The Mystery of AI Gunshot-Detection Accuracy Is Finally Unraveling
This week, New York City’s comptroller published a similar audit of the city’s ShotSpotter system showing that only 13 percent of the alerts the system…
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Deepfake Creators Are Revictimizing GirlsDoPorn Sex Trafficking Survivors
Among those charged, Ruben Andre Garcia, a GirlsDoPorn producer and recruiter, was sentenced to 20 years in prison; Matthew Isaac Wolfe, who admitted to having…
Red Tape Is Making Hospital Ransomware Attacks Worse
“I can tell you with complete confidence that ransomware attacks harm patients,” says Hannah Neprash, an associate professor of health policy at the University of…
A Catastrophic Hospital Hack Ends in a Leak of 300M Patient Records
The rolling series of breaches targeting customers of cloud platform Snowflake appears to be a supply chain attack wrapped in another supply chain attack. A…
Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine
“They’d only get in trouble if they summarized the story incorrectly and made it defamatory when it wasn’t before. That’s something that they actually would…
US Bans Kaspersky Software | WIRED
The Russian cybersecurity software firm Kaspersky’s days of operating in the United States are now officially numbered. The Biden administration on Thursday said it’s banning…
Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine
“We’ve now got a huge industry of AI-related companies who are incentivized to do shady things to continue their business,” he tells WIRED. “By not…
This Is What Would Happen if China Invaded Taiwan
In late March, a Taiwanese data analyst posted on social media about an odd satellite image: It appeared that the Chinese military had erected at…
Hackers Detail How They Allegedly Stole Ticketmaster Data From Snowflake
It’s possible the ShinyHunter hackers did not directly hack the EPAM worker, and simply gained access to the Snowflake accounts using usernames and passwords they…
Amazon-Powered AI Cameras Used to Detect Emotions of Unwitting UK Train Passengers
Network Rail did not answer questions about the trials sent by WIRED, including questions about the current status of AI usage, emotion detection, and privacy…
How to Spot a Business Email Compromise Scam
So this is the first step: take control of your emotions. Yes, it can be difficult if you work in a demanding field. But it’s…
Let Slip the Robot Dogs of War
“These dogs will be an extra set of eyes and ears while computing large amounts of data at strategic locations throughout Tyndall Air Force Base,”…