August 06, 2025

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Key sections of the US Constitution deleted from government's website: Internet sleuths say the U.S. Constitution's website is now missing key sections from its website, including a key legal provision relating to habeas corpus, which protects citizens from unlawful detention. Read More

First impressions of Alexa+, Amazon's upgraded, AI-powered digital assistant: To find out whether Alexa is still the best smart assistant for my family, I'm going to test Amazon's AI-powered devices, experiment with AI queries, and write out my thoughts in a multi-part series. Read More

Instagram takes on Snapchat with new 'Instagram Map': Instagram notes that location sharing is off by default on Instagram Map, and a user's location only updates when they open the app, meaning it doesn't provide real-time location updates. Read More

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Afternoon Must-Reads

Google says hackers stole its customers' data by breaching its Salesforce database: Google attributed the breach to a hacking group, ShinyHunters, known for targeting big companies and their cloud-based databases. Read More

A rival Tea app for men is leaking its users' personal data and driver's licenses: The newly launched app, now trending on Apple's App Store, contains at least one major security flaw that exposes the private information of its users, including their uploaded selfies and government-issued IDs. Read More

Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent: Ron Deibert, the head of the prominent digital human rights groups Citizen Lab, sounds the alarm at the Black Hat security conference about the "dramatic descent into authoritarianism," but one that the cyber community can help to defend against. Read More

Google's AI coding agent Jules is now out of beta: Powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro, Jules is an asynchronous, agent-based coding tool that integrates with GitHub, clones codebases into Google Cloud virtual machines, and uses AI to fix or update code while developers focus on other tasks. Read More

OpenAI is practically giving ChatGPT to the government for free: GSA Federal Acquisition Service commissioner Josh Gruenbaum in a statement encouraged "other American AI technology companies to follow OpenAI's lead and work with us." Read More

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