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Security writer @ WIRED. Contact matt_burgess@wired.com

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Tim Marchman's avatar Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social
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Perplexity, the billion dollar AI-powered search startup, plagiarized an article @dmehro.bsky.social and I wrote about how Perplexity is a bullshit machine. IP law experts say the company could be open to defamation and infringement claims and be sacrificing Section 230 protections by bullshitting.

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It’s uncommon for nonprofits to publish files they don’t legally have to. But OpenResearch and UBI Charitable shrouding their operations hold particular significance after Sam Altman's fellow board members at OpenAI last year publicly accused him of a lack of candor.

www.wired.com/story/openai...

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NEW: Network Rail has tested 'emotion detection' CCTV systems at multiple train stations around the UK. The technology has been used as part of widespread AI surveillance trials at stations around the country

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NEW: Network Rail has tested 'emotion detection' CCTV systems at multiple train stations around the UK. The technology has been used as part of widespread AI surveillance trials at stations around the country

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Dhruv Mehrotra's avatar Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social
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ICYMI: New investigation into the US first and largest police drone operation

Police in a border city deployed drones to investigate 20,000 911 calls—from noise complaints to murder. They have amassed hundreds of hours of footage above residents not involved in crimes

www.wired.com/story/the-ag...

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NEW: Automotive giant Advance Auto Parts has confirmed it is "investigating" reports that it has suffered a data breach linked to the Snowflake cloud attack.

Hackers claim to be selling 380 million customer details from Advance

www.wired.com/story/snowfl...

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Windows Recall reminds of the chapter in Shoshana Zuboff’s book in which she describes the spurious allegation that such technology is “inevitable” as the “trojan horse” brainwashing consumers into accepting all its ill effects.

www.wired.com/story/total-...

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Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins speaks to WIRED about how AI generated content is changing online discourse, investigations, and fact checking.

Full interview here: www.wired.com/story/how-to...

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Dhruv Mehrotra's avatar Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social
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NEW: Police in a border city deployed drones to investigate 20,000 911 calls—from noise complaints to murder. They have amassed hundreds of hours of footage above residents not involved in crimes

The poorer the neighborhood, the more exposure residents faced

www.wired.com/story/the-ag...

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Emily M. Bender's avatar Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social
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"a potential gold mine for criminal hackers or domestic abusers who may physically access their victim’s device."

In 2024 it *still* somehow isn't standard practice to ask in the design process: Are we building the killer app for domestic abusers?

www.wired.com/story/total-...

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STORY: Microsoft’s Recall, an AI tool that screenshots your laptop every five seconds and saves the data, can easily be abused by hackers. Ahead of its launch, security researchers have built a tool that extracts all Recall’s unencrypted data in seconds

www.wired.com/story/total-...

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NEW: Microsoft's new Recall tool—which takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC, OCRs it, and stores it unencrypted—is so simple to abuse, a security researcher already built and released a tool that exploits it. @mattburgess1.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/total-...

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Latest in the ongoing Snowflake data breach drama: Hudson Rock say they removed their research post after a legal letter from Snowflake

They posted this image on LinkedIn just now: www.linkedin.com/posts/hudson...

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Police have a new tactic for disrupting Russian criminal hackers who they can't arrest: getting into their heads with psychological measures. Aka trolling

www.wired.com/story/cop-cy...

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Cisco warns that a group of state-sponsored hackers has exploited two zero days in its ASA security appliances to spy on government networks over the last several months. Sources close to the investigation tell us they suspect China. www.wired.com/story/arcane...

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We at WIRED reported 6 weeks ago that the hackers behind the Change Healthcare ransomware debacle received a $22 million payment. Only now has Change Healthcare confirmed that it paid—while also noting that stolen patient data is still at risk of leaking. www.wired.com/story/change...

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Andrew Couts's avatar Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social
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I wrote about doxing, OSINT, and "ethics in Trump criminal trial" journalism, and how totally ridiculous this whole "let's report every single detail that comes out about a juror/potential juror" thing is www.wired.com/story/the-tr...

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Andrew Couts's avatar Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social
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NEW: For weeks, there's been speculation who/what damaged 3 undersea internet cables in the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, aka the Gate of Tears. @mattburgess1.bsky.social worked with experts to analyze a trove of data to solve the mystery. Most likely answer: The anchor of a boat bombed by Houthi rebels:

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Dell Cameron's avatar Dell Cameron @dell.bsky.social
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NEW: A global network of violent predators is hiding in plain sight, targeting children on major platforms, grooming them, and extorting them to commit horrific acts of abuse. (CW)

This is a WIRED, Der Spiegel, Recorder, and Washington Post investigation.

www.wired.com/story/764-co...

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A reporting partnership by WIRED, Der Spiegel, Recorder, and The Washington Post has exposed a horrific global network of violent predators—where groomers, often teenagers themselves, extort children into committing acts of abuse and self-harm

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Lukasz Olejnik's avatar Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social
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Apple is deploying post-quantum cryptography in iMessage. Full replacement of encryption systems. My comments in @wired about quantum computers and the risk/threat. Sadly, most quantum risk advice given to C-level boards is pretty poor. www.wired.com/story/apple-...

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Andy Greenberg's avatar Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social
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Signal is rolling out new settings today to finally let you create a username instead of revealing your phone number to everyone you communicate with. This is probably the most requested feature in Signal’s 10-year history.

I tested it out in beta: www.wired.com/story/signal...

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Nicole Tisdale 's avatar Nicole Tisdale @nicoletisdale.bsky.social
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Cyberattacks can impact anyone. But communities of color and other marginalized groups are often disproportionately impacted. Cyber operations are being used to attack the foundation of civil rights, democracy, and dignity around the world, and that is a problem that affects everyone. Read more! 👇🏾

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Lauren Goode's avatar Lauren Goode @laurengoode.bsky.social
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The promise and peril of the internet is that it always remembers. Now that feature is coming to OpenAI's ChatGPT, which will auto-remember personal info you put in your prompts. Google and others are also working on long-term memory frameworks for AI. Latest in WIRED: www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

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Joseph Cox's avatar Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social
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New: the Taliban took control of the domain "queer.af" (af being the TLD of Afghanistan). With the Taliban now controlling the country, it is taking back domains. This had the effect of killing the queer.af Mastodon instance www.404media.co/taliban-shut...

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Max Kennerly's avatar Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social
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"We have millions of monkeys at typewriters. Surely one of them will produce the collected works of Shakespeare."

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NEW: London Underground quietly tested 11 AI algorithms on thousands of people in a trial lasting a year. This included for spotting crimes and safety issues.

This included: using AI to try to detect weapons in stations, spotting aggressive behaviour, and more

www.wired.com/story/london...

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Police officers also assisted the trial by holding a machete and a gun in the view of CCTV cameras, while the station was closed, to help the system better detect weapons.

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AI made errors during the trial, such as flagging children who were following their parents through ticket barriers as potential fare dodgers; or not being able to tell the difference between a folding bike and a non-folding bike.

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