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“The technology can be used for crowd analytics, augmenting smart spaces, and possibly even as a cyber attack vector.”
“I’ve caught myself doing it. I’ll be writing an article and I’ll say to myself, ‘Better not use that word — it’s a trigger word for the algorithms’ Sometimes I’ll think about writing a report on one of the forbidden topics, then I’ll think to myself, ‘What’s the point? It’ll get throttled by Facebook and no one will see it,’ or ‘We’ll lose money on it,’ and I’ll get discouraged from continuing.”
“Civil rights groups say efforts to get US intelligence agencies to adopt privacy reforms have largely failed. Without those changes, renewal of a post-9/11 surveillance policy may be doomed.”
“Sources in Congress with knowledge of ongoing negotiations over the program say Biden administration officials have privately encouraged lawmakers to pass a ‘clean bill’ this winter, airing fears that any potential lapse in surveillance would pose a national security threat.”
“The FBI said hackers from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) have stolen over US$200 million of digital currencies this year, including funds siphoned off Alphapo and CoinsPaid crypto platforms earlier this year.”
“Cruise found itself in the news that same year when one of its vehicles in San Francisco was pulled over for allegedly not stopping for a person in a crosswalk. The passenger in the back seat was given the ticket.”
the company “may collect and use your personal information (such as your employment history, educational history, employment preferences, skills and abilities, job search activity and engagement, and so on) to recommend potential jobs for you, to share with potential employers when you apply for a job, to enable employers to find potential candidates, and to show you more relevant advertising.”
“An elite group of North Korean hackers secretly breached computer networks at a major Russian missile developer for at least five months last year, according to technical evidence reviewed by Reuters and analysis by security researchers.”
“They are just trying to store everyone’s documents in their stupid cloud service that some teenage extortion group is going to break into and leak one day.”
“The tech giant is considering the launch of the Lincoln chatbot and a surfer chatbot that offers travel recommendations as soon as September, the newspaper reported on Tuesday, citing an unnamed person familiar with the plans.”
“Similarweb’s data reportedly paints a picture equally as grim as daily active users dropped 25% from a peak on July 7 to Monday, while time spent on the app dropped over 50% from 20 minutes to 8 minutes.”
“The bill allows the geolocation of crime suspects, covering other devices like laptops, cars and connected devices, just as it could be remotely activated to record sound and images of people suspected of terror offences, as well as delinquency and organised crime.”
“As AI becomes increasingly integrated into the systems that run the world, terrorists or rogue dictators could use AI to shut down financial markets, power grids, and other vital infrastructure, such as water supplies.”
“In our last email to them, we stated that we wanted $4.5 million in exchange for the deletion of the data and our silence. As we also stated, if we had to make this public, then we now demand that they also withdraw their API pricing changes along with our money or we will leak it.
We expect to leak the data.”
“The energy department contractor Oak Ridge Associated Universities and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the New Mexico-based facility for disposal of defence-related radioactive nuclear waste, were hit in the attack, which was first reported on Thursday, which exploited a vulnerability in a widely used software.”
“Everyone with a Louisiana driver’s license or state ID likely had their personal information exposed in a massive cyberattack that’s punctured agencies across the country.”
“State officials are encouraging everyone to take protective measures.”
“While the scope of the attack is not yet fully known, officials at the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said Thursday that ‘several federal agencies… have experienced intrusion’ and suggested a number of businesses could be impacted as well.”
“Suspected state-backed Chinese hackers used a security hole in a popular email security appliance to break into the networks of hundreds of public and private sector organizations globally, nearly a third of them government agencies including foreign ministries, the U.S. cybersecurity firm Mandiant said Thursday.”
“The deadline set by the Clop cyber crime gang for victims whose data was exfiltrated in a mass breach of Progress Software’s MOVEit Transfer tool to contact the criminals to negotiate a ransom passes today (14 June).”
“Known victims in the UK include the BBC, Boots, British Airways, EY and Ofcom.”
