Active

LAPD warns residents after spike in burglaries using Wi-Fi jammers that disable security cameras, smart doorbells (www.tomshardware.com)

The Los Angeles Police Department has warned residents to be wary of thieves using technology to break into homes undetected. High-tech burglars have apparently knocked out their victims’ wireless cameras and alarms in the Los Angeles Wilshire-area neighborhoods before getting away with swag bags full of valuables. An LAPD...

A New Approach to Accelerate the Discovery of Quantum Materials | Berkeley Lab (newscenter.lbl.gov)

On the Origin of Emacs in 1976 (onlisp.co.uk)

When ChatGPT summarises, it actually does nothing of the kind (ea.rna.nl)

Reproductive rights are under attack using online data. These tools help people protect themselves (www.salon.com)

Bethesda Game Studios workers have unionized (www.theverge.com)

Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive hosted PDF files without permission — user complains feature can't be disabled (www.tomshardware.com)

Kevin Bankston, a Senior Advisor on AI Governance, discusses this concerning Google Gemini behavior.

What's Going On With Trump Media & Technology Stock On Tuesday? (orino.pages.dev)

Waymo Is Suing People Who Allegedly Smashed and Slashed Its Robotaxis (www.wired.com)

AI companies promised the White House to self-regulate one year ago. What’s changed? (www.technologyreview.com)

Google scraps plans to deprecate third-party cookies in Chrome (www.campaignlive.com)

In a blog post released on Monday, VP of Privacy Sandbox Anthony Chavez said that Google is “proposing an updated approach that elevates user choice” by allowing users to select whether or not they want to enable cookies on Chrome and adjust that choice “at any time.”...

VOA investigates accused Russian hacker at center of Ukraine cyber plot. (www.voanews.com)

In Indonesia, social media is a “hunting ground” for religious minorities. (restofworld.org)

Google’s new weather prediction system combines AI with traditional physics. (www.technologyreview.com)

Europe must end its quantum technology research with China over security and military risks of collaboration, researcher says (www.merics.org)

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/1019342...

Doing unit test generation better with LLMs and mutation testing (github.com)

Anime music piracy website closes after industry goes to court (asia.nikkei.com)

Neo-Nazis Are All-In on AI (www.wired.com)

Google Open-Sources ‘Project Oscar’, An AI Agent that Enriches Issues Reports. (iblnews.org)

Archive.

Parents Sue Gaming Companies Over ‘Video Game Addiction’, Because That’s Easier Than Parenting (www.techdirt.com)

Parents Sue Gaming Companies Over ‘Video Game Addiction’, Because That’s Easier Than Parenting::Video game addiction. Sigh. Big sigh, even. Like, the biggest of sighs. We’ve talked about claims that video game addiction is a documentable affliction in the past, as well as the pushback that claim has received from...

Supreme Court Dodges Key Question in Murthy v. Missouri and Dismisses Case for Failing to Connect The Government’s Communication to Specific Platform Moderation. (www.eff.org)

technology