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A Senate Bill Would Radically Improve Voting Machine Security

How Infostealers Pillaged the World’s Passwords

New Jersey's $500 Million Bid to Become an AI Epicenter

A Hacker ‘Ghost’ Network Is Quietly Spreading Malware on GitHub

Don't Fall for CrowdStrike Outage Scams

How Russia-Linked Malware Cut Heat to 600 Ukrainian Buildings in Deep Winter

The Pentagon Wants to Spend $141 Billion on a Doomsday Machine

From the Archives: How to Spot a Business Email Compromise Scam

Alleged ‘Maniac Murder Cult’ Leader Indicted Over Plot to Kill Jewish Children

The US Supreme Court Kneecapped US Cyber Strategy

Hackers Claim to Have Leaked 1.1 TB of Disney Slack Messages

The Sweeping Danger of the AT&T Phone Records Breach

Pressure Grows in Congress to Treat Crypto Investigator Tigran Gambaryan, Jailed in Nigeria, as a Hostage

Notorious Hacker Kingpin ‘Tank’ Is Finally Going to Prison

Google Is Adding Passkey Support for Its Most Vulnerable Users

Inside a Violent Gang's Ruthless Crypto-Stealing Home Invasion Spree

Deepfake Creators Are Revictimizing GirlsDoPorn Sex Trafficking Survivors

How Apple Intelligence’s Privacy Stacks Up Against Android’s ‘Hybrid AI’

Proton Is Launching Encrypted Documents to Take On Google Docs

Polestar Is Bracing for the EV Tariff Wars. It May Not Emerge Unscathed

The Problem the US TikTok Crackdown and Kaspersky Ban Have in Common

Amazon Is Investigating Perplexity Over Claims of Scraping Abuse

Surprise! The Latest ‘Comprehensive’ US Privacy Bill Is Doomed

War Crime Prosecutions Enter a New Digital Age

The Mystery of AI Gunshot-Detection Accuracy Is Finally Unraveling

Red Tape Is Making Hospital Ransomware Attacks Worse

US Bans Kaspersky Software

How to Spot a Business Email Compromise Scam

Hackers Detail How They Allegedly Stole Ticketmaster Data From Snowflake

OpenAI-Backed Nonprofits Have Gone Back on Their Transparency Pledges

Amazon-Powered AI Cameras Used to Detect Emotions of Unwitting UK Train Passengers

A Guide to RCS, Why Apple’s Adopting It, and How It Makes Texting Better

From the Archives: Oh Good, Hurricanes Are Now Made of Microplastics

The Fight Against AI Comes to a Foundational Data Set

Medical-Targeted Ransomware Is Breaking Records After Change Healthcare’s $22M Payout

From the Archives: How NASA Is Protecting Its Precious Asteroid Bennu Sample

US Leaders Dodge Questions About Israel’s Influence Campaign

Ransomware Is ‘More Brutal’ Than Ever in 2024

Microsoft's Recall Feature Is Even More Hackable Than You Thought

From the Archives: Cicadas Are So Loud, Fiber Optic Cables Can ‘Hear’ Them

From the Archives: The Weirdest Reason the Poles Are Warming So Fast? Invisible Clouds

From the Archives: DNA Drives Help Identify Missing People. It’s a Privacy Nightmare

Russians Love YouTube. That’s a Problem for the Kremlin

From the Archives: The Vampire Bat Is Moving Closer to the US. That’s a Problem

OpenAI Employees Warn of a Culture of Risk and Retaliation

This Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected by Windows’ New Recall AI

How Donald Trump Could Weaponize US Surveillance in a Second Term

How Researchers Cracked an 11-Year-Old Password to a $3 Million Crypto Wallet