Crypto-Funded Chinese Peptide Labs Are Booming
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MyMove Is the US Government’s Shittiest Website
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The New Wild West of AI Kids’ Toys
…FoloToy’s Kumma bear, powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o when tested by the Public Interest Research Group’s New Economy team, gave instructions on how to light a match and find…
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Meta’s New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale
…And last year, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg offered to pay several top AI researchers as much as $100 million a year, or what a former executive calls “insane amounts of money relative…
The New Defcon Badges Pack a Unique Open Source Chip That Doubles as a Security Key
…How Secure Is It? The chip runs an operating system written in Rust and includes secure boot, a true random number generator, and hardware features intended to harden it against attacks. Huang…
ChatGPT’s ‘Adult Mode’ Could Spark a New Era of Intimate Surveillance
…If an account is hacked, a security breach occurs, or a government official demands access to your chat logs, troves of highly sensitive and sexual conversations could be exposed in ways the…
Your Push Notifications Aren’t Safe From the FBI
Amid rising fears of political violence, a WIRED investigation found that US political candidates are spending more on security, including purchasing equipment like home alarms and bulletproof vests. And recent research looking…
AI Found a Root Bug in Linux That Everyone Missed for 15 Years
…Each week, we round up the security and privacy news we didn’t cover in depth ourselves. Click the headlines to read the full stories. And stay safe out there. AI Found…
7 Ways to Get So Good at AI, People Will Think You Are AI
…Give It Everything You’ve Got With apologies to our privacy-minded security writers, it’s simply the case that the more data you share with AI, the more personalized the outputs…