Category: Wired

AI Chatbots Are Invading Your Local Government—and Making Everyone Nervous
11
Sep
2023

AI Chatbots Are Invading Your Local Government—and Making Everyone Nervous

The United States Environmental Protection Agency blocked its employees from accessing ChatGPT while the US State Department staff in Guinea…

Mozilla: Your New Car Is a Data Privacy Nightmare
09
Sep
2023

Mozilla: Your New Car Is a Data Privacy Nightmare

Eighty-four percent of the brands that researchers studied share or sell this kind of personal data, and only two of…

Axon's Ethics Board Resigned Over Taser-Armed Drones. Then the Company Bought a Military Drone Maker
08
Sep
2023

Axon’s Ethics Board Resigned Over Taser-Armed Drones. Then the Company Bought a Military Drone Maker

Company leadership expects to generate more than $1.5 billion in revenue in 2023, it said in an August investor statement….

Top US Spies Meet With Privacy Experts Over Surveillance 'Crown Jewel'
08
Sep
2023

Top US Spies Meet With Privacy Experts Over Surveillance ‘Crown Jewel’

Senior United States intelligence officials met privately in Virginia yesterday with over a dozen civil liberties groups to field concerns…

US and UK Mount Aggressive Crackdown on Trickbot and Conti Ransomware Gangs
07
Sep
2023

US and UK Mount Aggressive Crackdown on Trickbot and Conti Ransomware Gangs

The United States Department of Treasury and United Kingdom Foreign Office announced today that they have sanctioned 11 people for…

The International Criminal Court Will Now Prosecute Cyberwar Crimes
07
Sep
2023

The International Criminal Court Will Now Prosecute Cyberwar Crimes

For years, some cybersecurity defenders and advocates have called for a kind of Geneva Convention for cyberwar, new international laws…

Facebook Trains Its AI on Your Data. Opting Out May Be Futile
07
Sep
2023

Facebook Trains Its AI on Your Data. Opting Out May Be Futile

As Meta, the company behind Facebook, continues to develop its generative artificial intelligence tools, you can now request the removal…

The Comedy of Errors That Let China-Backed Hackers Steal Microsoft’s Signing Key
07
Sep
2023

The Comedy of Errors That Let China-Backed Hackers Steal Microsoft’s Signing Key

Microsoft said in June that a China-backed hacking group had stolen a cryptographic key from the company’s systems. This key…

How China Demands Tech Firms Reveal Hackable Flaws in Their Products
06
Sep
2023

How China Demands Tech Firms Reveal Hackable Flaws in Their Products

The researchers found, in fact, that some firms appear to be taking that second option. They point to a July…

Generative AI’s Biggest Security Flaw Is Not Easy to Fix
06
Sep
2023

Generative AI’s Biggest Security Flaw Is Not Easy to Fix

It’s easy to trick the large language models powering chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard. In one experiment in…

The Strange Afterlife of Wagner’s Yevgeny Prigozhin
05
Sep
2023

The Strange Afterlife of Wagner’s Yevgeny Prigozhin

Yveneny Prigozhin’s wartime atrocities propelled the brutal mercenary into the limelight. But Prigozhin—who was once Russian president Vladimir Putin’s chef…

How to Use Proton Sentinel to Keep Your Accounts Safe
03
Sep
2023

How to Use Proton Sentinel to Keep Your Accounts Safe

There’s a constant battle going on between software developers trying to keep their apps and platforms secure, and hackers and…