New Tactic in China’s Information War: Harassing a Critic’s Child in the U.S. (dnyuz.com)
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Tech Firms Prey on Poor Under Guise of Expanding Access to Financial Services (truthout.org)
Facial recognition startup Clearview AI settles privacy suit in the U.S. by giving plaintiffs a share of the company’s potential value, rather than a traditional payout, over lack of liqudity (apnews.com)
Facial recognition startup Clearview AI reached a settlement Friday in an Illinois lawsuit alleging its massive photographic collection of faces violated the subjects’ privacy rights, a deal that attorneys estimate could be worth more than $50 million....
[Gamers Nexus] Confronting ASUS Face-to-Face (www.youtube.com)
oh shit!...
This Is How the 3D Pipes Windows Screensaver Was Created (www.howtogeek.com)
US agencies to probe AI dominance of Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI (arstechnica.com)
Google must face £13bn advertising lawsuit - UK court - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)
[Gamers Nexus] The More You Buy, The More You Save | NVIDIA's Obsession (www.youtube.com)
lmao I love these kinds of vids 😂
Democracies can learn lessons from Taiwan to counter cognitive influence operations, according to a new research (ipdefenseforum.com)
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Facebook and Instagram parent Meta approved political ads in India that incited violence (www.theguardian.com)
- Adverts containing AI-manipulated images were submitted to Facebook by civil and corporate accountability groups***- Adverts contained known slurs towards Muslims in India, such as “let’s burn this vermin” and “Hindu blood is spilling, these invaders must be burned”***- One advert called for the execution of an...
The Flaws that Allow Hackers to Remotely Access Cars (yt.artemislena.eu)
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How the Great Firewall of China Detects and Blocks Fully Encrypted Traffic (gfw.report)
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A Crash Course Guide to Nostr (wedistribute.org)
We Need To Rewild The Internet (www.noemamag.com)
Citizen Lab: "Not only the Chinese government, but also US-based firms, are complicit in the political and religious censoring of content on China-accessible platforms" (citizenlab.ca)
In its submission to the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab gives recomnendations to hold Chinese and U.S. firms accountable for their involvement in online censorship and assisting victims of digital abuse and intimidation.
We're Hosting Our Own Fediverse Instance. Here's Why. (wedistribute.org)
Why it’s hard to write a good book about the tech world (www.economist.com)
WHEN PEOPLE ask Michael Moritz, a former journalist and prominent tech investor, what book they should read to understand Silicon Valley, he always recommends two. “They are not about Silicon Valley, but they have everything to do with Silicon Valley,” he says....
China's latest stealth tech promises invisible fighter jets, says report (interestingengineering.com)
New plasma stealth device targets specific areas, not entire aircraft....
The Puzzling Testimony of Craig Wright, Self-Styled Inventor of Bitcoin (www.wired.com)
The problem with standalone VR and "spatial computing" (www.spacebar.news)
Deepfake scammer walks off with $25 million in first-of-its-kind AI heist (arstechnica.com)
I created an app where you can share your thoughts fully anonymously and vote for the weekly "Thought of Humanity" (www.toh-social.app)
Welcome to Thoughts of Humanity, where your thoughts take centre stage! Express yourself anonymously (for full anonymity, login as guest), connect with a diverse community, and celebrate inspiring thoughts every week on our website....
China: Carmakers Implicated in Uyghur Forced Labor, Rights Group Says (www.hrw.org)
Global carmakers, including General Motors, Tesla, BYD, Toyota, and Volkswagen, are failing to minimize the risk of Uyghur forced labor being used in their aluminum supply chains, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today....
‘Significant security loophole’ found in Google software container system (therecord.media)
The issue affected Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), a system used to deploy, scale and manage how applications are “containerized.” GKE — the tech giant’s implementation of the open-source Kubernetes project — is used widely in healthcare, education, retail and financial services for data processing as well as...
U.S., police used Clearview AI facial recognition in arrest of homeless man (reason.com)
Facial recognition technology is increasingly being deployed by police officers across the U.S., but the scope of its use has been hard to pin down....
