Your data can get stolen through a company you've never heard of A company may do everything right. Then a partner falls victim to hackers--and it becomes a headache for us everyday folks. Cybersecurity for businesses involves a lot of jargon unfamiliar to us consumers, and for good reason. Such language generally doesn't apply to our lives. But one concept has begun affecting us everyday users more--supply chain attacks.

UC Berkeley professor admits to using AI to edit op-ed on students' math skills Zvezdelina Stankova says she used AI to'help edit' an article about some of her students being'five to eight years' behind A math professor at the University of California, Berkeley, criticizing a "severe" math deficiency among students in an op-ed for the San Francisco Standard, admitted to using artificial intelligence to help edit the piece. The Standard published a 2,000-word piece by Zvezdelina Stankova last week, in which the professor said some of her math students were "five to eight years" behind and lacked a "middle school" education on fractions and basic algebra. Stankova said the UC system's test-blind admissions were to blame, suggesting that students who weren't sufficiently prepared for the rigor of Berkeley's mathematics program were admitted because a longstanding benchmark like the SAT had disappeared. Over the weekend, journalists at Berkeley's student newspaper, the Daily Californian, noticed the op-ed's language sounded like AI . According to Berkeley sophomore Francis Luo, they ran it through AI-detection software Pangram, which claimed 33% of the op-ed had been generated or assisted by AI.

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Here's how to keep your privates, private Sexortion is an old concept, but the FBI's latest warning about it is new. Long before the internet, people blackmailed others over sexually explicit photos or videos. But this week, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation released a fresh warning around hackers and sexortion--an alert aimed at both adults and children. In its public service announcement, the FBI says sexual exploitation actors have been breaking into "social media and personal accounts" to download any saved explicit content. The stolen images and video then gets spread to criminal forums and marketplaces, often with personal details like name, email, phone number, social media username, and date of birth also shared.

There are many tech irritants that are a scourge of modern life, yet we have lacked the vocabulary to describe them ... until now T he "dickover" is the scourge of the modern age. Coined in May by John Gruber, a tech writer, it is defined as "a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user". Essentially, it is the thing (or more often, things) you have to click away in order to read the thing you wanted to read. It is the "accept cookies" box, the "allow notifications?" box, the "sign in with Google" box, the pop-up video box, etc. We shouldn't fool ourselves into thinking that dickovers are the only terrible thing about technology in 2026.

One Queensland man lost more than $166,000 to an investment scam constructed by AI. One Queensland man lost more than $166,000 to an investment scam constructed by AI. A Queensland man enjoyed soaring profits from a crypto trading app. Within days of clicking on an online ad for a cryptocurrency trading app, a 29-year-old Queensland man watched his dashboard soar with profits. Making investment gains was as simple as downloading the slick-looking app and browser extension linked to his crypto wallet.

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When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Gmail offers fully encrypted email. Your email isn't as private as you might assume--and you should look outside Google if you want to change that. Email that only your recipient can read--sounds like a great idea for sensitive messages, right? Especially if you could have that within Gmail.

McDonald's Built a 515-Page Dossier on Me. It Says I'll Never Stop Eating There I requested a copy of my data from McDonald's loyalty program and received an extensive, personalized report that algorithmically predicts my next purchase. When I first downloaded the McDonald's app years ago, I signed up for its loyalty program hoping to get better deals. Why not get some cheap French fries? While I understood that this would entail some type of data tracking, I didn't grasp how the information would be used to algorithmically predict my next purchase.

An AI interview is increasingly the first step of a hiring process. Since there's no human on the other end, candidates are scheduling them whenever--even deep into the night. When Tim Millard received an email about interviewing for a media relations job in January, six months into his job hunt, he assumed he'd speak to a human. When he was instead instructed to record himself answering a series of questions on camera, he felt a familiar pang of resignation--one that had followed him throughout the job hunt . "I figured, I have to do this if I want to be considered for the job," Millard tells WIRED.