Adult sites are stashing exploit code inside svg files(arstechnica.com)

80 points by The-Old-Hacker 1 year ago | 60 comments

X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced(arstechnica.com)

210 points by voxadam 9 months ago | 352 comments

Court rejects Verizon claim that selling location data without consent is legal(arstechnica.com)

614 points by nobody9999 1 year ago | 75 comments

Ars Technica article on a court rejecting Verizon's claim that selling customer location data without consent was legal, amid a circuit split with AT&T's case.

County pays $600k to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security(arstechnica.com)

381 points by MBCook 8 months ago | 177 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that an Iowa county paid $600,000 to settle with pentesters Gary DeMercurio and Justin Wynn, who were arrested while assessing courthouse security.

Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329M verdict(arstechnica.com)

17 points by poly2it 1 year ago | 0 comments

Convicted murderer, filesystem creator writes of regrets to Linux list(arstechnica.com)

80 points by WithinReason 2 years ago | 46 comments

Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules(arstechnica.com)

496 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 343 comments

Ars Technica article on a court ruling that suspects can refuse to give police their phone passcodes, noting conflicting case law that may reach the Supreme Court.

Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die(arstechnica.com)

411 points by randycupertino 9 months ago | 240 comments

Ars Technica article on a murder-suicide lawsuit accusing OpenAI of withholding full ChatGPT logs and selectively hiding data after users die.

FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado(arstechnica.com)

825 points by JaimeThompson 1 year ago | 332 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that the FBI raided the home of an Indiana University computer scientist whose profile was quietly removed and who has gone silent.

Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node(lowendbox.com)

735 points by h0ek 3 years ago | 489 comments

LowEndBox blog post recounting the case of William Weber, convicted of child pornography charges in Austria after running a Tor exit node.

Injunction issued in case about social media pressure from US Government(arstechnica.com)

360 points by cm_silva 3 years ago | 625 comments

Ars Technica article on a federal judge's preliminary injunction finding the White House pressured social networks to suppress speech, in a suit by Missouri and Louisiana.

Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules(reason.com)

773 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 385 comments

Reason article reporting that the D.C. Circuit ruled police cannot hold seized property indefinitely after an arrest, calling it unconstitutional.