An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press: Officials in Kansas City, Missouri, are preparing to equip cameras on some public buses with facial recognition software capable of identifying passengers who appear on a list of banned riders or missing persons. Supporters and opponents alike view the effort as a major litmus test for tapping the AI-powered software on a U.S.…
I used to keep my passwords in a password-protected, zipped Word document. Stored locally on my PC, with a backup copy on a USB drive.
Every password update required opening the file, entering the master password, editing the entry, syncing the change to the USB backup manually. Repeat.
On my phone? Even worse. I had to boot up the PC, unzip, search, update, re-sync — every single time.
That…
A federal judge on Friday cleared the way for the public release of redacted audio recordings and transcripts from former President Joe Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur, denying Biden's bid to block the disclosure.
The post Federal Judge Rejects Biden Bid to Block Release of Hur Investigation Audio appeared first on Breitbart.
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Sad to see. We should all know cloudlfare decrypts our data before it reaches the service it protects. A perfect surveillance man-in-the-middle.
I was happy to find a home in the fediverse that uses Anubis instead.
anubis.techaro.lol
Leaked files show the invite-only network grades members by their money and fame, shaping who’s in, who’s out, and who pays.
HiveTalk.space is a privacy focused chat app. HiveTalk.space should not be confused with hivetalk.org. While both platforms focus on communication, they are separate projects with different goals and feature sets.
HiveTalk is closed source and cloud hosted, making it easy to start chatting without setting up your own server. Despite not being self-hosted, privacy remains a core focus. Private…
WhatsApp is testing read-once disappearing messages in its latest iOS and Android betas, offering more privacy like Messenger and Snapchat.
I had 50,000 emails in my inbox. Most cleaners wanted £8/month and my data. So I built my own.
Here's why MailBroom runs entirely on your iPhone, why that matters for privacy, and why it's 88% greener than cloud alternatives.
The Problem
Most email cleaners – like Clean Email – use cloud-based AI. That means your emails leave your device, get processed on energy-hungry servers, and…
Different politics, identical structure: wealthy insiders, community infrastructure they didn't build, and openness performed just long enough to matter. The establishment always wants its own internet.
Artist Morry Kolman will be livestreaming feeds of the NBA champions’ ticker-tape parade from NYC’s traffic cameras—and this time, the city’s Department of Transportation isn’t demanding he stop.
Internal Home Office tests of age-verification technology show the risks of life-altering errors. It’s moving forward anyway.
AI image generators like ChatGPT 4o, DALL·E, and Midjourney have gotten ridiculously good. The photos look real. The lighting is right. The details are there.
But here's the problem: social media platforms can still tell they're AI-generated.
Not by looking at the pixels — by…
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If you run a recent version of Google Chrome on a desktop, there is a decent chance your browser has quietly downloaded a ~4GB artificial-intelligence model in the background. It is called Gemini Nano , and it is the engine behind Chrome's new built-in AI features. The download is real — Snopes…
If you send user text to an LLM, you are probably sending personal data with it without meaning to. A support message, a chat transcript, a pasted form. They carry names, emails, phone numbers, and sometimes card numbers, and all of it ends up in your prompt. Once that prompt leaves your server, the personal data is sitting in someone else's logs, which is a real problem under GDPR and…
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More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking.
There are over a dozen cases around the country where police officers are using the Flock surveillance camera system to obsessively and illegally stalk people.
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Last month I noted how the Trump FCC had unveiled a brand new plan to “stop robocalls.” As with most efforts the proposal doesn’t actually do much to stop robocalls because a well-lobbied U.S. government (1) refuses to hold big companies accountable or collect fines, (2) constantly embraces weak rules that make telemarketers and debt […]
A proposed FCC rule would kill burner phones: phones whose accounts are not attached to a particular person.
The FCC plans to do this by legally forcing the country’s telecoms to store a wealth of personal information about essentially all phone customers, including a government issued identification number and their physical address, alarming privacy advocates and civil rights activists who…
Rank One, whose board includes a former CIA deputy director and a former FBI science chief, supplied face recognition to Meta for internal development of its smart glasses app.
Double-clicking a document to open it in its editor is quintessentially Mac, yet for the last nearly 7 years it could result in a bizarre dialog and refusal. Does any of this make sense?
Plus: AI bug hunting fuels Microsoft’s biggest-ever Patch Tuesday, ShinyHunters ransomware gang exploits an Oracle zero-day, and more.
Michigan lawmakers are pushing legislation that wouldn’t just ban the sales of Chinese-made cars in the The Great Lakes State, it would ban cars with Chinese tags from even visiting. The Protecting America From Chinese Cars Act joins the Connected Vehicle Security Act aiming to protect U.S. car companies from cheaper Chinese EV competition in […]
NordVPN’s latest anti-phishing test result highlights a larger shift underway. The company is no longer focused solely on VPN services and is increasingly positioning itself as a full cybersecurity platform.
Back in March I noted how the Trump FCC under Brendan Carr had announced a “new ban” on all routers made overseas (which is pretty much all of them). At the time we also noted how this was less of a ban and more of a shakedown, with router manufacturers required to beg the Trump FCC for […]
If you love WhatsApp on your iPhone or iPad, you may not love this. Meta has announced that, as of November 30, 2026, the company will raise its minimum requirements for both iPhones and iPads. The company has offered the following comments: Long story short, you’ll need an iPhone 6s, 6s Plus, iPhone SE (1st […]
If you were looking forward to the continuation of the Dick Tracy-esque Walkie-Talkie app on your Apple Watch, Apple has apparently ended it. Per MacRumors and confirmed by tech journalist Nicolas Lellouche, Apple has quietly removed the Walkie-Talkie app from its first developer beta of watchOS 27, the app having vanished from both the app […]
Abortion-rights advocates filed a lawsuit in Alaska Superior Court on Thursday to overturn a state ban on telehealth for abortion services. The lawsuit was filed in Anchorage by Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawaiʻi, Alaska, Indiana and Kentucky. It targets an element of state law that requires patients receiving abortion services to be treated on-site in […]
A WIRED investigation found dozens of “nudified” deepfake images and videos on Grok's website, including nonconsensual depictions of celebrities and at least one prominent US politician.
The new open-source project could serve as the basis for a future of apps with features as complex as Slack, Discord, or Google Docs—but with added protection against surveillance.