The sound of WiFi signals (youtu.be)
North Korea-backed hackers target security researchers with 0-day (arstechnica.com)
Meta uses your Facebook data for AI training, but opting out is a "review" game (stackdiary.com)
Recent updates to Meta’s help center reveal the company’s tentative steps towards transparency and user control (or lack thereof) over personal data.
Rotten Tomatoes Under Fire After PR Firm's Scheme to Pay Critics for Positive Reviews Uncovered (www.ign.com)
Rotten Tomatoes Under Fire After PR Firm’s Scheme to Pay Critics for Positive Reviews Uncovered::A new report details how a PR firm paid off critics to post positive reviews of 2018 drama Ophelia on Rotten Tomatoes, prompting scrutiny over the reviews aggregator.
I Used a Game Boy Camera for FaceTime Video Calls and It Was Glorious (www.macstories.net)
X’s new terms of service insist that tweets are now posts (www.theverge.com)
X’s new terms of service insist that tweets are now posts::X is rolling out a new terms of service on September 29th, and one adjustment is a single instance of “retweet” to “repost.” There are other changes regarding data scraping and class action lawsuits.
BLASTPASS: NSO Group iPhone Zero-Click, Zero-Day Exploit Captured in the Wild (citizenlab.ca)
We refer to the exploit chain as BLASTPASS. The exploit chain was capable of compromising iPhones running the latest version of iOS (16.6) without any interaction from the victim.
Apple patches “clickless” 0-day image processing vulnerability in iOS, macOS (arstechnica.com)
"BLASTPASS" bug can install malware without user interaction.
EU unveils ‘revolutionary’ laws to curb big tech firms’ power - The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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[EFF] California’s Middle Mile Network Must Bridge the Digital Divide, Not Reinforce It (www.eff.org)
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Roku lays off 300 workers and removes streaming content to save money (www.engadget.com)
Roku looks to be seriously tightening its pursestrings. The company’s laying off a full ten percent of its workforce, over 300 employees, in addition to a conducting a number of other cost-cutting measures, as reported by Variety. These job cuts are just the beginning, as Roku’s also removing streaming content, consolidating...
Texas grid paid firm to stop mining crypto during heatwave (gizmodo.com)
Arstechnica: “AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator (arstechnica.com)
Arstechnica: “AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator::Meanwhile, readers say that some AI-penned articles switch languages halfway through.
Revealed: how US immigration uses fake social media profiles across investigations (www.theguardian.com)
FEMA and FCC Plan Nationwide Emergency Alert Test for Oct. 4, 2023. Messages Will be Sent to All TVs, Radios and Cell Phones (www.fema.gov)
FEMA and FCC Plan Nationwide Emergency Alert Test for Oct. 4, 2023. Messages Will be Sent to All TVs, Radios and Cell Phones::FEMA, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), will conduct a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) this fall.
The Burning Man fiasco is the ultimate tech culture clash. Climate change, protests, tech, elitism, (untrue) Ebola rumors — everything converged when heavy rains left thousands of people stranded i... (www.wired.com)
The Burning Man fiasco is the ultimate tech culture clash. Climate change, protests, tech, elitism, (untrue) Ebola rumors — everything converged when heavy rains left thousands of people stranded i…::Climate change, protests, tech, elitism, (untrue) Ebola rumors—everything converged when heavy rains left thousands of...
Britain Admits Defeat in Controversial Fight to Break Encryption (www.wired.com)
Golden Daydream - song written, performed by suno.ai (www.youtube.com)
US moves to force recall of 52 million air bag inflators that can explode and hurl shrapnel (apnews.com)
US moves to force recall of 52 million air bag inflators that can explode and hurl shrapnel::The U.S. government is taking a big step toward forcing a defiant Tennessee company to recall 52 million air bag inflators that could explode, hurl shrapnel and injure or kill people.
AGI Will Not Be A Chatbot - Autonomy, Acceleration, and Arguments Behind the Scenes (youtu.be)
YouTube Announces Updated Ad Placement Controls, Experiments with New Ad Formats for CTV. (www.socialmediatoday.com)
What we know about a mysterious launch from Florida this week — The Pentagon is mum about this test launch from Cape Canaveral (arstechnica.com)
What we know about a mysterious launch from Florida this week — The Pentagon is mum about this test launch from Cape Canaveral::The Pentagon is mum about this test launch from Cape Canaveral.
We believe PDD is a Dying Fraudulent Company and its Shopping App TEMU is Cleverly Hidden Spyware that Poses an Urgent Security Threat to U.S. National Interests (grizzlyreports.com)
After Raising $235K, Abode Remains Committed to Taking on Adobe (petapixel.com)
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Teslas are bursting into flames in Florida after being flooded during Hurricane Idalia | Saltwater and lithium-ion batteries are a bad combination (www.techspot.com)
Teslas are bursting into flames in Florida after being flooded during Hurricane Idalia | Saltwater and lithium-ion batteries are a bad combination::undefined
