Think Twice Before Creating That ChatGPT Action Figure
Any data, prompts, or requests you share helps teach the algorithm—and personalized information helps fine tune it further, says Jake Moore, global cybersecurity adviser at security...
Car Subscription Features Raise Your Risk of Government Surveillance, Police Records Show
What is also clear from the documents is that US police are aware of the control corporations have over their ability to acquire vehicle location data,...
Exposed DeepSeek Database Revealed Chat Prompts and Internal Data
“It’s pretty shocking to build an AI model and leave the backdoor wide open from a security perspective,” says independent security researcher Jeremiah Fowler, who was...
DeepSeek’s Popular AI App Is Explicitly Sending US Data to China
The final category of information DeepSeek reserves the right to collect is data from other sources. If you create a DeepSeek account using Google or Apple...
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov’s Arrest Linked to Sweeping Criminal Investigation
French prosecutors gave preliminary information in a press release on Monday about the investigation into Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, who was arrested suddenly on Saturday at...
Pavel Durov’s Arrest Leaves Telegram Hanging in the Balance
“Civil society has had a complicated relationship with Telegram over the years,” says Natalia Krapiva, a lawyer at the digital rights group Access Now. “We have...
US Lawmakers Tell DOJ to Quit Blindly Funding ‘Predictive’ Police Tools
The United States Department of Justice has failed to convince a group of US lawmakers that state and local police agencies aren’t awarded federal grants to...
OpenAI’s Custom Chatbots Are Leaking Their Secrets
You don’t need to know how to code to create your own AI chatbot. Since the start of November—shortly before the chaos at the company unfolded—OpenAI...
The New Era of Social Media Looks as Bad for Privacy as the Last One
When Elon Musk took over Twitter in October 2022, experts warned that his proposed changes—including less content moderation and a subscription-based verification system—would lead to an...
Donald Trump’s Mug Shot Matters in a World of Fakes
For months, Etsy has become littered with a new genre of T-shirt: the Donald Trump mug shot. And they’re available in two main styles: Guity AF...