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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 14:00:00 +0000
A new report from Chainalysis finds that stablecoins like Tether, tied to the value of the US dollar, were used in the vast majority of crypto-based scam transactions and sanctions evasion in 2023.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Once, drug dealers and money launderers saw cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable. Then a grad student named Sarah Meiklejohn proved them all wrong—and set the stage for a decade-long crackdown.
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OpenAI is hoping to alleviate concerns about its technology’s influence on elections, as more than a third of the world’s population is gearing up for voting this year. Among the countries where elections are scheduled are the United States, Pakistan, India, South Africa, and the European Parliament.
“We want to make sure that our AI systems are built, deployed, and used safely. Like any new technology, these tools come with benefits and challenges,” OpenAI wrote Monday in a blog post. “They are also unprecedented, and we will keep evolving our approach as we learn more about how our tools are used.”
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess| Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2024 17:00:00 +0000
Patching every device affected by the LeftoverLocals vulnerability—which includes some iPhones, iPads, and Macs—may prove difficult.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
The FTC forced a data broker to stop selling “sensitive location data.” But most companies can avoid such scrutiny by doing the bare minimum, exposing the lack of protections Americans truly have.
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Credit to Author: eschuman@thecontentfirm.com| Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 03:00:00 -0800
Anyone who’s eveer tried to unsubscribe to an email list knows that “unsubscribe” button never seems to work — except to verify your email account is working. But what if that failure arises from something more problematic than an unethical person ignoring the request?
What if it is the latest symptom of the overly distributed data problem?
That’s the same issue that undermines compliance and legal discovery rules such as GDPR’s Right To Be Forgotten rule. It’s also the same problem that makes it all-but-impossible for enterprises to have current and comprehensive datamaps.
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess| Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2024 14:00:00 +0000
Plus: Chinese officials tracked people using AirDrop, Stuxnet mole’s identity revealed, AI chatbot hacking, and more.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 17:30:00 +0000
The US Securities and Exchange Commission and security firm Mandiant both had their X accounts breached, possibly due to changes to X’s two-factor authentication settings. Here’s how to fix yours.
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