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Sophisticated fake social media personas created by North Korean hackers offered to collaborate with cybersecurity researchers. Several US researchers fell for it.

A combination of volume, technology and financial need has opened the door to sleazy and dangerous advertisements on reputable websites.

Google claims quantum supremacy – IBM says not so fast. One researcher explains why he doesn’t see quantum computers outpacing classical computers any time soon … and maybe not ever.

Smart glasses like Facebook’s Ray-Ban Stories could be used to record you surreptitiously. If the company adds facial recognition, you could be even more exposed.

Project Baseline opens up new opportunities in health care, both for the researchers working with big data and for consumers who want more sophisticated ways to track their health.

Researchers are using machine learning models to identify gentrification in imagery. Community insights help keep the models on track

There’s no First Amendment in the workplace, which leaves worker activists at the whim of their employers.

Text-to-image generators like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion portend a future where anyone with a computer can fake a photograph of just about anything.

When smartphone apps get permission to access your location or other activity, they often share that data with other companies that can compile digital profiles on users.

New York City is developing a ‘free’ public Wi-Fi network to be deployed throughout the city, but the poorly appreciated price is our privacy.