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At least 50 U.S. Government Employees Targeted with Phone Spyware Overseas
White House bans federal agencies from using spyware that poses national security and human rights risks in the U.S.
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They Thought Loved Ones Were Calling for Help. It Was an AI Scam
More sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) tools are being used to replicate a person's voice.
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The Biden National Cyber Strategy is Unlike Any Before It
Regulation is on the menu of a national cybersecurity strategy.
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This Little-Known Bottleneck is Blocking Clean Energy for Millions
Energy developers want to build a ton of wind and solar — they just can't get it connected to the grid.
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FTC Sues to Block Microsoft's Acquisition of Game Giant Activision
The lawsuit marks FTC chair Lina Khan's most significant effort to date to address tech industry consolidation, and it could upend Microsoft's gaming ambitions....
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Apple Will Allow iCloud Backups to be Fully Encrypted
Law enforcement has objected in the past to encrypting iCloud accounts.
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TSA Now Wants to Scan Your Face at Security. Here are Your Rights.
16 major domestic airports are testing facial recognition tech to verify IDs — and it could go nationwide in 2023.
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Elon Musk Takes Over Twitter, Declares 'The Bird is Freed'
Musk wants to grow the platform, but he also wants it to be a free speech free-for-all.
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Scams Are Showing Up at the Top of Online Searches
Searchers, beware: That Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo ad might be 'malvertising'—phishing campaigns and malware hiding behind legit-looking links.
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FEC Greenlights Google Plan to Loosen Spam Filters, Overcoming Democratic Challenge
Under the pilot program, campaigns would be able to circumvent algorithmic sorting by tech companies that at times sends their emails to spam.
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Instagram Rolls Out Age Verification, but Not to Keep Children Off App
Photo- and video-sharing platform Instagram has started using age verification tools to prevent account holders under 18 years old from changing their ages to over...
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Alexa Has a New Voice — Your Dead Relative's
Experts call the device's new feature a slippery slope, comparing it to an episode of 'Black Mirror'
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AI Model Tries to Re-create the Mind of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Researchers at Israeli artificial intelligence company AI21 Labs have developed and released an AI model of late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg....
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Teslas Running Autopilot Have Been in 273 Crashes in Less Than a Year
Regulators released the first batch of data since mandating that companies such as Tesla report on serious crashes involving their driver-assistance systems.
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You Agreed to What? Doctor Check-In Software Harvests Your Health Data
A consent form from Phreesia gives it permission to use your data for marketing.
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The Google Engineer Who Thinks the Company's AI has Come to Life
AI ethicists warned Google not to impersonate humans. Now one of Google's own thinks there's a ghost in the machine.
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Your Kids' Apps Are Spying on Them
Apple and Google just look the other way. Here's how we stop it.
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Elevated Cyberthreats are the 'New Normal'
The Biden administration gets darker in its assessment of the nation's cyberthreat.
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The Government's Still Mostly in the Dark on Ransomware
The government may only be made aware of one-fourth of ransomware attacks.
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