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...
Students Are Likely Writing Millions of Papers With AI (www.wired.com)
Intel investigating games crashing on 13th and 14th Gen Core i9 processors (www.theverge.com)
Microsoft Build will detail “next generation” of Windows on Arm and new AI features (www.theverge.com)
Beeper was just acquired by Automattic, which has big plans for the future of messaging (www.theverge.com)
Quad9 DNS in Pihole blocks catbox.moe (feddit.de)
Generative AI can turn your most precious memories into photos that never existed (www.technologyreview.com)
Dozens of people have now had their memories turned into images in this way via Synthetic Memories, a project run by Domestic Data Streamers. The studio uses generative image models, such as OpenAI’s DALL-E, to bring people’s memories to life. Since 2022, the studio, which has received funding from the UN and Google, has...
[Mental Outlaw] Google Created a New Device Tracking Network (odysee.com)
GParted Live Is Now Patched Against the XZ Backdoor, Powered by Linux Kernel 6.7 (9to5linux.com)
Security advisory for the standard library (CVE-2024-24576) (blog.rust-lang.org)
Thoughts on the xz backdoor: an lzma-rs perspective | Blog (gendignoux.com)
The Future of America’s Biggest Spy Program Is Being Decided Right Now (www.wired.com)
US to award Samsung up to $6.6 billion chip subsidy for Texas expansion, sources say (www.reuters.com)
Fake Photos, Real Harm: AOC and the Fight Against AI Porn (www.rollingstone.com)
In 2023, more deepfake abuse videos were shared than in every other year in history combined, according to an analysis by independent researcher Genevieve Oh. What used to take skillful, tech-savvy experts hours to Photoshop can now be whipped up at a moment’s notice with the help of an app. Some deepfake websites even offer...
Elon Musk just gave another Mars speech—this time the vision seems tangible (arstechnica.com)
WordPress.com owner Automattic acquires multi-service messaging app Beeper for $125M (techcrunch.com)
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Using your phone to pay is convenient, but it can also mean you spend more (www.npr.org)
Microsoft is confident Windows on Arm could finally beat Apple (www.theverge.com)
"Permission is Hereby Granted" -- MIT License text becomes viral “sad girl” piano ballad generated by AI (arstechnica.com)
On Wednesday, prompt engineer Riley Goodside tweeted an AI-generated song created with the prompt “sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License,” and it began to circulate widely in the AI community online.
