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Department of Education Sued Following Markup Investigation Into FAFSA Data Shared with Facebook. (themarkup.org)

MistralAI LLM on GrapheneOS

GrapheneOS is an Android-based operating system that utilises the carbon monolith material, called Graphene, for improved security and optimised operation. 😂...

North Korean charged in ransomware attacks on US hospitals. (www.voanews.com)

Anyone can Access Deleted and Private Repository Data on GitHub. (trufflesecurity.com)

Google DeepMind’s AI systems can now solve complex math problems. (www.technologyreview.com)

Frustrated by School Web Filters, One Teenager Created His Own. (themarkup.org)

North Korean hacker got hired by US security vendor, immediately loaded malware (arstechnica.com)

Phish-Friendly Domain Registry “.top” Put on Notice. (krebsonsecurity.com)

Lawsuit: T-Mobile must pay for breaking lifetime price guarantee (arstechnica.com)

Class action filed over price hikes on plans with Un-contract price guarantee.

Bing has been revamped to prioritize AI search results – whether you like it or not (www.techradar.com)

Microsoft has just announced a huge update to Bing that overhauls the search engine to put AI-powered answers first....

How ordinary failure could have a seismic effect on an industrial giant (www.bbc.com)

Earlier this year, a Boeing aircraft’s door plug fell out in flight – all because crucial bolts were missing. The incident shows why simple failures like this are often a sign of larger problems, says John Downer.

Journalists Sue Massachusetts TV Corporation Over Bogus YouTube Takedown Demands. (www.eff.org)

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AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data (www.nature.com)

Proton launches LLM and crypto wallet (proton.me)

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Astronomers are scrambling to save the world's most powerful X-ray space telescope (www.npr.org)

Tailscale now opens for ControlD integration! (tailscale.com)

AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data - Nature (www.nature.com)

It is now clear that generative artificial intelligence (AI) such as large language models (LLMs) is here to stay and will substantially change the ecosystem of online text and images. Here we consider what may happen to GPT-{n} once LLMs contribute much of the text found online. We find that indiscriminate use of...

CrowdStrike says over 97% of Windows sensors back online (www.reuters.com)

Capacitive controls could be the cause of a spate of VW ID.4 crashes (arstechnica.com)

Why Mexico’s delivery workers are ditching food for packages. (restofworld.org)

Google Planned to Sponsor IDF Conference That Now Denies Google Was Sponsor (theintercept.com)

The “IT For IDF” conference in Rishon LeZion, just south of Tel Aviv, brought together tech firms from across the world to support the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza and beyond....

KnowBe4 mistakenly hires North Korean hacker, faces infostealer attack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage | Some of the people said that when they went to redeem the offer, they got an error message saying the voucher had been canceled (techcrunch.com)

CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm that crashed millions of computers with a botched update all over the world last week, is offering its partners a $10 Uber Eats gift card as an apology, according to several people who say they received the gift card, as well as a source who also received one....