“Office Open XML (OOXML) Signatures, an Ecma/ISO standard used in Microsoft Office applications and open source OnlyOffice, have several security flaws and can be easily spoofed. As a result, Office files signed this manner can be altered undetectably or completely fabricated with a forged signature”
“Not so long ago, Microsoft Edge ended up in hot waters after users discovered a bug leaking your browser history to Bing. Now you may want to toggle off another feature to ensure Edge is not sending every picture you view online to Microsoft.”
“Contrary to the initial findings and following recent in-depth clarifications… it appears that operational data of the federal administration could also be affected.”
“It was time to download Google Chrome on a new Windows 11 computer. I typed “Chrome” into the Microsoft Edge search bar. I was greeted with a full-screen Microsoft Bing AI chatbot window, which promptly told me it was searching for… Bing features. Not Chrome, the thing I’d asked for.”
“Over the next three days, more than 2 million litres of water was pumped out from the reservoir, which was enough to irrigate at least 1,500 acres (607 hectares) of land during India’s scorching summer, local media reported.”
“PETALING JAYA: Telegram is standing firm on its refusal to cooperate with the communications and digital ministry, saying it will not participate in ‘any form of political censorship’.”
“When the circumstance was called to the Court’s attention by opposing counsel, the Court issued Orders requiring plaintiff’s counsel to provide an affidavit annexing copies of certain judicial opinions of courts of record cited in his submission, and he has complied. Six of the submitted cases appear to be bogus judicial decisions with bogus quotes and bogus internal citations. “
“There’s a strong probability that it will make life much better and that we’ll have an age of abundance. And there’s some chance that it goes wrong and destroys humanity.”
“For more information on news verification and open-source intelligence investigations, Al Jazeera’s Media Institute has published a handful of guidebooks available in multiple languages available to download below.”
– Finding the truth among the fakes [PDF]
– News verification – A practical guide [PDF]
– Open Source Investigations [PDF]
“Local authorities have instructed parents to take their children to the nearest police station if they discover any of the messaging apps ‘to find out whether their children had engaged in a crime’, said state media. ‘School and family education should play an important role in deterring juvenile crimes’.”
“The United States, Europe and Japan are reducing Chinese access to advanced chipmaking and other technology they say might be used in weapons at a time when President Xi Jinping’s government has threatened to attack Taiwan and is increasingly assertive toward Japan and other neighbors.”
“Asked the same question in traditional and simplified Chinese, the chatbot qualified three of its four responses with the phrases, ‘there are different views,’ ‘there’s still controversy,’ and ‘further investigation and evaluation are needed.’”
“In 2019, authorities restricted minors to playing 90 minutes a day on weekdays and banned them from playing between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. In 2021, they issued even harsher restrictions: Minors are allowed to play online games for only an hour a day and only on Fridays, weekends and public holidays. Game approvals were halted for eight months.”
“Know this, in just a matter of months, we’re finally going to have those digital wallets, where you can get your driver’s license on a digital wallet. And we’re going to do it like no other state has done it…”
“Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi introduced additional hijab and chastity restrictions in August. Women deemed violators of the law can lose access to banks, public transportation, and other essential government services. Repeat offenders can spend years in jail or in forced morality schooling”
“The blueprint was published by the Better Identity Coalition, a group of 27 US companies, including Mastercard, Equifax, AT&T, and more. The group either wants to stop the worry about ID fraud or to profit from preventing ID fraud by pushing to normalize digital IDs.”
“In June 2016, Haier made headlines when it purchased GE Appliances, an American home appliance manufacturer based in Louisville, Kentucky, for $5.4 billion. That was the point when Haier went from being a Chinese company operating in the U.S. to a dangerous Chinese company operating in the U.S.”
“The SocGholish malware is injected into a benign JavaScript file that is loaded by the news outlets’ websites, which prompts the website visitor to download a fake software update. In this campaign, the prompt takes the form of a browser update for Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Edge or Opera.”
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