We’ve got much more on what is happening inside Meta with the company’s recent speech policy changes. Jason runs us through it. After the break, Joseph explains how thousands of apps have been hijacked to steal your location data, possibly without the app developers’ knowledge. In the subscribers-only section, we talk about various stories intersecting…
Welcome back to the Abstract! This week, we’re moving in next to anacondas, so watch your back and lock the henhouse. Then, parenthood tips from wild baboons, the “cognitive debt” of ChatGPT, a spaceflight symphony, and a bizarre galaxy that is finally coming into view. When your neighbor is an anaconda Cosendey, Beatriz Nunes and…
Tech stocks plunged Monday (Jan. 27) following a new AI model from China’s DeepSeek. As the Financial Times (FT) reported, DeepSeek’s latest large
This article was produced in collaboration with Court Watch, an independent outlet that unearths overlooked court records. Subscribe to them here. A judge in Nevada has ruled that “tower dumps”—the law enforcement practice of grabbing vast troves of private personal data from cell towers—is unconstitutional. The judge also ruled that the cops could, this one time, still…
An extremely Windows-heavy month, with a surprise cameo by… Sophos?!
Data preservationists and archivists have been working tirelessly since the election of President Donald Trump to save websites, data, and public information that’s being removed by the administration for promoting or even mentioning diversity. The administration is now targeting National Parks signs that educate visitors about anything other than “beauty” and “grandeur,” and demanding they…
Check out tips for adopting AI securely from the World Economic Forum. Plus, the EU’s DORA cyber rules for banks go into effect. Meanwhile, a report warns about overprivileged cloud accounts. And get the latest on ransomware trends; CIS Benchmarks; and data privacy.Dive into six things that are top of mind for the week ending…
Google’s featured snippet is pulling in an Amazon AI summary of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi manifesto Mein Kampf that calls it “a true work of art” in the latest AI-related fuckup affecting top search results. As of writing, searching for “mein kampf positive reviews” returned a result that was pulled from an AI-generated summary of an…
Komprise introduces new sensitive-data management capabilities for AI and cybersecurity – SiliconANGLE
