US Government Says Relying on Chinese Lithium Batteries Is Too Risky
Analysts at the US Department of Homeland Security shared an internal report to local agencies in August, warning them about the economic risks of using…
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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 a US government official who…
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. Click the headlines to read…
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 president of a small European…
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 ruggedized version of the Microsoft…
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 believing the unintelligible prompt might…
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 through the winter. But for…
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 Palestinians,” Anonymous Sudan responded in…
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 her noncustodial mother, Heather Unbehaun,…
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 policies prohibiting nonconsensual distribution of…
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 as the FIDO Alliance as…
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 and Crime (UNODC) issued a…