DHS Wants a Fleet of AI-Powered Surveillance Trucks
The US Department of Homeland Security is seeking to develop a new mobile surveillance platform that fuses artificial intelligence, radar, high-powered cameras, and wireless networking…
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How Hacked Card Shufflers Allegedly Enabled a Mob-Fueled Poker Scam That Rocked the NBA
“If there’s a camera that knows the cards, there is always some kind of underlying threat. Customers are gonna be essentially at the mercy of…
This ‘Privacy Browser’ Has Dangerous Hidden Features
The Universe Browser makes some big promises to its potential users. Its online advertisements claim it’s the “fastest browser,” that people using it will “avoid…
No, ICE (Probably) Didn’t Buy Guided Missile Warheads
On September 19, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement made a $61,218 payment for “guided missile warheads and explosive components,” according to the Product and Service…
The Long Tail of the AWS Outage
A sprawling Amazon Web Services cloud outage that began early Monday morning illustrated the fragile interdependencies of the internet as major communication, financial, health care,…
What to Know About the Shocking Louvre Jewelry Heist
Could the French TV series Lupin have been prophetic? The show envisioned a heist at the Louvre, an event that became reality on the morning…
Anthropic Has a Plan to Keep Its AI From Building a Nuclear Weapon. Will It Work?
At the end of August, the AI company Anthropic announced that its chatbot Claude wouldn’t help anyone build a nuclear weapon. According to Anthropic, it…
What the Huge AWS Outage Reveals About the Internet
A massive cloud outage stemming from Amazon Web Services’s key US-EAST-1 region, its hub near the United States capitol in northern Virginia, caused widespread disruptions…
Hackers Dox ICE, DHS, DOJ, and FBI Officials
In a stunning new study, researchers at UC San Diego and the University of Maryland revealed this week that satellites are leaking a wealth of…
Why the F5 Hack Created an ‘Imminent Threat’ for Thousands of Networks
Thousands of networks—many of them operated by the US government and Fortune 500 companies—face an “imminent threat” of being breached by a nation-state hacking group…
One Republican Now Controls a Huge Chunk of US Election Infrastructure
The news last week that Dominion Voting Systems was purchased by the founder and CEO of Knowink, a Missouri-based maker of electronic poll books, has…
When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face
“If you don’t include people with disabilities or people with facial differences in the development of these processes, no one’s going to think of these…