How to Use AI With Your Privacy Intact
If the tech industry sought to create a method of seducing users into sending their deepest, most sensitive secrets to a server in a faraway data center, it would be hard-pressed to create a better…
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A New Tool Found Malware That’s Guided by an AI Hive Mind—No Humans in Sight
For years, cybersecurity practitioners have tracked different types of malware and detected potential infections using digital fingerprints to identify different hacking tools and follow their use over time. As attackers are increasingly incorporating agentic AI…
Computer Scientist Pushes a 1996 Algorithm Beyond Its Longstanding Limit
A multiscale sampling strategy pushes a classic network-distance guarantee into territory previous algorithms struggled to reach. Credit: Shutterstock A new algorithm solves a blind spot that has challenged computer scientists since 1996, improving distance estimates…
US and China Discuss Alerting Each Other to AI National Security Threats
Talks have begun between US and Chinese officials to propose a mechanism for the two countries to notify each other of artificial intelligence incidents which could threaten national security. The framework, called the US China…
Scientists Turn Plastic Waste Into Protein-Rich Cookies
This cookie is made using waste plant materials and plastic and could feed humans everywhere, from submarines to spaceships. Credit: SIU Carbondale Communications Specialized microbes convert inedible materials into protein-rich snacks. A cookie made partly…
Kill meetings (before meetings kill your company)
Meetings have been problematic for decades. They’re often used as a catch-all solution to unresolved problems. And a chronic lack of meeting discipline means that, for all the time spent getting people together, little is…
New Membrane Removes Nearly 100% of Ammonia From Wastewater in Minutes
Researchers engineered a porous ruthenium-lead oxide membrane that converts ammonia into nitrogen gas while reducing other wastewater pollutants. Credit: Shutterstock A new electrically powered filter can strip nearly all ammonia nitrogen from wastewater in just…
An Undercover Google Analyst Infiltrated a Notorious Supply-Chain Hacking Gang
Before two of its alleged members were arrested and charged in Australia last month, the hacker group known as TeamPCP carried out a hacking spree unlike any other in history. It tainted hundreds of open-source…
Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee
Flock Safety announced a voluntary employee separation program on Friday, offering a “generous” severance package to those who want to leave amid growing backlash against the surveillance technology company, according to an internal email shared…
Forget the AI Slowdown—the Vulnerability Explosion Is Already Happening
Welcome to the inaugural edition of Kernel Panic! A weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To receive this newsletter in your inbox…