Multinational firm’s Hong Kong office loses HK$200 million after scammers stage deepfake video meeting (www.scmp.com)
Multinational firm’s Hong Kong office loses HK$200 million after scammers stage deepfake video meeting::undefined
Snap is recalling and refunding every drone it ever sold (www.theverge.com)
Snap is recalling and refunding every drone it ever sold::Snap is recalling every one of its Pixy drones because their batteries pose a fire hazard. Yes, the entire drone is being recalled, not just the removable battery. Snap discontinued the drone just months after release.
Ars Technica used in malware campaign with never-before-seen obfuscation — Buried in URL was a string of characters that appeared to be random, but were actually a payload (arstechnica.com)
Ars Technica used in malware campaign with never-before-seen obfuscation — Buried in URL was a string of characters that appeared to be random, but were actually a payload::Vimeo also used by legitimate user who posted booby-trapped content.
The creators of Twitterrific are making an app to read (almost) anything on the web (www.theverge.com)
Project Tapestry will make a universal, chronological timeline of the public web.
TikTok goes full YouTube (www.theverge.com)
Is YouFibre any good?
Hey, I’m in the UK and have been getting bombarded by a somewhat-aggressive campaign by YouFibre for their broadband. The actual claims they make are pretty impressive and their Trustpilot score is good, but it’s a little too good and a lot of the reviews feel a bit off so I’m skeptical. Looking on sites other than...
Chip smuggling operation that sent 53,000 banned American chips to China gets busted — $12 million worth of chips funneled through South Korean company (www.tomshardware.com)
Chip smuggling operation that sent 53,000 banned American chips to China gets busted — $12 million worth of chips funneled through South Korean company::A smuggling operation carried out by the unnamed South Korean ‘Company A’ involved 53,000 chips worth nearly $12 million.
Xeact: The femtoframework you've been waiting for (xeiaso.net)
NYC Mayor Calls Social Media an 'Environmental Toxin,' Announces It on Social Media (gizmodo.com)
NYC Mayor Calls Social Media an ‘Environmental Toxin,’ Announces It on Social Media::Mayor Eric Adams says we should compare social media to guns and cigarettes, but don’t think that’s going to stop him from tweeting.
OpenAI went back on a promise to make key documents public (arstechnica.com)
"AI made us do it" is Big Tech's new layoff rationale (www.axios.com)
“AI made us do it” is Big Tech’s new layoff rationale::undefined
Once an AI model exhibits 'deceptive behavior' it can be hard to correct, researchers at OpenAI competitor Anthropic found (www.businessinsider.com)
Once an AI model exhibits ‘deceptive behavior’ it can be hard to correct, researchers at OpenAI competitor Anthropic found::Researchers from Anthropic co-authored a study that found that AI models can learn deceptive behaviors that safety training techniques can’t reverse.
‘This Has Been Going on for Years.’ Inside Boeing’s Manufacturing Mess. (archive.ph)
Original (pay-walled): wsj.com/…/boeing-manufacturing-737-max-alaska-doo…
Lasers reveal ancient settlements hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest (www.livescience.com)
Lasers reveal ancient settlements hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest::Archaeologists used lasers to view an ancient civilization hidden in the Amazon rainforest.
TIL Apple’s Find My app has an item limit (it’s 32). (www.theverge.com)
TIL Apple’s Find My app has an item limit (it’s 32).::MacRumors spotted that Apple added the figure to a support page recently, confirming an increase that has reportedly been in effect since 2022’s iOS 16. The previous limit was apparently 16. Compatible items include AirTags and other first-party headphones and...
China raises its electric car game (english.elpais.com)
List of 2FA enabled services/websites?
Is there someone somewhere curating a list of websites/apps/services that propose 2FA?...
Supreme Court rejects appeal by Elon Musk's X on disclosing federal surveillance (www.cnbc.com)
Supreme Court rejects appeal by Elon Musk’s X on disclosing federal surveillance::X, owned by Elon Musk, previously challenged a ban on disclosing warrant for the Twitter account of Donald Trump obtained by special counsel Jack Smith.
Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem (spectrum.ieee.org)
Experiments with Midjourney and DALL-E 3 show a copyright minefield
Samsung Intros 2024 Odyssey OLED Gaming Monitors: Up to 49-Inches and 360Hz (www.anandtech.com)
Samsung Intros 2024 Odyssey OLED Gaming Monitors: Up to 49-Inches and 360Hz::undefined
UN banned Apollo Fusion's business model of using mercury rocket propellant to launch satellites into space (spectrum.ieee.org)
UN banned Apollo Fusion’s business model of using mercury rocket propellant to launch satellites into space::Startup Apollo Fusion was building thrusters that could have contaminated the upper atmosphere with the toxic metal
Inspired by Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, Google wrote a ‘Robot Constitution’ to make sure its new AI droids won’t kill us (www.theverge.com)
Inspired by Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, Google wrote a ‘Robot Constitution’ to make sure its new AI droids won’t kill us::AutoRT, a data gathering AI system for robots, has safety prompts inspired by Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics that it applies while deciding what task to attempt.
RIPE, Regional Internet Registry, hacked because an admin account's password was ripeadmin (arstechnica.com)
Japan determines copyright doesn't apply to LLM/ML training data (infosec.town)
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