technology

[Abstract Engineering] Masquerading Digitalization (open.substack.com)

Researchers Develop Horrifying Face-Mimicking Robot (gizmodo.com)

Critical 'BatBadBut' Rust Vulnerability Exposes Windows Systems to Attacks (thehackernews.com)

5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030 (arstechnica.com)

Twitter Hate Speech Accounts Exploited Israel's War in Gaza to Grow Four Times Faster (www.rollingstone.com)

Do You Trust Your Cheap Fuses? (hackaday.com)

Microsoft Pitched OpenAI’s DALL-E as Battlefield Tool for U.S. Military (theintercept.com)

Microsoft last year proposed using OpenAI’s mega-popular image generation tool, DALL-E, to help the Department of Defense build software to execute military operations, according to internal presentation materials reviewed by The Intercept. The revelation comes just months after OpenAI silently ended its prohibition against...

An Only Slightly Modest Proposal: If AI Companies Want More Content, They Should Fund Reporters, And Lots Of Them (www.techdirt.com)

This Woman Will Decide Which Babies Are Born (www.wired.com)

Twitter’s Clumsy Pivot to X.com Is a Gift to Phishers (krebsonsecurity.com)

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America Is Sick of Swiping (www.theatlantic.com)

Global PC shipments return to growth and pre-pandemic volumes in 1Q24, says IDC (www.digitimes.com)

Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites (arstechnica.com)

Drones from American startups have been deemed glitchy and expensive, prompting Ukraine to turn to alternatives from China (archive.ph)

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A new bill wants to reveal what’s really inside AI training data (www.theverge.com)

Proton and Standard Notes are joining forces (proton.me)

UK ministers considering banning sale of smartphones to under-16s (www.theguardian.com)

Kaspersky: Biden administration preparing to prevent Americans from using Russian-made software over national security concern | CNN Politics (edition.cnn.com)

Critical Rust flaw enables Windows command injection attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Speed of AI development is outpacing risk assessment (arstechnica.com)

The increasing power of the latest artificial intelligence systems is stretching traditional evaluation methods to breaking point, posing a challenge to businesses and public bodies over how best to work with the fast-evolving technology....

The Hacking Lawsuit Looming Over Truth Social (www.wired.com)

Beeper Took On Apple’s iMessage Dominance. Now It’s Been Acquired | WIRED (www.wired.com)

X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in domain names, breaking legit URLs (mashable.com)

On Monday, it appears X attempted to encourage users to cease referring to it as Twitter and instead adopt the name X. Some https://twitter.com/t3dotgg/status/1777425000133468582 began https://twitter.com/___frye/status/1777432913497465082 that posts https://twitter.com/__justplaying/status/1777433986500853845 via X for iOS were...

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