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Friday, June 5, 2026

Meta secretly embedded face-recognition NameTag in 50M+ phones despite public denials, while AI-powered attacks now exfiltrate data in 72 minutes—forcing enterprises to abandon human-speed defenses. Chinese state actors are harvesting sensitive intel via LinkedIn social engineering, and unsealed suits expose IBM/AT&T concealing foreign breaches to keep federal contracts.

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