The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update

From outer space to time travel: this week it’s “All systems go!” We find ourselves in the cow flower and then get “compromised by” Twitter, Slack, and Twilio. We find the legal detail in the class action lawsuit behind the company which must have one of the worst ads on US television right now. We discover a couple of new players in the phone security arena and perhaps come away with some ideas f...

Get out the passport because you’ll need it for a range of stories that circle the globe. We start with an icon and end with an algorithm, and in between, we’ve got one of the best updates yet. From data sharing between governments to Meta/Facebooks’ latest debacle, you could find our story on camo might be the only thing left to hide behind. There’s a shocking story for new parents in the US stat...

This week we share a pungent selection from the most excellent landfill of stories yet. We start our noisome journey literally in the dump and end up staring at a set of salad tongs. We have a familiar cast of characters representing slightly different fragrance lines: Zuck, Elon, Blake, and even the devil himself may be found to guff in this one. There’s the effluvium at KMart, new detritus for O...

This week we use all our senses as we move from our ears, with Mark Zuckerberg’s lilting voice and constant backing tracking, to talk of a frozen backside during one of the biggest heatwaves ever to hit the northern hemisphere. We learn that our eyes may never see the million-page novel censored by an online document service, and smell a rat as a former CIA agent gets the opportunity to feel the s...

We go drifting in the Honda this week with stories ranging from AI writing its own autobiography to why our Anom phone bill was so high. In between we have lots of car stories: Some of them might have you in tears, so grab a tissue. We accelerate from beans to Titans and then hit the brakes when we discover another instance of those collecting everything on everyone leaving it all out on the start...

This update moves IT Privacy and Security from your next meal to a trip around the salad bar at least a couple of times. We work our way from an unlikely garden and a Raspberry Robin out to the OpenSea. We discover many, unappetizing ways for our data to be lost, stolen, or sold. Then… sprinkling a little bit of insight into how police use our search data and what is being proposed in the garden s...

For this update, we start with a bit of binge drinking and end up in hot water. We jet from the NSA’s advice for Windows admins to T-Mobile’s new scheme to sell your data to advertisers. We hit the impeller fizzling and bubbling once we discover the extent of different kinds of data China is collecting on its own population. We get a soaking from a new piece of spyware turning up on phones that fo...

This week we chase up stories from around the globe from inner to outer space. We surmise that if some countries’ plans to harvest solar energy are successful it might just induce your rellies to forget about you. We let you in on a little million-dollar lost wager and a new student movement to get you to log off. We finish with a sad story about a little fox, that’s getting smaller by the day and...

This week we go from Paparazzi to Cookie jars, with an ear to our phones, an eye on those supercomputers and plugs and bugs in our PCs. We have cool new functionality in Chrome and Firefox and (finally) a retirement party for IE. We learn how the FBI is helping millions of Americans avoid an identity crisis, we get an unexpected “Les Mis.” book review and a “no bets” policy for an upcoming trial....

This week is all about food, travel, and adventure, where we start abandoned at the altar and end with bizarrely overweight baggage. In between those carefully seasoned toasted sesame seed buns of IT Privacy and Security are a flame-broiled update that shared too much, got shut down, and hacked, a tangy slice of database encryption, a leafy new mobile phone OS, and a large dollop of savory lawsuit...

With a backing track that is probably the worst cover version we have ever heard, we learn what just flew past that  bedroom window. In the US this week the focus has been on our children. Any way you look at it, from school shootings to privacy violations, to destroying the ecological balance of the world we are leaving them to live in, the only way you can describe societies’ actions is bro...

This week we learn why modern romantics sing: “If you like it, then you shoulda put 2FA on it” Yeah, and we go from Bridal veils to white hats and mistaken nails. From Crypto to klepto to dummo and UFO. We even end with an exploding duck. What other blog/podcast gives you that kind of range in a wonderful mix of IT Privacy and Security Updates? None. Zip. Nada. So whether you put on a tux, a brida...

