Abigail Avery

Apple details how it’s handling DarkSword spyware, which targets iPhones

Numerous reports, including Mashable’s own coverage, were published on Wednesday about a new hacker tool called DarkSword that is being used to target iPhones.  Apple has now shared with Mashable some important information regarding the threat and how the company is addressing it. According to Apple, the company last year patched the underlying iOS vulnerabilities…

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FCC Enforcement Chief Offered to Help Brendan Carr Target Disney, Records Show

A senior Federal Communications Commission official overseeing ABC-owned California stations privately offered to assist FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s campaign last year against the Walt Disney Co. and Jimmy Kimmel Live!, according to internal emails obtained by WIRED. On September 17, Carr threatened Disney with regulatory action regarding the Jimmy Kimmel monologue about the assassination of…

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ChatGPT’s ‘Adult Mode’ Could Spark a New Era of Intimate Surveillance

Julie Carpenter doesn’t blame human users at all for anthropomorphizing chatbots. The longtime human-AI interaction expert and author of The Naked Android sees generative AI tools, like ChatGPT, as intentionally designed to elicit these reactions from users through highly personalized memories and interactions that replicate social experiences. These one-sided connections may become even more complicated,…

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