Ransomware attacks have doubled thanks to AI (www.techradar.com)
This new malware is going after Facebook Business accounts (www.techradar.com)
Meta to end news access in Canada over publisher payment law (The Guardian) (archive.is)
Move comes in response to Canadian legislation requiring internet giants to pay news publishers...
India joins rush to renewables, but its rural solar systems fall off grid (www.washingtonpost.com)
A cautionary tale for a world racing into renewables: The large majority of mini-grids in India no longer work, an environmental group found....
Fruity trojan downloader performs multi-stage infection of Windows computers, masquerading as apps for fine-tuning CPUs, graphic cards, and BIOS, for hardware-monitoring, and others. (news.drweb.com)
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China's tech crackdown cost over $1 trillion. But the economy is in such deep trouble that the country's cozying up to its tech firms again. (www.businessinsider.com)
China’s tech crackdown cost over $1 trillion. But the economy is in such deep trouble that the country’s cozying up to its tech firms again.::Local governments in China are wooing deals with tech giants to build on the so-called “platform economy,” per the SCMP.
Hugging Face, GitHub and more unite to defend open source in EU AI legislation (venturebeat.com)
Maine plans to use offshore wind for half its energy needs by 2040 (techxplore.com)
Maine plans to use offshore wind for half its energy needs by 2040::Maine will procure at least 3,000 megawatts of electricity from offshore wind turbines by 2040 under a bill signed Thursday by Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, enough to power about half of the state’s electricity load.
BMW uses autonomous cars for boring, repetitive tests (arstechnica.com)
On a large empty slab of asphalt, two BMWs take off. They drive in figure eights and along an oval path separate from each other but nearly in tandem, like two ice skaters practicing the same routine on a piece of black ice before coming to a stop....
Opinion | Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren: When It Comes to Big Tech, Enough Is Enough (www.nytimes.com)
Meta’s Open Source Llama Upsets the AI Horse Race (www.wired.com)
#Meta is giving its answer to OpenAI’s GPT-4 away for free. The move could intensify the generative AI boom by making it easier for entrepreneurs to build powerful new AI systems....
Unpacking Google’s new “dangerous” Web-Environment-Integrity specification (vivaldi.com)
FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server Data is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users (www.eff.org)
Why Protecting the Fediverse Matters Protecting user privacy is a vital priority for the Fediverse. Many fediverse instances, such as Kolektiva, are focused on serving marginalized communities who are disproportionately targeted by law enforcement. Many were built to serve as a safe haven for those who too often find themselves...
Cigna Sued Over Algorithm Allegedly Used To Deny Coverage To Hundreds Of Thousands Of Patients (www.forbes.com)
Cigna Sued Over Algorithm Allegedly Used To Deny Coverage To Hundreds Of Thousands Of Patients::The software system allows claim rejections without doctors ever opening patient medical records, according to the lawsuit.
Opinion | Our Oppenheimer Moment: The Creation of A.I. Weapons By Alexander C. Karp of Palantir (www.nytimes.com)
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OpenAI's Sam Altman announces his Worldcoin "financial and identity" network has launched (worldcoin.org)
Schools Sue Social-Media Platforms Over Alleged Harms to Students (archive.ph)
Schools Sue Social-Media Platforms Over Alleged Harms to Students::undefined
Just declassified: US senator caught up in Section 702 FBI surveillance dragnet (www.theregister.com)
Just declassified: US senator caught up in Section 702 FBI surveillance dragnet::Still, judge finds ‘reason to believe’ Feds are getting better at not abusing snooping powers
Robots.txt for LLMs (matt-rickard.com)
Apple slams UK surveillance-bill proposals (www.bbc.com)
Someone posted a few days ago about apple being bad at privacy… Well…
Kevin Mitnick, the world’s ‘most wanted’ hacker before becoming a cybersecurity consultant, dies at 59 (fortune.com)
Kevin Mitnick, the world’s ‘most wanted’ hacker before becoming a cybersecurity consultant, dies at 59::Once the world’s “most wanted” hacker, he became a prominent security consultant.
Wire welcomes the publication of Messaging Layer Security as RFC 9420 (wire.com)
After years of intense standards development, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) officially published today Messaging Layer Security (MLS) as RFC 9420. MLS is the first global open standard for end-to-end encrypted communications and has been jointly developed by industry peers and academic institutions. Wire was an...
[Ars Technica] - Study claims ChatGPT is losing capability, but some experts aren’t convinced (arstechnica.com)
Running Stable Diffusion on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 (or in 260MB of RAM) (github.com)
On the outside it’s a funny experiment but actually it’s a fantastic tool that proves Stable Diffusion can run on anything, given enough time.
Rival US Lawmakers Mobilize to Stop Police From Buying Phone Data (www.wired.com)
Rival US Lawmakers Mobilize to Stop Police From Buying Phone Data::A bill to prevent cops and spies from buying Americans’ data instead of getting a warrant has a fighting chance in the US Congress as lawmakers team up against surveillance overreach.
