Oral-B bricking Alexa toothbrush is cautionary tale against buzzy tech (arstechnica.com)
Advice - Getting started with LLMs
I’m new to the field of large language models (LLMs) and I’m really interested in learning how to train and use my own models for qualitative analysis. However, I’m not sure where to start or what resources would be most helpful for a complete beginner. Could anyone provide some guidance and advice on the best way to get...
A Suspected Human Smuggler Used AirTags to Track and Control The Woman He Brought Into the U.S. (www.404media.co)
France, Germany, Poland facing ‘permanent’ Russian disinformation attacks, EU warns (www.euractiv.com)
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Talking Tiananmen with a Chinese chatbot: Chinese developers hope to build the AI of the future. What, if anything, will it have to say about the past? (chinamediaproject.org)
As China strives to surpass the United States with cutting-edge generative artificial intelligence, the leadership is keen to ensure technologies reach the public with the right political blind spots pre-engineered. Can Chinese AI hold its tongue on the issues most sensitive to the Chinese Communist Party?...
Chinese state-backed cyber espionage targets Southeast Asian government (thehackernews.com)
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Exclusive: Former Meta engineer sues company saying he was fired over handling of Gaza content (www.reuters.com)
TikTok fails ‘disinformation test’ before EU vote with failures posing a risk to electoral processes, study shows (www.euractiv.com)
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[Gamers Nexus] The More You Buy, The More You Save | NVIDIA's Obsession (www.youtube.com)
lmao I love these kinds of vids 😂
Pacific island nation Palau hit by cyberattacks, president alleges China’s pre-election interference over ties with Taiwan (islandtimes.org)
A recent cyberattack on Palau, a small island nation with close ties to the United States, underscores the growing vulnerability of island nations and the potential for China to use cyber intrusions for political purposes....
New breakthrough may let us charge smartphones in 60 seconds (bgr.com)
What if charging your phone took less time than brushing your teeth? A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences could very well hold the key to a next-gen charger capable of recharging your phone in just 60 seconds....
Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week (arstechnica.com)
Instagram is training AI on your data. It’s nearly impossible to opt out (www.fastcompany.com)
Mysterious cyberattack took down more than 600,000 routers in the U.S. (thehackernews.com)
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German parliament will stop using fax machines (www.npr.org)
China turns to private hackers as it cracks down on online activists on Tiananmen Square anniversary (theconversation.com)
By Christopher K. Tong, Associate Professor of Asian Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County....
[Gamers Nexus] Intel Fights Back | Arc Battlemage, Xe2 GPUs, & Changing Hyper-Threading (www.youtube.com)
Democracies can learn lessons from Taiwan to counter cognitive influence operations, according to a new research (ipdefenseforum.com)
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Google Leak Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents (www.404media.co)
Google has accidentally collected childrens’ voice data, leaked the trips and home addresses of car pool users, and made YouTube recommendations based on users’ deleted watch history, among thousands of other employee-reported privacy incidents, according to a copy of an internal Google database which tracks six years worth...
European elections: Putin’s Twitter bots suspected of promoting Russian sabotage in Europe in support of the German and French far-right (inews.co.uk)
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Citizen Lab says seven Russian and Belarusian-speaking independent journalists and opposition activists based in Europe were targeted with Israeli spyware Pegasus (citizenlab.ca)
In September 2023, Citizen Lab published a joint investigation with Access Now into the hacking of exiled Russian journalist Galina Timchenko with Pegasus mercenary spyware. Timchenko is the CEO and publisher of Meduza, a widely-respected Russian independent media group operating in exile. After this publication, in...
OpenAI says Russian and Israeli groups used its tools to spread disinformation (www.theguardian.com)
Networks in China and Iran also used AI models to create and post disinformation but campaigns did not reach large audiences...
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Jumblie is a challenging browser-based open-source puzzle game to guess the four words of the day (jumblie.com)
The game has a theme word for each day, so keep that in mind when guessing the words. It is more challenging than Wordle because there are no hints apart from the theme word. So, if one of the words is ‘landing’ and you guessed ‘land’ there is no confirmation you’re getting warm at all....
STMicroelectronics to build the world’s first fully integrated silicon carbide facility in Italy, targets to start production in 2026 (newsroom.st.com)
- New high-volume 200mm silicon carbide manufacturing facility for power devices and modules, as well as test and packaging, to be built in Catania, Italy***- Projected 5 billion euros multi-year investment program including 2 billion euros support provided by the State of Italy in the framework of the EU Chips Act******-...
