The Worst Hacks of 2025

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Betterment, a financial app, sent a sketchy-looking notification on Friday asking users to send $10,000 to Bitcoin and Ethereum crypto wallets and promising to "triple your crypto," according to a thread on Reddit. The Betterment account says in an X thread that this was an "unauthorized message" that was sent via a "third-party system." Here's the notification that some people got, per a screenshot in the Reddit thread (some reported getting a similar notification over email, too): We'll triple your crypto! (Limited Time) Bryan: Betterment is giving back! We're celebrating our best-performing year yet by tripling Bitcoin and Ethere … Read the full story at The Verge.

To prepare AI agents for office work, the company is asking contractors to upload projects from past jobs, leaving it to them to strip out confidential and personally identifiable information.

A former SandboxAQ executive filed a wrongful termination lawsuit filled with shocking allegations. The company is fighting back, hard.

A substantial number of AI images generated or edited with Grok are targeting women in religious and cultural clothing.

A substantial number of AI images generated or edited with Grok are targeting women in religious and cultural clothing.