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malicious

[muh-lish-uhs] / məˈlɪʃ əs /


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“The intent of the design is malicious — it’s immoral,” said Joey Schilling, who drives the road six days a week and wrote a social media post criticizing the project that drew almost 1,000 comments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

In the three attempted hackings identified, Transluce said it appears the agents were unable to access the data they sought, and turned to hacking techniques, appending what are called malicious payloads to their queries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

When malware spreads across the internet, the response isn’t to slow technology, but to innovate faster, creating solutions that are technologically superior to the malicious software.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

AI titans Anthropic, OpenAI and Google - the tech companies behind Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini, respectively - have also disclosed instances of security breaches or incidents in which their chatbots were used for "malicious activity".

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

Now Milton was shaking his head no, and Dr. Luce was putting on a surgical mask, and my schoolmates back in Grosse Pointe were pointing at me and laughing, their faces lit with malicious joy.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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