|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Retailers and hotels are increasingly using facial recognition technology to track your face in order to minimise losses and increase sales, give VIPs preferred treatment and more, giving rise to privacy concerns.
|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Though Rekognition has had a seemingly high success rate, it frequently misgenders trans, queer, and non-binary faces, showing how bias can be baked into facial recognition systems.
|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Brief highlight of the reasons why we ought to be concerned about both sides of the political aisle coming together over federal facial recognition regulation.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Technology has allowed personal intimacy and connection to flourish too much, and anywhere. Now every space is a superspace, a place that might be fused together with any other.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
The technologies Facebook uses to put advertising it deems relevant in front of people may be more responsible for the polarization of American politics than previously understood, a team of researchers has concluded.
|| Security || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Hackers breached CaptialOne through a weakness in the cloud computing firm's firewall, underscoring the delicate balance the cloud computing platforms have struck between security and efficiency.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Custom malware disguaised as benign software was used to steal wallet addresses of cryptocurrenct holders for months.
|| Security || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
New research from the IoT security firm Forescout highlights 33 flaws in an open source internet protocol bundles that potentially expose millions of embedded devices to attacks, and affected devices may be difficult or impossible to patch due to the longevity of these bundles
|| Security || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Hackers aligned with a foreign nation-state successfully breached the systems of FireEye, the $3.5 billion Silicon Valley cybersecurity giant.
|| Security || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
The female patient, suffering from a life-threatening illness, had to be turned away and died after the ambulance carrying her was diverted.