Privacy

Promptly Problematic
Hugging Face Has a Deepfake Nudes Problem
Researchers tested top image editing models on Hugging Face and found they could easily create explicit deepfakes—and 1,000 image editing prompts show how people use the software.
Matt Burgess


Private Party
For Taylor Swift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went Dark
Noah Shachtman


Stripped Out
San Francisco Demands Apple and Google Delete AI ‘Nudify’ Apps From App Stores
Matt Burgess

Watchful Eye
A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance
Andy Greenberg and Dhruv Mehrotra

Security Roundup
AI Found a Root Bug in Linux That Everyone Missed for 15 Years
Dell Cameron and Lily Hay Newman

Chat Control’s Back
A Majority of European Lawmakers Voted Against Letting Big Tech Read Our Messages. They’re Going to Anyway
Isabella Ward

Security Roundup
Apple’s Hide My Email Service Fails to Hide Your Email
Matt Burgess and Lily Hay Newman

Don't Look Up
Top Google Security Staff Warn Search Data Could Be Hacked if EU Rules Change
Matt Burgess


Burn Notice
The Pentagon Is Looking Into the Dialog Data Exposure for Unmasking National Security Officials
Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra

Minority Report
British Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be Trusted
Matt Burgess and Mark Wilding

Hack Job
Dialog Claims It Was Hacked. A Misconfigured Website Left Its Members Exposed
Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra

Grade Expectations
How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks Its Members
Dell Cameron, Dhruv Mehrotra, and Yulia Almazova


Check, Mate
The UK Will Scan Asylum-Seekers’ Faces for Age Checks—Despite Knowing the Tech Is Flawed
Matt Burgess, Maddy Varner, May Bulman, and Gabriel Geiger

Group Chat
Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society
Dell Cameron and Yulia Almazova

Spec Ops
Meta Tapped a Pentagon Supplier to Prototype Face Recognition for Its Glasses
Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra



Encrypt Everything
Signal Alums Reveal ‘Encrypted Spaces,’ a System for Making Private Collaboration Apps
Andy Greenberg