Cyber Security

TikTok Says It’s Not Censoring ‘Free Palestine’ Comments. Users See Something Different

On Monday, a day after TikTok came back online for the U.S., people started noticing that the app would not…

5 months ago

Medical Device Company Tells Hospitals They’re No Longer Allowed to Fix Machine That Costs Six Figures

The manufacturer of a machine that costs six figures used during heart surgery has told hospitals that it will no…

5 months ago

Podcast: TikTok and the Tech Oligarchy

We start this week with the TikTok ban: how we got here, what happened, and, most importantly, why it means…

5 months ago

Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy

If it wasn’t already obvious, the last 72 hours have made it crystal clear that it is urgent to build…

5 months ago

Facebook Says It’s Not Forcing You to Follow Trump

Shortly after Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on Monday, many Facebook users…

5 months ago

Cloudflare Issue Can Leak Chat App Users’ Broad Location

An issue with Cloudflare allows an attacker to find which Cloudflare data center a messaging app used to cache an…

5 months ago

The Powerful AI Tool That Cops (or Stalkers) Can Use to Geolocate Photos in Seconds

A powerful AI tool can predict with high accuracy the location of photos based on features inside the image itself—such…

5 months ago

The Moon Got Obliterated and Lost a Bunch of Craters

Welcome back to the Abstract!  This week, we’re going to the movies. For 77 hours straight. At the end, we’ll…

5 months ago

Behind the Blog: The TikTok Ban and Joyless AI

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of…

6 months ago

Opting Out of Gmail’s Gemini AI Summaries Is a Mess. Here’s How to Do It, We Think

This week, Google shoved various capabilities from Gemini, its AI tool, into Workspaces for Business and Enterprise customers, including associated…

6 months ago