Jakkal says that while machine learning security tools have been effective in specific domains, like monitoring email or activity on individual devices—known as endpoint security—Security Copilot brings all of those separate streams together and extrapolates a bigger picture. “With Security Copilot you can catch what others may have missed because it forms that connective tissue,”… Continue reading Microsoft’s ‘Security Copilot’ Sics ChatGPT on Security Breaches
Author: Wired Magazine
Plastics Are Devastating the Guts of Seabirds
This might be why her team got contrasting results in their analysis: The more individual microplastics in the gut, the greater the microbial diversity, but the higher mass of microplastics, the lower the diversity. The more particles a bird eats, the greater the chance that those hitchhiking microbes take hold in its gut. But if the bird… Continue reading Plastics Are Devastating the Guts of Seabirds
To Hold Tech Accountable, Look to Public Health
How is it that public health has delivered on its promise to improve the lives of millions, while failing to resolve the dramatic health disparities of people of color in the US? And what can the movement for tech governance learn from these failures? Through 150 years of public institutions that serve the common good through science,… Continue reading To Hold Tech Accountable, Look to Public Health
Lectric XP 3.0 Review: Clunky but Comfy
I rode the original Lectric XP electric bike for six months during the pandemic in 2020. It was a salve, a way to feel the breeze on my face during quarantine and go farther than usual without hopping on public transportation. I have a bit of a soft spot for it. Lectric’s aim was to… Continue reading Lectric XP 3.0 Review: Clunky but Comfy
Gene Expression in Neurons Solves a Brain Evolution Puzzle
The neocortex stands out as a stunning achievement of biological evolution. All mammals have this swath of tissue covering their brain, and the six layers of densely packed neurons within it handle the sophisticated computations and associations that produce cognitive prowess. Since no animals other than mammals have a neocortex, scientists have wondered how such… Continue reading Gene Expression in Neurons Solves a Brain Evolution Puzzle
The TikTok Hearing Revealed That Congress Is the Problem
In one sense, today’s US congressional hearing on TikTok was a big success: It revealed, over five hours, how desperately the United States needs national data-privacy protections—and how lawmakers believe, somehow, that taking swipes at China is a suitable alternative. For some, the job on Thursday was casting the hearing’s only witness, TikTok CEO Shou… Continue reading The TikTok Hearing Revealed That Congress Is the Problem
TikTok Paid for Influencers to Attend the Pro-TikTok Rally in DC
Ahead of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew’s much-anticipated testimony in the United States House of Representatives today, the embattled tech firm conducted a full-court press on Capitol Hill. This included paying to bring TikTok influencers face-to-face with their home state lawmakers, staffers, and journalists, as well as sharing their journey with their collective audience of… Continue reading TikTok Paid for Influencers to Attend the Pro-TikTok Rally in DC
Withings Body Comp Scale and Health+ Review: Not Enough for Too Much
Smart scale pioneer Withings has been making Wi-Fi-connected scales for more than a decade. As the Body Comp name suggests, Withings’ latest scales provide a breakdown of your body composition, adding vascular age, visceral fat, and nerve health to the usual list of measurements. The Body Comp ($210) scales come with a year’s subscription to Withings’… Continue reading Withings Body Comp Scale and Health+ Review: Not Enough for Too Much
Inside Taiwan’s ‘Sacred Mountain’ of Chip-Making
Lauren Goode: Yeah. This is what Kara Swisher calls, assisted living for millennials. Here— Virginia Heffernan: Assisted living for millennials. Lauren Goode: —at the San Francisco tech companies. Yeah. Virginia Heffernan: It’s perfect. But I did say, I said, “So wait, do they get any perks here?” to one of the people in HR. And… Continue reading Inside Taiwan’s ‘Sacred Mountain’ of Chip-Making
Bug in Google Markup, Windows Photo-Cropping Tools Exposes Removed Image Data
At the beginning of March, Google released an update for its flagship Pixel smartphones to patch a vulnerability in the devices’ default photo-editing tool, Markup. Since its 2018 introduction in Android 9, Markup’s photo-cropping tool had been quietly leaving data in a cropped image file that could be used to reconstruct some or all of… Continue reading Bug in Google Markup, Windows Photo-Cropping Tools Exposes Removed Image Data