Andreessen Horowitz tools to build AI girlfriend, other companion (decrypt.co)
"By pulling information out of us, like therapists, and then having perfect recall of every detail we’ve ever told it, these companion chatbots can pattern match our behavior”
Google to launch privacy tools which remove unwanted personal images (www.theguardian.com)
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Call of Duty now shows you when a cheater has been booted right in the kill feed (www.theverge.com)
Call of Duty now shows you when a cheater has been booted right in the kill feed::Activision will let everyone know when a Call of Duty cheater has been booted from a lobby. It’s the latest in a multi-year crackdown on cheaters.
Internet providers that won FCC grants try to escape broadband commitments (arstechnica.com)
Internet providers that won FCC grants try to escape broadband commitments::“Coalition of RDOF Winners” lobbies FCC but won’t reveal its full member list.
[EFF] Facebook Apparently Will Ask for Consent Before Showing Behavioral Ads to Some Users (www.eff.org)
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YouTube uses AI to summarize videos in latest test (www.theverge.com)
Milk-V's Pioneer Is a Tall Glass of Cold RISC-V with 64 Cores, Up to 128GB of RAM (www.hackster.io)
Meta to pay $1.4 billion settlement with Texas over facial recognition and photo tags - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
A massive settlement between Meta and Texas has been reached over the ‘Tag Suggestions’ feature Facebook added for photos more than a decade ago.
Major Labels Block 40 Pirate Domains, Search Deindexing More Concerning. (torrentfreak.com)
Tailscale now opens for ControlD integration! (tailscale.com)
Zen - a clean and simple text editor in your browser (zen.unit.ms)
Google to purge low-quality apps from the Play Store with new policy starting next month (alternativeto.net)
How Apple’s India gamble paid off. (restofworld.org)
AI mass surveillance at Paris Olympics – a legal scholar on the security boon and privacy nightmare. (theconversation.com)
The Hidden Ties Between Google and Amazon’s Project Nimbus and Israel's Military (www.wired.com)
Joby Aviation's Hydrogen eVTOL Air Taxi Finds Success in 523-Mile Test; When's its Operations? (www.techtimes.com)
Joby Aviation successfully completed a 523-mile flight test for its hydrogen-powered VTOL.
Cloudflare launches a tool to combat AI bots (techcrunch.com)
Cloudflare, the publicly traded cloud service provider, has launched a new, free tool to prevent bots from scraping websites hosted on its platform for data to train AI models....
Amid a decline in democratic standards, the Serbian government uses large-scale installation of surveillance systems with facial recognition technology to monitor opponents, activists and journalists (balkaninsight.com)
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0Patch promises Windows 10 support until 2030 (www.notebookcheck.net)
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Microsoft reveals even more emails to customers were accessed by Russia-based hackers (www.neowin.net)
Earlier this year, Microsoft revealed that a Russia-based cybercriminal group labeled as Midnight Blizzard got access to the email accounts of its top executives in late 2023. Today, the company has confirmed that it is informing more of its customers that emails sent to those executives were seen by that hacker group....
TeamViewer Hacked: Attackers Accessed Internal Corporate IT Environment (cybersecuritynews.com)
On Wednesday, June 26, 2024, TeamViewer, a leading provider of remote access software, announced that attackers had compromised its internal corporate IT environment....
Deepfakes Are Evolving. This Company Wants to Catch Them All (www.wired.com)
A Russian Propaganda Network Is Promoting an AI-Manipulated Biden Video (www.wired.com)
Deadline looms for alleged LockBit extortion of Feds over 33TB of data (www.scmagazine.com)
tl;dr The LockBit ransomware group claims to have stolen 33TB of data from the Federal Reserve Board and is threatening to release it unless a ransomeware is paid and time is running out.