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Bleeping Computer
Today, Microsoft introduced Mico, a new and more personal avatar for the AI-powered Copilot digital assistant, which the company describes as human-centered. [...]
Graham Cluley
In episode 63 of The AI Fix, Unitree Robotics looks to Black Mirror episode “Metalhead” for tips on marketing its new robot dog, ChatGPT is secretly running Sweden, OpenAI introduces its first open weight model since GPT-2, and your private and personal ChatGPT conversations could be all over Google. Plus, Mark cuts through the GPT-5 hype and asks - is it AGI or just a fancy purple background, and Graham looks at “deadbots” and a disturbing interview between Jim Acosta and an AI version of a teenager killed in a school shooting. All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of "The AI Fix" podcast by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.
The Register
PLUS: Beijing wants ten-minute reporting of infosec incidents; Infosys CFO bails; TikTok's Indonesia comeback approved, for now Think tank Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) last week published details of a campaign that spreads English language pro-China and anti-US narratives on YouTube.…
Have I Been Pwned
In October 2020, a security researcher published a technique for scraping large volumes of data from Gravatar, the service for providing globally unique avatars . 167 million names, usernames and MD5 hashes of email addresses used to reference users' avatars were subsequently scraped and distributed within the hacking community. 114 million of the MD5 hashes were cracked and distributed alongside the source hash, thus disclosing the original email address and accompanying data. Following the impacted email addresses being searchable in HIBP, Gravatar release an FAQ detailing the incident.
Dark Reading
The North Korean group is using stolen victim videos, AI-generated avatars, and fake Zoom calls to scale malware attacks against cryptocurrency executives.
Have I Been Pwned
In April 2026, the music trivia platform . The data contained a total of 291k unique email addresses sourced from either Google OAuth logins or accounts created on the site, the latter also containing bcrypt password hashes. The data also included names, usernames and avatars. SongTrivia2 suffered a data breach that was subsequently published to a public hacking forum
Have I Been Pwned
In March 2026, the NSFW AI companion platform . The incident exposed 144k unique email addresses along with display names, avatars, prompts and descriptions used to generate AI adult images, as well as URLs to the generated content. The data also included the account that created the content and a stated "preference" of either female or trans. Cuties AI suffered a data breach that was subsequently published to a public hacking forum
Have I Been Pwned
In December 2025, . The incident allowed an attacker to map publicly available SoundCloud profile data to email addresses for approximately 20% of its users. The impacted data included 30M unique email addresses, usernames, avatars, follower and following counts and, in some cases, the user’s country. The attackers later attempted to extort SoundCloud before publicly releasing the data the following month. SoundCloud announced it had discovered unauthorised activity on its platform
Have I Been Pwned
In October 2024, 421k unique email addresses from the virtual earth game Earth 2 were derived from embedded Gravatar images. Appearing alongside player usernames, the root cause was related to how Gravatar presents links to avatars as MD5 hashes within consuming services, a feature Earth 2 advised has now been disabled on their platform. This incident did not expose any further personal information, passwords or financial data.
The Hacker News
Details have emerged about a now-patched security flaw impacting Apple's Vision Pro mixed reality headset that, if successfully exploited, could allow malicious attackers to infer data entered on the device's virtual keyboard. The attack, dubbed GAZEploit, has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-40865. "A novel attack that can infer eye-related biometrics from the avatar image to