US and Canadian agencies warn that Chinese hackers are using Brickstorm malware to penetrate and maintain backdoor access to unnamed government and IT entities
Chinese-linked hackers used sophisticated malware to penetrate and maintain long-term access to unnamed government …
Boston Dynamics says its robot dog Spot is used by 60+ US and Canadian bomb squads and SWAT teams, with ~2K units deployed globally, five years after its debut
Spot, the four-legged robot from Boston Dynamics Inc., is perhaps best known for its viral dance routines to songs like “Uptown Funk.” X: @heysamantha . Mastodon: @eff@mastodon.social X: Samantha Murp...
Velvet Sundown, an AI‑created band with 850K+ monthly Spotify listeners and two albums in June alone, shows how some listeners are turning to anodyne AI music
that AI band that's gotten a lot of press — was, to some degree, a hoax. www.rollingstone.com/music/music- ... X: @o1dmanmike : Music influencers are talking about the Ai band The Velvet Sundown and d...
Free Our Feeds, backed by Jimmy Wales and others, aims to raise $30M by 2028 to billionaire-proof the AT Protocol by making it easier for Bluesky users to leave
The non-profit social media foundation space is really heating up. Ciarán Mather / Silicon Republic : Campaign aims to protect Bluesky's tech from billionaires Thomas Claburn / The Register : Hulk sma...
Sources: Canadian authorities arrest Alexander “Connor” Moucka, who is allegedly behind the June and July 2024 hacks of up to 165 Snowflake users including AT&T
- Connor Moucka taken into custody on provisional arrest warrant — Stolen logins used to access Snowflake customer accounts
YouTube takes down Tenet Media and four other channels after the US DOJ alleged that Russia was paying US right-wing political influencers to produce content
The reverberations from indictments this week over Russian influence buying continue to spread. Will Shanklin / Engadget : YouTube terminates five right-wing channels linked to the DOJ's Russia indict...
Online card game Balatro, created by a solo Canadian developer who goes by the handle LocalThunk, has sold 500K+ copies on Steam at $15 each in just two weeks
Red Hot Poker — There are some games that keep you entertained for a weekend. Zack Zwiezen / Kotaku Australia : Balatro Might Be Delisted On Switch, But Has Still Sold 500K Copies Ben Lyons / Gamere...
A Canadian minister says the government plans to ban devices that copy wireless signals for remote keyless entry, like the Flipper Zero, to combat auto theft
🤨 — https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ ... #security #pentesting #flipperzero #canada Matti Aleve / @maleve@zeroes.ca : Sigh where to even begin with this. — The subhead pretty much covers it thou...
How some authors are embracing ChatGPT and other chatbots as the latest iteration of an ancient literary conceit, a writer's “muse”
GROK: Sit down, you stupid meatbag, and I'll tell you an epic cosmic story that would make Rick Sanchez impressed. [embedded post] @afnarratives.bsky.social : Why would you do this. Tell your plots ...
How some authors are embracing ChatGPT and other chatbots as the latest iteration of an ancient literary conceit, a writer's “muse”
GROK: Sit down, you stupid meatbag, and I'll tell you an epic cosmic story that would make Rick Sanchez impressed. [embedded post] @afnarratives.bsky.social : Why would you do this. Tell your plots ...