Apple and Google have been ordered to take down apps that can “nudify” or “undress” people and told that they must stop profiting from the harmful technology, according to cease-and-desist letters sent to the companies seen by WIRED. On Thursday,… Read More "San Francisco Demands Apple and Google Delete AI ‘Nudify’ Apps From App Stores"
Google’s top privacy and security staff have warned that plans in Europe, designed to get it to open up its search data and Android operating system to competitors, could lead to people’s search queries being hacked and an increase in… Read More "Top Google Security Staff Warn Search Data Could Be Hacked if EU Rules Change"
Does a software feature exist if its code has been deployed to the devices of millions of people but they can’t use it yet? Not if you work at Meta. The company’s executives have spent the last few weeks making… Read More "Here’s the Truth About Whether Meta’s NameTag Face Recognition Tech ‘Exists’"
Just after noon on a Saturday last month, a Skydio X10 quadcopter hovered about 200 feet over a San Francisco apartment complex, watching police chase a man hiding behind a parked car. The target of this manhunt lay down on… Read More "A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance"
The European Parliament has voted to extend legislation allowing tech companies to voluntarily scan users’ private messages for child sexual abuse material, despite a majority of lawmakers voting against the proposal. The ruling reinstates permissions for firms including Meta, Google,… Read More "A Majority of European Lawmakers Voted Against Letting Big Tech Read Our Messages. They’re Going to Anyway."
Dialog, the invite-only group cofounded by Peter Thiel, notified members and past event participants last week that a database containing their personal information had been breached, supposedly by a criminal hacker. But a WIRED analysis found that the files were… Read More "Dialog Claims It Was Hacked. A Misconfigured Website Left Its Members Exposed"
While the Home Office says face scanning is designed to be an “additional” tool for border officers and won’t “replace or overrule human judgment,” it did not answer questions about how it plans to use the technology in real-world environments.… Read More "The UK Will Scan Asylum-Seekers’ Faces for Age Checks—Despite Knowing the Tech Is Flawed"
For the first time in 53 years, New York Knicks fans will be celebrating the team’s NBA championship win, and this time, they’re getting a parade through lower Manhattan. Many New Yorkers will be showing up to party in person… Read More "How to Watch the Knicks Parade on NYC Traffic Surveillance Cameras"
Dialog, the private network cofounded by Peter Thiel, grades its event attendees on a hidden scale, ranking them by wealth and fame, tracking their relationships, and using algorithms to help decide who they should meet, who they should sit with,… Read More "How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks Its Members"
What ties the roster together more than any title or office is a shared preoccupation with artificial intelligence, longevity, and the near future. Asked on a sign-up form to predict the future, registrants returned again and again to the same… Read More "Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society"
