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Elon Musk Is Personally Undermining X’s Efforts to Curb Disinformation on the Israel-Hamas War
X's Trust and Safety team says it's working to remove false information related to the Israel-Hamas war. Meanwhile, Elon Musk is sharing conspiracies…
3 years ago
23andMe User Data Stolen in Targeted Attack on Ashkenazi Jews
At least a million data points from 23andMe accounts appear to have been exposed on BreachForums. While the scale of the campaign is unknown, 23andMe…
3 years ago
Slovakia’s Election Deepfakes Show AI Is a Danger to Democracy
Fact-checkers scrambled to deal with faked audio recordings released days before a tight election, in a warning for other countries with looming vote…
3 years ago
Your Cheap Android TV Streaming Box May Have a Dangerous Backdoor
New research has found that some streaming devices and dozens of Android and iOS apps are secretly being used for fraud and other cybercrime.
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3 years ago
How to Stop Google Bard From Storing Your Data and Location
Checking out this AI chatbot's new features? Make sure to keep these privacy tips in mind during your interactions.
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3 years ago
The Biggest Hack of 2023 Keeps Getting Bigger
Victims of the MOVEit breach continue to come forward. But the full scale of the attack is still unknown.
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3 years ago
How to Tell When Your Phone Will Stop Getting Security Updates
Every smartphone has an expiration date. Here’s when yours will probably come.
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3 years ago
The Maker of ShotSpotter Is Buying the World’s Most Infamous Predictive Policing Tech
SoundThinking is purchasing parts of Geolitica, the company that created PredPol. Experts say the acquisition marks a new era of companies dictating …
3 years ago
US Justice Department Urged to Investigate Gunshot Detector Purchases
A civil liberties group has asked the DOJ to investigate deployment of the ShotSpotter gunfire-detection system, which research shows is often instal…
3 years ago
Extremely Online Republicans Are Provoking a US Government Shutdown
Egged on by a far-reaching conservative media ecosystem, right-wing hardliners are forcing Washington to bend to their reality as the federal governm…
3 years ago