I Hate My AI Friend
Schiffmann seems to be doing well, compared to the last times either of us spoke to him. When he first ...
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Massive Leak Shows How a Chinese Company Is Exporting the Great Firewall to the World
A leak of more than 100,000 documents shows that a little-known Chinese company has been quietly selling censorship systems seemingly ...
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Big Tech Companies in the US Have Been Told Not to Apply the Digital Services Act
Trouble is brewing for the Digital Services Act (DSA), the landmark European law governing big tech platforms. On August 21, ...
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SSA Whistleblower’s Resignation Email Mysteriously Disappeared From Inboxes
On Friday, the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer, Chuck Borges, sent an email to agency staff claiming that he ...
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Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi Over Age Verification Law
People in Mississippi can no longer use the social media platform Bluesky. The company announced Friday that it will be ...
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Highly Sensitive Medical Cannabis Patient Data Exposed by Unsecured Database
As legal cannabis has expanded around the United States for both recreational and medical use, companies have amassed troves of ...
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493 Cases of Sextortion Against Children Linked to Notorious Scam Compounds
“There are limitations to what we can see with this data, but what we have so far is accurate,” says ...
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Pebblebee Is Getting Serious About Personal Safety Tracking
Think of Bluetooth trackers and safety in the past few years and your first thought might be the misuse of ...
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Russia Is Cracking Down on End-to-End Encrypted Calls
WIRED copublished an investigation this week with The Markup and CalMatters showing that dozens of data brokers have been hiding ...
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Age Verification Is Sweeping Gaming. Is It Ready for the Age of AI Fakes?
Ash, a UK-based 20-year-old who requested his last name not be used, tells WIRED he was able to pass verification ...
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