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