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…
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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…
Security Roundup: Apple’s Hide My Email Service Fails to Hide Your Email
A politician on the European Parliament’s PEGA Committee—created to investigate spyware abuses, including of the notorious Pegasus malware—was targeted with Pegasus himself, according to new…
EU Politicians Investigated Pegasus Spyware. Then It Ended Up on One of Their Phones
The research stops short of naming any government that may have used Pegasus against Kouloglou, noting in particular that it found no indication of Greek…
Claude Helped a Hacker Find a Way to Issue Tickets to Almost Every US Music Festival
As a security researcher who specializes in finding web vulnerabilities, he decided to poke around Front Gate’s web domain for bugs. He quickly found what…
Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs
Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta were instructed to pose as minors online and probe how competitor chatbots responded to prompts involving…
Top Google Security Staff Warn Search Data Could Be Hacked if EU Rules Change
Google’s top privacy and security staff have warned that plans in Europe, designed to get it to open up its search data and Android operating…
Security News This Week: LastPass Users Had Their Data Stolen—Again
A WIRED investigation this week offers insight into a predictive policing program in Bristol, England that has involved 23 separate models over more than a…