Credit to Author: Mattha Busby| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0000
The marketing of illegal drugs on open platforms is “gaining prominence,” authorities note, while the number of drug transactions on the dark web has decreased in recent years.
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Credit to Author: Eric Geller| Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 11:30:00 +0000
Staffers at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency tell WIRED they fear the new administration will cut programs that keep the US safe—and “persecution.”
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Digital license plates sold by Reviver, already legal to buy in some states and drive with nationwide, can be hacked by their owners to evade traffic regulations or even law enforcement surveillance.
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Credit to Author: Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 14:00:00 +0000
AI risks arise not from AI acting on its own, but because of what people do with it.
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Credit to Author: John Pavlus| Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0000
The security system that underlies the internet makes use of a curious fact: You can broadcast part of your encryption to make your information much more secure.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess, Andy Greenberg, Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 11:30:00 +0000
Plus: The US indicts North Koreans in fake IT worker scheme, file-sharing firm Cleo warns customers to patch a vulnerability amid live attacks, and more.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 19:48:25 +0000
A flurry of drone sightings across New Jersey and New York has sparked national intrigue and US government responses. But experts are pouring cold water on America’s hottest new conspiracy theory.
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Credit to Author: Jared Keller| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 16:33:46 +0000
Small, easily weaponizable drones have become a feature of battlefields from the Middle East to Ukraine. Now the threat looms over the US homeland—and the Pentagon’s ability to respond is limited.
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Credit to Author: Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 14:00:00 +0000
AI creates what it’s told to, from plucking fanciful evidence from thin air, to arbitrarily removing people’s rights, to sowing doubt over public misdeeds.
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Credit to Author: Ali Winston| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0000
The white supremacist Robert Rundo faces years in prison. But the “Active Club” network he helped create has proliferated in countries around the world, from Eastern Europe to South America.
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