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Europe Is Building a Huge International Facial Recognition System
Lawmakers advance proposals to let police forces across the EU link their photo databases—which include millions of pictures of people's faces.
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Russia Inches Toward Its Splinternet Dream
For years, the country has been trying to create its own sovereign Internet—a goal given new impetus by the backlash to its invasion of Ukraine.
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Mysterious Satellite Hack Has Victims Far Beyond Ukraine
The biggest hack since Russia's war began knocked thousands of people offline. The spillover extends deep into Europe.
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Europe's Digital Markets Act Takes a Hammer to Big Tech
The EU targets tech giants' walled gardens with aggressive new rules, but the smaller companies the DMA is meant to help are skeptical it will work.
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Russia's Killer Drone in Ukraine Raises Fears About AI in Warfare
The maker of the lethal drone claims that it can identify targets using artificial intelligence.
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A Big Bet to Kill the Password for Good
FIDO is looking to get to the heart of what still makes passwordless schemes tough to navigate.
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The Workaday Life of the World's Most Dangerous Ransomware Gang
A Ukrainian researcher leaked 60,000 messages from inside Conti. Here's what they reveal.
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Leaked Ransomware Docs Show Conti Helping Putin From the Shadows
Members of the hacker gang may act in Russia's interest, but their links to the FSB and Cozy Bear hackers appear ad hoc.
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How Wrongful Arrests Based on AI Derailed 3 Men's Lives
Robert Williams, Michael Oliver, and Nijeer Parks were misidentified by facial recognition software. The impact cast a long shadow.
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The Hidden Role of Facial Recognition Tech in Many Arrests
The technology is spreading fast among police, and often wrong. But people charged with crimes are rarely told an algorithm came into play.
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War Is Calling Crypto's 'Neutrality' Into Question
War in Ukraine and Western sanctions against Russia have made cryptocurrency a hot potato for international politics.
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Hackers Find a New Way to Deliver Devastating DDoS Attacks
Cybercriminals are exploiting a fleet of more than 100,000 misconfigured servers to knock websites offline.
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Biden Puts Big Tech's Favorite Business Model on Notice
The regulation of surveillance advertising used to be a fringe idea. Now it's in the State of the Union address, at least when it comes to kids.
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Google's New Tech Can Read Your Body Language—Without Cameras
The company's ATAP research team is using radar to help computers respond to your movements, like turning off a TV if it senses you've dozed off.
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Russia's War in Ukraine Could Spur Another Global Chip Shortage
Ukraine is home to half of the world's neon gas, which is critical for manufacturing semiconductor chips.
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The Quiet Way Advertisers Are Tracking Your Browsing
Cookies are on the way out—but not enough is being done about browser fingerprinting. So what is it?
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China Is About to Regulate AI—and the World Is Watching
Sweeping rules will cover algorithms that set prices, control search results, recommend videos, and filter content.
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Is Firefox Okay?
Mozilla's privacy-heavy browser is flatlining. What it does next is crucial for the future of the web.
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DeepMind Has Trained an AI to Control Nuclear Fusion
The Google-backed firm taught a reinforcement learning algorithm to control the fiery plasma inside a tokamak nuclear fusion reactor.
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