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The ChatGPT phrase “As of my last knowledge update” appears in several papers published by academic journals.

The little known “manufacturer” or “manager” reset codes could let third parties—such as spies or criminals—bypass locks without the owner’s consent and are sometimes not disclosed to customers....

"Savoring,” the screen says, in a black font over a green block of color. “Close your eyes and think about something that makes you happy.”

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An Amazon chatbot that’s supposed to surface useful information from customer reviews of specific products will also recommend a variety of racist books, lie about working conditions at Amazon, and write a cover letter for a job application with entirely made up work experience when asked, 404 Media has found.

Il senatore Ron Wyden ha scoperto che il Dipartimento della Difesa ha vietato l’uso di tali serrature per i sistemi governativi statunitensi, ma ha deliberatamente tenuto nascoste al pubblico le informazioni sulle backdoor....

Hackers and fraudsters are gaining access to sensitive drug ordering tools and then advertising some of the most tightly controlled drugs in the country, including fentanyl....

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cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/12262087...

“They just laid us all off. Our jobs are ended today. Effective immediately.” A bell rings. “I’m sorry, your time has expired."

cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/7150449...

Why Read Swisher’s Burn Book when you can read KARA SWISHER : The Heroic Biography of a defining force in Tech Journalism (The Silicon Valley’s most powerful tech journalist).

Etsy sellers are turning free fanfiction into printed and bound physical books, and listing them for sale on online marketplaces for more than $100 per book. It’s a problem that’s rattling the authors of those fanfics, as well as their fans and readers....

Cochran tells him about another library, where there is a “big glass room to put all those noisy teenagers in” that has a bookshelf in front of it with books she doesn’t like: “So what do you call that, sheriff? Enticing?” “Promoting,” he responds. “It’s like the old fashioned guy in the van with a bowl of...

just think: an AI trained on depressed social justice queers...

Internal documents obtained by 404 Media show that Tumblr staff compiled users’ data as part of a deal with Midjourney and OpenAI.

Tumblr and Wordpress are preparing to sell user data to Midjourney and OpenAI, according to a source with internal knowledge about the deals and internal documentation referring to the deals....

this could not be timed worse for Tumblr which is in huge hot water with its userbase already for its CEO breaking his sabbatical to ban a prominent trans user for allegedly threatening him (in a cartoonish manner), and then spending a week personally justifying it increasingly wildly across several platforms. the rumors had...