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
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
Leaked Training Shows How Doctors in New York’s Biggest Hospital System Are Using AI – 404 Media
But the presentation and materials viewed by 404 Media include leadership saying AI Hub can be used for “clinical or… read more
Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics – 404 Media
The videos also show that while Apple and Google have taken steps either to stymie the flow of location data… read more
Remember That DNA You Gave 23andMe? – The Atlantic
23andMe’s trove of genetic data might be its most valuable asset. For about two decades now, since human-genome analysis became… read more
‘Future You’ AI lets you speak to a 60-year-old version of yourself — and it has surprising wellbeing benefits – Live Science
The first component of Future You is an image generation model called StyleClip. After the user uploads a selfie, the… read more
Why teenagers are deliberately seeking brain rot on TikTok – Psyche
This is my first introduction to the term ‘brain rot’. Perplexed, I ask them what it means. Laughing, they describe… read more
Does Text Therapy Really Work? – Time
Recent research—some of it funded by text therapy providers like Talkspace—continues to suggest that texting is a legitimate and effective… read more
Instead of Pulling Out Your Phone, Let Your Mind Wander – Greater Good Magazine
Why would this be? The students didn’t report on their actual thoughts, so it’s hard to know exactly where their… read more
‘It looks like cat food’: The grey goop dreamed up by artificial intelligence – BBC
Whilst it may not be time to throw away our cookbooks and surrender full creative autonomy to AI recipe algorithms… read more