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A security researcher is raising serious alarms about Tile, the popular Bluetooth tracking device. According to a report published this week, the company's security practices are so lax that bad actors can effectively use the network to track people without their knowledge or consent. It's a troubling reminder that convenience and safety don't always travel together.
Shifting to a project getting attention in developer circles, a tool called Pastport is mining your iPhone's Safari browsing history to reconstruct a detailed timeline of your movements and decisions. Its creator discovered it could pinpoint when he left an Airbnb, how many times he edited a flight, and even that he had once requested wheelchair assistance. It's a striking demonstration of how much data quietly accumulates on our devices, and how little most of us think about it.
And finally, a piece making rounds under the headline AI is Oil, Not God is pushing back against the quasi-religious framing that has come to surround artificial intelligence. The argument is straightforward: AI is a commodity input, powerful and transformative, yes, but ultimately a resource to be refined and traded, not a sovereign force reshaping civilization on its own terms.
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