The $11 Billion Marketplace Enabling the Crypto Scam Economy
That public nature of the criminal transactions is all the more shocking given that Huione Guarantee is operated by Huione Group, a Cambodian financial conglomerate…
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AI-Powered Super Soldiers Are More Than Just a Pipe Dream
The day is slowly turning into night, and the American special operators are growing concerned. They are deployed to a densely populated urban center in…
Hackers Leaking Taylor Swift Tickets? Don’t Get Your Hopes Up
Proton, the company behind Proton Mail, launched an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Docs, seeking to compete with the cloud giant on privacy. We broke…
The World’s Most Popular 3D-Printed Gun Was Designed by an Aspiring Terrorist
4chan is ephemeral (posts are routinely culled) and supposedly anonymous (the default name setting for anyone posting is simply “Anonymous”). However, the website inserts a…
How Apple Intelligence’s Privacy Stacks Up Against Android’s ‘Hybrid AI’
Yet Google and its hardware partners argue privacy and security are a major focus of the Android AI approach. VP Justin Choi, head of the…
Proton Is Launching Encrypted Documents to Take On Google Docs
Yen says Proton has been internally using the system for the last month and is now ready to roll it out to consumers. “I feel…
The Tech Crash Course That Trains US Diplomats to Spot Threats
By the time the Senate unanimously confirmed Nate Fick to be America’s cyber ambassador in September 2022, tech diplomacy headaches were impossible to ignore, and…
The Problem the US TikTok Crackdown and Kaspersky Ban Have in Common
On July 20, the United States Commerce Department will ban new sales of popular antivirus software made by Moscow-based Kaspersky Labs. The move comes just…
The US Wants to Integrate the Commercial Space Industry With Its Military to Prevent Cyber Attacks
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. The US military recently launched a groundbreaking initiative to strengthen ties with the…
Security News This Week: Google Is Piloting Face Recognition for Office Security
WIRED learned this week that Amazon Web Services investigated claims that the AI search startup Perplexity may have violated the cloud company’s rules by appearing…
Quora’s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demand
Poe, an AI chatbot platform owned by the question-and-answer site Quora and backed by a $75 million Andreessen Horowitz investment, is providing users with downloadable…
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 theft of the majority of…