Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to keep buying your data (arstechnica.com)
I Gazed Into Worldcoin’s Orb and Saw a Boring Dystopia Staring Back (gizmodo.com)
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New vulnerability in SMS messaging could expose smartphone users' location to hackers, researcher says (arxiv.org)
Evangelos Bitsikas, who is pursuing a PhD in cybersecurity at the Northwestern University in the US, applied a new machine-learning program to data gleaned from the SMS system of mobile devices....
Study shows how images and sounds can be used for indirect prompt and instruction injection in multi-modal LLMs (arxiv.org)
An attacker generates an adversarial perturbation corresponding to the prompt and blends it into an image or audio recording. When the user asks the (unmodified, benign) model about the perturbed image or audio, the perturbation steers the model to output the attacker-chosen text and/or make the subsequent dialog follow the...
This Machine Could Keep Moore’s Law on Track (spectrum.ieee.org)
Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to keep buying your data (arstechnica.com)
Ivanti Warns of Another Endpoint Manager Mobile Vulnerability Under Active Attack (thehackernews.com)
Shakespeare Serif - an experimental font based on the First Folio (shkspr.mobi)
I've built a new font! Thoughts and feedback on my approach very welcome.
ChatGPT broke the Turing test — the race is on for new ways to assess AI (www.nature.com)
Mark Zuckerberg: Threads users down by more than a half (www.bbc.com)
Cryptography may offer a solution to the massive AI-labeling problem (www.technologyreview.com)
Did Facebook fuel political polarization during the 2020 election? It’s complicated. (arstechnica.com)
Sci-Hub's Alexandra Elbakyan Receives EFF Award for Providing Access to Scientific Knowledge * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
Tor’s shadowy reputation will only end if we all use it | Engadget (www.engadget.com)
A Discussion of Mastodon's Potential Growth Needs (erinkissane.com)
The title I have assigned this article is intentionally boring. The article’s body goes out of its way to not provide simple summaries, silver bullets, or otherwise give a single size fits all answer to everything. The author actually gave it a fun title that, I felt, did a slight disservice to their overall point, but hey, we...
Meta Just Proved People Hate Chronological Feeds (www.wired.com)
Meta conducted an experiment where thousands of users were shown chronological feeds on Facebook and Instagram for three months. Users of the chronological feeds engaged less with the platforms and were more likely to use competitors like YouTube and TikTok. This suggests that users prefer algorithmically ranked feeds that show...
Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse (blockworks.co)
Worldcoin’s plan to collect biometric data from poor people to bootstrap their system is unethical and raises serious privacy concerns. Their promises to protect users’ data are not enough to ensure privacy and security, and linking immutable biometric traits to financial identities could enable total identity lockout with...
Scientists vacuumed animal DNA from the air in a forest and the results are amazing (www.earth.com)
"Web Environment Integrity" is an all-out attack on the free Internet (www.fsf.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/2546109...
mastodon.art defederating calckey firefish social. Cites behavior of lead project dev (dotart.blog)
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/6853479...
Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You (www.joelonsoftware.com)
FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server Data is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users (www.eff.org)
ChatGPT, The Worst Summer Intern Ever (hackaday.com)
AMD Unveils The Ryzen 9 7945HX3D For Laptops With 3D V-Cache (www.phoronix.com)
AMD is releasing (what appears to be, still need all the reviews to come in) a beast of a mobile processor. 16 cores, 32 threads, and 128MB of L3 cache.
Why Chatbots Fail to Replace Human Interaction (lucas-mcgregor.medium.com)
Large language models like ChatGPT are reviving interest in chatbots and virtual assistants. However, chatbots have failed to gain traction in the past during the rise of both websites and apps. The key issue is that users prefer to interact with their personal virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa, rather than individual...