This week in our smash and grab we go from phones to fake followers and end up with a blog writer in tears. We gain a little insight into just how relaxed some US Government officials are with the data of private citizens. Then we wave, we get grabbed, we patch, and we secure. Why… heavens to Betsey! This sounds like the makings of the best IT Privacy and Security Weekly update yet! Let’s pull up...

From the blustery cold volcanic slopes of Iceland to the Freeze you put on Equifax, this week’s update may drop local temps. by several degrees. We apply the heat by moving through downed satellite relays, Vodka DDoS attacks, and the weaponization of Windows event logs. From there we discover the newest US surveillance agency and the latest arms race. Finally, there is the gravitational pull towar...

This week we start with flying bananas(?), before traveling through Spain, China, Russia, Nigeria, and Austria to get a visual carbohydrate count. We consider the secure tweet, break and break into more phones, set new attack records, and nick a few scientists. We find China hacking Europe, the US and UK hacking Russia, Russia hacking Ukraine, and someone hacking Spain. …then we end with a quote o...

You may gain a couple of kilos in this week’s IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update, but we promise it’s got some of the tastiest content yet! We start with what may become the latest rage in M.I.T. degrees and finish with a whisper. In between we find a good reason to organize cold storage, we lose our monkeys, and then as we search for sponges, discover a 2000-year-old computer. Then we see the...

We start with another case of house arrest and end up where? Having our DNA broadcast to Martians ( and we don’t mean those who have saved a hundred grand to fly with Elon ). In between, we have our moods checked by AI, we, along with 2999 others, end up with tummy aches, we take apart a high-end piece of Russian drone technology and we get a court decision on data scraping that could have repercu...

This week we start in traffic and end in traffic. Most is ground-bound but we have been known to flit into low Earth Orbit when our speeds are high enough. From between those bollards, we discover more nighttime glitter, more acronym definitions, and the need for higher quant resistance in our crypto. Still hungry? Our Pi and REDSPICE stories will give you something to chew on, while new Crypto tr...

This week we fly from an apiary to a cuddly puppy. But all is not as it seems: We triple peak before a bout of melancholy and find an unwelcome foe back after a “short break”. We have lawsuits, legal requests, and cameras all divulging way more than they should. We sequence the missing 8% and finally, we have a couple of lists that will turn you into such a security guru that you might be writing...

Ooh… this week we start with rich creamy chocolate and end with a little smile. In between those pleasurable bookends, we get an update on the Lapsus$ soap opera before the movie rights are sold to Hollywood. We learn about printers being hacked to spread the news, and the astounding number and diversity of attacks on communications across Ukraine. We get an update on a tech exodus and a new targe...

This week we dance from Taylor Swift to Arkady Volozh or probably more correctly, from New York to Moscow. We learn about over-reactions at NPM, Facebook, and Microsoft. We share some amazing visuals from NASA, that once you see, you can never unsee, and find the US government reminding each and every one of us that the Ukraine war is now at our door. Finally, we learn about the Securities and Exc...

This week we zoom from your face to space, dodging flying objects as we go. We learn a bit more about Putin’s pre-war prep and its effect on Google and Apple. We discover a new website that helps us deliver a text to one of the millions of Russian citizens who may not have access to different perspectives on the Ukraine invasion. We see an amazing data collection mapped to within 150 meters of whe...

We start by tipping our hats in respect to all those valiantly fighting for democracy in Ukraine. Then we go on an adventure. This one’s going to get our feet dirty. First with a new use for artificial intelligence, and then while we award Apple a “fail” on the very day it launches its latest raft of products. We unearth why 9 women might be the right number for the US supreme court on Internation...

Before we start this week’s update it’s important to acknowledge what is going on in the world around us. There is a physical war involving the attack on Ukraine where the courage and the stamina of the people have engendered new levels of respect and awe, and there is a cyberwar. Both at the direction of one individual. Every single inhabitant on this planet will pay for his decision. Some will l...

This week we discover 15 boxes, a number one app., and end up at the back end of the car. With high compression pistons and rack and pinion steering stabilizing our high adhesion slicks, we roll through a billion faces, pound on Taiwanese bank doors, steal some NFTs, experience Man City in 3D, and come to understand why you should never use pixelation to hide behind when you track a Magpie. Join u...