The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update

This week we are smiling at some of the greatest stories to grace the headlines.  We literally go from a launch to a cover up, but in between we have all lovely gooey sticky filling that will keep you coming back to the cookie jar. There's an update from Google on your Gmail, that just might be worth the privacy tradeoff (come on, they read all your mail anyway), Now they additionally want to...

In this week’s update, we start and end on TikTok, but the bookends could not be more different. We have one of the most important updates on how you can protect your family and friends from the latest AI scam that's already gone global. Then we dance between more revelations from who’s viewing who, to one presenter who lost more than her TikTok audience. There’s a brazen story covering one la...

This week we have a prime serving of updates for you, we start with artificial intelligences' decline and end, frankly a little loopy, but you are sure to find a story in our global round up that makes a difference to your life, even if it is only to keep you from tripping. We start with a mother's photo of her son and the upsetting news that he might have been created with AI.  From there...

In this week’s update, we flutter from “ almost everything” to the butterfly effect. In between those extremes, we find a little tit-for-tat going on between the US and China that could impact everything from your cloud compute to your phone. We have facial recognition software being rejected by performers and embraced by you local shops. From there the sad story of the CISO first attacked by a na...

This week we start with a story that we’ve had to reread three times because it was just so unbelievable. From there we move onto what you are doing with your phone that a small number of years ago used to take some pretty hefty specialized equipment. We stick to phones in a global round up of details on another scheme to compromise you through it, advice from the Australian government as to what...

We start with some serious dissing and end up dishing. Between the start and end state, we get served up by Julia and rerouted by the Benz. We learn about a new voicebox that we can’t have and get the perfect example of a self-licking ice cream cone. We have new controls on what can be sold and to whom and a new way to use that screwdriver to unlock your Lenovo. Finally, we have a group of Swiss f...

From the cool waters of the backyard pool to the chilling depths of cylindrical holes in the ground, this week’s stories will elevate your temperature to get you in that summertime mood. We commute to work past a copycat chip shop and then get an update on why the unemployment rate for lobbyists is still at all-time lows in Washington DC. We catch Microsoft being naughty, while Google and Apple go...

This week’s exciting collection of stories takes us from the latest fashionable freeze to the warmth of a fuzzy paparazzo. We have a “stand up, sit down, stand up” again revelation about our friends at TikTok that will leave you …well either sitting or standing… and a couple of Ai stories that describe the horse bolting from the stall and then what that horse did. There’s a little relief for those...

This week we go from excess baggage to a face that is not our own. We have a new scheme to establish what is real in a world where more and more is artificial, by someone we expect to be very prominent in both. There’s a new declaration about social media that is eerily similar to the one from Santa Cruz California on June 3, 1956, when city authorities announced a total ban on rock and roll at pu...

This week’s update starts with what some might see as a poke in the eye and could end with really poor enunciation. We have Google intro’ing 8 new domains and getting caught in a .zip. There’s a great story that might have you thinking that HP has moved into home construction when you hear about all the bricks it created over the past couple weeks. We have evidence that the FBI emerged from the lo...

Up North here, it’s Springtime so we start with a deep breath of DNA and finish out of ink, we think! Between here and there we sneeze as we bump into a couple of projects, one that sniffs out unencrypted LTE communication and another that sniffed out the contents of the phone you lost or had taken as evidence by the police. We dab the tears of a former Bytedance executive as he makes allegations...

This week we start smart and end dumb. Potentially somewhat contrary to our other updates. In between we might ultimately have a dumb way to protect a car, a dumb executive who got lucky, and a healthcare company that almost seems to be competing with T-Mobile for most breaches in 2023. There’s a dumb plan by the EU to scan all your messages, and a smart move from Open AI to give you back some pri...

This week we get breached, we get in your head, we go all over the world and then we get a beat-down by the cat. The world of brain scanning coupled with AI is already yielding some very interesting results and we take you into the ganglia of the action. We learn a new stat for a nation-state face-off and frankly, the numbers look a little one-sided. We discover the EU setting “mew” regulations fo...

