A Hacker Accidentally Broke Into the FBI’s Epstein Files
…The researcher told 404 Media back in January that they accessed Quittr’s data on around 600,000 users, about 100,000 of whom appeared to be minors. The exposed data included…
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You Can Disable Gemini in Chrome if It’s Freaking You Out
…It was also aimed at providing a way for developers to integrate AI-related application programming interfaces while keeping data on users' devices when possible and out of the cloud. These features…
5 Reasons to Think Twice Before Using ChatGPT—or Any Chatbot—for Financial Advice
…Visit ChatGPT's “data controls” tab to change your settings. Even if you opt out of AI training, it can be risky to upload so much sensitive data about your money to…
Google’s Newest Entry-Level Fitness Tracker Is the Screenless Fitbit Air
…There are, unsurprisingly, no Google Wallet integrations or YouTube Music controls here. Google is also expanding its accessory lineup with several new band options and colorways. The default Performance Loop, made from…
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
…One model detects faces, one crops them, and a third encodes them into biometric data. Only traces of the user interface are currently present, hinting at how the feature may ultimately work…
Sniffies’ Users Worry About a ‘Straightification’ of the Gay Hookup App
…Sniffies maintains that it will continue to own and control how its user data is stored, handled, and protected. According to the company, there are no changes planned to its data practices…
Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find
…people in controlled experiments. Anthropic, which first revealed this behavior, recently said that Claude is most likely influenced by fictional scenarios involving malevolent AIs included in its training data. Imas says the…
They Built a Legendary Privacy Tool. Now They’re Sworn Enemies
…By building a vacuum-sealed, simulated environment for that app to run (“sandboxing”), GrapheneOS compartmentalizes the data of that app and gives users control over how much of it is accessible by…
7 Ways to Get So Good at AI, People Will Think You Are AI
…powered agent deleted a startup’s entire production database and backups.) So if you’re ready to have some external entity take control of your computer, you need to spend an afternoon…
Iranian Hackers Breached Kash Patel’s Email—but Not the FBI’s
…control over the Russian internet. If passed, though, the law could severely hinder 5G expansion in Russia given that there currently isn’t cell tower equipment that supports NEA-7. 33 Data…