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Number Games

The Mystery of AI Gunshot-Detection Accuracy Is Finally Unraveling

Todd Feathers

Face Swap

Deepfake Creators Are Revictimizing GirlsDoPorn Sex Trafficking Survivors

Matt Burgess

Security Roundup

A Catastrophic Hospital Hack Ends in a Leak of 300M Patient Records

Andy Greenberg and Andrew Couts

end to end

A Guide to RCS, Why Apple’s Adopting It, and How It Makes Texting Better

David Nield

Scrub-a-Dub

How to Remove Your Personal Info From Google’s Search Results

Reece Rogers

Security Roundup

Russian Hackers Stole Microsoft Source Code—and the Attack Isn’t Over

Dhruv Mehrotra and Andrew Couts

Sight Unseen

The Secrets Factory

William Turton and Dhruv Mehrotra

surveillance

The UK’s GPS Tagging of Migrants Has Been Ruled Illegal

Morgan Meaker

Baby Steps

Biden Bans Rival Nations From Buying Sensitive US Data—Good Luck

Dell Cameron

What Comes Around

Dictators Used Sandvine Tech to Censor the Internet. The US Finally Did Something About It

Peter Guest

The Lives of Others

The UK Is GPS-Tagging Thousands of Migrants

Morgan Meaker

Change Your Settings

How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin

Byron Tau

snack fight

A Vending Machine Error Revealed Secret Face Recognition Tech

Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica

Security Roundup

A Mysterious Leak Exposed Chinese Hacking Secrets

Matt Burgess

Pin Drop

Here Are the Secret Locations of ShotSpotter Gunfire Sensors

Dhruv Mehrotra and Joey Scott

Stranger Things

Leak Reveals the Unusual Path of ‘Urgent’ Russian Threat Warning

Dell Cameron

Planning Ahead

Apple’s iMessage Is Getting Future-Resistant Encryption

Matt Burgess

Code Words

Signal Finally Rolls Out Usernames, So You Can Keep Your Phone Number Private

Andy Greenberg

Security Roundup

How to Not Get Scammed Out of $50,000

Andrew Couts

Unfair Warning

Leak of Russian ‘Threat’ Part of a Bid to Kill US Surveillance Reform, Sources Say

Dell Cameron