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Aug 19, 2021 • 12min
All the Ways Spotify Tracks You—and How to Stop It
Whether you're listening to workout music or a "cooking dinner" playlist, the app can show you ads based on your mood and what you're doing right now.
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Aug 18, 2021 • 10min
Citizen's New Service Helps Paying Users Summon the Cops
The crime-tracking app is charging $20 per month to give subscribers access to their own virtual security service.
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Aug 18, 2021 • 6min
Messaging Apps Have an Eavesdropping Problem
Vulnerabilities in Signal, Facebook Messenger, Google Duo, and more all point to a pervasive privacy issue.
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Aug 16, 2021 • 11min
France Cracked Down on Google’s Ad Tech. What’s Next?
The French Competition Agency has hit the company with $855 million in fines this year. The money is meaningless—but the changes could be profound.
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Aug 13, 2021 • 6min
Hospitals Still Use Pneumatic Tubes—and They Can Be Hacked
The tech may seem antiquated, but it poses very modern cybersecurity problems.Â
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Aug 12, 2021 • 5min
A Guide to RCS, and Why It Makes Texting So Much Better
Google is pushing the new standard for Android devices, which promises better security and cooler features than plain old SMS.
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Aug 11, 2021 • 8min
The Privacy Battle That Apple Isn’t Fighting
California has begun enforcing a browser-level privacy setting, but you still can’t find that option in Safari or iOS.
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Aug 10, 2021 • 12min
Phantom Warships Are Courting Chaos in Conflict Zones
The latest weapons in the global information war are fake vessels behaving badly.
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Aug 9, 2021 • 11min
A Controversial Tool Calls Out Thousands of Hackable Websites
PunkSpider is back, and crawling hundreds of millions of sites for vulnerabilities.
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Aug 6, 2021 • 10min
The Shapeshifting Cam Girl Rewriting the Rules of Digital Porn
Face-morphing adult content creator Coconut Kitty is ushering in the unsettling future of the medium, one where nothing is as it seems.
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