The FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones
…The American Civil Liberties Union is suing two Florida police departments over its use of FACES, one of the longest-running face recognition tools in the US, after its alleged misuse led…
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The AI Era Is Creating a Bug-Hunting Arms Race
As agentic AI models become more adept at both autonomously identifying software vulnerabilities and developing exploits for them—in other words, identifying weaknesses and creating hacking tools—vulnerability disclosure programs are being…
Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out
…As part of this update, public Instagram profiles are now automatically opted into being fodder for generative AI remixes. All someone has to do is tag your account’s profile in a…
Silicon Valley’s Next IPO Billionaires Are Coming. Nonprofits Are Ready for Them
Carrier went on that year to found ForHumanity, a nonprofit organization developing tools for auditing AI systems. It's raised just hundreds of thousands of dollars since 2016, and is still a…
I’ve Worked Behind Espresso Bars for 20 Years. These Are the Tools I Use at Home
…favorite tools I use daily when I pull shots at my home espresso station. Check out our other espresso-related guides, including the Best Espresso Machines, Best Latte and Automatic Espresso Machines…
A Hacker Group Is Poisoning Open Source Code at an Unprecedented Scale
…The hackers plant malware in the tool that ends up on other software developers’ machines, including some who are writing other tools intended to be used by coders. The malware allows TeamPCP…
CBP Workers Allegedly Used Government Databases to Spy on Exes, Crushes, and Colleagues
…New Tools The databases that agents allegedly misused are only part of their toolkit; CBP also taps mobile-extraction software from Cellebrite, Grayshift, and Magnet Forensics to pull data straight off a…
Halliday’s New Smart Glasses Skip the Camera
…In its press release, Halliday says that unlike smart glasses with cameras in them, the G2 is meant to be “a professional tool for real-world work and social environments. With no…
Gamers’ Worst Nightmares About AI Are Coming True
…Park argues that developers could be forced to compromise stories, art, non-player characters, battles, worlds—all of which are already at risk of being automated by new AI tools. Park says…
This Reggae Band Is in a Nightmare Battle Against AI Slop Remixes
…Meanwhile, there are companies offering AI song remix tools, making it simple to churn out ersatz versions of songs at a vast scale. People have been grooving to unauthorized remixes for a…