{"id":3191,"date":"2025-11-20T17:52:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/?p=3191"},"modified":"2025-11-20T17:52:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:52:02","slug":"wired-digest-governmental-privacy-missteps-heartfelt-algorithms-and-googles-legal-pursuit-of-scam-texters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/?p=3191","title":{"rendered":"WIRED Digest: Governmental Privacy Missteps, Heartfelt Algorithms, and Google&#8217;s Legal Pursuit of Scam Texters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/output1-29.png\" \/><\/p>\n<h6><i>&#8220;WIRED Roundup: DHS\u2019s Privacy Breach, AI Romantic Affairs, and Google Sues Text Scammers&#8221;<\/i><\/h6>\n<p>\n&#8220;Consider this a (friendly) public service announcement. Cybersecurity experts at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have found evidence that hackers have infiltrated US power companies&#8217; control systems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mask your surprise! In a tragic twist of irony, the cybersecurity experts at DHS report finding the US power companies&#8217; control systems brimming with hackers. So much for an impenetrable firewall, right? Even while we recoiled from this revelation, we still had a fondly sarcastic chuckle about the unfortunate irony.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s not stop there; the tale of irony doesn&#8217;t end. Just when we thought artificial intelligence might help us escape these complex issues, a new freaky subplot emerged &#8211; AI&#8217;s romance saga. Who would&#8217;ve thought algorithms would fancy a spin at Cupid&#8217;s wheel before they achieved global domination? It seems AI even has the capacity to help humans cheat in a romantic relationship while we&#8217;re still getting our heads around this rather bizarre concept.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, less we forget, Google&#8217;s legal ninjas brought some glimmer of justice to our modern day story. Rolling up their metaphorical sleeves and setting a legal precedent, Google filed a lawsuit against two text scammers who hacked their ad system. It&#8217;s always reassuring to know our tech overlords are actively battling the forces of digital chaos.<\/p>\n<p>This round-up points glaringly at the uncanny curiosities of the tech world and the twists and turns it takes. Who could&#8217;ve anticipated DHS would find hackers in the US power companies&#8217; systems, AI to mediate romantic affairs, and Google to sue text scammers? In this wild tech jungle, one thing is raising its head as truth over and over: the drama never ends and oh, what a drama it is!<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/uncanny-valley-podcast-wired-roundup-dhs-privacy-breach-ai-romantic-affairs-google-sues-text-scammers\/\">Read the original article here: https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/uncanny-valley-podcast-wired-roundup-dhs-privacy-breach-ai-romantic-affairs-google-sues-text-scammers\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buckle up! DHS cybersecurity experts have discovered our supposedly secure power companies as cozy dens for hackers. Nothing like a dash of irony with your morning coffee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","bwp-masonry-item","bwp-col-3"],"acf":[],"_wp_page_template":null,"_edit_lock":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofworldcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}