technology

Do you really think this is still true in 2023?

23andMe says private user data is up for sale after being scraped::Records reportedly belong to millions of users who opted in to a relative-search feature.

Facebook’s new AI stickers can generate child soldiers, Elmo with a knife::Instagram, Messenger AI feature goes viral for potentially offensive user-created stickers.

Report: Amazon made $1B with secret algorithm for spiking prices Internet-wide::Report reveals details about Amazon’s secret algorithm redacted in FTC complaint.

An algorithm that takes just seconds to scan a paper for duplicated images racks up more suspicious images than a person.

Nobel Prize awarded for discovery of quantum dots that changed everything from TV displays to cancer imaging::The 2023 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to a trio of scientists who worked to discover and develop quantum dots, used in LED lights and TV screens, as well as by surgeons when removing cancer tissue.

from the fucking-hypocrite dept Tue, Oct 3rd 2023 12:27pm - Mike Masnick

Unlike tablets supported by the Android OS, Apple iOS, or Microsoft Windows, the Librem 11 tablet runs PureBoot and PureOS offering the best security, privacy, and freedom respecting features that include:...

The company’s DVD subscription service is ending this month, bringing to a close an origin story that ultimately upended the entertainment industry....

Amazon, frequently under the microscope for its pioneering but often criticized management techniques, now requires its employees to commit to office work at least three days a week. This new policy will necessitate some employees to uproot their lives and move to larger hubs closer to main offices....

Creating a Utopian City Is Harder Than Tech Billionaires Think::The man who created Sandy Springs, Georgia, has some advice for those who want to a build a metropolis in northern California.

Right to repair has no cannier, more dedicated adversary than Apple, a company whose most innovative work is dreaming up new ways to sneakily sabotage electronics repair while claiming to be a caring environmental steward, a lie that covers up the mountains of e-waste that Apple dooms our descendants to wade through.

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It’s the second Las Vegas casino group to be attacked this week.

Pegasus is a highly sophisticated and controversial spyware tool developed by the Israeli cybersecurity firm NSO Group. Pegasus is designed to infiltrate and infect mobile devices, including smartphones, and it allows the attacker to remotely monitor and collect a wide range of information from the compromised device. This...

Artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa – with a lot of water::As they race to capitalize on a craze for generative AI, leading tech developers including Microsoft, OpenAI and Google have acknowledged that growing demand for their AI tools carries hefty costs, from expensive semiconductors to an...

X sues Calif. to avoid revealing how it makes “controversial” content decisions::X decried law’s “draconian financial penalties” up to $15K per violation per day.

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.