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simon, 4 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/

ErikUden, 6 days ago to random

The developers of GPT-4 made AI safety tests before release and wanted to, for example, figure out whether the AI could duplicate and spread itself to other servers.

They experimented whether artificial intelligence could buy cloud storage and even pass a CAPTCHA it was never designed to solve.

The AI automatically used an API to hire a human contractor to ask them to solve a CAPTCHA for it. The human joked “are you sure you're not a robot :D?” and GPT-4 thought to itself that it should lie, not reveal that it is a machine, and make up some reason about a vision impairment in order to not sound suspicious.

Old_IT_geek, 5 days ago to auspol

People want privacy!! These laws will mean registering your social media account along with age verification checks such as passport, driver license and current photograph. All of which will create a honey pot for hackers. ASIO/AFP would also like access to rummage around in there. #auspol . https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/04/guardian-essential-poll-facebook-social-media-ban

floreani, 6 days ago to random

as a digital rights advocate I am doomed to have the same arguments forever. anyway, here’s my essay from 2021 on why online anonymity is really important, actually: https://overland.org.au/2021/10/online-anonymity-is-really-important-actually/

augieray, 7 days ago to random

“Not voting is not a protest. It is a surrender.”

• Keith Ellison, attorney general of Minnesota

dangillmor, 8 days ago to random

I've been using the Chromium browser for certain websites, and that's about to end.

Google's greed-fueled moves -- this time to disable vital extensions that provide better privacy and security -- are unacceptable to me.

The stakes here are quite high. If Google succeeds what it's attempting to do -- forcing us to use only Google-approved privacy and security choices -- we're in trouble.

Firefox looks like the best way forward at this point.

thejuicemedia, 8 days ago to random

The Government™ has made an ad about the state of democracy, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative

feat. 🇮🇳 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇺🇲 🇿🇦 🇮🇩 🇵🇰 🇮🇷 🇮🇱 🇷🇸 🇲🇽 🇻🇪 🇧🇾 🇷🇺 🇧🇬 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCphS4_Rp3w&feature=youtu.be

ai, 8 days ago to ai

#ai #comingforyourjob #photos #images #artificialintelligence #memes

trabern, 9 days ago to random

I just want us all to take a moment and reflect that it has been a couple of women that brought you this at great personal cost.

Of all the things that could bring down Trump, it has been a couple of stubborn women he felt entitled to that did it.

TCatInReality, 9 days ago to random

Thank you to #WashingtonPost for this great summary of the evidence behind Trump's fraud convictions.

So much disinformation about the case, but it's nice that one paper bothers to publish the evidence without both siding it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/30/evidence-trump-hush-money-trial/

bulbagarden, 9 days ago to pokemon

Pokémon Center soft launches its new online store for fans in Australia and New Zealand https://bulbagarden.net/threads/pokemon-center-soft-launches-its-new-online-store-for-fans-in-australia-and-new-zealand.301844/ #pokémon

kentparkstreet1, 9 days ago to auspol

Nationals leader David Littleproud must now decide if Senator Matt Canavan speaks for his party when he criticises the US justice system and openly supports a convicted felon.

Time to stand up David.

#AusPol

cyberlyra, 10 days ago to google

Massive leak at #Google confirms what we have all known for years, just how much is tracked, stored, and monetized.

Even clearer now how Chrome tracks and reports EVERYTHING you do. For heavens' sake delete it now and move to Firefox

Also they've outright lied for years about their data collection and search practices.

Looks like 'Don't be evil' wasn't enough. ;)

https://sparktoro.com/blog/an-anonymous-source-shared-thousands-of-leaked-google-search-api-documents-with-me-everyone-in-seo-should-see-them/

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/28/24166177/google-search-ranking-algorithm-leak-documents-link-seo

Just, get off Google products already!

https://www.optoutproject.net/the-best-non-google-search-engine/

seachanger, 10 days ago to random

"The U.S. Department of Justice-including the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, an appointed U.S. special counsel and the solicitor general, all of whom were involved in different ways in the criminal prosecutions underlying these cases and are opposing Mr. Trump’s constitutional and statutory claims — can petition the other seven justices to require Justices Alito and Thomas to recuse themselves not as a matter of grace but as a matter of law."
#SCOTUS #alito

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/opinion/alito-thomas-recuse-trump-jan-6.html

GossiTheDog, 10 days ago to random

Things I’ve been asked to produce over the years as a manager in security:

• Blockchain strategy
• Metaverse strategy
• Generative AI strategy

Amount of times this has had any value: 0

Perhaps the reason businesses largely haven’t grown for a decade is because they have failed to concentrate on ensuring good operations and making products customers care about.. but instead they’ve rushed off the latest fad cliff like Lemmings.

Theeo123, 10 days ago to security

https://proton.me/blog/politicians-exposed-dark-web

An investigation with Constella Intelligence searched the dark web for 2,280 official government email addresses from the British Parliament, European Parliament, and French Parliament.

It found that around 40% had been exposed, along with passwords, birthdates, and more.

Keep in mind, this is not a news story about a data breach or leak, This was a study, to see to what extent various countries politicians have been exposed.

