Privacy

Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses are being called ‘pervert glasses’ worldwide. Meta just patented a hardware kill switch. Here’s the privacy crisis and what it means for AI wearable builders.

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Google just made personalized AI image generation free for every Gemini user in the U.S. That sounds like a win — and in many ways it is. But “personalized” means something very specific here, and it’s worth understanding what you’re actually signing up for before you start generating images that know your face, your hobbies, and your preferences without you saying a word. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. A startup called MicroAGI is offering free home cleaning in New York City. You book an appointment, a professional shows up, cleans your place, and you pay nothing. The catch: they record everything. Every room, every surface, every object. The footage becomes training data for robots that will eventually clean homes on their own. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Here’s something nobody in the no-code space talks about: your browser sees everything. Every API key you paste, every dashboard you log into, every extension you install — it all runs through one layer most people never think about. I’ve been building AI workflows and testing automation tools for over a year now. And the one thing I never questioned was my browser. I just used whatever came with my computer. Then I started paying attention, and what I found changed how I think about my entire stack. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. If you’re using ChatGPT for work — writing drafts, brainstorming, organizing ideas, building automations — your account contains more of your thinking than your email does. And most people protect it with nothing more than a password they’ve reused somewhere else. OpenAI just made it significantly harder for someone to break into your ChatGPT account. On April 30th, they launched a program called Advanced Account Security and partnered with Yubico, the company that makes those small physical security keys you may have seen tech people wear on their keychains. The setup takes about five minutes. Here’s exactly what it does and whether you should bother. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. 🎧 Prefer to listen? The privacy problem nobody talks about Every article about AI privacy says the same thing. “Your data might be used to train models.” “Use enterprise versions for sensitive work.” “Turn off chat history.” ...

OpenAI just added something to ChatGPT that makes it way more useful — and way more concerning at the same time. You can now connect your bank accounts directly to ChatGPT. Your balances, your transactions, your subscriptions — all visible to the AI. You ask it “have I been spending more lately?” and it actually knows the answer. Convenient? Absolutely. But before you click “connect,” there’s something you should understand. ...