The Wiretap is your weekly digest of cybersecurity, internet privacy and surveillance news. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here. In two months, Donald Trump will walk back into the White House as president. Trailing him will be all manner of hopes and fears – not least among those who value their privacy. While Trump has presented himself as a strongman and occasional enemy of social media giants like Meta and TikTok, there are some reasons to believe that neither he nor his DOJ picks will launch any kind of war on privacy or the encrypted apps that have…
People, 2,000 elk and 8,000 mule deer now travel safer along western Idaho’s Ponderosa Pine Scenic Byway near Boise due to a new $7.5 million wildlife overpass, ending a legacy of frequent traffic crashes with big game. This first wildlife overpass project by the Idaho Transportation Department saw 10 state…
GOG, the Polish-based digital game distribution platform, has launched its Preservation Program to address a serious pain point in retro gaming: the risk of titles becoming unplayable, and lost, due to evolving hardware and operating systems. CD Projekt-owned GOG, which launched the initiative today (November 13), hopes to keep games…
Generative AI is a powerful tool that promises innovative solutions to many of the world’s challenges, including climate change. On one side, its ability to model complex scenarios, optimize resources, and provide creative solutions to environmental problems presents a bright vision for the future. On the other side, however, the…
Devin Haney is on the comeback trail following his unanimous decision loss turned no-decision performance against Ryan Garcia. Signs point to Haney skipping a tune-up fight and going straight to the big dogs in his weight region. According to sources I spoke to with direct knowledge, Haney is negotiating to…
The northeastern state of Mizoram in India and some of its neighbors were devastated by a famine in 1911. Forty-eight years later, the same thing happened again in 1959. When it occurred yet again in 2007, it could no longer be chalked up to coincidence. The Government of Mizoram has…
In a dramatic move that underscores growing global concerns over TikTok’s handling of user data, the Canadian government has ordered the social media giant to wind down its business operations in the country by the end of 2024. The decision, announced on November 6, 2024, is based on national security…
Sean Merat is the CEO of Owl.co. The insurance industry in recent years—particularly in sectors like disability, workers’ compensation, and bodily injury—has drifted away from personal connections, becoming more transactional and less human. Research shows that the level of empathy insurance-claims teams extend to customers has the biggest impact on…
The next generation of artificial intelligence is taking the world by storm. We’re seeing rampant innovation from the startup communities innovating from the emergence of large language models. Businesses in Canada, however, are slower to hop on this band wagon. The adoption of generative AI in Canada varies significantly by…
Netflix has revealed new information about Stranger Things 5, the upcoming final season of the hit series. Perhaps the biggest tidbit is the release window: 2025, rather than 2026 as some predicted. That’s good news, though it will almost certainly be tempered with a caveat—I would bet good money the…
The top of the UFC 310 card is a work in progress as the promotion is still seemingly looking for an opponent to replace welterweight champion Belal Muhammad, who is out with a bone infection in his toe. Shavkhat Rahkmonov is open to an interim fight, but nothing has been…
AMD is a leading global semiconductor company with a business portfolio spanning client products, servers, embedded systems, and AI accelerators. Reporting 2023 revenues of $23.6 billion, AMD has made a major push to position itself as a generative AI beneficiary. Leading the internal IT strategy and AI implementation at AMD…
Environmental disruptions due to climate change are causing cacao trees to die, raising chocolate prices and underscoring the need for sustainable cocoa efforts in the U.S. and Europe. Higher temperature patterns alone or combined with more humidity from rain are changing environmental characteristics in a 40-degree wide area around the…
This week saw Apple introduce three new MacBook Pro models, powered by the latest M4 Silicon. Tim Cook and his team continued to push thier new generative AI endeavours with this launch, proclaiming that “Apple Intelligence harnesses the power of Apple Silicon and the Neural Engine to unlock new ways…
The first weekend of November is here at last. Halloween is behind us and the wintry part of autumn means colder days and nights perfect for curling up with a good TV show or movie. That’s where I come in. Every week I scour the internet and the many streaming…
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