What every week! On Monday, police arrested 26-year-old Luigi Mangione and charged him within the homicide of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Mangione’s five-day run from authorities ended after he was noticed consuming at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, about 300 miles from Manhattan, the place Thompson was gunned down on the morning of December 4. Authorities say they discovered Mangione carrying pretend IDs and a 3D-printed “ghost gun,” the mannequin of which is named the FMDA, or “Free Males Don’t Ask.”
In the meantime, a flood of mysterious drone sightings throughout New Jersey and neighboring states precipitated a lot havoc, it shortly gained federal consideration. Whereas many individuals questioned why the US army couldn’t simply shoot down the drones, the FBI, Division of Homeland Safety, and unbiased consultants say the drone thriller is probably not a lot of a thriller, and the drones are most likely largely simply airplanes.
As for extra terrestrial threats, we dove into the far-right realm of “Lively Golf equipment,” small teams of younger, fitness-focused males who’re steeped in extremist ideology and linked to a number of violent assaults. Whereas the person who helped invent the Lively Membership community, Robert Rundo, was sentenced in federal courtroom this week, Lively Golf equipment all over the world are proliferating.
Lastly, we investigated dishonest schemes that use tiny cameras to achieve a bootleg edge in poker, and we interrogated the methods people will use generative AI to make the world a extra harmful place.
However that’s not all. Every week, we spherical up the privateness and safety information we didn’t cowl in depth ourselves. Click on the headlines to learn the complete tales. And keep secure on the market.
Again in Might, Microsoft jubilantly introduced Recall, an AI characteristic for some Home windows PCs that silently takes screenshots each 5 seconds after which lets you simply search via the ensuing digital footprint. Forgotten the place you noticed a recipe on-line? Tapping a few key phrases into Recall might, in idea, discover the dish once more. It didn’t take lengthy for the privateness and safety neighborhood to search out gaping holes within the characteristic.
In response, Microsoft delayed Recall’s launch and finally made some vital modifications—equivalent to making Recall opt-in reasonably than on by default, higher encrypting info captured by Recall, and including authentication to entry information that it saved. Recall lastly launched for some customers this month.
Nevertheless, this week, testing of Recall by Tom’s Hardware demonstrated {that a} key safeguard put in place by Microsoft can nonetheless fail. With a Recall setting referred to as “filter delicate info” turned on, Tom’s {Hardware}’s assessments discovered that it nonetheless took screenshots of some delicate info—equivalent to bank card numbers and Social Safety numbers. When the publication typed a bank card quantity and a username and password right into a Notepad window, they had been gathered within the screenshots. “Equally, after I stuffed out a mortgage utility PDF in Microsoft Edge, coming into a social safety quantity, title and DOB, Recall captured that,” Avram Piltch writes. The instrument, nonetheless, didn’t report particulars once they had been entered on a few on-line shops.