Apps Marketed to US Troops Are Shipping Chinese and Russian Code
A recent examination of hundreds of mobile apps marketed toward US military personnel found more than one in eight contained software built by companies in…
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The ACLU Is Arming Lawyers to Expose State Surveillance Secrets
The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts says it’s releasing an online toolkit this week for criminal defense attorneys designed to uncover whether police used…
Your Period Tracker Is (Probably) Spying on You
Hours of San Francisco Police Department drone video footage exposed on the open web illustrates a new era of incredibly granular—and consequential—urban surveillance. Meanwhile, the…
Prompt Injection Attacks Are Thwarting AI Hacking Agents
Prompt injections, the malicious commands attackers embed into content to entice large language models to follow them, have been attackers’ go-to tool for turning AI…
San Francisco Demands Apple and Google Delete AI ‘Nudify’ Apps From App Stores
Apple and Google have been ordered to take down apps that can “nudify” or “undress” people and told that they must stop profiting from the…
Here’s the Truth About Whether Meta’s NameTag Face Recognition Tech ‘Exists’
Does a software feature exist if its code has been deployed to the devices of millions of people but they can’t use it yet? Not…
A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance
Just after noon on a Saturday last month, a Skydio X10 quadcopter hovered about 200 feet over a San Francisco apartment complex, watching police chase…
A Majority of European Lawmakers Voted Against Letting Big Tech Read Our Messages. They’re Going to Anyway
The European Parliament has voted to extend legislation allowing tech companies to voluntarily scan users’ private messages for child sexual abuse material, despite a majority…
Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities
Fat Joe is a superfan, both of the New York Knicks and their controversial owner, Jim Dolan. The rapper celebrated with Dolan in Cleveland when…
What Happens if China Hacks the US Water Supply? I Went to a Secret War Game to Find Out
Day two of the simulation arrives, and Corman lays out the new reality: Numerous water mains across the country have broken. The man-made drought has…
OnlyFans Models Are Accidentally Making Hacked Government Websites Disappear
Adult content creator Laura Lux says she has been publishing pictures of herself online for almost two decades. She primarily posts on OnlyFans these days,…
ICE’s Internal Watchdog Is Now Investigating Online Critics
Voting was already underway when the ICE agents arrived at a polling site in Syracuse, New York, during the state’s primaries in June. The agents…