Wired

Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 19:16:28 +0000

When researchers put a popular criminal justice algorithm up against a bunch of Mechanical Turks, they came out about even.

Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 13:00:00 +0000

Vacant buildings are more than just an economic threat. They’re also a public safety concern. And it turns out they have their own sort of gravitational pull.

Credit to Author: Doug Bock Clark| Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 11:00:00 +0000

Megan Squire doesn’t consider herself to be antifa and pushes digital activism instead, passing along information to those who might put it to real-world use—who might weaponize it.

Credit to Author: Jonathon Keats| Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 13:00:00 +0000

It’s a new name for an old argument: that public agencies fighting crime and terrorism must have access to our private communications—for our own good.

Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 23:14:23 +0000

And where was the federal government?

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 13:00:00 +0000

Meltdown, Spectre, malicious Android apps, and more of the week’s top security news.

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 17:58:49 +0000

Two of the worst vulnerabilities in years are slowly being fixed—but at a cost to consumers and companies alike.