What's Scarier Than Unchecked AI? A 'Swarm' of 3,400 Corporate AI Lobbyists (www.commondreams.org)
Google confirms the leaked Search documents are real (www.theverge.com)
RIP ICQ: Remembering a classic messaging app that was way ahead of its time (arstechnica.com)
‘Let yourself be monitored’: EU governments to agree on Chat Control with user “consent” [updated] (www.patrick-breyer.de)
Electric bikes are about to get more expensive, and the timing couldn’t be worse (www.theverge.com)
‘A fine line between humor and flopping’: tech summit’s rap battle is the height of corporate cringe (www.theguardian.com)
The next time you’re sitting through a company-wide meeting, half-listening to a leader drone on about updates or product launches (and hoping they don’t announce layoffs or budget cuts), remember this: at least they’re not rapping....
A Grand Unified Theory of the AI Hype Cycle (blog.glyph.im)
Researchers crack 11-year-old password, recover $3 million in bitcoin (arstechnica.com)
A look at search engines with their own indexes (seirdy.one)
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World's first wooden satellite built by Japan researchers (phys.org)
Internet Archive is continuing to face DDoS attacks after several days, says “this attack has been sustained, impactful, targeted, adaptive, and importantly, mean” (www.neowin.net)
Google might have accidentally published docs about how Search works (9to5google.com)
Delivery Goes Wrong: New Cybertruck Slices Owner's Wrist During Inspection (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
A Tesla owner’s dream of taking his new Cybetruck for a spin turned into a nightmare. He landed in the emergency room with blood spurting from a wrist wound before even getting behind the wheel.
Neuralink rival sets brain-chip record with 4,096 electrodes on human brain (arstechnica.com)
I like that their implant is simply laid on top of the brain, instead of driving electrodes into brain tissue like Neuralink. I’d like to keep my brain unscarred.
PayPal plans an ad network built off your purchase history (www.theregister.com)
Device Fingerprinting that Stops Fraud, Builds Trust & Drives Growth (shield.com)
Stop fraud before it starts, Detect and stop fraud in real time with device intelligence powered by machine learning. Build trust with your users, Know which users, devices, and accounts are trustworthy. Ensure that fraudsters don’t ruin everyone else’s experience.
Man accused of using generative AI to create virus in Japan 1st (mainichi.jp)
TOKYO – A 25-year-old man has been served a fresh arrest warrant for allegedly creating a computer virus using generative artificial intelligence (AI), the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD)'s cybercrime control division announced on May 28, in what is believed to be the first such case in Japan....
How Researchers Cracked an 11-Year-Old Password to a $3 Million Crypto Wallet (www.wired.com)
Lilium (LILM) inks new partnership to bring eVTOL jet rides to the South of France (electrek.co)
China shows off machine-gun-toting robot dog and its AI-powered puppy (www.theregister.com)
Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation (www.theverge.com)
A purported leak of 2,500 pages of internal documentation from Google sheds light on how Search, the most powerful arbiter of the internet, operates....
China’s military shows off rifle-toting robot dogs (www.cnn.com)
Nvidia denies pirate e-book sites are “shadow libraries” to shut down lawsuit (arstechnica.com)
Internet Archive is continuing to experience service disruptions due to a recurrence of a DDoS attack (farside.link)
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