John Oliver's Last Week Tonight looks at AI slop, how it corrodes the concept of objective reality, the slop economy, tech leaders' enthusiasm for gen AI, more
Recall that the right wants to ban AI legislation *at the state level*. They're cashing in on the mis/dis information AND from the tech flooding us with it. — www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWpg... Stefan...
US, UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand advisory: China-backed hacking group Volt Typhoon has had access to some major US infrastructure for over five years
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How deepfake porn victims in NYC suburb Levittown helped convict the perpetrator, a former classmate, an ordeal further complicated by the lack of clear US laws
A group of young women in a New York City suburb, horrified to learn their photographs had been manipulated and posted online, took matters into their own hands. Bluesky: @leahnylen.bsky.social . X: @...
X tests Not A Bot, requiring new, unverified users to sign up for a $1 annual subscription to be able to post and interact, in New Zealand and the Philippines
The owner of X, Elon Musk, has long floated the idea of charging users $1 to use the platform.
Twitter appears to have resolved an issue in Australia and New Zealand that caused downtime for over 12 hours, starting around 6:40am AEST on January 4
Zachariah Kelly / Gizmodo Australia :
Starlink users in the US, the UK, New Zealand, Mexico, and elsewhere complained of a multi-hour outage; the Starlink app reports “Degraded Service”
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Cybersecurity authorities of Five Eyes countries warn of Russia-backed hacking groups targeting critical infrastructure organizations in and outside Ukraine
Russian State-Sponsored and Criminal Cyber Threats to Critical Infrastructure David Jones / Cybersecurity Dive : Cyber agencies renew warnings of Russia-linked threats against industrial targets Patri...
To limit the power of Big Tech, regulators should look to mandate interoperability, which will empower users and could spark more competition
summed up brilliantly by Tom Eastman, a New Zealand software developer, as the transformation of the Internet into “a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four...
US, EU, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, and NATO blame China for cyberattacks, including the massive attack on Microsoft's Exchange Servers in March
including EU institutions and EU industries. “We continue to urge the Chinese authorities to ... not allow its territory to be used for malicious cyber activities.” https://www.consilium.europa.eu/ .....
Profile of Internet Watch Foundation, a UK-based charity helping tech companies identify child sexual abuse material online, as it rebuilds its hashing software
Matt Burgess / Wired UK : Tweets: @wired , @joannashields , @iwfhotline , and @drproudman Tweets: @wired : The Internet Watch Foundation has rebuilt its hashing software, dubbed Intelligrade, to auto...