Meta's Facebook lost the latest round of a court battle over privacy with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Monday after a federal judge ruled the regulator can seek to reduce the amount of money the social media company makes from users under 18.
This is something that the Government of India has been pushing for too. Get distracted for a minute, and this might happen in your country too before you even realise what is happening.
Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers sent the board of directors a letter warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Appin was a leading Indian cyberespionage firm that few people even knew existed. A Reuters investigation found that the company grew from an educational startup to a hack-for-hire powerhouse that stole secrets from business titans, politicians, military officials and wealthy elites around the globe. Appin alumni went on to form...
There’s still so much we don’t know about social media’s impact. But Meta president of global affairs Nick Clegg tells MIT Technology Review that he hopes new tools the company just released will start to change that.
X's complaint alleged that Media Matters "manipulated" the platform's algorithm to generate inorganic ad placements to form a "blatant smear campaign," but the complaint seemingly admitted that no statements that Media Matters published were false. Media Matters will likely argue that advertisers could interpret its reporting...
A WIRED analysis of leaked police documents verifies that a secretive government program is allowing federal, state, and local law enforcement to access phone records of Americans who are not suspected of a crime.
Many people forgot, many others now think that he is the villain of the story just because he did what he had to do to save his life, a whole lot don't care because 'they have nothing to hide'. For what it's worth, people who actually care about their privacy is a very small minority in pretty much all countries.
Sam Altman, the now former CEO of OpenAI, has departed his role and is leaving its board, according to a company post on Friday. But questions about his role at other entities like Worldcoin, the crypto project he co-founded, remain up in the air as its token falls on the news.
Social Links, a surveillance company that had thousands of accounts banned for mass-scraping Facebook and Instagram, is now using ChatGPT to make sense of data it grabs from social media....
Oh wow, this was unexpected! I wonder what exactly made the board turn against him. Pretty much all publications are just quoting the official statements for now. Everyone seem to have been blindsided.
If you were using Signal just for SMS, none of your messages were secure anyway since the SMS protocol itself is not–defeating the purpose of signal. And if you had already convinced people to install Signal by using SMS as a caveat, you can just continue contacting them through the app.
I was able to convince pretty much everyone who matter in my life to install Signal and they all love it because WhatsApp has become too cluttered and spammy.
Apple’s support for the widely used messaging standard will make it easier for Android phones to share messages with iPhones—while ditching the old and flawed SMS standard.
Meta sues FTC, hoping to block ban on monetizing kids’ Facebook data (arstechnica.com)
Accused of violating kids' privacy, Facebook owner challenges FTC authority.
Interview: Sam Altman on being fired and rehired by OpenAI (www.theverge.com)
Altman explains why he decided to return to OpenAI and what comes next for the company.
OpenAI’s Custom Chatbots Are Leaking Their Secrets (www.wired.com)
Released earlier this month, OpenAI’s GPTs let anyone create custom chatbots. But some of the data they’re built on is easily exposed.
Substack Has a Nazi Problem (www.theatlantic.com)
The newsletter platform’s lax content moderation creates an opening for white nationalists eager to get their message out.
Amazon joins AI image creation fray with new model (www.theverge.com)
The Titan Image Generator includes automatic invisible watermarking.
Google DeepMind’s new AI tool helped create more than 700 new materials (www.technologyreview.com)
Newly discovered materials can be used to make better solar cells, batteries, computer chips, and more.
U.S. federal judge rules against Meta in privacy fight with FTC (www.reuters.com)
Meta's Facebook lost the latest round of a court battle over privacy with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Monday after a federal judge ruled the regulator can seek to reduce the amount of money the social media company makes from users under 18.
How Google Really Works (slate.com)
Somehow it took an antitrust trial to find out.
Resurrecting an Extinct Animal as a Robot (nautil.us)
A soft robot replica solves a mystery about the evolution of movement.
Cryptographers Devise an Approach for Total Search Privacy (www.quantamagazine.org)
Three researchers have found a long-sought way to pull information from large databases secretly, moving us closer to fully private internet searches.
Air-Conditioning Discovery Eliminates Harmful Gases (www.scientificamerican.com)
Heat pumps are ubiquitous in the form of air conditioners. Scientists just invented one that avoids harmful refrigerant gases
The end of anonymity on Chinese social media (restofworld.org)
Forced to use real names on platforms like Weibo, Chinese influencers quit social media instead.
Meet “Amaterasu”: Astronomers detect highest energy cosmic ray since 1991 (arstechnica.com)
The Telescope Array in Utah's West Desert picked up a rare particle with 244 EeV energy.
Microsoft, can we please just call it Windows 11.1 already? (www.theverge.com)
I hope Windows 12 brings back point releases.
Researchers Refute a Widespread Belief About Online Algorithms (www.quantamagazine.org)
Three computer scientists have disproved a long-standing conjecture about a fundamental problem involving imperfect information.
