Category: wired
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Drilling Down on Uncle Sam’s Proposed TP-Link Ban
Drilling Down on Uncle Sam’s Proposed TP-Link Ban The U.S. government is reportedly preparing to ban the sale of wireless routers and other networking gear from TP-Link Systems, a tech company that currently enjoys an estimated 50% market share among home users and small businesses. Experts say while the proposed ban may have more to…
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Poor Passwords Tattle on AI Hiring Bot Maker Paradox.ai
Poor Passwords Tattle on AI Hiring Bot Maker Paradox.ai Security researchers recently revealed that the personal information of millions of people who applied for jobs at McDonald’s was exposed after they guessed the password (“123456”) for the fast food chain’s account at Paradox.ai, a company that makes artificial intelligence based hiring chatbots used by many…
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Teen on Musk’s DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’
Teen on Musk’s DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’ Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk‘s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past association with cybercrime communities should have precluded him from gaining the necessary security clearances to do so.…