Revealed: how US immigration uses fake social media profiles across investigations (www.theguardian.com)
How tech is helping put past Latin American dictatorships in blockchains (www.axios.com)
Nonprofit groups are using blockchain and other technologies to digitize, safely preserve and make accessible key documents about past Latin American dictatorships, including their human rights abuses and information about their victims.
Revealed: how US immigration uses fake social media profiles across investigations (www.theguardian.com)
Revealed: how US immigration uses fake social media profiles across investigations::Records from the Department of Homeland Security show it sought to expand undercover operations online despite pushback from Facebook
Can an Artificial Kidney Finally Free Patients from Dialysis? (www.ucsf.edu)
Can an Artificial Kidney Finally Free Patients from Dialysis?::undefined
GPTZero Case Study (Exploring False Positives) (gonzoknows.com)
Cybersecurity experts are warning about a new type of AI attack (www.popsci.com)
Article on popular science: prompt injection attacks are a new risk associated with the interation if llms into other services. •prompt injection attacks imply the use of a prompt that bypass safety restrictions of a given ai / llm, which cannot differentiate between illicit instructions and inputs. •a proper prompt...
NREL: Closed-loop pumped hydro ‘smallest emitter’ among energy storage technologies (www.energy-storage.news)
Facebook Takes Down Over 7,700 Accounts Linked to Chinese Misinformation Campaign (www.thewrap.com)
Facebook Takes Down Over 7,700 Accounts Linked to Chinese Misinformation Campaign::Parent company Meta says the campaign targeted more than 50 platforms, including X, YouTube, Reddit, Pinterest and Medium
A New Contract for Artists in the Age of Generative AI (techpolicy.press)
A New Contract for Artists in the Age of Generative AI::A new framework will enable greater control over the use of artists’ data when artists share their work online, says Eryk Salvaggio.
Nvidia Reports Doubling in Quarterly Revenue (newsnotfound.com)
Comprehensive Guide to Calibration (lemm.ee)
What is calibration?...
The pedestrian detection systems in self-driving cars are less likely to detect children and people of color, study suggests (www.businessinsider.com)
The pedestrian detection systems in self-driving cars are less likely to detect children and people of color, study suggests::Researchers say the results stem from biases present in open-source AI, on which self-driving cars rely.
Inside the messy ethics of making war with machines (www.technologyreview.com)
AI is making its way into decision-making in battle. Who’s to blame when something goes wrong?...
Google Fiber Introduces 5Gbps Bundle in Austin (www.telecompetitor.com)
The Kids Online Safety Act Denies Young People's Freedoms of Expression and Privacy. (www.libraryfutures.net)
The Kids Online Safety Act Denies Young People’s Freedoms of Expression and Privacy.::Championing the right to equitable access to knowledge.
AI-generated art can't be copyrighted, federal judge rules, with potential consequences for Hollywood studios (www.businessinsider.com)
AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted, federal judge rules, with potential consequences for Hollywood studios::A federal judge ruled against an attempt to have an AI-generated artwork copyrighted, saying “human authorship is a bedrock requirement.”
LockBit’s dirty little secret: ransomware gang is failing to publish victims’ data (grahamcluley.com)
Summary:...
The Mother of All Demos (Computer History) (infogalactic.com)
A $40,000 Nvidia chip has become the world's most sought-after hardware (qz.com)
A $40,000 Nvidia chip has become the world’s most sought-after hardware::Companies and governments want to deploy generative AI—but first they need access to Nvidia’s H100 chips
iTWire - Musk's X delays links from rivals loading, then backtracks (itwire.com)
The Manipulation Problem: Conversational AI as a Threat to Epistemic Agency (arxiv.org)
Illinois just made it possible to sue people for doxxing attacks | States crack down on doxxing, but there's still no federal law. (arstechnica.com)
Illinois just made it possible to sue people for doxxing attacks | States crack down on doxxing, but there’s still no federal law.::States crack down on doxxing, but there’s still no federal law.
Current state of text to speech conversion (www.stoicsimple.com)
China's tech titans scramble to buy $5 billion of Nvidia chips as US bans investment in key Chinese sectors, report says (markets.businessinsider.com)
China’s tech titans scramble to buy $5 billion of Nvidia chips as US bans investment in key Chinese sectors, report says::Alibaba, TikTok-owner Bytedance, and other Chinese tech giants have reportedly rushed to order Nvidia chips as US-China trade tensions mount.
VS Code’s Token Security: Keeping Your Secrets… Not So Secretly (cycode.com)
FYI to all the VS Code peeps out there that malicious extensions can gain access to secrets stored by other VS Code extensions as well as the tokens used by VS Code for Microsoft/Github....
