In this episode, Ray Cochrane digs into "algorithmic outing," new research showing that social feeds can infer your sexual orientation before you have consciously come out. He also covers Meta's privacy-aware AI infrastructure, Alberta's 466-million-line code scan with Claude, NVIDIA on reinforcement learning, and the many journeys of learning Rust. Along the way, he hits Google DeepMind's A24 deal, WhatsApp usernames, and scuba-diving cyborg cockroaches. Finally, he looks up with Webb's puzzling early universe, NASA's emergency telescope rescue, and a gorgeous aurora from orbit.
For nearly a decade, cybersecurity professionals and privacy advocates have recommended the end-to-end encrypted communication’s app Signal as the gold standard for truly private digital communications. Using it however, has paradoxically required exposing one particular piece of private information to everyone you text or call: a phone number. Now, that’s changing, WIRED reported. Today, Signal launched the rollout in beta
After the US supreme court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday, calls increased for tech companies to take a stand about the use of online data to incriminate individuals seeking or providing abortion services, The Guardian reported. According to The Guardian, abortion and civil rights advocates have warned that there are few federal regulations on what information is collected and
You’ve probably heard of Clearview AI, a company that unethically captured more than 10 billion “faceprints” from people’s online photos across the globe - without the consent do so. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit against Clearview AI which recently resulted in a settlement. The lawsuit was filed by the ACLU in Illinois state court in January
Brave announced that they are rolling out a new feature called De-AMP, which allows brave users to bypass Google-hosted AMP pages, and instead visit the content’s publisher directly. Brave states that AMP harms users’ privacy, security, and internet experience, and just as bad, AMP helps Google further monopolize and control the direction of the Web. Brave will protect users from
DuckDuckGo announced the beta launch of DuckDuckGo for Mac. Like their mobile app, DuckDuckGo for Mac is an all-in-one privacy solution for everyday browsing with no complicated settings, just a seamless experience. DuckDuckGo for Windows is coming soon. Using an app designed to protect your privacy by default not only reduces invasive tracking, it also speeds up browsing and eliminates