The US DOD announces OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI have each won contracts with a $200M ceiling, aimed at enabling agentic AI national security workflows
Now his AI company is celebrating a $200M Pentagon contract and new unit to get government business Brian Fagioli / NERDS.xyz : Elon Musk wants to infect the government with AI using Grok Brady Knox /...
CoinGecko: Trump's memecoin, with a ~$7.5B market cap, is around the 28th most valuable cryptocurrency; some in crypto call Official Trump a “horrible look”
Survey Bloomberg : What Are Memecoins and Why Did Trump Launch One? Callum Jones / The Guardian : Experts alarmed by Trumps' crypto meme coins: ‘America voted for corruption’ Michael Anthony Bitoon / ...
In a spat on X, Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun calls out Elon Musk for saying xAI will pursue “truth” as Musk spreads “crazy-ass conspiracy theories” on X
But It Does Have Privacy Issues Emergent Behavior : 2024-05-29: Memorial Day Shenanigans Siddharth Jindal / AIM : Yann LeCun Delays Elon Musk's AGI Plans James Farrell / SiliconANGLE : Elon Musk and M...
As Saudi Arabia spends $38B to become the “ultimate global hub” for gaming and esports by 2030, critics point to its anti-LGBTQ laws and question its intentions
Nick El Hajj / Associated Press : Bluesky: @paul.bsky.social . Twitter: @staniselsborg and @staniselsborg Bluesky: @paul.bsky.social : KSA is literally spending money on everything to see what sticks...
A look at Saudi Arabia's Kollona Amn app, launched in 2017 to let its citizens inform on activists, as the country expands the use of surveillance technology
eying off a neighbour's lovely farmland? Report them to the Inquisition and grab the land. #news https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... Leticia Rodríguez / @letirgar : Saudi snitching app turns citizens...
Twitter lets Saudi official and MBS aide Bader al-Asaker keep his verified account with 2.1M followers, despite being implicated in a plot to recruit employees
Saudi official Bader al-Asaker accused by US of recruiting employees to secretly report on dissidents' anonymous accounts
Internal documents: the CDC bought location data from millions of phones in the US to analyze compliance with COVID-19 rules, especially in the Navajo Nation
Newly released documents showed the CDC planned to use phone location data to monitor schools and churches, and wanted to use the data for many non-COVID-19 purposes too. Tweets: @timmarchman , @lemon...
The DOJ charges four Russian officials for alleged hacking campaigns from 2012 to 2018 on critical US infrastructure, including a Kansas nuclear power plant
Saturday, March 26, 2022 // (IG): BB //Weekly Sponsor: DiyGarage SoCal Gary Warner / CyberCrime & Doing Time : Russia's Invasion of Ukraine and CISA/FBI's New Era of Transparency Cynthia Brumfield / M...
Apple releases iOS 14.8, watchOS 7.6.2, iPadOS 14.8, and macOS 11.6, which fix some CoreGraphics and WebKit flaws that defeated iOS “Blastdoor” protections
why it's critical for iPhone users Tweets: John Scott-Railton / @jsrailton : 🚨 UPDATE YOUR APPLE DEVICES NOW🚨 We caught a zero-click, zero day iMessage exploit used by NSO Group's #Pegasus spyware. Ta...
The French government found proof of Pegasus malware on three French journalists' phones and has referred its findings to the Paris public prosecutor's office
ban the exploit trade. https://www.theguardian.com/ ... John Scott-Railton / @jsrailton : UPDATE: 🇫🇷French Intelligence officially confirms Pegasus spyware found on phones of *more* reporters. Referre...