Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.
Instagram and Facebook have a problem with underage users — there's too many of them. Parent company, Meta, aims to root out under-13s with an age-profiling AI. This plays into a debate about a teenage social media ban.
A Florida father says a Lyft driver attempted to charge him a $75 damage fee using what appeared to be an AI-generated image showing a fake mess inside the vehicle.
Many people think these must be state sponsored attacks. However, our experience is these attacks are primarily orchestrated by companies selling dubious products marketed as private and secure. We did get targeted by s…
System justification theory is a theory within social psychology that system-justifying beliefs serve a psychologically palliative function. It proposes that people have several underlying needs, which vary from individ…
Xint Code disclosed CVE-2026-31431, an authencesn scratch-write bug chaining AF_ALG + splice() into a 4-byte page cache write. A 732-byte PoC gets root on Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, RHEL, SUSE. | AI for Security, Vulnerabili…
We’re proud to announce the bug-fix release of darktable, 5.4.1! The github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-5.4.1. To build from source, do not use the autogenerated tarb…
Pearl, a Layer-1 blockchain with high-profile AI industry endorsements, markets its Proof-of-Useful-Work (PoUW) protocol as simultaneously securing the network and performing AI inference. We present the first systemati…
Background We started off with a simple idea for a product; we wanted to re-use the chat interface for everything except chat. It was supposed to be just for photos but expandable later. The idea was that most people al…
The defense industry lost the ability to make weapons when crisis hit. The same pattern is eroding software engineering skills. The timelines are identical.
This may not be an actual “Wyden siren,” but it still has his name attached to it. What’s being said here isn’t nearly as ominous as this single sentence he sent to CIA lead…
David Baszucki, the CEO of Roblox, has been known to say some pretty outlandish things, but his recent interview with the New York Times might have ended up being a carpet bombing of poorly considered answers, as he tri…
Introduction The days of fantasizing about having your own JARVIS—Marvel superhero Tony Stark’s artificial intelligence (AI) powered assistant—are over. For no cost, you can now have engaging conversations with your fav…
Lazarus Groupâs Famous Chollima unit has been caught âlive on cameraâ running its remote IT worker scheme, after researchers funneled its operatives into fake laptops that were actually longârunning sandbox envi…
I’ve been in the AI space since ChatGPT first dropped. I’ve toyed around with a lot of Language Models, built random side projects, built a couple from scratch and I’ve spent hours looking at the math behind it all.