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The Most Popular Digital Abortion Clinics, Ranked by Data Privacy
Low Risk: Users can edit or delete data, Some Risk: Users can edit data, High Risk: Users cannot edit or…
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Almost 50 Years Into the Crypto Wars, Encryption’s Opponents Are Still Wrong
When I contemplate the return of the crypto wars—attempts to block citizens’ use of encryption by officials who want unfettered…
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How Threads’ Privacy Policy Compares to Twitter’s (and Its Rivals’)
Meta’s long-awaited Twitter alternative is here, and it’s called Threads. The new social media app launches at a time when…
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How AI Protects (and Attacks) Your Inbox
When Aparna Pappu, vice president and general manager of Google Workspace, spoke at Google I/O on May 10, she laid…
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Pegasus Spyware Is Detected in a War Zone for the First Time
On November 10, 2021, Varuzhan Geghamyan, an assistant professor at Yerevan State University in Armenia, received a notification from Apple…
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Uber Ex-Security Chief Joe Sullivan to Be Sentenced for Breach
Update 05/05/23: Late on Thursday, federal judge William Orrick declared Uber’s former head of cybersecurity Joseph Sullivan would suffer no…
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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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Covid Exposure Apps Are Headed for a Mass Extinction Event
Within weeks of Covid-19 shutting down the world in 2020, teams at archrivals Apple and Google partnered on a rare joint project.…
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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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North Korea Is Now Mining Crypto to Launder Its Stolen Loot
In the cryptocurrency ecosystem, coins have a story, tracked in the unchangeable blockchains underpinning their economy. The only exception, in…
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