…My background in cyberpsychology (the focus of my postgrad studies) gives me a unique perspective on usability and sniffing out the occassional dark pattern they try to sneak by us. Outside of…
…Software engineers are also looking at how AIs can be adapted to spot the early signs that conversations are veering into dark territory and issue corrective actions. Ben-Zion and colleagues are…
…Heavensward, Stormblood, Shadowbringers, Endwalker, Dawntrail, and now the upcoming Evercold. But as it turns out, director and producer Naoki Yoshida has tried to break that pattern a few times. At least, if…
…Item listings are nice and all, but you know what's better? BIGGER item listings. These now include more images, more detailed descriptions, and callouts for specific item information "wear/float, pattern…
…Pulsing, brightly colored bullets fly towards you in mesmerizing patterns, and you must dodge and weave between them as you shoot back at whatever wants you dead. The bullet hell is more…
…Discord has faced security issues in the past that exposed user data, and more recently, there’s been backlash around age verification , with concerns over privacy and how that data might be…
…And that’s not all! Each week, we round up the security and privacy news we didn’t cover in depth ourselves. Click the headlines to read the full stories. And stay…
…Monitor, which helped scrub personal information from data sites, survived the 2024 layoffs, and redirected some development efforts away from privacy and into Firefox proper. Monitor will be integrated into the Password…
…Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, the federal law that governs medical privacy. That means the biometric data your device collects, including heart rate, sleep patterns, menstrual cycle tracking and blood oxygen…
…Cross identified social media-style “dark patterns,” which encourage isolation and addiction, in her testing of the Miko 3 robot; the Cambridge study warns against these in the report. “What we found…
