Category: Wired

Security News This Week: Google Is Piloting Face Recognition for Office Security
29
Jun
2024

Security News This Week: Google Is Piloting Face Recognition for Office Security

WIRED learned this week that Amazon Web Services investigated claims that the AI search startup Perplexity may have violated the…

Quora’s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demand
28
Jun
2024

Quora’s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demand

Poe, an AI chatbot platform owned by the question-and-answer site Quora and backed by a $75 million Andreessen Horowitz investment,…

Inside a Violent Gang's Ruthless Crypto-Stealing Home Invasion Spree
28
Jun
2024

Inside a Violent Gang’s Ruthless Crypto-Stealing Home Invasion Spree

She refused to give up her password, and was, according to the prosecutors’ description, so demoralized by the earlier hacking…

Amazon Is Investigating Perplexity Over Claims of Scraping Abuse
28
Jun
2024

Amazon Is Investigating Perplexity Over Claims of Scraping Abuse

Amazon’s cloud division has launched an investigation into Perplexity AI. At issue is whether the AI search startup is violating…

Surprise! The Latest ‘Comprehensive’ US Privacy Bill Is Doomed
27
Jun
2024

Surprise! The Latest ‘Comprehensive’ US Privacy Bill Is Doomed

Dozens of civil rights organizations had been urging Democrats (some of whom had puzzlingly signed off on those changes) to…

War Crime Prosecutions Enter a New Digital Age
26
Jun
2024

War Crime Prosecutions Enter a New Digital Age

A custom platform developed by SITU Research aided the International Criminal Court’s prosecution in a war crimes trial for the…

The Julian Assange Saga Is Finally Over
25
Jun
2024

The Julian Assange Saga Is Finally Over

United States prosecutors have secured a deal with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requiring the long-embattled publisher to plead guilty to…

The Mystery of AI Gunshot-Detection Accuracy Is Finally Unraveling
25
Jun
2024

The Mystery of AI Gunshot-Detection Accuracy Is Finally Unraveling

This week, New York City’s comptroller published a similar audit of the city’s ShotSpotter system showing that only 13 percent…

Deepfake Creators Are Revictimizing GirlsDoPorn Sex Trafficking Survivors
25
Jun
2024

Deepfake Creators Are Revictimizing GirlsDoPorn Sex Trafficking Survivors

Among those charged, Ruben Andre Garcia, a GirlsDoPorn producer and recruiter, was sentenced to 20 years in prison; Matthew Isaac…

Red Tape Is Making Hospital Ransomware Attacks Worse
24
Jun
2024

Red Tape Is Making Hospital Ransomware Attacks Worse

“I can tell you with complete confidence that ransomware attacks harm patients,” says Hannah Neprash, an associate professor of health…

A Catastrophic Hospital Hack Ends in a Leak of 300M Patient Records
22
Jun
2024

A Catastrophic Hospital Hack Ends in a Leak of 300M Patient Records

The rolling series of breaches targeting customers of cloud platform Snowflake appears to be a supply chain attack wrapped in…

Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine
21
Jun
2024

Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine

“They’d only get in trouble if they summarized the story incorrectly and made it defamatory when it wasn’t before. That’s…