Hackable Robot Lawn Mower Unlocks a New Nightmare
…After spending years building out the encryption systems needed to secure its chat apps, Meta said in 2023 that it had rolled out default encryption for Messenger. It also said it was…
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There’s a Long-Shot Proposal to Protect California Workers From AI
…intends to expand unemployment insurance and establish a new agency called the AI Worker Protection Administration that would include union leaders, academics, and technologists that would adopt rules to protect workers’ rights…
Opposing ICE Might Save the Country. It Could Also Ruin Your Life
…Concepcion loves playing the Good Samaritan for people who feel mugged by the system, so he threw himself into trying to liberate Gabriel. He found an attorney willing to take the case…
The AI Era Is Creating a Bug-Hunting Arms Race
…they had developed using AI tools to bypass two-factor authentication on an open-source system administration platform. Google quickly notified the developer, and they issued a fix for the flaw. But…
Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators
…In November 2021, the company ended Facebook's photo-tagging system and said it would delete the face recognition templates of more than a billion users, framing the decision as “a company…
Use Tiny11 to Rescue a Computer Running Windows 10
…on your system, which you'll see on the left sidebar in File Explorer. Search for "powershell" in the Start menu, right-click Windows Powershell, and pick Run as administrator and Yes…
Yann LeCun Raises $1 Billion to Build AI That Understands the Physical World
…AMI (pronounced like the French word for friend) aims to build “a new breed of AI systems that understand the world, have persistent memory, can reason and plan, and are controllable and…
AI Has Flooded All the Weather Apps
…Like most weather apps, it gets the data comes from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Weather Service (NWS). The app costs $4 per month. It is available…
Artemis II Astronauts Return Safely to Earth After Historic Flight Around the Moon
…Much of this data was beamed back down to Earth using a new laser communications system that transmits up to 260 megabits per second, much faster than previous radio systems. “Now we…
Hackers Are Posting the Claude Code Leak With Bonus Malware
…2020 that the bureau has declared a major incident on its own systems. Politico, citing two unnamed senior Trump administration officials, reported that China is believed to be behind the intrusion. If…