#Proton #Security #Privacy

gerowen, 10 days ago to LinusTechTips

Luke (from #LinusTechTips) made a really good point that I hadn't considered about the new #Microsoft #Recall feature. What about public computers? How many libraries, computer labs or internet cafes are going to be absolute hotbeds for personal data compromise? You know Microsoft will have the feature enabled by default and you know that even if people disable it, they'll randomly re-enable it. What happens on public computers where everyone shares one user account? 1/

#Privacy #Security

TCMuffin, 10 days ago to random

Having given up on Facebook years ago because of my concerns about privacy, I rarely login now.

This is a heads up about Meta, privacy, and your data.

From 26 June 2024, Facebook will use your photos, posts, and other info to train its AI.

You can opt out...but Meta has intentionally made it complicated!

Here is a detailed “How to opt out” with screenshots.

On the next page, select "Information about objections and how you can object on Facebook and hit the "Enter" key. Scroll down to "How can I submit an objection?" and click on the link to "here" in the first sentence of this section "You can submit an objection by following the instructions here..." On the next page, entitled "Managing your information and submitting objections” click on the radio button next to “Yes”. When you click on the radio button for “Yes”, you will finally be taken to the form where you can object “Object to your information being used for Al at Meta”. Complete your “Country of residence” and “Email address” fields and move on to the “Please tell us how this processing impacts you.” field. Obviously how you complete this is your personal preference, but I have written this: "My photos are personal and contain images of my face associated with my IRL name. This data could be used to generate “deep fake” images using my likeness, if it is included in Al training. I further object to captions being used as these may contain personal information some of which may be associated with children.
“Meta processing my posts, photos and their captions, the messages I send to Al, and whatever other data Meta decides to scrape, invades my privacy as a private citizen and feeds into a technology which threatens the future of our planet by its insatiable appetite for limited resources, e.g. energy and water.” I have not completed the section entitled "Please provide any additional information that could help us review your objection.”
You will then be asked to confirm your email address via an OTP. Almost immediately, I received a response from Facebook, honouring my request: Support message. Today at 16:17. Our reply Hi Jayne, We've reviewed your request and will honor your objection. This means your request will be applied going forward. If you want to learn more about generative Al, and our privacy work in this new space, please review the information we have in Privacy Center. facebook.com/privacy/genai This inbox cannot accept incoming messages. If you send us a reply, it won't be received. Thanks, Privacy Operations We may use your data for personalisation, innovation, research and other purposes described in our Privacy Policy.

mhoye, 11 days ago to random

This is a remarkable graph.

You might have heard that "EV sales are slumping", "people are starting to avoid EVs", etc.

That's not what's happening.

What's happening is "Tesla is cratering so hard that it's skewing the aggregate market data."

realjuddlegum, 11 days ago to random

The guy who is in charge of Threads admits that it is actively suppressing accounts, like mine, that post political content.

Don't let his measured tone fool you.

This is an outrageous and irresponsible decision.

And it is a POLITICAL decision. One that favors the status quo.

RE: https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/C7hoA8ayaZe

cstross, 11 days ago to random

If you live in the UK or USA, you need to understand one thing about the coming election:

You need to vote defensively.

Neither of the main parties are appealing. But if you don't vote for the lesser evil you may end up helping a totalitarian horror get elected.

Hold your nose and goddamn vote, dammit. THEN go on protests. Because if you don't vote for the lesser evil, the victor will welcome your protests with bullets.

The prize for political purity this time round is a shallow grave.

joannaholman, 11 days ago to random

Because we didn't all hate Ticketmaster enough, they've gotten themselves a data breach https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-29/ticketmaster-hack-allegedlyshinyhunter-customers-data-leaked/103908614

BinChicken, 11 days ago to auspol

Farmer, industry groups question how Australian beef can be cheaper in Japan than at Coles and Woolworths
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-28/australian-beef-cheaper-tokyo-supermarket-than-coles-woolworths/103897144

Our supermarkets have been caught price gouging again. It's impossible to export top-grade locally-produced food all the way to Japan and for it to end-up far cheaper. The government needs to step-in to stop this price gouging.

The government also needs to give back power to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. After years of undermining and by the successive RWNJ governments and nepotistic placements of their own pro-big-business colleagues high-up in the ACCC, the ACCC has been rendered toothless. We need the ACCC to be an independent umpire again.

#AusPol #Coles #Woolies #Duopoly #PriceGouging #Inflation #AustralianCompetitionAndConsumerCommission #ACCC

jhaue, 11 days ago to random

Study shows relatively low number of superspreaders responsible for large portion of misinformation on Twitter https://phys.org/news/2024-05-superspreaders-responsible-large-portion-misinformation.html

glynmoody, 12 days ago to random

Revealed: Israeli spy chief ‘threatened’ ICC prosecutor over war crimes inquiry - https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/28/israeli-spy-chief-icc-prosecutor-war-crimes-inquiry "Mossad director Yossi Cohen personally involved in secret plot to pressure Fatou Bensouda to drop Palestine investigation, sources say" lovely people...