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Surveillance capitalism has taken over immigration enforcement (prismreports.org)

Federal agencies skirt local jurisdictions by purchasing comprehensive identifying data and information technology from private companies...

Japan determines copyright doesn't apply to LLM/ML training data (infosec.town)

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/8121669...

Volkswagen says it’s putting ChatGPT in its cars for “enriching conversations” (www.theverge.com)

Volkswagen says it’s putting ChatGPT in its cars for “enriching conversations”::Volkswagen is putting ChatGPT into its cars starting in the second quarter of 2024. The feature is being considered for the US, but plans have yet to be finalized.

[Offline] - ozoned Cast - More Owncast testing and then some more Qud. (stream.ozoned.net)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/10578513...

10x Stronger Than Kevlar: Amorphous Silicon Carbide Could Revolutionize Material Science (scitechdaily.com)

10x Stronger Than Kevlar: Amorphous Silicon Carbide Could Revolutionize Material Science::A new material that doesn’t just rival the strength of diamonds and graphene, but boasts a yield strength 10 times greater than Kevlar, renowned for its use in bulletproof vests. Researchers at Delft University of Technology, led by...

Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem (spectrum.ieee.org)

Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem::Experiments with Midjourney and DALL-E 3 show a copyright minefield

US to hospitals: Meet security standards or no federal money (www.theregister.com)

US to hospitals: Meet security standards or no federal money::Expect new rules in upcoming weeks

China raises its electric car game (english.elpais.com)

Revisiting Browser Trust - Security Now. Browser Certificate Stores and QWACs

cross-posted from: infosec.pub/post/6945259...

CES 2024: all the TVs, laptops, smart home gear, and more from the show floor (www.theverge.com)

Robovacs, AI, Apple Vision, RGB, trackers, etc....

GrapheneOS, a privacy-focused version of Android, is adding Android Auto support (9to5google.com)

Jeweller Cranbourne (futurology.today)

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ChatGPT In Trouble: OpenAI may go bankrupt by 2024, AI bot costs company $700,000 every day (www.firstpost.com)

Repost from HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37109394

A gel injected into the scrotum could be the next male contraceptive (www.wired.com)

A gel injected into the scrotum could be the next male contraceptive::Biotech company Contraline has safely implanted a sperm-blocking hydrogel in 23 men. It’s designed to be a fully reversible vasectomy.

China claims it has cracked Apple Airdrop’s encryption to identify senders | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)

Unity Software to lay off 1,800 employees as part of a corporate restructuring (www.cnbc.com)

Unity Software to lay off 1,800 employees as part of a corporate restructuring::Unity Software is slashing about 25% of its workforce just eight months after announcing its prior round of layoffs.

FTC bans X-Mode from selling phone location data, and orders firm to delete collected data (techcrunch.com)

Regulators aren’t convinced that Microsoft and OpenAI operate independently (arstechnica.com)

European Union regulators are concerned that Microsoft may be covertly controlling OpenAI as its biggest investor.

North Korea rolls out 4G service with secondhand Huawei gear (www.lightreading.com)

Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware | Researchers identify 23 vulnerabilities, some of which can exploited with no authentication (arstechnica.com)

Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware | Researchers identify 23 vulnerabilities, some of which can exploited with no authentication::Researchers identify 23 vulnerabilities, some of which can exploited with no authentication.

Apple tells EU it has five different App Stores, not just one (9to5mac.com)

China Says Cracked Apple AirDrop to Identify Message Sources (www.bloomberg.com)

23andMe Blames Users for Recent Data Breach as It's Hit With Dozens of Lawsuits (www.wired.com)

23andMe Blames Users for Recent Data Breach as It’s Hit With Dozens of Lawsuits::Plus: Russia hacks surveillance cameras as new details emerge of its attack on a Ukrainian telecom, a Google contractor pays for videos of kids to train AI, and more.

HP customers claim firmware update rendered third-party ink verboten | Then the company cranked up the price of cartridges, complaint alleges (www.theregister.com)

HP customers claim firmware update rendered third-party ink verboten | Then the company cranked up the price of cartridges, complaint alleges::Then the company cranked up the price of cartridges, complaint alleges