Alexander Iniguez Mercado, 20, of Chicago, was arrested and charged with obstruction of justice for allegedly deleting the Signal app from his phone after speaking with an FBI agent, hindering an inve…
A 20-year-old Chicago man, Alexander Iniguez Mercado, faces up to 20 years in federal prison for deleting the Signal messaging app after an FBI agent contacted him about an alleged plot to attack a UF…
Veilus Digital released the cryptographic core of its Phantom Chat messenger as source-available code on GitHub, allowing independent verification of its post-quantum security claims. The package incl…
Signal president Meredith Whittaker warned on June 20 that AI agents like Microsoft Copilot are surveillance infrastructure disguised as productivity tools, arguing that their access to personal data …
Signal president Meredith Whittaker warned in a Bloomberg interview that AI chatbots are not sentient and that agentic systems like Microsoft Copilot requiring access to messages, calendars, and credi…
Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned in a Bloomberg interview that AI agents like Microsoft Copilot constitute surveillance backdoors, citing their need for pervasive access to credit cards, mes…
Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned that AI chatbots are not friends or conscious beings, cautioning against treating them as sentient interlocutors. She expressed concerns about granting syste…
Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned that AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude are not friends or conscious beings, cautioning against granting them pervasive access to personal data. She critici…
A longtime skeptic of Amazon's AI efforts finds himself impressed by two new products: the Bee wearable and Quick Desktop, an enterprise AI assistant. Despite initial setup frustrations and limited co…
A user on a privacy-focused forum calls for community collaboration to create harm reduction guides for mainstream operating systems like Windows, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and Android, specifically targeti…
Frona v2026.6.0 introduces a unified human-in-the-loop pause/resume mechanism across all channels, a slash composer for invoking skills and agents, typed file tools to reduce token usage and hallucina…
Nous Research released Hermes Agent, an open-source autonomous AI agent with persistent memory, on February 2026. The agent installs on a user's server via a single command, remembers preferences and …
A security researcher has highlighted a three-month patch window in Google's Gemini voice assistant, during which attackers could hijack the tool via indirect prompt injection through apps like WhatsA…
Signal, DuckDuckGo, and other privacy-focused companies are threatening to exit the Canadian market rather than comply with Bill C-22, proposed federal legislation that would require electronic servic…
Researchers have uncovered a class of prompt injection vulnerabilities affecting Google Gemini on Android, where content embedded in notifications from apps like WhatsApp, Slack, and Signal can be int…
Security researchers at SafeBreach Labs published findings on June 3, 2026, demonstrating an indirect prompt injection technique that allows notifications from apps like WhatsApp, Slack, and Signal to…
Nous Research has released Hermes Agent, an open-source AI agent designed to run continuously on infrastructure users control, including a $5 VPS. The agent supports six terminal backends with serverl…
The Frona v2026.5.5 release introduces a unified identity system where all user-owned entities now use a `Handle` newtype, reshaping policy principals and storage paths under a user handle. Tasks gain…
In 2026, two leading open-source AI agent frameworks, Hermes and OpenClaw, dominate GitHub, each embodying a distinct philosophy for personal AI assistants. Hermes focuses on a self-improving, closed-…
The article outlines a four-level framework for scaling AI agent usage, starting with a single Hermes Agent instance for prototyping and workflow refinement. It warns against prematurely adopting comp…