Musk’s X fired 80% of engineers working on trust and safety, Australian Government says
Half of internal moderators and a third of X’s trust and safety team globally were fired after Musk’s arrival, Australia’s online safety regulator says.
Thomas Brewster, Forbes Staff
Russian hackers’ lawsuit reveals weaknesses in Apple’s iOS 16
A Moscow legal battle strongly indicates that phone forensics tools used by both the FBI and FSB are exploiting security loopholes in Apple’s operating system.
Inside Apple’s impossible war on child exploitation
Apple spent years trying to design a system to stop the spread of child sexual abuse material on iPhones and iCloud. When the company scrapped it, child protection investigators were frustrated. But Apple’s privacy-first approach gained plenty of fans in the process.
AI facial recognition used in thousands of child exploitation cold cases
DHS is using facial recognition and AI to find child abusers and rescue victims in a major new operation underway to solve thousands of cold cases.
FBI agents are helping ICE and DOJ trace crypto
Their new company, Naxo, has contracts with ICE, the DOJ and the SEC. It’s also offering to exhume cryptocurrency locked away in hard drives.