The US and allies reveal that hacker group Cadet Blizzard is part of Russia's GRU Unit 29155, which is responsible for coup attempts, assassinations, and more
There has been a lot of talk this week about Putin paying “useful idiots” to spread his propaganda. … X: @dojnatsec : Five Russian GRU Officers and One Civilian Charged for Conspiring to Hack Ukrainia...
Figma disables its recently launched generative AI app design tool Make Design, after a user showed it copied Apple's Weather when asked to design a weather app
The design tool Figma has disabled a newly launched AI-powered app design tool … Nehal Malik / iPhone in Canada Blog : AI Design Tool Axes Feature that Cloned Apple's Weather App John Gruber / Daring ...
A look at the uptick of AI-generated videos on TikTok featuring politicians in the UK; Ofcom says TikTok was the fastest growing news source in 2022 and 2023
Marianna Spring / BBC : X: @clearpolitic5 , @andymay101 , @rhiroberts , @natcen , and @keighleyperkins . Forums: r/ukpolitics X: @clearpolitic5 : “Young voters in key election battlegrounds are being...
In four new studies with collaboration from Meta, researchers find Facebook's algorithm is “influential” but doesn't necessarily change beliefs, and more
Ekeoma E. Uzogara Authors Info & Affiliations — pp. 386-387 Washington Post : Changing Facebook's algorithm won't fix polarization, new study finds Science : How do social media feed algorithms aff...
Twitter replaces the week-old “US state-affiliated media” label on NPR's account with a new label describing the nonprofit media company as “Government Funded”
This is how it sounds when outlets like NPR insist on staying on Twitter. — #Twitter Damon Kiesow / @dkiesow@social.kiesow.net : I understand this new policy is the result of Elon having a lot of “g...
A Mastodon user since 2018 details issues with the service despite decentralization's promise, like few Twitter friends, little diversity, and tone policing
I first joined Mastodon in 2018 (even though my old profile says 2016?), so I'd say I've seen a lot of its evolution. Mastodon: @evan@cosocial.ca , @reselsnark@mastodon.social , @musictraveler@mastodo...
An engineer reimplemented Google AI's text-to-image diffusion model DreamBooth for Stable Diffusion, letting anyone cheaply and easily recreate artists' styles
Andy Baio / Waxy.org : Tweets: @waxpancake , @dreamwieber , @simonw , and @fredbenenson Tweets: Andy Baio / @waxpancake : Last week, a Redditor fine-tuned an AI image model on the work of one illustr...
A book excerpt details US law enforcement efforts to catch Alpha02, who created AlphaBay, the largest online drug and crime bazaar, in 2014 and ran the service
The notorious Alpha02 oversaw millions of dollars a day in online narcotic sales. For cybercrime detectives, he was public enemy number one—and a total mystery. Tweets: @caitlin__kelly , @aaronlammer...
A look at 12M+ of the 2.3B images used to train Stable Diffusion reveals ~47% came from only 100 domains; the largest number, or 8.5%, originated from Pinterest
laion-aesthetic-datasette Use Datasette to explore … Tweets: Andy Baio / @waxpancake : What images are in the massive dataset that trained the Stable Diffusion text-to-image AI model? @simonw and I ma...
A book excerpt examines how a law enforcement operation to take down the largest child sex abuse website, using Chainalysis tools, showed bitcoin was traceable
spoiler alert—the good guys win. An @a_greenberg special, and an education in how technology sometimes does the opposite of what it was expected to. https://www.wired.com/... Miko Matsumura / @mikojav...