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- Splinter
- 2015
Intellitar marketed its service as a form of digital immortality. For a monthly fee of $25, clients could upload personal data, including voice recordings and photographs, to build a lifelike digital version of themselves. The company claimed to have attracted around 10,000 customers. However, despite its ambitious vision, Intellitar ceased operations, leaving its clients without access to their digital counterparts.
- Splinter
- 2015
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- 15 min
- Splinter
- 2015
This Startup Promised 10,000 People Eternal Digital Life – Then it Died.
Intellitar marketed its service as a form of digital immortality. For a monthly fee of $25, clients could upload personal data, including voice recordings and photographs, to build a lifelike digital version of themselves. The company claimed to have attracted around 10,000 customers. However, despite its ambitious vision, Intellitar ceased operations, leaving its clients without access to their digital counterparts.
- Identify the stakeholders in a situation where a company offering digital immortality services goes bust.
- In what ways are digital remains similar or different to physical remains and memorials? How might we preserve our digital selves in more permanent ways to avoid start-up failures like this one?
- Is this type of service something you could imagine using yourself or for a loved one?
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- Tech Crunch
- 2025
Users being able to upload conversations they have with Meta AI has led to some viral posts containing personal data with the world.
- Tech Crunch
- 2025
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- Tech Crunch
- 2025
The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster.
Users being able to upload conversations they have with Meta AI has led to some viral posts containing personal data with the world.
- Do you think that search engines like Google and Bing should also attempt to turn their searches into a social media feed? Why or why not?
- How does the need for new data for AI-based products drive this trend of digital footprint integration? Would you be willing to opt out of an AI ecosystem that collected and posted your search data or would you restrict your searches and use it anyway?
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- The New York Times
- 2025
This article reports how Ukraine recovered debris from a newly encountered Shahed drone variant during Russian nighttime strikes. The drone was discovered to have advanced jamming tech, decoys, and saturation. The drone utilized new war tactics and had increased effectiveness of remote warfare.
- The New York Times
- 2025
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- The New York Times
- 2025
The Weapon that Terrorizes Ukraine by Night
This article reports how Ukraine recovered debris from a newly encountered Shahed drone variant during Russian nighttime strikes. The drone was discovered to have advanced jamming tech, decoys, and saturation. The drone utilized new war tactics and had increased effectiveness of remote warfare.
- What are the strategic implications of Russia acquiring and relying on Iranian tech and mass drone use?
- What are the long-term consequences and ethics of the increased use of remote military drone capabilities? What are the connections between research and commercial technologies being applied to this change in warfare tactics?
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- TechCrunch+
- 2022
This article describes a cyberattack that leaked Revolut’s user’s data using social engineering.
- TechCrunch+
- 2022
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- TechCrunch+
- 2022
Revolut confirms cyberattack exposed personal data of tens of thousands of users
This article describes a cyberattack that leaked Revolut’s user’s data using social engineering.
Who should be responsible for protecting against cyberattacks, specifically those which involve social engineering? Other than the customers of Revolut, who is impacted by this data leak? What are the harms that this data leak could cause these customers and other stakeholders?
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- BBC
- 2025
A surgeon in the occupied West Bank talks about how Israeli military drones are coming to neighborhoods and picking off civilians, including injured children near hospitals.
- BBC
- 2025
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- BBC
- 2025
Drone Use in Ghaza
A surgeon in the occupied West Bank talks about how Israeli military drones are coming to neighborhoods and picking off civilians, including injured children near hospitals.
- In what ways have warfare ethics been changed by the development of AI-based drone technologies ?
- Considering how many types of technologies go into current military drones (CV, spatial navigation, robotics, AI, etc.), who are the responsible parties for the impact of drone warfare? Researchers and developers? Military organizations? Drone pilots?
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- Cyber Security News
- 2025
Tesla’s famous wall charger, which is installed in homes and businesses worldwide, gets hacked through the charging cable on the adapter. The adapter had a previously undocumented feature that allowed Tesla vehicles to update it through the charging cable, and hackers were able to exploit this vulnerability. After being able to execute arbitrary code on the device, hackers may gain access to the local network that the charger is connected to—among other things.
- Cyber Security News
- 2025
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- Cyber Security News
- 2025
Tesla Wall Connector Hacked in 18 Minute Attack
Tesla’s famous wall charger, which is installed in homes and businesses worldwide, gets hacked through the charging cable on the adapter. The adapter had a previously undocumented feature that allowed Tesla vehicles to update it through the charging cable, and hackers were able to exploit this vulnerability. After being able to execute arbitrary code on the device, hackers may gain access to the local network that the charger is connected to—among other things.
- What measures may be taken by Tesla (besides not documenting the feature altogether) to make the security on the wall adapter more robust?
- What responsibility does Tesla have in this situation towards its customers?
- What next steps should be taken to prevent this vulnerability from being exploited in Tesla wall adapters around the world?