Revealed: car industry was warned keyless vehicles vulnerable to theft a decade ago (www.theguardian.com)
Experts alerted motor trade to security risks of ‘smart key’ systems which have now fuelled highest level of car thefts for a decade.
Google Pulls the Plug: The End of Third-Party Cookies and What it Means | TWiT.TV (twit.tv)
This episode of Security Now covered Google’s plan to deprecate third party cookies and the reaction from advertising organizations and websites....
Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes (zeta.one)
I often find myself explaining the same things in real life and online, so I recently started writing technical blog posts....
Nikki Haley vows to abolish anonymous social media accounts: 'It's a national security threat' (wpde.com)
Nikki Haley vows to abolish anonymous social media accounts: ‘It’s a national security threat’::WPDE covers news, sports, weather, and local events in and around the Grand Strand, Pee Dee, and the Border Belt.
Child psychiatrist jailed after using AI to make pornographic deep-fakes of kids (www.theregister.com)
Neuralink’s human trials volunteers ‘should have serious concerns,’ say medical experts (www.popsci.com)
Neuralink’s human trials volunteers ‘should have serious concerns,’ say medical experts::A medical ethics committee responded to Elon Musk’s brain-interface startup issuing an open call for patients yesterday.
I watched Nvidia's Computex 2024 keynote and it made my blood run cold (www.techradar.com)
Dating app Bumble will no longer require women to make the first move | CNN Business (edition.cnn.com)
Reddit introduces a new ad format that looks similar to posts made by users | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI Quietly Deletes Ban on Using ChatGPT for “Military and Warfare” (theintercept.com)
The Pentagon has its eye on the leading AI company, which this week softened its ban on military use.
Wi-Fi 7 quietly took off while everyone was looking at AI (www.theverge.com)
Scottish couple facing $33k repair bill after driving Tesla in heavy rain (www.carexpert.com.au)
Scottish couple facing $33k repair bill after driving Tesla in heavy rain::undefined
TikTok ran a deepfake ad of an AI MrBeast hawking iPhones for $2 — and it's the 'tip of the iceberg' (www.businessinsider.com)
TikTok ran a deepfake ad of an AI MrBeast hawking iPhones for $2 — and it’s the ‘tip of the iceberg’::As AI spreads, it brings new challenges for influencers like MrBeast and platforms like TikTok aiming to police unauthorized advertising.
"...is not supported in this browser", fuck you Discord (programming.dev)
Reddit beats film industry, won’t have to identify users who admitted torrenting (arstechnica.com)
Reddit beats film industry, won’t have to identify users who admitted torrenting::Court quashes subpoena for names of users who talked torrenting in 2011 thread.
An angry admin shares the CrowdStrike outage experience (www.theregister.com)
IT administrators are struggling to deal with the ongoing fallout from the faulty CrowdStrike update. One spoke to The Register to share what it is like at the coalface....
Elon Musk has another secret child with exec at his brain implant company (www.theverge.com)
The Framework Laptop 13 is about to become one of the world’s first RISC-V laptops (www.theverge.com)
Google Chrome Warning Issued For All Windows Users (www.forbes.com)
Mozilla has issued a warning about Microsoft’s design practices, claiming that the company uses harmful design tactics to influence users to switch to its Edge browser....
OpenAI claims The New York Times tricked ChatGPT into copying its articles (www.theverge.com)
OpenAI has publicly responded to a copyright lawsuit by The New York Times, calling the case “without merit” and saying it still hoped for a partnership with the media outlet....
Single-use e-cigarettes contain batteries that last hundreds of cycles despite being discarded (techxplore.com)
Carmakers Push Forward With Plans To Make Basic Features Subscription Services, Despite Widespread Backlash (www.techdirt.com)
Spotify is going to clone podcasters’ voices — and translate them to other languages (www.theverge.com)
A partnership with OpenAI will let podcasters replicate their voices to automatically create foreign-language versions of their shows.
People Are Increasingly Worried AI Will Make Daily Life Worse (www.wired.com)
People Are Increasingly Worried AI Will Make Daily Life Worse::A Pew survey finds that a majority of Americans are more concerned than excited about the impact of artificial intelligence—adding weight to calls for more regulation.