ElevationLab has released an AirTag product I find appalling, and I strongly urge they immediately withdraw it from sale and recall all inventory. The AirTag Silencer is a simple device: remove the…

Discover new Advanced Protection features on Android designed to defend against sophisticated threats and keep your data safe.

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Prosecutors pointed to a 'growing trend on social media involving women being filmed on the street with smart glasses without their consent and the videos being published online.'

Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.

45 days of Signal history may be exposed by German police messaging surveillance using linked devices, Netzpolitik says. Read what the documents reveal

Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie In our op-ed for Tech Policy Press ("We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'"), we made the case against the...

This "smart and wonderfully readable" (New York Times) exposé shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death...

It’s been a bit over five years since the Stochastic Parrots paper (Bender, Gebru et al 2021) was published (and somewhat longer since…

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Secure messaging platforms, like Signal, WhatsApp, and recently, encrypted RCS, operate on a straightforward assumption: the content at each end of a conversation is private to the participants in

In two recent conversations with very thoughtful journalists, I was asked about the apparent ‘schism’ between those making a lot of noise…

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

Swift Crypto 5.0 Release Notes Swift Crypto 5.0 aligns the cross-platform API surface with CryptoKit as shipped in Xcode 27 (CryptoKit-383.2.1), and takes the opportunity to streamline the package ...

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Our recommendations for the anxious and perplexed By: Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna and Decca Muldowney There’s a subculture within the “AI” industry that...

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This week, Adam talks with linguist and AI critic Emily Bender. They talk about large language models, Emily's origin story, and the importance of parrot emojis. Read Emily's book The AI Con and liste...

A San Jose police officer allegedly accessed the department’s license-plate tracking system to monitor a victim of alleged domestic abuse and give Flock Safety camera information to his relative.

Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...

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