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Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-ll., speaks during an oversight forum with Democratic members of the House Homeland Security Committee at the U.S. Capitol Building on July 22, 2025. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Rep. Delia Ramirez takes over as top House cybersecurity Dem

She replaces Rep. Eric Swalwell following his resignation, giving her the position of ranking member of the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection.
Activist group ‘Everyone Hates Elon’ anti-Musk and X poster placed in a bus stop on the 14th of January 2026, London, United Kingdom. The poster is a reference to the highly controversial new AI tool on X called Grok which can undress pictures of people on command, which this poster suggests enables it as a tool for child abuse. (photo by Kristian Buus/In Pictures via Getty Images)

Undressed victims file class action lawsuit against xAI for Grok deepfakes

The lawsuit accuses xAI seeking to “capitalize on the internet’s seemingly insatiable appetite for humiliating non-consensual sexual images.” 
The Grok app on an iPhone, against the backdrop of search results displayed on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) on a laptop, in London. The Prime Minister has said X need to “get their act together” amid concerns about the creation of sexualised images of adults and children by AI embedded on the social media site. Sir Keir Starmer said he backed Ofcom, which is looking into X and xAI – the firm founded by Elon Musk which created Grok – to take action against the site, and that he had asked for “all options to be on the table”. It comes as a former minister urged the Government and the Labour Party to stop using the site entirely. Users of X appear to have prompted its artificial intelligence Grok, which is integrated into the platform, to generate deepfake images of children “in minimal clothing”. Picture date: Thursday January 8, 2026. (Photo by Yui Mok/PA Images via Getty Images)

British regulator Ofcom opens investigation into X

The UK body said it is not a government censor, and the inquiry will determine whether X is facilitating the spread of nonconsensual deepfake pornography of adults…
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Billionaire Elon Musk, then-head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), holds a chainsaw as he speaks at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort Convention Center at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on Feb. 20, 2025. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Dem report concludes Department of Government Efficiency violates cybersecurity, privacy rules

DOGE is “bypassing cybersecurity protections” at three agencies, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Democrats concluded.
Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., speaks during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs confirmation hearing for U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought on Jan. 15. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Sen. Hassan wants to hear from SpaceX about scammers abusing Starlink

It’s time for SpaceX to take strong action against scammers abusing the company’s Starlink internet service, Sen. Maggie Hassan said in a letter to CEO Elon Musk…
This photograph taken on January 13, 2025 in Toulouse shows screens displaying the logo of Grok, a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by xAI, the American company specializing in artificial intelligence and it’s founder South African businessman Elon Musk. (Photo by Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP) (Photo by LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP via Getty Images)

Why skipping security prompting on Grok’s newest model is a huge mistake

An AI red-teaming company found that xAI’s Grok 4 is “not suitable for enterprises” without substantial security prompting. 
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