Exclusive: OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster -sources (www.reuters.com)
Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers sent the board of directors a letter warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
How an Indian startup hacked the world (www.reuters.com)
Appin was a leading Indian cyberespionage firm that few people even knew existed. A Reuters investigation found that the company grew from an educational startup to a hack-for-hire powerhouse that stole secrets from business titans, politicians, military officials and wealthy elites around the globe. Appin alumni went on to form...
Breaking: Sam Altman to return as CEO of OpenAI (www.theverge.com)
Uno reverse.
Founder Of Binance Pleads Guilty To Anti-Money Laundering Charge (www.huffpost.com)
The charge was similar to practices uncovered after the collapse of the second largest cryptocurrency exchange, FTX, last year.
Meta is giving researchers more access to Facebook and Instagram data (www.technologyreview.com)
There’s still so much we don’t know about social media’s impact. But Meta president of global affairs Nick Clegg tells MIT Technology Review that he hopes new tools the company just released will start to change that.
Musk files lawsuit claiming Media Matters manipulated X by scrolling down (arstechnica.com)
X's complaint alleged that Media Matters "manipulated" the platform's algorithm to generate inorganic ad placements to form a "blatant smear campaign," but the complaint seemingly admitted that no statements that Media Matters published were false. Media Matters will likely argue that advertisers could interpret its reporting...
How bad business broke the smart home (www.theverge.com)
Business arrangements and opaque contracts have broken the pitch of the smart home. Better regulation can fix this problem.
Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records (www.wired.com)
A WIRED analysis of leaked police documents verifies that a secretive government program is allowing federal, state, and local law enforcement to access phone records of Americans who are not suspected of a crime.
Google slows down Firefox users when watching YouTube.... (fosspost.org)
Google slows down Firefox users when watching YouTube…
Kurzgesagt — An unofficial community for discussing Kurzgesagt's videos on space, biology, philosophy, etc. (kbin.social)
An unofficial community for discussing anything and everything related to Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell....
Nothing Chats pulled from Play Store amidst privacy blunder (www.androidcentral.com)
Seriously, avoid Nothing Chats and check your Apple ID.
Google confirms plans to phase out third-party cookies (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Google has officially announced plans to gradually eliminate third-party cookies, a key aspect of its Privacy Sandbox initiative.
UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges (arstechnica.com)
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
Worldcoin token's value drops nearly 10% after Sam Altman removed as OpenAI CEO (techcrunch.com)
Sam Altman, the now former CEO of OpenAI, has departed his role and is leaving its board, according to a company post on Friday. But questions about his role at other entities like Worldcoin, the crypto project he co-founded, remain up in the air as its token falls on the news.
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ChatGPT Has Been Turned Into A Social Media Surveillance Assistant (www.forbes.com)
Social Links, a surveillance company that had thousands of accounts banned for mass-scraping Facebook and Instagram, is now using ChatGPT to make sense of data it grabs from social media....
How the dead are counted in Gaza (www.bbc.com)
The BBC has been looking in detail at how the casualty figures are totalled.
X ad boycott gathers pace amid antisemitism storm (www.bbc.com)
US firms, including Apple and Disney, are reportedly suspending ads on the Elon Musk-owned site.
AI boss Sam Altman ousted by OpenAI board (www.bbc.co.uk)
OpenAI said it 'no longer had confidence' in his ability to lead the artificial intelligence firm.
NASA probe sends laser message to Earth from 10 million miles (gizmodo.com)
The Deep Space Optical Communications tool on the Psyche probe achieved successful data transmission to and from Earth from an unprecedented distance.
Antitrust lawsuits are piling up for Google. Here’s how they could change the company (www.fastcompany.com)
Twenty years after ‘U.S. v. Microsoft,’ antitrust law is finally coming back for Big Tech.
Tumblr is betting big on going small (www.theverge.com)
The social network failed to hit the growth targets its new owner set in 2019. But were they ever compatible with what Tumblr does best?
Signal details costs of keeping its private messaging service alive | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
X rival Bluesky crosses 2mn users (tech.hindustantimes.com)
Jack Dorsey-backed Bluesky, which competes directly with X (formerly Twitter), has crossed 2 million users
Discord is shutting down its AI chatbot Clyde (www.theverge.com)
Clyde will disappear by December 1st and it’s not clear why.
A Spy Agency Leaked People's Data Online—Then the Data Was Stolen (www.wired.com)
The National Telecommunication Monitoring Center in Bangladesh exposed a database to the open web. The types of data leaked online are extensive.
Apple’s Pledge to Support RCS Messaging Could Finally Kill SMS (www.wired.com)
Apple’s support for the widely used messaging standard will make it easier for Android phones to share messages with iPhones—while ditching the old and flawed SMS standard.