AI Found a Root Bug in Linux That Everyone Missed for 15 Years
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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…
A Kid With a Fake Mustache Tricked an Online Age-Verification Tool
The new approach is part of a series of measures Meta adopted as part of an AI-based security strategy designed to correct the limitations of traditional methods, which rely heavily on…
The FBI Wants ‘Near Real-Time’ Access to US License Plate Readers
…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. The FBI…
Cybercriminal Twins Caught After They Forgot to Turn Off Microsoft Teams Recording
…The Department of Homeland Security and Defense Research and Development Canada plan to run an experiment this fall testing 5G-connected drones for collecting “real-time battlefield intelligence.” In the Strait of…
Why Amazon Is Buying Globalstar—and What It Means for Your iPhone
…has used privacy as a strong selling point, will square using a location-aware service run by Amazon, a company with a poor track record of keeping users’ data secure across its…
Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
…WIRED shared its findings with Buchodi, a pseudonymous independent security and privacy researcher who has spent more than a decade reverse engineering consumer software and surveillance technologies. Buchodi examined Flock’s code…
The Complicated Case of Passing On Your Digital Estate
…So RUFADAA gives survivors some rights while retaining the original asset holder's privacy. Under RUFADAA, a named trusted person can close accounts, but they can only get the contents—meaning the…
Telegram Is Still Hosting a Sanctioned $21 Billion Crypto Scammer Black Market
…Telegram in full public view—represents an appalling lack of accountability, says Gary Warner, a security researcher who has tracked Xinbi Guarantee as director of intelligence at the cybersecurity firm DarkTower. “It…
The EU Is Going Through a Trump-Fueled Breakup With Big Tech
…At least 23 countries depend on US tech firms for “critical national security functions,” research from the Future of Technology Institute think tank says. Open-source technology might be one way of…