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

By Reece Rogers — April 8th 2024 at 11:30
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.
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The Incognito Mode Myth Has Fully Unraveled

By Dell Cameron, Andrew Couts — April 1st 2024 at 21:22
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.
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How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin

By Byron Tau — February 27th 2024 at 11:00
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."
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US Lawmakers Want to Use a Powerful Spy Tool on Immigrants and Their Families

By Dell Cameron — December 4th 2023 at 14:52
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.
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The Senate’s AI Future Is Haunted by the Ghost of Privacy Past

By Matt Laslo — August 4th 2023 at 18:05
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.
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How a Cloud Flaw Gave Chinese Spies a Key to Microsoft’s Kingdom

By Andy Greenberg — July 12th 2023 at 20:34
Microsoft says hackers somehow stole a cryptographic key, perhaps from its own network, that let them forge user identities and slip past cloud defenses.
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Porn ID Laws: Your State or Country May Soon Require Age Verification

By Matt Burgess — March 30th 2023 at 06:00
An increasing number of states are passing age-verification laws. It’s not clear how they’ll work.
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Bug in Google Markup, Windows Photo-Cropping Tools Exposes Removed Image Data

By Lily Hay Newman — March 22nd 2023 at 22:25
Image-editing tools from Google and Microsoft contain the “aCropalypse” bug, which can reveal information users intentionally removed.
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The Secret Ballot Is US Democracy’s Last Line of Defense

By Lily Hay Newman — November 7th 2022 at 21:55
Voter intimidation has cropped up in places across the nation, but the voting booth remains the one place where nobody can get to you.
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Inside the World’s Biggest Hacker Rickroll

By Matt Burgess — August 22nd 2022 at 11:00
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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