Technology Google bug let strangers find your phone number with just your Gmail address Ellsworth Toohey
health People who get shingles within a year of Covid have doubled reinfection risk and 67 % higher heart attack odds Jennifer Sandlin
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gab Gab hacked — 70 GB of passwords, private posts taken, says transparency group DDoSecrets Mark Frauenfelder
politics Researchers say Voatz voting app has big security flaws, 4 states using it for 2020 elections anyway Xeni Jardin
security After ransomware took Baltimore hostage, Maryland introduces legislation that bans disclosing the bugs ransomware exploits Cory Doctorow
security Idiotic security mistakes in smart conferencing gear allows hackers to spy on board rooms, steal presentations Cory Doctorow
security Model stealing, rewarding hacking and poisoning attacks: a taxonomy of machine learning's failure modes Cory Doctorow
leaks Antipolygraph.org publishes secret guidelines for the federal "Test for Espionage and Sabotage," a psuedoscientific feature of government life Cory Doctorow
security Japanese robot hotel chain ignored repeated warnings that its in-room "bed-facing" robots could be turned into spy devices Cory Doctorow
