AI Toys for Kids Talk About Sex, Drugs, and Chinese Propaganda

This news roundup highlights recent security and privacy events: alleged links between members of China-linked Salt Typhoon and Cisco training, congressional warnings about expanding US wiretap powers, doxers tricking tech firms into handing over user data, the sentencing of Terraform’s founder Do Kwon, unsafe responses from AI-enabled toys, a CBP proposal to collect travelers’ social media, and significant data breaches in South Korea—most notably a Coupang breach exposing ~34 million customers and prompting the CEO’s resignation.