Category: Wired

How a Trump Win Could Unleash Dangerous AI
21
Oct
2024

How a Trump Win Could Unleash Dangerous AI

The reporting requirements are essential for alerting the government to potentially dangerous new capabilities in increasingly powerful AI models, says…

Google Chrome’s uBlock Origin Purge Has Begun
19
Oct
2024

Google Chrome’s uBlock Origin Purge Has Begun

And that’s not all. Each week, we round up the security and privacy news we didn’t cover in depth ourselves….

The Disinformation Warning Coming From the Edge of Europe
19
Oct
2024

The Disinformation Warning Coming From the Edge of Europe

A TikTok video of actor Brian Baumgartner, from the American version of The Office, calling for the overthrow of the…

What the US Army’s 1959 ‘Soldier of Tomorrow’ Got Right About the Future of Warfare
18
Oct
2024

What the US Army’s 1959 ‘Soldier of Tomorrow’ Got Right About the Future of Warfare

Then there’s the matter of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS), the Army’s futuristic “smart” goggles. Currently based on a…

This Prompt Can Make an AI Chatbot Identify and Extract Personal Details From Your Chats
17
Oct
2024

This Prompt Can Make an AI Chatbot Identify and Extract Personal Details From Your Chats

The researchers say that if the attack were carried out in the real world, people could be socially engineered into…

GPS Jamming Is Screwing With Norwegian Planes
17
Oct
2024

GPS Jamming Is Screwing With Norwegian Planes

From the ground, northeastern Norway might look like fjord country, peppered with neat red houses and dissected by snowmobile tours…

Hacker Charged With Seeking to Kill Using Cyberattacks on Hospitals
16
Oct
2024

Hacker Charged With Seeking to Kill Using Cyberattacks on Hospitals

“We will continue targeting ChatGPT until the genocide supporter, Tal Broda, is fired and ChatGPT stops having dehumanizing views of…

It Seemed Like an AI Crime-Fighting Super Tool. Then Defense Attorneys Started Asking Questions
15
Oct
2024

It Seemed Like an AI Crime-Fighting Super Tool. Then Defense Attorneys Started Asking Questions

In 2017, then 9-year-old Kayla Unbehaun was abducted. For years, the South Elgin, Illinois police department searched for Unbehaun and…

Millions of People Are Using Abusive AI ‘Nudify’ Bots on Telegram
15
Oct
2024

Millions of People Are Using Abusive AI ‘Nudify’ Bots on Telegram

Kate Ruane, director of the Center for Democracy and Technology’s free expression project, says most major technology platforms now have…

The War on Passwords Is One Step Closer to Being Over
14
Oct
2024

The War on Passwords Is One Step Closer to Being Over

The password-killing tech known as “passkeys” have proliferated over the last two years, developed by the tech industry association known…

Pig Butchering Scams Are Going High Tech
12
Oct
2024

Pig Butchering Scams Are Going High Tech

As digital scamming explodes in Southeast Asia, including so called “pig butchering” investment scams, the United Nations Office on Drugs…

The FBI Made a Crypto Coin Just to Catch Fraudsters
12
Oct
2024

The FBI Made a Crypto Coin Just to Catch Fraudsters

The Internet Archive is under attack. On top of multiple extinction-threatening lawsuits against the organization that created and maintains the…