Smart air fryers ordered to stop invading our digital privacy
In a confirmation that we’ve gone full Black Mirror, the UK’s privacy czar has wagged a finger at air fryer manufacturers and told them to…
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The data on denying social media for kids (re-air) (Lock and Code S06E12)
This week on the Lock and Code podcast… Complex problems often assume complex solutions, but recent observations about increased levels of anxiety and depression, increased…
Your Meta AI chats might be public, and it’s not a bug
Conversations that people are having with the Meta AI app are being exposed publicly, often without the users realizing it, revealing a variety of medical,…
US airline industry quietly selling flight data to DHS
A data broker owned by some of America’s biggest airlines has been selling access to customer flight data to the US Department of Homeland Security…
23andMe raked by Congress on privacy, sale of genetic data
In a Senate hearing adequately titled “23 and You: The Privacy and National Security Implications of the 23andMe Bankruptcy,” 23andMe executives addressed concerns about the…
GirlsDoPorn owner faces life in jail after pleading guilty to sex trafficking
Michael James Pratt, the owner of pornographic websites GirlsDoPorn and GirlsDoToys, has pleaded guilty to sex trafficking in a US court. Pratt ran the websites,…
Google bug allowed phone number of almost any user to be discovered
Google has fixed vulnerabilities that made it possible to retrieve the phone numbers of almost any Google user. The flaw was found in the flow…
44% of people encounter a mobile scam every single day, Malwarebytes finds
It’s become so troublesome owning a phone. Malicious texts pose as package delivery notifications, phishing emails impersonate trusted brands, and unknown calls hide extortion attempts,…
Been scammed online? Here’s what to do
Unfortunately, people getting scammed online is a frequent event. Scammers are getting better at social engineering and are using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to sound more…
How and where to report an online scam
If you’ve been scammed it’s really important to report it, if you can, in order to help prevent others falling for the same scam, and…
How to update Chrome on every operating system
We often write about important updates for the most popular browser, Google Chrome. Since it would be out of scope to post elaborate update instructions…
OpenAI forced to preserve ChatGPT chats
OpenAI has protested a court order that forces it to retain its users’ conversations. The creator of the ChatGPT AI model objected to the order,…