Is your smartphone spying on you without you even knowing it?

[ad_1] Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) recently revealed a startling new privacy threat. Our smartphones’ ambient light sensors might be turned into makeshift cameras. A woman on her iPhone  (Kurt “CyberGuy” Knutsson) From brightness adjustment to privacy invasion Ambient light sensors are commonplace in smartphones, primarily used to adjust screen…

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How scammers have sunk to a new low with an AI obituary scam targeting the grieving

[ad_1] As if scammers couldn’t sink any lower, there’s a new online scam taking advantage of grieving people.  It’s a strange pirate scam that uses artificial intelligence to scrape data to build fake obituary websites, exploiting the information of somebody who is deceased in an attempt to scam vulnerable victims. Grieving woman at a grave…

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Tell Us: Has Elon Musk’s Behavior Affected How You View Tesla?

[ad_1] Endorsing an antisemitic post on X. Withholding Starlink satellite internet service from Ukraine to prevent a drone attack on Russian forces. Reposting conspiracy theorists who claim that the Biden administration’s immigration policies are part of a plot to increase the number of people who vote Democrat. Elon Musk’s behavior and public statements have clearly…

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Your kids may be treating video games like banks and playing with real money. The government has questions

[ad_1] A federal agency announced it’s monitoring video games that include in-app purchases, digital currencies and external marketplaces often used by children. Games that include these features can effectively operate as banks of sorts but aren’t subject to the same types of regulations or protections, according to a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau report released last…

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