April 25, 2021 Ban facial recognition in Europe, says EU privacy watchdog Two days after the European Union unveiled draft rules on how to use AI in Europe, a privacy watchdog urged the EU to ban…
April 25, 2021 Reddit faces lawsuit for failing to remove child sexual abuse material Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A woman has sued Reddit for allowing an ex-boyfriend to repeatedly post pornographic images of her as…
April 24, 2021 Thistle tackles IoT security by helping vendors update devices Thistle Technologies gets $2.5 million seed funding to help IoT vendors develop ways to securely and easily update their connected devices.Read More via VentureBeat…
April 24, 2021 Soon You May Not Have to Say ‘Hey Google’ to Get Your Phone’s Google Assistant to Listen to You If you’ve ever wanted your Google Assistant to get moving without having to say, “hey Google,” all the time, you may be getting your…
April 24, 2021 Elon Musk Is Hosting SNL and God I Wish This Was Just a Clickbait Headline Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk will be hosting Saturday Night Live on May 8, the show’s official account tweeted Saturday. And I have…
April 24, 2021 Kevin Smith Expands He-Man Universe With Prequel Comic for Dark Horse In September 2020, Kevin Smith was announced as executive producer and co-writer of a new animated Masters of the Universe: Revelation series for Netflix….
April 24, 2021 The Pentagon reportedly gave a small company control of its IP addresses to find security issues Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge As part of an apparent effort to find holes in its network, the US Department of Defense…
April 24, 2021 Dutch politicians were tricked by a deepfake video chat Dutch parliament members were fooled into holding a video call with a deepfake impostor pretending to be Alexei Navalny’s chief of staff. via Engadget…
April 24, 2021 Enterprise Password Manager Passwordstate Hacked, Exposing Users’ Passwords for 28 Hours Passwordstate, the enterprise password manager offered by Australian software developer Click Studios, was hacked earlier this week, exposing the passwords of an undisclosed number…
April 24, 2021 Someone deciphered the Ted Lasso shortbread recipe from Apple’s Spring Loaded event Photo by 27th Annual SAG Awards/Getty Images for WarnerMedia During Tuesday’s Spring Loaded event, Apple announced (among other things) that the second season of…