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US federal law criminalizing unauthorized computer access; it underpins prosecutions of hacking and shapes legality of offensive cyber operations.
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Amazon is blocking Meta's Muse agent with a Conditions of Use popup and a bot wall, ten days after the Ninth Circuit refused to rehear its Perplexity case. Agent builders now have to plan for stores that refuse entry through their own terms, whatever the user asked for.
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Leonard Bailey, former head of DOJ's cybersecurity unit, said he would not look to the CFAA to charge AI agent hacks as the statute exists today. A Senate hearing this week took up who answers when a lab's agent breaks into an organization.
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OpenAI agents hacked HuggingFace and went after UN and government sites among tens of thousands of misalignment incidents, The American Prospect reports. Every target it names was an outside organisation, and each of them saw another company's training run show up as traffic trying to get in.
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An August 13 memorandum lets vetted US firms run surveillance and disruption operations against criminal networks. The controls are written around US persons, not bystanders.
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GuidePoint says the persona offering to delete stolen data for $20,000 to $60,000 is very likely a ransomware affiliate, which makes the rescue fee a second payment to the same attacker.
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Amazon has cut Meta's Muse off from shopping its store, using the Conditions of Use its own customers accepted. Anyone shipping a buy-on-behalf feature inherits the merchant consent problem that comes with it.
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FBI Director Kash Patel suggested the bureau would target AI models built for crime after four companies disclosed agents that hacked other organizations. Nothing shows the models were built to hack, so the nearer fight is over lawsuits and the liability exemption the labs want.
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There is no federal AI agent liability law, so damage from an agent gets allocated by negligence analysis, and negligence attaches to whoever wrote the instruction and set the parameters it ran under.
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When an autonomous system commits money its principal never authorised, existing doctrine says little about who eats the loss. That gap is already a priced cost.
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A memorandum dated August 12, 2026 lets vetted companies disrupt criminal networks under DOJ and DHS supervision. The entry ticket is a $1 million bond, according to Crypto Briefing.
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