 hours a day is not an addiction. Funny how that lines up with Meta profits.

$1 trillion was wiped out from the US stock market yesterday.

OpenAI forecasts a $14 BILLION loss in 2026. Is the AI hype bubble starting to crack?

Searches for “Discord alternatives” have increased by 10,000% overnight after Discord announced global age verification starting in March 2026.

The Olympic Games are getting slammed for using “AI slop” to promote the Winter Games.

An open-source tool called EpsteIn allows users to cross-check LinkedIn connections with publicly released Epstein court documents.

NEW: Federal judge bars ICE and DHS from using taxpayer data for immigration enforcement

BREAKING: Over $1 trillion has been wiped off the crypto market cap since January 14.

Following the Paris office raid, UK regulators have also opened a probe into X over AI imagery.