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Twitter’s Encrypted DMs Are Deeply Inferior to Signal and WhatsApp
Elon Musk’s long-promised launch of encrypted direct messages on Twitter has arrived. Like most attempts to add end-to-end encryption to…
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American College of Pediatricians Leak Exposes 10,000 Confidential Files
While the material is not expressly religious, it is clearly aimed at painting same-sex marriage as aberrant and immoral behavior.…
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How ChatGPT—and Bots Like It—Can Spread Malware
The AI landscape has started to move very, very fast: consumer-facing tools such as Midjourney and ChatGPT are now able…
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The Hacking of ChatGPT Is Just Getting Started
As a result, jailbreak authors have become more creative. The most prominent jailbreak was DAN, where ChatGPT was told to pretend…
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LinkedIn Verification Now Lets You Verify Your Job and Account
In the never-ending battle against online impersonation scams, the professional social media platform LinkedIn announced today a set of new…
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Microsoft’s ‘Security Copilot’ Sics ChatGPT on Security Breaches
Jakkal says that while machine learning security tools have been effective in specific domains, like monitoring email or activity on…
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How the US Could Ban TikTok in 7 Not-So-Easy Steps
Individual users would not have faced penalties for staying on TikTok, and internet service providers like Comcast and Verizon would…
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Big Tech Is Playing it Safe on Iran. Workers Are Taking Charge
But in a previously unreported response, Google’s US public policy head Mark Isakowitz wrote back a month later saying that…
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A Fight Over Automation Plans at US Hydroelectric Dams
Michael Arendt has spent his career on the water. After working his way up through the US Merchant Marines from…
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Twitter’s SMS Two-Factor Authentication Is Melting Down
Following two weeks of extreme chaos at Twitter, users are joining and fleeing the site in droves. More quietly, many…
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