Pregnancy Tracking App ‘What to Expect’ Refuses to Fix Issue that Allows Full Account Takeover – 404 Media
What To Expect, a popular pregnancy tracking app on both iOS and Android, is ignoring multiple serious vulnerabilities in its… read more
‘FYI. A Warrant Isn’t Needed’: Secret Service Says You Agreed To Be Tracked With Location Data – 404 Media
Officials inside the Secret Service clashed over whether they needed a warrant to use location data harvested from ordinary apps… read more
New AI Tools Are Promoted as Study Aids for Students. Are They Doing More Harm Than Good? – EdSurge
But as she tried the tool more, and put in documents on complex subjects that she knew well, she noticed… read more
A 14-Year-Old Boy Killed Himself to Get Closer to a Chatbot. He Thought They Were In Love. – Wall Street Journal
Our new chatbots pose as confidants, lovers, psychotherapists and mentors. Their creators encourage us to believe these products have empathy,… read more
How Uber and Lyft Used a Loophole to Deny NYC Drivers Millions in Pay – Bloomberg
The whole summer was like this for rideshare drivers in New York City. Under a local law, drivers are supposed… read more
An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary – MIT Technology Review
But this technological progress also signals a much larger social and cultural shift. Increasingly, so much of what we see… read more
People are using Google study software to make AI podcasts—and they’re weird and amazing – MIT Technology Review
The AI system is designed to create “magic in exchange for a little bit of content,” Raiza Martin, the product… read more
V.A. Uses a Suicide Prevention Algorithm To Decide Who Gets Extra Help. It Favors White Men. – The Markup
An artificial intelligence (AI) program designed to prevent suicide among U.S. military veterans prioritizes White men and ignores survivors of… read more
Voted in America? This Site Doxed You – 404 Media
“Digitizing and aggregating data meaningfully changes the privacy context and the risks to people. Your municipal government storing your marriage… read more
Microsoft Provided Gender Detection AI on Accident – 404 Media
“My issue with this has always been that Microsoft managed to get some undeserved good press by stating that they… read more