A pedestrian was pinned under a Cruise robotaxi after another car’s hit-and-run (www.engadget.com)
The woman is reportedly in critical condition....
Apple will have to face an antitrust lawsuit alleging iOS Apple Pay dominance (www.theverge.com)
Threads blocks searches related to covid and vaccines as cases rise (wapo.st)
Public health experts denounced the platform’s moderation policies, which they say restrict access to critical health information...
I Used a Game Boy Camera for FaceTime Video Calls in iPadOS 17 and It Was Glorious (www.macstories.net)
This is magnificent.
SELinux In Linux 6.6 Removes References To Its Origins At The US NSA (www.phoronix.com)
The SynthID watermark from Google DeepMind can detect AI-generated images - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Google has developed a tool called SynthID that can watermark AI-generated images in a way that is imperceptible to humans but detectable by AI. The watermark is embedded in pixel values without noticeably changing the image. SynthID is being launched for use with Google Cloud’s image generator to verify original photos. While...
A.I. Brings the Robot Wingman to Aerial Combat (www.nytimes.com)
NYT gift article expires in 30 days....
API Misuse: Hacker Leaks 2.6M Duolingo Users' Emails & Names (www.hackread.com)
SanDisk Extreme SSDs are “worthless,” multiple lawsuits against WD say (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: yiffit.net/post/1251788...
Sonos lays off 100 employees as its app crisis continues (www.theverge.com)
What a bunch of clowns idiots (edited to remove the implication that clowns are genuinely as clueless and incompetent as Sonos execs). When Sonos launched in 2004 they were far ahead of any other company in the connected speaker landscape. And they stayed best-of-the-best for a dozen years. Since the S1/S2 split they have been...
Scammer Allegedly Makes $600,000 a Month Holding Instagram Accounts Hostage (www.404media.co)
A new tool for copyright holders can show if their work is in AI training data (www.technologyreview.com)
Since the beginning of the generative AI boom, content creators have argued that their work has been scraped into AI models without their consent. But until now, it has been difficult to know whether specific text has actually been used in a training data set....
How a North Korean Fake IT Worker Tried to Infiltrate Security Awareness Firm KnowBe4 (blog.knowbe4.com)
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Everyone Wants to Control the Internet. (cheapskatesguide.org)
Google U-turn over long-running plan to ditch cookies - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)
Listen to the AI-Generated Ripoff Songs That Got Udio and Suno Sued (www.404media.co)
Apple Decides to Block Open-Source Emulator App for iOS (news.itsfoss.com)
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Top 10 Generative AI Models Mimic Russian Disinformation Claims A Third of the Time, Citing Moscow-Created Fake Local News Sites as Authoritative Sources (www.newsguardtech.com)
NewsGuard audit finds that 32% of the time, leading AI chatbots spread Russian disinformation narratives created by John Mark Dougan, an American fugitive now operating from Moscow, citing his fake local news sites and fabricated claims on YouTube as reliable sources....
US sues Adobe for “deceiving” subscriptions that are too hard to cancel (www.theverge.com)
Token2 is an open-source Swiss FIDO2 security key that brings innovative features at a cheaper price (www.token2.ch)
Token2 is a cybersecurity company specialized in the area of multifactor authentication. Founded by a team of researchers from the University of Geneva with years of experience in the field of strong security and multifactor authentication. Token2 has invented, designed and developed various hardware and software solutions for...
HouseFresh disappeared from Google Search results. Now what? - An elaborate historical analysis and overview of Google search results and media landscape (housefresh.com)
From Forbes and Money content farms, to Google search algorithm changes promoting generic and generated content and big media platforms over specific results, to Google prioritizing ads, overpriced, and other worse results.
U.S. government blasts Microsoft for lax security measures in report on Chinese hacks (www.dhs.gov)
In its report published this week, the Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) says that the June 2023 online breach by Chinese threat actors who accessed U.S. government emails right before Secretary of State Anthony Blinken was to visit China, was “preventable”....
Brailliance - a new game by the makers of Wordvoyance (www.themisgames.com)
I was making a braille learning app when I came up with this game idea. You count the braille dots to guess the word. www.themisgames.com/brailliance/menu...
The US government makes a $42 million bet on open cell networks (www.theverge.com)
Open RAN gets a boost to fight Huawei’s global cellular lead.