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AI Scam Calls: How to Protect Yourself, How to Detect

By Reece Rogers
AI tools are getting better at cloning people’s voices, and scammers are using these new capabilities to commit fraud. Avoid getting swindled by following these expert tips.

The Incognito Mode Myth Has Fully Unraveled

By Dell Cameron, Andrew Couts
To settle a years-long lawsuit, Google has agreed to delete “billions of data records” collected from users of “Incognito mode,” illuminating the pitfalls of relying on Chrome to protect your privacy.

How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin

By Byron Tau
Meet the guy who taught US intelligence agencies how to make the most of the ad tech ecosystem, "the largest information-gathering enterprise ever conceived by man."

US Lawmakers Want to Use a Powerful Spy Tool on Immigrants and Their Families

By Dell Cameron
Legislation set to be introduced in Congress this week would extend Section 702 surveillance of people applying for green cards, asylum, and some visas—subjecting loved ones to similar intrusions.

The Senate’s AI Future Is Haunted by the Ghost of Privacy Past

By Matt Laslo
The US Congress is trying to tame the rapid rise of artificial intelligence. But senators’ failure to tackle privacy reform is making the task a nightmare.

How a Cloud Flaw Gave Chinese Spies a Key to Microsoft’s Kingdom

By Andy Greenberg
Microsoft says hackers somehow stole a cryptographic key, perhaps from its own network, that let them forge user identities and slip past cloud defenses.

Porn ID Laws: Your State or Country May Soon Require Age Verification

By Matt Burgess
An increasing number of states are passing age-verification laws. It’s not clear how they’ll work.

Bug in Google Markup, Windows Photo-Cropping Tools Exposes Removed Image Data

By Lily Hay Newman
Image-editing tools from Google and Microsoft contain the “aCropalypse” bug, which can reveal information users intentionally removed.

The Secret Ballot Is US Democracy’s Last Line of Defense

By Lily Hay Newman
Voter intimidation has cropped up in places across the nation, but the voting booth remains the one place where nobody can get to you.

Inside the World’s Biggest Hacker Rickroll

By Matt Burgess
As a graduation prank, four high school students hijacked 500 screens across six school buildings to troll their classmates and teachers.
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