The company has patched the vulnerabilities and paid the team of white-hat hackers $288,000. Powered by WPeMatico
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The Law Comes for John McAfee
Plus: A buggy chastity lock, Iranian disinformation, and more of the week’s top security news. Powered by WPeMatico
Put Trump’s Tweets on a Time Delay
Twitter has announced new changes to combat misinformation. It should go further by checking and flagging the president’s tweets—before they wreak havoc. Powered by WPeMatico
A Super-Spreading Presidency, Experimental Treatments, and More Coronavirus News
Catch up on the most important updates from this week. Powered by WPeMatico
Congress made a lousy case for breaking up Big Tech
The long-awaited tech antitrust report that the US Congress released on October 6 presents a remarkably flimsy case for action against the nation’s most innovative and competitive companies. The report’s main recommendations would do very little to solve real social problems caused by technology, like misinformation and election interference, because these problems aren’t related to […]
‘Palm Springs’ is ‘Groundhog Day’ With a Twist
The Hulu comedy riffs on the trope of reliving the same day over and over again. Powered by WPeMatico
Live facial recognition is tracking kids suspected of being criminals
In a national database in Argentina, tens of thousands of entries detail the names, birthdays, and national IDs of people suspected of crimes. The database, known as the Consulta Nacional de Rebeldías y Capturas (National Register of Fugitives and Arrests), or CONARC, began in 2009 as a part of an effort to improve law enforcement […]
Inside the strange new world of being a deepfake actor
In 2019, two multimedia artists, Francesca Panetta and Halsey Burgund, set about to pursue a provocative idea. Deepfake video and audio had been advancing in parallel but had yet to be integrated into a complete experience. Could they do it in a way that demonstrated the technology’s full potential while educating people about how it […]
Let’s Get Real About the President’s Antibody Treatment
Regeneron’s new Covid drug looks good in early trials, and Trump has called it a miracle. That doesn’t mean it’s going to work. Powered by WPeMatico
Explainer: What “poll watching” really means
President Trump is trying to recruit an “army” of poll watchers for Election Day. As part of his ongoing disinformation campaign about election fraud, these aggressive appeals to his supporters are raising worries about voter intimidation—or worse.Meanwhile, Facebook just announced new rules that will no longer allow “militarized” language for poll watching on its platform. […]