The FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones
After WIRED reported last week that Meta’s smart glasses app contained code that would enable the company to activate face-recognition […]
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Drug Sites Hijacked Spotify’s Search Ranking Through Fake Podcasts
For the past year, Spotify has been quietly purging tens of thousands of podcasts that advertised illegal online pharmacies. A
Signal Alums Reveal ‘Encrypted Spaces,’ a System for Making Private Collaboration Apps
Encrypted Spaces is, in some sense, the next generation of the Signal protocol, but for more complex and fully featured
CISA Tells US Agencies to Fix Security Bugs in as Little as 3 Days Thanks to AI Threats
With new generations of AI models fueling both rapid software vulnerability discovery and the potential for faster exploitation by malicious
Wrongful Arrest Exposes Failures in One of the Oldest Police Face-Recognition Tools in the US
A Florida man was wrongfully arrested for attempting to illegally lure a child after police relied on a face-recognition match
Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report
One day after WIRED revealed that Meta had quietly embedded an unreleased face-recognition system into an app installed on more
All the Ways Europe Is Ditching American Technology
Europe is done with American Big Tech. Well, sort of. Since the start of President Donald Trump’s chaotic second administration
Crypto-Funded Chinese Peptide Labs Are Booming
Meta has been quietly stashing dormant face recognition code on more than 50 million phones, WIRED reported this week, tucked