Before the advent of smartphones you weren't under constant surveillance with an always-on network. Now an unholy trinity of smartphone, network, and artificial intelligence threatens to let the well-intentioned regulate every aspect of life. If you're drunk, will your smartphone let you drive?

An apparent factory cockup has left OnePlus Android smartphones with an exposed diagnostics tool that can be potentially exploited to root the handsets.

An iPad in each dressing room lets shoppers call an attendant or enter in their selections, editing their choices on the fly. Salespeople are all equipped with mobile point-of-sale devices so that customers can check out in the dressing room and walk right out of the store.

the tech isn’t perfect. Your iPhone X might not always unlock; a cop might arrest the wrong person. In order for software to always recognize your face as you, an entire sequence of algorithms has to work. First, the software has to be able to determine whether an image has a face in it at all. If you’re a cop trying to find a missing kid in a photo of a crowd, you might want the software to sort the faces by age. And ultimately, you need an algorithm that can compare each face with another photo in a database, perhaps with different lighting and at a different angle, and determine whether they’re the same person.

The United States government has published its new policy for publicly disclosing vulnerabilities and security holes.

A group of 54 computer scientists and academic researchers on Thursday asked the US Department of Homeland Security to rethink its plan for employing software algorithms to determine whether immigrants to the country should be admitted or deported.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has accidentally leaked sensitive data from at least two unsecured Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 repositories, according to Kromtech Security Center.

Criminals are exploiting “fake news” for commercial gain, according to new research.

Fake news is widely assumed to be political or ideological propaganda published to sway public opinion, but new research conducted by threat intel firm Digital Shadows and released on Thursday suggested fake news generation services are now aimed at causing financial and reputational damage for companies through disinformation campaigns.

Die Allianz-Versicherung spricht sich strikt gegen den Einsatz von Fitness-Armbändern für Bonusprogramme aus. „Eine Krankenversicherung darf den Tarif nicht vom persönlichen Verhalten abhängig machen. Das ist in Deutschland nicht erlaubt, und auch nicht richtig“, sagt Daniel Bahr, Vorstand der privaten Krankenversicherung Allianz, in der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung. „Wir werden so etwas nicht tun.“

London's Metropolitan Police force's use of "intrusive" technologies "without proper regulation" could put a fundamental principle of policing at risk, the London mayor has been told.

In a letter to Sadiq Khan, the Greater London Assembly – the group elected to hold the mayor to account – expressed "significant concerns" about facial recognition technology.

Eating popcorn in the cinema may be irritating not just for fellow movie goers, but for advertisers: a group of researchers from Cologne University has concluded that chewing makes us immune to film advertising.

In broad terms, the fight over section 702 of America's Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) comes down to a single issue: should the powers within it that allow the intelligence services to intercept and store communications on foreign intelligence targets be extended to cover US citizens?

German regulator has banned the sale of smartwatches aimed at children, describing them as spying devices.

Al Jazeera talks to Stephen Roberts, professor of Machine Learning at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, on the role machine learning plays in our lives today - and in the future.

EFF has just launched its new Announcing the Security Education Companion, a beautifully organized, clearly written set of materials to help "people who would like to help their communities learn about digital security but are new to the art of security training." 

Die FPÖ ist natürlich umgefallen und will jetzt doch den #Bundestrojaner (Zugriff auf Messenger)

Your essay on The Morality of Manipulation is so profoundly detached from even a basic understanding of human nature and the reality of self-interest that I’m still not sure whether or not you are trolling us.

Since the iPhone X has hit the market, people have been trying all sorts of ways to trick the phone’s Face ID feature, including this creepy, cobbled-together mask. While Apple has admitted that false positives can happen, it was thought this could only happen with twins, or siblings under the age of 13. However, a new video has popped up showing a 10-year-old unlocking his mother’s iPhone, suggesting that any family members who bear enough resemblance might be able to bypass the system.

Two leading European consumer groups -- the UK's Which? and Germany's Stiftung Warentest -- have published an advisory with the results of their lab tests on the security of kids' connected toys, warning that these toys are insecure and could allow strangers to listen in and talk to your kids over the internet

A London Times investigation revealed that Russia employed a large army of Twitter accounts to "sow discord" before the Brexit vote. And it appears to have been quite successful, as newspapers like The Sun and Mail Online published tweets from the bogus accounts