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evacide, 4 days ago to random

Microsoft says they are making a bunch of changes to Recall to mitigate the many, many security and privacy problems that researchers have found over the last week:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/7/24173499/microsoft-windows-recall-response-security-concerns

cyberlyra, 4 days ago to google

Hi friends and followers, the terrific @jhpot wrote a piece for @lifehacker sharing my tips for getting off #google

Please check it out and share with your friends, family, and colleagues on and off the #fedi !

https://lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-quit-google-according-to-a-privacy-expert?ref=jhpMastodon

pluralistic, 5 days ago to random

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: UK publishers suing Google for $17.4b over rigged ad markets; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/06/stealing-money-not-content/

#Pluralistic

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simon, 7 days ago to random

I got a good quote in this story about that dumb Zoom Idea to have "digital twins" attend meetings in your place https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/06/zoom-ceo-envisions-ai-deepfakes-attending-meetings-in-your-place/

campuscodi, 7 days ago to random

Security researcher Alexander Hagenah has released TotalRecall, a tool that extracts and displays data from the Recall feature in Windows 11.

https://github.com/xaitax/TotalRecall

Nonilex, 8 days ago to Mexico

#ClaudiaSheinbaum was elected #Mexico’s first female president in a landslide on Sunday, an official quick count of votes showed, cementing the dominance of the left-leaning Morena movement that over the past 6 years has upended the country’s political establishment.
Her victory stunned an opposition that’s accused Morena of weakening the country’s democratic institutions.

#democracy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/06/02/mexico-president-election-sheinbaum-galvez/

jeffjarvis, 13 days ago to random

Private equity ruins newspapers, health care, and more. Tax the bastards.
You Can Thank Private Equity for That Enormous Doctor’s Bill
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/you-can-thank-private-equity-for-that-enormous-doctors-bill-3a2fc90b?st=o7mtw3s0o5dvlet

evilchili, 13 days ago to Canada

Hey Canadian nerds! I have held the domain registration for regex.ca for a very long time. When I lived in Canada it was my primary domain, but I haven't used it for years. Does anyone on the fediverse have a good use for it?

I'm going to release it but if you've got a good pitch I'll pay for a 1 year renewal and then transfer it to your ownership.

Please boost for visibility kthx!

#canada #regex #perl

eaton, 14 days ago to random

My personal theory is that (long-term, at least) the clearest value-prop for LLMs will be rewriting highly structured text generated by explainable/reproducable systems into conversational/stylistically tailored language. Humans will still have to be in the loop, but this is already where the RAG/KG stuff feels like it’s driving.

Tons of energy, right now at least, seems to be focused on making LLMs do “analysis” or “research” etc, where their essential nature is a detriment.

codepo8, 14 days ago to random

You might wonder what religion praying mantises belong to. It's not a single one, they're all in sects.

thomas, 15 days ago (edited 15 days ago) to random

I'd like to remind all Mastodon users that you can add a language filter to any follow relationship on Mastodon.

If you follow me and you don't speak German, you can easily remove my German posts from your timeline by adjusting the language settings.

Go to my profile page, select the dot menu and click "Change subscribed languages". Then select the languages that you speak.

This really is a hidden gem 💎 on Mastodon and not many people seem to know this feature :awesome:

#mastodon

VeroniqueB99, 15 days ago to random

davidho, 17 days ago to random

Lamppost EV chargers are the answer to how you charge your vehicle in cities.

This is possible because when energy intensive street lamps were replaced by LEDs, there’s excess power for charging EVs.

All cities should do this. ⚡️

h/t Robert Llewllyn

dgar, 17 days ago (edited 16 days ago) to random

We’re in the final hours of voting in #Fedivision2024!

Have you voted for your favourite three #Fedivision entries yet?

mpesce, 16 days ago to random

"...I'd stumbled onto something bigger than a bug. Models from different providers use differing training datasets, machine learning algorithms, hardware, and so on. While they may all seem quite similar when dressed up with a chatbot front-end, each uniquely reflects the talents and resources used to create them. Finding something that affects all of them points away from the weakness of a single implementation, toward something more fundamental: A flaw..."

@theregister https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/23/ai_untested_unstable/

intransitivelie, 17 days ago to random

What I wanted from AI: hundreds of robot servants to automate away all my stupid, repetitive tasks, leaving me free to pursue the life of the mind.

What I expected from AI: self-driving cars maybe, at some point.

What I got from AI: a wrong-answer machine which steals money from me and is powered by burning the rainforest.

chris, 16 days ago to random

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pawsplay, 18 days ago to random

KathyReid, 17 days ago to ai

Excellent piece in #NoemaMagazine by Professor @ShannonVallor of #UniEdinburgh on the moral and experiential poverty of #AI - and what it means for us if we reduce the meaning of "human" to "producer of economic value".

A nuanced, thought-provoking and beautiful piece that argues for us to restore humanity to discussions of AI.

It provides ways to cut through the current hype cycle of #AGI and "super-human" AI, and leaves us with the fundamental question - "what does it mean to be human?".

I read it while brunching on scrambled eggs, buttered toast and hot coffee while outside on the patio, enjoying the late autumn sunshine - and I thoroughly recommend you do the same.

https://www.noemamag.com/the-danger-of-superhuman-ai-is-not-what-you-think/

campuscodi, 17 days ago to random

MITRE has published a three-part series that looks at its security breach from earlier this year.

In its last part, published last week, MITRE looks at the group's malware—the BRICKSTORM backdoor and the BEEFLUSH web shell.

1-https://medium.com/mitre-engenuity/advanced-cyber-threats-impact-even-the-most-prepared-56444e980dc8

2-https://medium.com/mitre-engenuity/technical-deep-dive-understanding-the-anatomy-of-a-cyber-intrusion-080bddc679f3

3-https://medium.com/mitre-engenuity/infiltrating-defenses-abusing-vmware-in-mitres-cyber-intrusion-4ea647b83f5b

clive, 19 days ago to random

If you haven't seen it yet, go check out @ernie's new search engine ...

... which automatically appends "&udm=14" to the end of your search query ...

... thereby triggering Google to give you your results with no AI answer at the top, and (for me, anyway) no ads

It's like google from 2004 or something

https://udm14.com

jsrailton, 19 days ago to google

Regular user: I want to feel safe and private.

Google: cool, anyways here's an AI that listens to your calls.

Microsoft: word, how about an AI that takes screenshots of everything you do?

#Google #AI #Microsoft #privacy #security #safety #cybersecurity #infosec

golgaloth, 21 days ago to CrystalsHashtags

Someone reminded me it's time to post some alternatives to Adobe software:

#Adobe #Software #productivity #OpenSource #Free

w3cdevs, 21 days ago to Hiroshima

At the last @w3c member meeting in #Hiroshima 🇯🇵, @cdub, @ab member, outlines the vision for both the web and W3C. W3C leads the community in developing user-first web standards and guidelines to promote an equitable and interconnected society.

The W3C vision document defines W3C's mission, identity, purpose, and the values and principles guiding its decisions:
▶️ https://www.w3.org/TR/w3c-vision/

🎬 Watch the video: https://youtu.be/O4IELa71J9c

GossiTheDog, 21 days ago to random

For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

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