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Here’s the Truth About Whether Meta’s NameTag Face Recognition Tech ‘Exists’

Fact Check

Here’s the Truth About Whether Meta’s NameTag Face Recognition Tech ‘Exists’

Andrew Couts

Watchful Eye

A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance

Andy Greenberg and Dhruv Mehrotra

AI Found a Root Bug in Linux That Everyone Missed for 15 Years

Security Roundup

AI Found a Root Bug in Linux That Everyone Missed for 15 Years

Dell Cameron and Lily Hay Newman

A Majority of European Lawmakers Voted Against Letting Big Tech Read Our Messages. They’re Going to Anyway

Chat Control’s Back

A Majority of European Lawmakers Voted Against Letting Big Tech Read Our Messages. They’re Going to Anyway

Isabella Ward

Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities

Risky Business

Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities

Noah Shachtman and Maddy Varner

OnlyFans Models Are Accidentally Making Hacked Government Websites Disappear

OnlyScams

OnlyFans Models Are Accidentally Making Hacked Government Websites Disappear

Matt Burgess

What Happens if China Hacks the US Water Supply? I Went to a Secret War Game to Find Out

Thirst Trap

What Happens if China Hacks the US Water Supply? I Went to a Secret War Game to Find Out

Andy Greenberg

ICE’s Internal Watchdog Is Now Investigating Online Critics

Chilling Effects

ICE’s Internal Watchdog Is Now Investigating Online Critics

Maddy Varner

Apple’s Hide My Email Service Fails to Hide Your Email

Security Roundup

Apple’s Hide My Email Service Fails to Hide Your Email

Matt Burgess and Lily Hay Newman

EU Politicians Investigated Pegasus Spyware. Then It Ended Up on One of Their Phones

Compromised

EU Politicians Investigated Pegasus Spyware. Then It Ended Up on One of Their Phones

Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess

Claude Helped a Hacker Find a Way to Issue Tickets to Almost Every US Music Festival

Cheap Seats

Claude Helped a Hacker Find a Way to Issue Tickets to Almost Every US Music Festival

Andy Greenberg

Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs

AI Safety

Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs

Dhruv Mehrotra and Joel Khalili

Top Google Security Staff Warn Search Data Could Be Hacked if EU Rules Change

Don't Look Up

Top Google Security Staff Warn Search Data Could Be Hacked if EU Rules Change

Matt Burgess

LastPass Users Had Their Data Stolen—Again

Security Roundup

LastPass Users Had Their Data Stolen—Again

Lily Hay Newman

The Pentagon Is Looking Into the Dialog Data Exposure for Unmasking National Security Officials

Burn Notice

The Pentagon Is Looking Into the Dialog Data Exposure for Unmasking National Security Officials

Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra

British Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be Trusted

Minority Report

British Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be Trusted

Matt Burgess and Mark Wilding

Dialog Claims It Was Hacked. A Misconfigured Website Left Its Members Exposed

Hack Job

Dialog Claims It Was Hacked. A Misconfigured Website Left Its Members Exposed

Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra

OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic’s Mythos

Patched Up

OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic’s Mythos

Lily Hay Newman

Foul Play

World Cup Scams Are Getting Harder to Spot

Jumana Naim

A Critical Deadline Is Approaching for Windows and Linux Security

Key Components

A Critical Deadline Is Approaching for Windows and Linux Security

Dan Goodin, Ars Technica