Welcome to the Great American Satellite Age
…Basalt is part of a generation of startups aiming to broaden reliable and secure access to satellite imaging, navigation, and communication services. As they envision it, more of the world will be…
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SpaceX IPO Puts Elon Musk’s ‘Extreme’ Ownership to the Test
…Using a nonwork phone or computer, contact the reporter securely on Signal at peard33.24. Musk holds 85.1 percent of the voting power of SpaceX, and most of the company’s…
A Top Democrat Is Urging Colleagues to Support Trump’s Spy Machine
…Proponents of constitutional guardrails have also accounted for the need to react quickly: Bills that mandate a warrant for American data—like the recently introduced Government Surveillance Reform Act—consistently feature broad…
I Gave Gemini Spark Access to My Life. Then It Friend-Zoned My Boyfriend
…I can’t even recommend curious early adopters give Spark access to their entire inbox, since it could open them up to potential security breaches. My birthday party experiment only gave me…
5 Burning Questions About Elon Musk’s Terafab Chip Partnership with Intel
…As WIRED recently reported, Intel’s ability to secure these outside customers is critical to its success. And Musk could be a huge whale of a customer. Musk did not respond to…
China Didn’t Make Americans Hate Data Centers
…One is a “cross-platform network of accounts” using AI-generated avatars that comment on a wide variety of social issues, and that “sporadically” mention US tech companies. The other exception, Sadek…
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…
Signal’s Creator Is Helping Encrypt Meta AI
…Cryptographer JP Aumasson, the chief security officer at the cryptocurrency platform Taurus, has come to similar conclusions about Confer thus far. “Confer is probably the best private AI solution, all things considered…
Your Body Is Betraying Your Right to Privacy
…A 2022 Government Accountability Office report found that 18 different federal agencies used face-recognition technology. The Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, Treasury, and Interior used face recognition for domestic law…
Former OpenAI Staffers Warn That xAI’s Poor Safety Record Could Complicate SpaceX’s IPO
…The cofounders say their experience working at OpenAI inspired them to launch the nonprofit which they hope can help hold AI labs accountable as an independent third party. “While I was at…