How to Remove Your Info From Google With the ‘Results About You’ Tool
In 2022, Google launched the “Results about you” tool to help people remove personal info from the company’s search results. With billions of searches happening…
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New ‘Downfall’ Flaw Exposes Valuable Data in Generations of Intel Chips
Intel is releasing fixes for a processor vulnerability that affects many models of its chips going back to 2015, including some that are currently sold,…
What Doctors Wish You Knew About HIPAA and Data Security
A former Department of Homeland Security adviser and a doctor, Chris Pierson is CEO of BlackCloak, a company that specializes in personal digital protection from…
The Mystery of Chernobyl’s Post-Invasion Radiation Spikes
When Russian troops seized control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant last year, following the invasion of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky called it “a declaration…
Microsoft’s AI Red Team Has Already Made the Case for Itself
For most people, the idea of using artificial intelligence tools in daily life—or even just messing around with them—has only become mainstream in recent months,…
Criminals Have Created Their Own ChatGPT Clones
Krishnan says the creator of the system published a video appearing to show the chatbot operating and generating a scammy email. They were also trying…
How to Automatically Delete Passcode Texts on Android and iOS | WIRED
This feature has been disappearing and reappearing from Google Messages and isn’t available in every region. If you don’t see the menu option, those could…
Security News This Week: The Cloud Company at the Center of a Global Hacking Spree
Between a cascade of indictments against former US president Donald Trump, a tumultuous 2024 election season (in which Trump is a main character), and the…
The Senate’s AI Future Is Haunted by the Ghost of Privacy Past
In short, the tentacles of US tech firms are everywhere—vaccines, food, cancer research, psilocybin centers, criminal justice reform, homelessness—the list could reach the moon. (Speaking…
Free Airline Miles, Hotel Points, and User Data Put at Risk by Flaws in Points Platform
Travel rewards programs like those offered by airlines and hotels tout the specific perks of joining their club over others. Under the hood, though, the…
A New Attack Impacts ChatGPT—and No One Knows How to Stop It
“Making models more resistant to prompt injection and other adversarial ‘jailbreaking’ measures is an area of active research,” says Michael Sellitto, interim head of policy…
How AI May Be Used to Create Custom Disinformation Ahead of 2024
“If I want to launch a disinformation campaign, I can fail 99 percent of the time. You fail all the time, but it doesn’t matter,”…