This week starts with frustrated police in Sweden and finishes in the back pocket of a legal team. We move onto the troubling story of the US National guardsman who, now it transpires, leaked way more than all the toddlers at your child’s preschool, a beer story that is sure to have many of our readers in tears, and a drafty new naming scheme based on weather events. We get great updates from What...

This update starts with the fortune cookie found in the back seat of what might just be the worlds top-selling car. Both have a surprise in store. From there, we have a touching story of how the NYPD is re-adopting a dog called “Spot”. We get an update on an ingenious bit of tomfoolery for Windows users with a new Chrome update and another reason why, if you need your transactions to be private, t...

This update starts in the middle of Interstate 84 and ends with a possible answer as to what’s happening with the ghost orders for bottled water. We hit the road with some car updates; from what might soon be missing from our cars to wait… where is the car? Then we move on to phones, where the Federal Bureau of Investigation has a tip for you the next time you consider topping up at the airport, a...

For this update we start off with our feet solidly on the ground, buried under U.S. tax returns, before shaking it and finishing in outer space. We learn when people discover that you are using NSO’s Pegasus spyware, you’ve got to go shopping for something even more secret. Elon Musk gives us an opportunity to work for him for free while Mandiant divines how North Korea is paying for its latest se...

This week we kick off in Canada and finish in Norway. In between, we hear why the big push to ban TikTok from our phones may be less effective than we think. We get the inside scoop of a malaise that’s hitting Google, Meta, and Amazon… and through them you. There’s an update on the surveillance state that will keep you in the picture literally from your driveway to the 2024 Olympics in Paris. We g...

This week we start in the hacked offices of the US Government and end up being launched off a drone in Africa with a little parachute on our back. In one country we have a government turning off wireless services to catch a perpetrator while in another country wireless service providers are the perpetrators! We have a couple of TikTok updates and an official new bureau in China to mine data …for E...

This week’s update zooms from the moon to your innermost thoughts. We get an update on a shrinking Meta and our shrinking IQs. From Washington DC we learn about probably the most perfect imperfect way to ensure that data protection laws are passed in the coming years. We discover a steganographic breakthrough and an electrifying enzymatic discovery that could revolutionize IT Privacy, Security and...

This week we start on page 7 and finish in with the chickens. We get a little bit of activity from Zoom and a TL;DR for US President Biden’s new National Cybersecurity Strategy. We have a story on AirB&Bs new “banned by association” program and the German government finally pulling the plug on one company’s networking equipment. Then we have an update on the state of video surveillance and end...

From Rosie the Robot to atomic restores… we’ve got you covered. This week we walk out of the UK with Signal and break into our bank with something that’s not even ours. We have good news for those on the witness protection program and a stupid update from LastPass. We discover that the EU and Canada are packing up to leave the TikTok party and we visit LinkedIn as an attack vector. We finish as al...

This week we start in the “fresh produce” section and end up in an empty parking space. For Valentine’s day, we heard that if you really wanted to show your love, you’d forget the dozen roses and hit the supermarket for a dozen eggs. This week we learn what the supermarket got out of that show of affection. The Washington Post clears away some “myths” while Microsoft’s Bing offers up a new take on...

For this special Valentine’s day edition, we have a couple of golden heartfelt stories at opposite ends of the gift-giving spectrum. We have an update on a final breakup that seems to have dragged on and on. There is some insight into how North Korea funds its cyber attacks, and seemingly everything else going on in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. We have a couple of stories on the gath...

Lie down and relax. This week you might need the couch as our readings take you from therapy notes to privacy policies. We have Microsoft burrowing into your computer to find out what version of its software you might be running, and Google serving up addresses you want to avoid. We get a curious question about the Kremlin’s knowledge of what is passing through a “secure messaging system” and a bi...