The Cop Who Took On Flock
When the article appeared, the first text Pichardo received came from another officer. “I want to congratulate you on your testicular fortitude,” it read. The officer added that he was proud of Pichardo for doing…
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Can AI Coexist With Privacy? Proton’s Andy Yen Says It Will Have To
I’m trying not to get too nerdy here, but are you talking about homomorphic encryption? No, it’s basically—do you know about TPMs, trusted platform modules, and how that works a little bit? Yeah. If I…
Meta Ran Ads for an App That Promised to Nudify Female Politicians
Meta platforms recently ran ads for an AI porn-generation tool that seemingly encouraged users to create deepfaked videos resembling female US politicians, despite the company’s policies against ads containing sexual material. It’s the latest in…
OpenAI Overhauls Safety Protocols After Its AI Agents Went Rogue
OpenAI announced Tuesday that it has halted “a significant number” of training workloads and evaluations for its forthcoming frontier artificial intelligence model—codenamed Astra—while it implements new procedures meant to address cybersecurity risks. The ChatGPT maker…
New York City Lawmakers Push to ‘Ban the Scan’ at MSG
Privacy advocates and musicians rallied outside Madison Square Garden on Friday, pushing for new legislation to prevent facial-recognition technology at the venue and other public spaces in New York City. “MSG and its CEO, James…
CBP Workers Allegedly Used Government Databases to Spy on Exes, Crushes, and Colleagues
Internal records obtained by WIRED reveal how, for years, United States Customs and Border Protection employees and contractors were accused of abusing sensitive government databases for reasons that had nothing to do with their jobs….
‘The Worst I’ve Ever Seen’: Cargo Thefts Have Turned Violent in Pursuit of AI Hardware
During the 25 years Gerardo Pachuca has spent investigating thieves who steal cargo from semitrucks, he says he’s never seen behavior this brazen. The consultant and former Los Angeles sheriff’s detective claims that two times…
This Coin-Sized Device Can Hack a Boeing 737
The researchers aren’t revealing which port they targeted on the 737, nor are they releasing some details of how their hacking device is able to spoof commands to the plane’s computers. They’ve worked closely with…
A Zoom Screen-Sharing Bug Let Anyone Take Over Other Devices on a Call
As AI models gain advanced capabilities to find vulnerabilities in software, develop ways to exploit them, and even carry out autonomous hacking sprees, researchers offered a sobering new example on Tuesday, disclosing vulnerabilities in the…
Sensitive Info Goes Into ‘No Reply’ Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All
Cory Solovewicz receives more unwanted emails than you. Seriously—it’s a lot more. Since December 2024, one of the domains at which the security researcher receives email has registered 401,796 messages—by his calculations that’s an average…