An OpenAI Employee Allegedly Used a Chatbot to Help Plant a Recording Device at the Office
An engineer at OpenAI allegedly concealed an audio recording device in a piece of toilet paper and attached it behind a monitor inside an executive…
Category: Wired
Feds Got Warrants to Use Fake Cell Towers to Hunt Down Don Lemon’s Producer
US law enforcement agents obtained authorization to use a controversial surveillance device capable of intercepting cell phone signals to find and arrest a 21-year-old college…
AI Is Getting Really Good at Messing With Cybercriminals
Welcome to Kernel Panic!, a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To…
ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on the scene of a shooting in upper Manhattan on Thursday has repeatedly been accused in federal court of…
The Man Behind a West Bank Telegram Channel Trying to Keep Palestinian Drivers Safe
Navigating these uncertain roads, night after night, wore on Hattab. He knew he wasn’t the only one. “People were scared to leave their governorates,” he…
Shaq Got Hacked. Now He’s Pitching for a VPN
At a promotional event in Times Square on Wednesday for the security company NordVPN, brand ambassador Shaquille O’Neal said he is eager to raise awareness…
The Pentagon Hopes to Speed Up ‘Kill Chain’ AI Buys With 5-Minute Videos
An under-the-radar procurement program led by the Department of Defense has been granting special statuses to would-be defense contractors that make it easier for the…
Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Welcome to Kernel Panic!, a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To…
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
An explosive and newly partially unsealed court filing alleges that the US Department of Homeland Security built up dossiers on ICE observers—including their photos, license…
A Flaw in ChatGPT’s Mac App Could Have Let Hackers Grab Sensitive Data
Hardly a day goes by lately without news of AI agents autonomously hacking websites or AI tools being used by cybercriminals and scammers. But a…
Experience What It’s Like to Travel in the Occupied West Bank
Traverse barriers and checkpoints in the occupied West Bank—your choices reflect the reality of nearly 3.5 million Palestinians who live there. Source link
The Secrets of the US Spyware King
Rather than see Paragon’s lack of access to logs as an accountability problem, however, Boyd describes it as a selling point: No one would buy…