How Threads’ Privacy Policy Compares to Twitter’s (and Its Rivals’)
Meta’s long-awaited Twitter alternative is here, and it’s called Threads. The new social media app launches at a time when alternatives, like Bluesky, Mastodon, and…
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Don’t Join Threads—Make Meta’s Instagram-Linked Twitter Alternative Join You
As Meta’s Twitter competitor, Threads, started generating buzz ahead of yesterday’s launch, curious netizens spotted a placeholder listing for the app in Apple’s App Store.…
US Spies Are Buying Americans’ Private Data. Congress Has a Chance to Stop It
The National Defense Authorization Act now includes language that would forbid government entities from buying Americans’ search histories, location data, and more. Source link
EV Charger Hacking Poses a ‘Catastrophic’ Risk
Such cracks could conceivably permit hackers to access vehicle data or consumers’ credit card information, says Ken Munro, a co-founder of Pen Test Partners. But…
Security News This Week: Cyberstalkers Win First Amendment Victory in the US Supreme Court
Amid exploding AI usage, the United States Senate is mulling legislation to regulate the development of artificial intelligence, but lawmakers’ comments to WIRED this week…
Apple, Google, and MOVEit Just Patched Serious Security Flaws
Summer software updates are coming thick and fast, with Apple, Google, and Microsoft issuing multiple patches for serious security flaws in June. Enterprise software firms…
Pornhub Accused of Illegal Data Collection
The final element of the complaints claims that Pornhub uses people’s data and “unilaterally assigns sexual preferences to each individual without their knowledge,” according to…
How Your Real Flight Reservation Can Be Used to Scam You
How do you tell that your plane ticket is real? If it checks out on the airline’s website, you’re good to go, right? Don’t be…
The Night 17 Million Precious Military Records Went Up in Smoke
Owens, who has spent more than two decades working at the records center, is a burly guy in his early fifties, wearing deliberately distressed jeans…
The US Senate Wants to Reign In AI. Good Luck With That
While negotiations started with Young and Schumer, they didn’t end there. Rather, the pair heard input from other congressional committees and worked that into the…
5 Ways to Make Your Instant Messaging More Secure
The actual number of chat messages sent each day is hard to come by, but with WhatsApp alone accounting for billions of users, you can…
Update Your iPhone Right Now to Fix 2 Apple Zero Days
Apple says the patches fix a memory corruption that allowed an app to execute arbitrary code and a WebKit vulnerability that enabled malicious code execution…