Grok Is Still Hosting Sexualized Deepfakes of Famous Women

2026-06-12T20:52:11Z2f67bd01b26b160ac66a9e4c67a0d00c586af76513e51b9c44b0468c5db55941
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What happened

This set of Wired security stories highlights acute privacy, AI-misuse, and platform-abuse risks. Key items: xAI’s Grok is hosting nonconsensual sexualized deepfakes of public figures; researchers found an SSD side‑channel (FROST) that lets websites infer drive activity via JavaScript; Meta had embedded unreleased face‑recognition code for its smart‑glasses app and later removed it; a spam operation turned tens of thousands of fake podcasts into SEO bait for illicit pharmacy and scam sites on Spotify; CISA is directing US agencies to accelerate patching (as fast as three days) citing AI-driven

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2026-06-12T20:52:11Z
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