A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame?
Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous, even for airplanes far from the battlefield. Source link
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ICE’s New Detention Center Contracts Declare State Laws ‘Shall Not Apply’
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving to place its private detention network beyond the reach of state inspectors, publishing draft contract terms that declare…
A Typo Landed an Innocent Gamer in Prison for 18 Months
One missing underscore in a Skyrim-themed username put an innocent Nova Scotia man in prison for 18 months. A 2018 child-luring investigation, which began in…
OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face
OpenAI said Tuesday that the rogue AI agent that breached Hugging Face’s platform also hacked multiple third-party accounts and services as part of the attack.…
Hugging Face Has a Deepfake Nudes Problem
Ever so slowly, the crackdown on harmful sexual deepfakes is taking hold. Over the past few months, US law enforcement officials have seized deepfake hosting…
DHS Official Resigns, Citing ‘War on Immigrants’
The Department of Homeland Security’s top numbers-cruncher has resigned, citing the Trump administration’s “war on immigrants” on his way out. DHS has been a hub…
Private Claude Chats Exposed in Google and Bing Search Results
What happens between you and an AI chatbot does not always stay between you and a chatbot. Just ask Google. Over the weekend, people were…
The OpenAI Models That Hacked Hugging Face Were ‘Active on the Internet’ for Days
Two of OpenAI’s cybersecurity-focused models broke out of a testing sandbox this week and went on to hack the AI research platform Hugging Face in…
Satellite Images Reveal How Suspected Scam Compounds Appear Out of Nowhere
More than two dozen suspected new scam compounds in war-torn Myanmar have been built or expanded significantly in the past six months, according to satellite…
For Taylor Swift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went Dark
Madison Square Garden owner James Dolan has insisted that the face-recognition system and array of surveillance cameras deployed at his venues is “very, very useful…
States Want ICE Agents to Show Their Faces. The Trump Administration Is Blocking Them
The Trump administration has sued at least five states and the city of Philadelphia over laws that supporters say would hold law enforcement—including Immigration and…
OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked Hugging Face
OpenAI disclosed on Tuesday that it lost control of two AI models during a security test that ended in a breach of the AI research…