Something very strange is happening to the Apple Podcasts app. Over the last several months, I’ve found both the iOS and Mac versions of the Podcasts app will open religion, spirituality, and education podcasts with no apparent rhyme or reason. Sometimes, I unlock my machine and the podcast app has launched itself and presented one…
Over the last few months 404 Media has covered some concerning but predictable uses for the Ray-Ban Meta glasses, which are equipped with a built-in camera, and for some models, AI. Aftermarket hobbyists have modified the glasses to add a facial recognition feature that could quietly dox whatever face a user is looking at, and…
Arizona State University rolled out a platform called Atomic that creates AI-generated modules based on lectures taken from ASU faculty by cutting long videos down to very short clips then generating text and sections based on those clips. Faculty and scholars I spoke to whose lectures are included in Atomic are disturbed by their lectures…
Ohio residents and businesses should take time now to prioritize their online security.
A US Army website for its bases in Bavaria, Germany published a list of food banks in the area that could help soldiers and staff as part of its “Shutdown Guidance,” the subtext being that soldiers and base employees might need to obtain free food from German government services during the government shutdown. The webpage…
We start this week with Joseph’s story about nearly 100,000 ChatGPT conversations being indexed by Google. There’s some sensitive stuff in there. After the break, Emanuel tells us about Wikipedia’s new way of dealing with AI slop. In the subscribers-only section, Sam explains how we got to where we are with Steam and Itch.io; that history…
nterlock ransomware breaches U.S. healthcare, stealing 190M records. Fake updates and cloud exfiltration expose critical vulnerabilities.
The continuing advance of AI brings the likelihood of effective, specific vulnerability-targeted new malware automatically produced in hours rather than days or weeks ever closer.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has ordered U.S. telecommunications carriers to secure their networks following last year’s Salt Typhoon security breaches. […]
This article contains potentially disturbing graphics and descriptions that are nonetheless viral on Instagram and other major platforms. These are words I never thought I would type, and the people in my life who I have said them to have told me to immediately stop speaking. But here is how I would describe the type…
