2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (378+ words) Password managers have become a necessity in this day and age, where one person has to juggle dozens of login details. But moving between different password managers is a bit of a hassle. While the process should feel pretty mundane,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (515+ words) Instagram just drew a hard line around AI influencers pretending to be real people. The platform is renaming its old AI creator label to AI-generated profile, and this time it comes with penalties too. Accounts featuring a fully AI-generated person…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (466+ words) Hidden cameras keep turning up in sneaky spots, tucked inside pen, clock, chargers, or picture frames in hotel rooms and rentals. This is why researchers at KAIST built a fix that costs less than a nice lunch. Their new tool,…...

2+ week, 15+ hour ago   (615+ words) When you install a VPN, you’re trusting another company with a large part of your internet traffic. Most people do this because they want more privacy, which makes Proton VPN’s latest findings pretty damning. After examining more than 7,000 mobile VPN…...

2+ week, 21+ hour ago   (365+ words) Your email address is one of the easiest ways for websites and advertising companies to identify you online. If you provide the same address to multiple websites, it can potentially be used to connect your activity across different services. Brave…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (466+ words) Even with HTTPS keeping your actual activity on a website private, your network provider and anyone snooping on the connection can still see exactly which sites and apps you’re visiting. This privacy gap has quietly existed for years, and Google…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (453+ words) Claude Cowork just got its own browser, built directly into the desktop app. Until now, giving Claude web access inside Cowork meant handing it your actual Chrome browser through Claude in Chrome extension. Now there’s a second option. Claude can…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (507+ words) Hidden cameras and other kinds of spy devices have become a big problem in the modern era. A new study suggests the gadgets being sold for that job may provide far less protection than buyers expect. Researchers from University College…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (618+ words) OpenAI wants to get better at spotting people abusing its frontier AI models without asking privacy-conscious customers to give up Zero Data Retention. In an August 19 announcement, OpenAI introduced Private Safety Processing, a system designed to detect suspicious behavior across…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (267+ words) In a statement to WIRED, ClarityCheck pushed back on the description that the database was “publicly exposed,” arguing that access required a specific, unindexed URL. However, the files themselves were not password-protected, and Fowler found that URL in code available…...