British Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be Trusted

2026-06-26T08:52:11Zbf5ee4416c1d58b3967700e63ef7ecdb7fee38c7a74ae50a8d3b25e941fafce4
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What happened

A Wired roundup highlights multiple high-impact security and privacy stories: a misconfigured website exposed private members' data for Peter Thiel–linked Dialog and related leaks; police predictive-analytics and facial-recognition systems produced unreliable, harmful results (including a wrongful arrest and flawed asylum age checks); OpenAI launched GPT-5.5-Cyber and a large “Patch the Planet” initiative while CISA and vendors push for much faster patching after active-exploit campaigns (including a reported ShinyHunters Oracle zero-day); a looming Secure Boot/cryptographic key expiry affects

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