Tag Archives: Surveillance

“They’ll Know Everything You Click”: AI-Powered Mobile Browsers Are Here and GEO Experts Warn “This Changes the Surveillance Game”  Rude Baguette How Aravind Srinivas turned Perplexity AI into an $18 billion would-be Google killer  Fortune I tried Perplexity’s new browser and returned to Chrome in no time  xda-developers.com Dia launches a skill gallery, Perplexity to add tasks to Comet  TechCrunch AI Will Replace Recruiters …

Two Democratic members of Congress, Greg Casar (D-TX) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI,) have introduced legislation in the US House of Representatives to ban the use of AI surveillance to set prices and wages. During Delta’s Q2 earnings call last week, Delta’s president Glen Hauenstein said that the airline has already rolled out AI-controlled dynamic pricing for 3 percent of its …

“This Is Digital Stalking”: New Wi-Fi System Tracks People Without Devices and Sparks Outrage Over Invisible Surveillance Power  Rude Baguette Your body can be fingerprinted and tracked using Wi-Fi signals  PCWorld I’m Sensing a Disturbance in the Wi-Fi  Hackster.io Humans can be tracked with unique ‘fingerprint’ based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals  theregister.com WhoFi: New surveillance technology can track people by how …

Blue Origin has announced a partnership with Scout Space, a company focused on orbital domain awareness and safety in space. Scout’s Owl sensor will be the first payload to fly on Blue Origin’s Blue Ring spacecraft, integrating the advanced space domain awareness (SDA) sensor into the payload delivery vehicle. The mission is expected to launch in Spring 2026, and will …

IN A NUTSHELL 📱 Google uses Android phones’ accelerometers to detect seismic activity and provide timely earthquake alerts. 🌍 The system operates across 98 countries, detecting an average of 312 earthquakes monthly with magnitudes from 1.9 to 7.8. 🔔 Integrated into the Android Earthquake Alerts system, it automatically broadcasts warnings to affected regions. 🔄 Users can provide feedback to enhance …

In the last 30 years or so, cybersecurity has gone from being a niche specialty within the larger field of computer science, to an industry estimated to be worth more than $170 billion made of a globe-spanning community of hackers. In turn, the industry’s growth, and high-profile hacks such as the 2015 Sony breach, the 2016 U.S. election hack and …

Billionaire Elon Musk shocked his xAI workers by asking them to download a productivity tracking software on their personal computers. Musk made downloading the software, called Hubstaff, mandatory for all employees working to tutor his artificial intelligence chatbot Grok, requiring it even for those without a company-issued computer, Business Insider reported. Employees were given a July 11 deadline to install …

Elon Musk’s xAI told workers to download employee tracking software on their personal computers, prompting privacy concerns — and one worker’s apparent resignation. The AI startup told the tutors who train its Grok chatbot earlier this month that they would be expected to download a workforce management system called Hubstaff, according to a document viewed by Business Insider. The tutors …