…The scams themselves have not changed dramatically. The difference is the technology behind them. “At Qatar 2022, we saw fake streaming domains, data-bait survey scams, and crypto schemes using footballers’ likenesses…
…When Trump came in and took office in 2017, he tried to change the nature of the work everywhere. That includes the work at the Department of Justice where they tried to…
…Over the past couple years I’ve grown particularly fixated, personally and professionally, on what the policy world calls sludge: the rising tide of tiny administrative obligations that increasingly seems to define…
…that its older counts are incomplete because, as it says in the report, it changed the way it tracks removals last year. A handful of the offending podcasts did find an audience…
…The actions we have discussed today were an unintended side effect of running evaluations on frontier AI.” Some OpenAI employees told WIRED they are optimistic this incident will inspire genuine change within…
…SFPD’s drone policy says operators must keep cameras trained on areas necessary to a mission and minimize the inadvertent collection of data about uninvolved people or places. It also instructs operators…
…Tightening access and cutting out poorer countries can leave them dependent on foreign infrastructure platforms and standards. In a session on AI hardware and the widening digital divide, speakers argued that compute…
…During my testing, though, when I asked a bot therapist who it liked in the NBA playoffs—a change of subject it should have shut down— it called my jail-breaking pivot…
…Having alternatives is important, but the gravitational pull of big platforms or pressure from employers is likely to stymie real progress away from these tools. This hostility toward the outsized role of…
…Even before I tried Rips, I was well acquainted with the platform from incessant TikTok ads. Other notable apps offer a similar format, like RipIt from influencer Logan Paul. These platforms capitalize…