The burning of the Library of Alexandria for fandoms (taylorlorenz.substack.com)
I’ve never been on twitter, but I’m not that surprised so many of us here were driving engagement.
The Antiquity to Alt-Right Pipeline (www.workingclassicists.com)
A good article in which the author researched how Twitter’s algorithm pushed people interested in history into alt-right content....
Russia reportedly readies submarine cable 'sabotage' (www.theregister.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/2724505...
My impressions of Bear Blog (daviramos.com)
Despite Malaysia’s U-turn on web traffic rerouting, the ‘damage has already been done’ (www.straitstimes.com)
Apple to pay €13bn in tax, Google a €2.4bn fine for market dominance abuse, the European Court of Justice rules (www.bbc.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/2722079...
more perfect union finds that uber drivers are paid differently for the same rides (www.youtube.com)
Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison (blogsystem5.substack.com)
cross-posted from: feditown.com/post/650064
‘New NSA document highlights Israeli espionage in US (archive.is)
Thieves snatched his phone in London, UK - it was in China a month later (www.bbc.com)
Early on a Saturday morning in April, Akara Etteh was checking his phone as he came out of Holborn tube station, in central London....
Chinese Espionage-based APT Earth Preta, aka Mustang Panda, Evolves its Attacks with New Malware and Strategies (www.trendmicro.com)
Archived version...
U.S. School Monitoring Software Sacrifices Student Privacy for Unproven Promises of Safety, Digital Rights Says (www.eff.org)
Imagine your search terms, key-strokes, private chats and photographs are being monitored every time they are sent. Millions of students across the U.S. don’t have to imagine this deep surveillance of their most private communications: it’s a reality that comes with their school districts’ decision to install AI-powered...
Chinese and Russian disinformation flourishes in some African countries as anti-US sentiment helps it take hold, researchers say
The spread of disinformation is one of the biggest risks to societies. Recent examples have been conspiracy narratives about COVID-19 vaccinations and false claims about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine....
Kagi is announcing an AI Assistant. (blog.kagi.com)
tacking on a bunch of LLMs sure is a way to “make the web more human”.
Colombian president slams police purchase of Pegasus spyware (www.bignewsnetwork.com)
U.S.: University of Pennsylvania launches new 'Penn Center' to propel research on Media, Technology, and Democracy (www.asc.upenn.edu)
The University of Pennsylvania in tbe U.S. announced $10 million in funding dedicated to its new Center for Media, Technology, and Democracy. The Center will be housed in the School of Engineering and Applied Science (Penn Engineering) and will operate in partnership with five other schools at Penn....
“Hello pervert” sextortion scam includes new threat of Pegasus—and a picture of your home (www.malwarebytes.com)
What a 160-year-old theory about coal predicts about our self-driving future (www.theverge.com)
Enticing though they are, such arguments conceal a logical flaw. As a classic 19th-century theory known as a Jevons paradox explains, even if autonomous vehicles eventually work perfectly — an enormous “if” — they are likely to increase total emissions and crash deaths, simply because people will use them so much.
Australia's internet watchdog says she received "death threats" and that her children were doxxed after she was targeted by Elon Musk for attempting to regulate Xitter (www.bbc.com)
Earlier this year, the Australia’s eSafety commissioner took X to court over its refusal to remove videos of a religiously motivated Sydney church stabbing for its global users....
Ford Patents In-Car System That Eavesdrops So It Can Play You Ads (www.motortrend.com)
It could also identify your voice and recognize you and your ad preferences, and those of your passengers....
Google’s GameNGen AI Doom video game generator: dissecting a rigged demo (pivot-to-ai.com)
Did you know you can play Doom on a diffusion model now? It’s true, Google just announced it! Just don’t read the paper too closely.
Why AI Can Push You to Make the Wrong Decision at Work (www.brainfacts.org)
Therapy Sessions Exposed by Mental Health Care Firm’s Unsecured Database (www.wired.com)
The Moral Implications of Being a Moderately Successful Computer Scientist and a Woman (www.sigops.org)
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Calls For Release of Alexey Soldatov, "Father of the Russian Internet" (www.eff.org)
Alexey Soldatov, known as the “father of the Russian Internet,” was sentenced in July to two years in prison by a Moscow court for alleged “misuse” of IP addresses....
