Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2024 16:34:03 +0000
Social Security numbers, death certificates, voter applications, and other personal data were accessible on the open internet, highlighting the ongoing challenges in election security.
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Credit to Author: Kate O’Flaherty| Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000
OpenAI’s newest model is “a data hoover on steroids,” says one expert—but there are still ways to use it while minimizing risk.
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Credit to Author: Brian Merchant| Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 10:30:00 +0000
A former Google engineer has built a search engine, webXray, that aims to find illicit online data collection and tracking—with the goal of becoming “the Henry Ford of tech lawsuits.”
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Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra, Tim Marchman, Andrew Couts| Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 17:02:36 +0000
The Republican VP nominee’s Venmo network reveals connections ranging from the architects of Project 2025 to enemies of Donald Trump—and the populist’s close ties to the very elites he rails against.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 17:48:33 +0000
Senator Mark Warner is trying to pass new limits on when the government can wiretap Americans. At least two senators are quietly trying to stop him.
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Credit to Author: Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: The Heritage Foundation gets hacked over Project 2025, a car dealership software provider seems to have paid $25 million to a ransomware gang, and authorities disrupt a Russian bot farm.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 17:44:16 +0000
Telecom giant AT&T says a major data breach has exposed the call and text records of “nearly all” of its customers, epitomizing the dire state of data security.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Google is bringing the password-killing “passkey” tech to its Advanced Protection Program users more than a year after rolling them out broadly.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess, Andy Greenberg| Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: Researchers uncover a new way to expose CSAM peddlers, OpenAI suffered a secret cyberattack, cryptocurrency thefts jump in 2024, and Twilio confirms hackers stole 33 million phone numbers.
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Credit to Author: Kate O’Flaherty| Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Generative AI is seeping into the core of your phone, but what does that mean for privacy? Here’s how Apple’s unique AI architecture compares to the “hybrid” approach adopted by Samsung and Google.
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