At the Olympics, AI is watching you (arstechnica.com)
Given the shutdown/attack today, which targeted stations far from the capital, this, ah… did not go well....
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Google says it never collected users’ personal information / Asks for summary judgement (www.courthousenews.com)
At issue in the case is the Web and App Activity toggle in Android device’s settings. Turning the toggle off prevents future web and app activity being saved to a user’s Google account....
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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....
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Sam Altman urges formation of US-led AI freedom coalition • The Register (www.theregister.com)
This guy! 😮💨
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Idea: hardware manufacturers should publish RSS feeds for firmware updates
To deal with all this Intel CPU disaster, I’ve been having to manually check MSI’s website for mobo updates. It occurred to me that keeping BIOSes and other drivers that aren’t delivered through your OS’s update manager of choice is such a pain, and it’s common knowledge that a lot of critical BIOS updates just don’t...
Watch out for sharks: The bizarre history of internet outages (www.bbc.com)
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"Runway", an AI Video Generator, Was Trained on Thousands of YouTube Videos Without Permission (www.404media.co)
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Twitter API has a list of users who are allowed to use racial slurs (beehaw.org)
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[Gamers Nexus] AMD Delays Ryzen 9000: “Did Not Meet Quality Expectations” (www.youtube.com)
Looks like AMD saw Intel and is trying to capitalize and learn from Intel’s mistake by delaying until they can guarantee a stable launch...
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Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now, Thanks to AI Deal (www.404media.co)
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Proton Now Has a Bitcoin Wallet (www.howtogeek.com)
U.S. sanctions two members of a Russian government-aligned hacktivist group who breached water facilities (home.treasury.gov)
The two sanctioned persons are Yuliya Vladimirovna Pankratova and Denis Olegovich Degtyarenko, both key members of the Russia-aligned hacktivist group Cyber Army of Russia Reborn (CARR), according to a US Treasury press release....
Google's reCAPTCHAv2 is just labor exploitation, boffins say • The Register (www.theregister.com)
cross-posted from: lazysoci.al/post/15908451...
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[Gamers Nexus] Intel's Biggest Failure in Years: Confirmed Oxidation & Excessive Voltage (www.youtube.com)
Key Takeaways:...
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Chinese Hackers Target Taiwan and US NGO with MgBot Malware (thehackernews.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/1095016...
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How a North Korean Fake IT Worker Tried to Infiltrate Security Awareness Firm KnowBe4 (blog.knowbe4.com)
Archived version...
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Alexa had “no profit timeline,” cost Amazon $25 billion in 4 years (arstechnica.com)
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Everyone Wants to Control the Internet. (cheapskatesguide.org)
Pluralistic: Holy CRAP the UN Cybercrime Treaty is a nightmare (pluralistic.net)
Per author, if the treat passes as-is, it will hurt security and stifle speech....
Dear AWS, please let me be a cloud engineer again (lucvandonkersgoed.com)
As an AWS focused solutions/systems architect, I’ve been feeling this for the last 10ish months too. I attended the first 9 re:Invent conferences (up until Covid upended things) but I was glad I didn’t attend last year; and re:Inforce sounds like it was even worse.
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What is Firefox supposed to do? (www.spacebar.news)
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Google U-turn over long-running plan to ditch cookies - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Exclusive: See The Ways Shady T-Mobile Stores Treat Customers And Employees (tmo.report)
Astronomers discover technique to spot AI fakes using galaxy-measurement tools (arstechnica.com)
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