Your Expired Visa Card Could Be ‘Zombified’ to Make Contactless Payments

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As the controversial vehicle surveillance giant Flock Safety continues to expand, WIRED got the code for the company’s new AI policing tool and reconstructed the software to show that its capabilities go far beyond reading license plates and tracking vehicles. We also published the story this week of a Rhode Island police officer who was subjected to five internal affairs investigations in less than two years after he publicly questioned his department’s use of Flock cameras.

Following incidents of high-profile rogue activity by some of its AI agents, OpenAI said this week that it is halting model training runs and overhauling internal safety protocols. The company said that its upcoming Astra model may represent a turning point of “critical” cyber capabilities.

A reverse-lookup identification service exposed millions of photos of people’s faces in a database accessible through the open internet. Meanwhile, Meta ran advertisements for an app that promised...

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