You’ve heard the advice for years: Turn on two-factor authentication everywhere it’s offered. It’s long been clear that using only a username and password to secure digital accounts isn’t enough. But layering on an additional authentication “factor”—like a randomly generated code or a physical token—makes the keys to your kingdom much tougher to guess or… Continue reading GitHub’s Hardcore Plan to Roll Out Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)
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Geoffrey Hinton, Godfather of AI, Has a Hopeful Plan for Keeping Future AI Friendly
That sounded to me like he was anthropomorphizing those artificial systems, something scientists constantly tell laypeople and journalists not to do. “Scientists do go out of their way not to do that, because anthropomorphizing most things is silly,” Hinton concedes. “But they’ll have learned those things from us, they’ll learn to behave just like us… Continue reading Geoffrey Hinton, Godfather of AI, Has a Hopeful Plan for Keeping Future AI Friendly
Cruise and Waymo Robotaxis Can Now Work the Streets of San Francisco 24/7
California today cleared all-day paid robotaxi service in San Francisco—with unlimited fleets of self-driving cars. Soon, anyone in the city might be able to hail a driverless car with a few taps of a phone. And San Francisco cab and ride-hail drivers will have new, automated competition. The 3-1 vote by the California Public Utilities… Continue reading Cruise and Waymo Robotaxis Can Now Work the Streets of San Francisco 24/7
Teens Hacked Boston Subway’s CharlieCard to Get Infinite Free Rides—and This Time Nobody Got Sued
In working with Rauch, the MBTA had created a vulnerability disclosure program to cooperate with friendly hackers who agreed to share cybersecurity vulnerabilities they found. The teens say they were invited to a meeting at the MBTA that included no fewer than 12 of the agency’s executives, all of whom seemed grateful for their willingness… Continue reading Teens Hacked Boston Subway’s CharlieCard to Get Infinite Free Rides—and This Time Nobody Got Sued
Generative AI Is Making Companies Even More Thirsty for Your Data
Zoom, the company that normalized attending business meetings in your pajama pants, was forced to unmute itself this week to reassure users that it would not use personal data to train artificial intelligence without their consent. A keen-eyed Hacker News user last week noticed that an update to Zoom’s terms and conditions in March appeared… Continue reading Generative AI Is Making Companies Even More Thirsty for Your Data
The Scary Science of Maui’s Wildfires
In an eerie echo of 2018’s Camp Fire, which sped through the town of Paradise, California, destroying 19,000 buildings and killing 85 people, ferocious wildfires are tearing through Maui, forcing some people to flee into the ocean. Much of the town of Lahaina is now ash, and the death toll stands at 36 so far. … Continue reading The Scary Science of Maui’s Wildfires
Zoom Became a Part of Daily Life. It Needs to Tell Users Exactly How It’s Using Their Data
Recently, Zoom amended its terms of service to grant itself the right to use any assets—such as video recordings, audio transcripts, or shared files—either uploaded or generated by “users” or “customers.” These assets could be used for lots of things, including training Zoom’s “machine learning” and “artificial intelligence” applications. This policy change raises a slew… Continue reading Zoom Became a Part of Daily Life. It Needs to Tell Users Exactly How It’s Using Their Data
Panasonic Warns That IoT Malware Attack Cycles Are Accelerating
Internet-of-things devices have been plagued by security issues and unfixed vulnerabilities for more than a decade, fueling botnets, facilitating government surveillance, and exposing institutional networks and individual users around the world. But many manufacturers have been slow to improve their practices and invest in raising the bar. At the Black Hat security conference in Las… Continue reading Panasonic Warns That IoT Malware Attack Cycles Are Accelerating
A Clever Honeypot Tricked Hackers Into Revealing Their Secrets
Plenty of people tried to access the system. Over the past three years, it has captured 21 million login attempts, with more than 2,600 successful logins by attackers brute-forcing the weak password they purposefully used on the system. They recorded 2,300 of these successful logins, gathered 470 files that were uploaded, and analyzed 339 of… Continue reading A Clever Honeypot Tricked Hackers Into Revealing Their Secrets
The Twitch-Fueled Catastrophe of Kai Cenat’s New York City Giveaway
In aerial footage, a crowd throngs a bus, hurling chairs and water bottles. On the ground, a young man dances on a car while onlookers kick out its windows; from another angle, police officers smash a kid against a taxi while others tackle a second young person to the ground. All of this was caused,… Continue reading The Twitch-Fueled Catastrophe of Kai Cenat’s New York City Giveaway