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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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US Bans Kaspersky Software | WIRED
The Russian cybersecurity software firm Kaspersky’s days of operating in the United States are now officially numbered. The Biden administration...
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Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine
“We’ve now got a huge industry of AI-related companies who are incentivized to do shady things to continue their business,”...
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