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- The data was scraped and exfiltrated from 2,500 users of a compromised AI package.
- I requested a copy of my data from McDonald’s loyalty program and received an extensive, personalized report that algorithmically predicts my next purchase.
- Why passkey apps treat Windows differently than other operating systems.
- Most people have completely forgotten how chaotic it really was."
- Proposals span AI productivity scores, keystroke logging, biometrics, and other ways to watch workers
- You wouldn't let Claude Code cat your AWS credentials or Kubernetes config on request, would you?
- Left alone, autonomous fixes often fail to fully remediate flaws
- The AI system makes genetically distant versions of a bacteria-killing virus.
- Security researchers tracked and eavesdropped on a WIRED reporter using vulnerabilities in a pink plastic smartwatch. It’s just one piece of a deeply insecure supply chain of GPS-enabled gadgets.
- Its WeatherNext model, which will be open-sourced, can accurately predict both a storm’s track and intensity using lower-resolution weather data. Researchers don't yet fully understand how it does this.
- Workers at some of Canada's biggest companies say increased workplace surveillance is taking a toll on their mental health as their bosses ramp up the use of software that monitors their screen activity.
- In African tech hubs, developers are picking China’s cheap, freely available artificial intelligence models over more powerful U.S. ones.
- Anthropic and OpenAI models’ unprompted actions forced halt to UK cyber tests.
- Brands are already paying to influence what chatbots say about them
- For more than eight years the ICO’s Regulatory Sandbox has been a place for organisations to test new ideas, explore data protection risks and build privacy into new products and services by design.
- The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.
- Researchers found that widely used lab machines produced digital DNA files that are vulnerable to tampering.
- New FBI data shows case closure rates for the Atlanta Police Department have not improved despite thousands of ALPRs installed since 2021.
- This essay originally appeared in The Guardian. I teach public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Munk School at the University of Toronto. And it will come as no surprise to you that my students regularly use AI to complete their writing assignments. Doing so is a waste of their tuition money. But if their entire career is going to include AI writing assistants, why shouldn’t they embrace their future? The best way I’ve found to explain the dilemma comes from the AI researcher Daniel Meissler: it’s the difference between work and the gym…
- Generative artificial intelligence tools—such as those used to produce text, images and computer code—have emerged rapidly and are increasingly shaping how tasks are performed across workplaces in Canada. While the capabilities of these technologies continue to evolve, their integration into day-to-day work is uneven.
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