Surprise! The Latest ‘Comprehensive’ US Privacy Bill Is Doomed
Dozens of civil rights organizations had been urging Democrats (some of whom had puzzlingly signed off on those changes) to sink the […]
Tag: Security
War Crime Prosecutions Enter a New Digital Age
The platform allows users to virtually walk through the city of Timbuktu, as well as see it from above. Nested within the […]
The Julian Assange Saga Is Finally Over
United States prosecutors have secured a deal with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requiring the long-embattled publisher to plead guilty to one count […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
US Bans Kaspersky Software
The Russian cybersecurity software firm Kaspersky’s days of operating in the United States are now officially numbered. The Biden administration on Thursday […]
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 […]