An analysis finds over 54% of longer English-language posts on LinkedIn are likely AI-generated; LinkedIn says it doesn't track how many posts are created by AI
Scathing review of LinkedIn, imo. [embedded post] @gohor.se : I suspect an analysis will eventually find that 95%+ of “longer English-language posts” on LinkedIn are only used to train AI models. [e...
Changing its policy, X bans posting the real names of people behind anonymous accounts, after suspending accounts that unmasked a suspected neo-Nazi cartoonist
https://www.nbcnews.com/... Steve Thompson / @SteveThompson@mastodon.social : “Elon Musk's X Is Suspending Accounts That Reveal a Neo-Nazi Cartoonist's Alleged Identity” — https://www.wired.com/... ...
How Russia uses specialized e-commerce sites, secretive shipping workarounds, and middlemen in China to buy Cisco and other Western tech to maintain its economy
Using specialized e-commerce sites, secretive shipping workarounds and a constellation of middlemen, Russia has obtained … X: @auroraalmendral and @ldrogen X: Aurora Almendral / @auroraalmendral : Inc...
Researchers say ChatGPT can produce clean, convincing text that repeats conspiracy theories and misleading narratives but can sometimes debunk falsehoods too
Researchers used ChatGPT to produce clean, convincing text that repeated conspiracy theories and misleading narratives. Mastodon: @alexcc@mstdn.science . Tweets: @caulfieldtim , @egavactip , @bigmeani...
Tether's reports show increasing loans denominated and payable in its own stablecoin, reaching $6.1B as of September 30, a potential risk in a crisis
Tether reports hadn't disclosed that loans it issues are denominated and payable in the token — The SEC's Strategy for Enforcing Regulation on Crypto, Explained Tweets: @patio11 , @anthony , @bitboy...
Sam Altman's Worldcoin recently halted operations in at least seven countries due to problems like uneven smartphone access, confused users, and fraud attempts
Worldcoin — the billion-dollar startup that wants to give cryptocurrency to every living human by imaging their eyes … Tweets: @ldrogen Tweets: Leigh Drogen / @ldrogen : Eyeball Coin is hard https://t...
In a hearing with US lawmakers, ex-SolarWinds CEO blamed an intern for the “solarwinds123” password leak discovered in 2019 that had exposed a SolarWinds server
FireEye CEO on how the SolarWinds hack was discovered — Washington (CNN)Current and former top executives … Tweets: @cnn , @iwillleavenow , @joshelman , @jeffelder , @acdha , @dangillmor , @joeuchil...
Social networks like Twitter lack ways to de-escalate conflicts caused by viral posts, but potential solutions exist, like a self-applied “I was wrong” label
Nick Punt : Tweets: @nickpunt , @nickpunt , @nickpunt , @nickpunt , @iansherr , @ldrogen , @willoremus , @willoremus , @paulstewartii , @medium , and @willoremus Tweets: @nickpunt : Much like rules v...
US efforts to deploy COVID-19 contact tracing apps have fallen flat, as most states retreat from earlier interest and the few with an app struggle with adoption
and none have deployed it yet https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... Leigh Drogen / @ldrogen : There is a ginormous gap in the polling between how much people say they care about the virus and both how ...
UK's Communication Workers Union says it's had reports of about 120 cases of abuse, including murder threats, directed at engineers believed to be working on 5G
Telecoms engineers have told Radio 1 Newsbeat they're being threatened and harassed by people who believe they're working on 5G … Tweets: @jimwaterson , @ldrogen , @offbeatorbit , and @cwunews Tweets:...