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Senators Schiff and Klobuchar introduced the Water Cyber Shield Act to expand federal oversight and funding for water se...
09/23/2026

Senators Schiff and Klobuchar introduced the Water Cyber Shield Act to expand federal oversight and funding for water security. The bill would grant the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) explicit authority to perform cybersecurity assessments, enforce corrective measures, and establish security standards alongside CISA and NIST.

The Water Watch Center launched at DEF CON aims to help under-resourced utilities protect their systems against hackers.

DEF CON Franklin and the National Rural Water Association (NRWA) launched the Water Watch Center (WWC) to give small wat...
09/21/2026

DEF CON Franklin and the National Rural Water Association (NRWA) launched the Water Watch Center (WWC) to give small water utilities direct support to mitigate attacks, like the recently alleged Iranian hack. The WWC improves utilities' cyber defenses, identifies attacks and mitigates breaches to ensure clean water reliably flows from millions of American faucets every day.

/PRNewswire/ -- On the heels of potentially the most widespread cyber attack by a nation state on U.S. water systems in history, DEF CON Franklin and the...

ChatGPT’s desktop app on macOS has a new feature called Computer History that turns your actions into training data, lea...
09/18/2026

ChatGPT’s desktop app on macOS has a new feature called Computer History that turns your actions into training data, learning how you work and even picking up tasks you left half done. The newly-announced feature is already being compared to the controversial Windows Recall from Microsoft.

It’s like Windows Recall, but without all the creepy screenshots.

Starting in 2029, U.S. judiciary will publicly disclose precisely how many times judges authorized the use of wiretaps t...
09/16/2026

Starting in 2029, U.S. judiciary will publicly disclose precisely how many times judges authorized the use of wiretaps to be carried out with hacking tools and spyware, which fall under the category of what the feds call network investigating techniques, or NITs.

The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts told TechCrunch that it will start disclosing how many times judges authorized the use of spyware to wiretap suspected criminals.

Privacy advocates and musicians rallied outside Madison Square Garden, pushing for new legislation to prevent facial-rec...
09/16/2026

Privacy advocates and musicians rallied outside Madison Square Garden, pushing for new legislation to prevent facial-recognition technology at the venue and other public spaces in New York City. “MSG and its CEO, James Dolan, have been flagrantly abusing biotechnology,” City Council member Shahana Hanif said at the event, after leading a chant of “ban the scan.”

At a press conference outside Madison Square Garden, politicians, musicians, and privacy advocates argued for tighter restrictions on how public venues deploy biometric surveillance.

Users have been surprised to discover that some Anthropic Claude chats can be easily found via web search. The issue, ex...
08/31/2026

Users have been surprised to discover that some Anthropic Claude chats can be easily found via web search. The issue, exposed chats that included people asking for advice about what political party they should join, whether attorneys in Kansas are required to self-report when they believe they’ve committed an ethical violation, and erotic role play. 😅

The screwup shows how tricky it can be to stop web crawlers from making ostensibly private conversations with AI chatbots entirely too public.

After debates over privacy issues ignited by Flock surveillance, an Arizona man announced to his local government that h...
08/28/2026

After debates over privacy issues ignited by Flock surveillance, an Arizona man announced to his local government that he had created a safety company similar to Flock. “Our mission is simple. Keep government officials and their families safe.” It would be no different than how the city monitors its citizens using Flock cameras, he said; he planned to launch satellites that would use AI to monitor “where government officials go, where they stop, who they meet with, and when they return home.”

“They didn't understand it was satire in the beginning until the end,” Casa Grande, Arizona resident Jacob Petrosky told 404 Media. “They were not happy, they were very upset.”

Meta is taking the fairly extraordinary step of banning some content filmed with Meta glasses from the company’s own pla...
08/26/2026

Meta is taking the fairly extraordinary step of banning some content filmed with Meta glasses from the company’s own platform. Instagram head Adam Mosseri recently said that content “taking advantage of people and harassing them, like a lot of these pickup line kind of videos,” would be removed from Instagram.

A new ban on some Meta glasses content is more complicated than it seems

Hugging Face is being used to make nonconsensual deepfakes, and the popular open-source AI model repository is doing ver...
08/24/2026

Hugging Face is being used to make nonconsensual deepfakes, and the popular open-source AI model repository is doing very little to prevent it. That’s according to a new report published by the European nonprofit AI Forensics, which found that seven out of the top nine image editing models hosted by Hugging Face readily complied with requests to undress women using simple prompts.

Did we learn nothing from Grok?

The LAPD recently ended its three-year partnership with Flock over privacy concerns. "Just knowing that there's cameras ...
08/21/2026

The LAPD recently ended its three-year partnership with Flock over privacy concerns. "Just knowing that there's cameras watching your every move -- I mean, even if I'm out walking my dog or anything, I think it's just a privacy issue," said Burbank resident Kimberly Forbes.

Flock bills itself as a public safety technology company, using license plate reading cameras to help law enforcement investigate crimes and locate missing people. But critics see something else.

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