US Congress Report Calls for Privacy Reforms After FBI Surveillance ‘Abuses’
A report compiled by the Republican majority members of the United States House Intelligence Committee says that agents of the...
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Running Signal Will Soon Cost $50 Million a Year
The encrypted messaging and calling app Signal has become a one-of-a-kind phenomenon in the tech world: It has grown from...
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How to Opt Out of Facebook’s Latest Two-Factor Authentication Change
Meta recently changed how two-factor authentication works for Facebook and Instagram. You might have received a notification about this, but...
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A Spy Agency Leaked People’s Data Online—Then the Data Was Stolen
The list of data is long. Names, professions, blood groups, parents’ names, phone numbers, the length of calls, vehicle registrations,...
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Google’s New Titan Security Key Adds Another Piece to the Password-Killing Puzzle
Passwords are a woefully insecure—and frustrating—authentication technology, but after decades of digital use, they’re ubiquitous. Recently, though, the global tech...
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The QAnon Shaman Isn’t Even the Most Extreme Candidate in His Race for Congress
“The race in general is gonna be wild,” one independent researcher who tracks the far-right in Arizona under the moniker...
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Social Media Sleuths, Armed With AI, Are Identifying Dead Bodies
For all of the challenges presented by volunteer online communities, the reality is that they exist in a vacuum left...
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Asian Americans Raise Alarm Over ‘Chilling Effects’ of Section 702 Surveillance Program
Dozens of prominent Asian American groups are asking United States lawmakers this morning to hold fast in the face of...
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CISA Has a New Road Map for Handling Weaponized AI
Last month, a 120-page United States executive order laid out the Biden administration’s plans to oversee companies that develop artificial...
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Fermi’s Paradox Proves There’s No Government Alien Conspiracy Around Roswell
Across the 75 years since something—something—crashed outside Roswell in early July 1947, the very name itself has taken on a...
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The Mirai Confessions: Three Young Hackers Who Built a Web-Killing Monster Finally Tell Their Story
Josiah’s father would take him along to their church’s “car ministry,” where they’d repair congregants’ cars for free and refurbish...
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US Privacy Groups Urge Senate Not to Ram Through NSA Spying Powers
Some of the United States’ largest civil liberties groups are urging Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer not to pursue a...
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