Messaging app Freedom Chat has fixed a pair of security flaws: one that allowed a security researcher to guess registered users' phone numbers, and another that exposed user-set PINs to others on the app. Daigle found the vulnerabilities last week and shared their details with TechCrunch, as Freedom Chat does not provide a public way to report security flaws, like a vulnerability disclosure program. TechCrunch then alerted Freedom Chat founder Tanner Haas to the security flaws by email. Haas confirmed to TechCrunch that the app has now reset user PINs and released a new version. Haas added that the company is removing instances where users' phone numbers were occasionally visible, and has notched up rate-limiting on its servers to prevent mass-guess attempts. Daigle, who published his findings in a blog post, told TechCrunch it was possible to enumerate the phone numbers of close to 2,000 users who had signed up to use Freedom Chat since it launched. Daigle said Freedom Chat's servers allowed anyone to flood it with millions of phone number guesses to determine if a user's phone number was stored on the servers....

The film 'Nuremberg' depicts events surrounding the post-World War II International Military Tribunal ' the first and best-known of the Nuremberg trials ' which was created to carry out the 'just and prompt trial and punishment of the major war criminals of the European Axis.' Nazi party leaders Hermann Goring, Alfred Rosenberg and Wilhelm Keitel were among the 24 people who ended up being indicted. Six organizations were also indicted, including the Gestapo and the SS. The tribunal, which took place in Nuremberg, Germany, and resulted in 19 convictions, attracted worldwide media attention. Eighty years later, you'll hear terms like 'war crimes' and 'genocide' be deployed and debated ' whether they're applied to U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's use of military force in the Caribbean or Israel's destruction of the Gaza Strip. The public's understanding of these terms is due, in large part, to the success of the Nuremberg trials and the remarkable degree of international cooperation they required. But the shakiness of international justice today, along with the ongoing complexity of legal and moral conceptions of guilt, shows the limits of the law when it comes to holding the worst of the worst accountable....

'There must be only One Rulebook if we are going to continue to lead in AI,' Trump said. 'We are beating ALL COUNTRIES at this point in the race, but that won't last long if we are going to have 50 States, many of them bad actors, involved in RULES and the APPROVAL PROCESS'AI WILL BE DESTROYED IN ITS INFANCY!' Trump's statement comes days after an effort to preempt states from regulating AI was quashed in the Senate, as Congress couldn't agree to insert the deeply unpopular proposal into a must-pass defense budget bill. The fast pace of AI development and the lack of general consumer protections from the federal government has led many states to enact their own rules around the technology. California, for example, has the AI safety and transparency bill SB 53, while Tennessee's ELVIS Act protects musicians and performers from unauthorized AI-generated deepfakes of their voices and likenesses. Silicon Valley figures, including OpenAI President Greg Brockman and VC-turned-White House 'AI czar' David Sacks, have argued that such laws by states would create an unworkable patchwork of laws that would stifle innovation and threaten the U.S.'s lead against China in the race to develop AI technology....

A year after being pushed out of Intel, Pat Gelsinger is still waking up at 4 a.m., still in the thick of the semiconductor wars ' just on a different battlefield. Now a general partner at venture firm Playground Global, he's working with 10 startups. But one portfolio company has captured an outsized share of his attention: xLight, a semiconductor startup that last Monday announced it has struck a preliminary deal for up to $150 million from the U.S. Commerce Department, with the government set to become a meaningful shareholder. It's a nice feather in the cap of Gelsinger, who spent 35 years across two stints at Intel before the board showed him the door late last year owing to a lack of confidence in his turnaround plans. But the xLight deal is also shining a spotlight on a trend that's making people in Silicon Valley quietly uncomfortable: the Trump administration taking equity stakes in strategically important companies. 'What the hell happened to free enterprise'' California Governor Gavin Newsom asked at a speaking event this week, capturing the unease that's rippling through an industry that has long prided itself on its free-market principles....