Saint’s Hours Drone video footage from the Francisco Police Department exposed on the open web illustrates a new era of incredibly granular and momentous urban surveillance. Meanwhile, the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office sent cease-and-desist letters to Apple and Google this week demanding that the tech giants remove from their app stores 13 AI-nudifying “face-swapping”
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VC Jeremy Levine has a tongue-in-cheek solution to something that routinely bothers him, according to a new Wall Street Journal article on the rise of AI transcription applications. On Zoom, it is no longer “Jeremy Levine” but “Jeremy Levine, I do not consent to transcribe or record.” It may sound mean or brilliant, depending on
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US prosecutors have accused a Florida man of uploading fake video games containing malware to Steam, the popular PC gaming platform. Once victims downloaded and installed the games, the malware was designed to infect their computers, steal their passwords and other data, and empty their crypto wallets, according to a criminal complaint. On Tuesday, the
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Some Amazon cloud customers woke up Friday to a surprise bill estimate that said they owed billions of dollars for cloud services they had never used. Amazon confirmed Friday that it is trying to resolve an error in its Amazon Web Services (AWS) billing portal that showed some customers were owed millions or billions in
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“Your data is private. Period,” period tracker Stardust says on its website. As new research from Mozilla found, some users may find that claim overstated. According to Mozilla’s latest findings examining the privacy practices of period tracking apps, Stardust was found to be sharing users’ sensitive health information with third-party analytics company RudderStack. This data
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Police in the United Kingdom said Thursday that the imprisonment of two hackers has “severely” hampered the activities of the infamous cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider. Owen Flowers, 18, and Thalha Jubair, 20, pleaded guilty earlier this year to hacking Transport for London (TfL), the government body that oversees the UK capital’s public transport
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