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Credit to Author: Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2023 13:00:00 +0000
Plus: Sony confirms a breach of its networks, US federal agents get caught illegally using phone location data, and more.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2023 11:00:00 +0000
Location-enabled tech designed to make our lives easier is often exploited by domestic abusers. Refuge, a UK nonprofit, helps women to leave abusive relationships, secure their devices, and stay safe.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron, Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2023 10:00:00 +0000
Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup conducted years of tests at UC Davis, a public university. A WIRED investigation reveals how Neuralink and the university keep the grisly images of test subjects hidden.
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Credit to Author: Aaron Sankin, Surya Mattu| Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:00:00 +0000
A software company sold a New Jersey police department an algorithm that was right less than 1 percent of the time.
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Credit to Author: David Nield| Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2023 11:00:00 +0000
Every smartphone has an expiration date. Here’s when yours will probably come.
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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: Thor Benson| Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2023 11:00:00 +0000
Corporations are using software to monitor employees on a large scale. Some experts fear the data these tools collect could be used to automate people out of their jobs.
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