Epsilon Health exits stealth with $20M Series A led by AlleyCorp
Epsilon Health, an AI-enabled radiology practice that contracts with radiologists using its software to generate image reports faster, emerged from stealth with a $20 million Series A round led by AlleyCorp, CEO Rustin Rassoli tol...
Calif demo shows zero-click WeChat worm; Tencent says exploit mitigated
Security firm Calif published a demo of WeWorm, which it describes as the first zero-click worm spreading through WeChat calls on iOS and Android. In the demo, a call from a compromised contact hijacked a victim's WeChat account ...
New Mexico Supreme Court fines lawyer $5,000 over AI-fabricated brief in murder appeal
New Mexico's Supreme Court fined lawyer Stephen Aarons $5,000 and held him in contempt for failing to verify the factual claims and legal authority in an AI-generated brief filed in a client's murder conviction appeal, according t...
Lawmakers circulate letter urging Speaker Johnson to cancel fall recess for AI safeguards
A letter is circulating among House members urging Speaker Mike Johnson to bring the House back immediately and cancel the fall recess until Congress passes AI safeguards, according to Axios reporting cited by Techmeme. The push f...
US Senate negotiators weigh AI duty-of-care bill with model-release block
US Senate negotiators are debating legislation that would impose a duty of care on AI companies and let the government block the release of models deemed unsafe, according to a Reuters report relayed by Techmeme. The measure woul...
Florida confirms DMV driver database breach via stolen police credentials
The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles confirmed that its DAVID driver database was breached after the ShinyHunters extortion gang claimed to have compromised the system. The agency said it learned of the bre...

