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The 2023 Bletchley Declaration: A Major Leap in AI Safety and Ethics — Ultra Unlimited (www.ultra-unlimited.com)

Another former Facebook employee will testify at Congress about safety issues at Instagram (lemmy.ca)

Another former Facebook employee is going public with allegations that the company failed to act on its own research showing that young Instagram users were having harmful experiences on the platform. Arturo Bejar, a former Facebook employee and consultant for Instagram, is scheduled to testify at a Senate Judiciary Committee...

Smokestack industries: how Glasspoint is disrupting the world's largest market for renewables (thegreentechpreneur.substack.com)

Rod MacGregor, Founder of GlassPoint, is a lifelong serial entrepreneur whose career trajectory changed after he read ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ by Al Gore....

TAPPED Out report reveals why we make bad security decisions: phones, location and lunch | TechFinitive (www.techfinitive.com)

A new report helps explain why we make bad security decisions. Davey Winder can summarise its findings in three words: phones, lunch and location.

The Impact of Emerging Technologies: Shaping Our Future (thecurious-blogs.blogspot.com)

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Google Search can now help verify an image’s origins (news.retiolus.net)

That is actually quite cool!

Microsoft opens early access to AI assistant for infosec, Security Copilot (www.theregister.com)

Copilotization of all things continues… as helper offers incident reports to share with the boss and more

Foxconn's China probe may be political, sources briefed say (www.reuters.com)

Black founders received 0.13% of capital this Q3 | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

Funding to Black founders is only getting worse after the promises made in 2020.

Eratosthenes: Unearthing a Polymath's Lost Legacy (www.ultra-unlimited.com)

Google Pixel’s face-altering photo tool sparks AI manipulation debate (www.bbc.co.uk)

GPT-4 Vision Prompt Injection (blog.roboflow.com)

cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/2378757 (!chatgpt)

WhatsApp is rolling out passkey support to its app – here's how to set it up (www.techradar.com)

Currently only available to Android users

Tesla whistleblowers filed a complaint to the SEC in 2021, but the agency never interviewed them — Car company may have violated securities law and flouted accounting standards (www.cnbc.com)

Tesla whistleblowers filed a complaint to the SEC in 2021, but the agency never interviewed them — Car company may have violated securities law and flouted accounting standards::Two whistleblowers’ complaint to the SEC about Tesla alleged that Elon Musk’s automaker may have run afoul of securities laws and flouted...

The weights for Show-1 have been released (github.com)

Abstract:...

Ebay faces $2 billion fine for ‘rolling coal’ sales (www.independent.co.uk)

Ebay faces $2 billion fine for ‘rolling coal’ sales::Videos show anti-environmentalist drivers of pickup trucks deliberately emitting black clouds as they pass cyclists and electric vehicles

Treating age-related disease: designing organic molecules that cause aging cells to self-destruct, without harming normal healthy cells (news.unist.ac.kr)

California governor signs ban on social media ‘aiding or abetting’ child abuse | The latest move in California’s internet regulation push. (www.theverge.com)

California governor signs ban on social media ‘aiding or abetting’ child abuse | The latest move in California’s internet regulation push.::California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed AB 1394, which bans social media sites “knowingly facilitating, aiding, or abetting” child sexual abuse material.

The environmental impact of the AI revolution is starting to come into focus (www.theverge.com)

X Community Notes used to challenge ads by Apple and others (9to5mac.com)

Hackers advertise sale of 23andMe data on leaked data forum (www.reuters.com)

Hackers advertise sale of 23andMe data on leaked data forum::A hacker is advertising millions of “pieces of data” stolen from the family genetics websites 23andMe, according to posts made to an online forum where digital thieves often advertise leaked data.

Elon Musk's Twitter stock purchases under probe by SEC (www.reuters.com)

Elon Musk’s Twitter stock purchases under probe by SEC::Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, is being sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which is trying to compel him to testify as part of a probe into his $44 billion takeover of social media giant Twitter, a Thursday court filing showed.