Credit to Author: David Gilbert| Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2023 15:53:47 +0000
People who have turned to X for breaking news about the Israel-Hamas conflict are being hit with old videos, fake photos, and video game footage at a level researchers have never seen.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2023 19:32:01 +0000
Hundreds dead, thousands wounded—Hamas’ surprise attack on Israel shows the limits of even the most advanced and invasive surveillance dragnets as full-scale war erupts.
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Credit to Author: David Gilbert| Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2023 11:00:00 +0000
A “friendlier” front for racist extremism has spread rapidly across the US in recent months, as active club channels network on Telegram’s encrypted messaging app.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess| Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2023 13:00:00 +0000
Plus: Stolen US State Department emails, $20 million zero-day flaws, and controversy over the EU’s message-scanning law.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron, Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2023 16:15:06 +0000
A civil liberties group has asked the DOJ to investigate deployment of the ShotSpotter gunfire-detection system, which research shows is often installed in predominantly Black neighborhoods.
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Credit to Author: Matt Laslo| Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2023 17:43:41 +0000
Egged on by a far-reaching conservative media ecosystem, right-wing hardliners are forcing Washington to bend to their reality as the federal government careens toward a possible shutdown.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2023 13:00:00 +0000
Plus: MGM hackers hit more than just casinos, Microsoft researchers accidentally leak terabytes of data, and China goes on the PR offensive over cyberespionage.
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Credit to Author: Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2023 13:00:00 +0000
Plus: Spyware-packing ads, TikTok GDPR violations, Elon Musk investigations, and more.
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Credit to Author: Matt Laslo| Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 11:00:00 +0000
Senators are meeting with Silicon Valley’s elite to learn how to deal with AI. But can Congress tackle the rapidly emerging tech before working on itself?
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2023 10:00:00 +0000
Signs suggest the culprits worked within a notorious Chinese hacker group that may have also hacked Indian electric utilities years earlier.
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