OpenAI says Russian and Israeli groups used its tools to spread disinformation (www.theguardian.com)
Networks in China and Iran also used AI models to create and post disinformation but campaigns did not reach large audiences...
Chinese man arrested for allegedly running ‘largest ever’ malware network (www.aljazeera.com)
US officials say army of 19 million infected computers enabled fraud, identity theft and child exploitation....
Critics of Putin and his allies targeted inside the EU with Israeli-made Pegasus spyware (www.theguardian.com)
At least seven journalists and activists who have been vocal critics of the Kremlin and its allies have been targeted inside the EU by a state using Pegasus, the hacking spyware made by Israel’s NSO Group, according to a new report by security researchers....
Multi-day DDoS storm batters Internet Archive. Think this is bad? See what Big Media wants to do to us, warns founder (www.theregister.com)
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A look at search engines with their own indexes (seirdy.one)
If you ever wanted to know too much about where the majority of our search results come from and the many niche alternatives trying something different…
German carmaker Volkswagen says forced labour in one of its sub-supplier's plants in China was not identified as 'no full supply chain transparency exists' (www.hrw.org)
- Volkswagen (VW) in 2023 commissioned a deeply flawed audit at a plant in China’s Xinjiang province operated by a subsidiary of Volkswagen’s joint venture with SAIC, a Chinese state-owned carmaker....
Neuralink rival sets brain-chip record with 4,096 electrodes on human brain (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/21218504...
Censored: Last week, a writer on China's WeChat bemouned that a large part of information from the country's domestic internet had disappeared. Within hours, the writer's post had vanished too. (chinamediaproject.org)
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Minimum ! (jlai.lu)
Minimum ! (jlai.lu)
The level of engagement on Reddit these days
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Jumblie is a challenging browser-based open-source puzzle game to guess the four words of the day (jumblie.com)
The game has a theme word for each day, so keep that in mind when guessing the words. It is more challenging than Wordle because there are no hints apart from the theme word. So, if one of the words is ‘landing’ and you guessed ‘land’ there is no confirmation you’re getting warm at all....
Token2 is an open-source Swiss FIDO2 security key that brings innovative features at a cheaper price (www.token2.ch)
Token2 is a cybersecurity company specialized in the area of multifactor authentication. Founded by a team of researchers from the University of Geneva with years of experience in the field of strong security and multifactor authentication. Token2 has invented, designed and developed various hardware and software solutions for...
Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same (www.bbc.com)
Elections in India: Fighting for votes in 'the world's biggest data mine' (www.bbc.com)
India’s combination of high smartphone take-up and lax regulations mean that most political parties have gathered “the data to do everything”...
Samsung Requires Independent Repair Shops to Share Customer Data, Snitch on People Who Use Aftermarket Parts, Leaked Contract Shows (www.404media.co)
The contract requires repair shops to “immediately disassemble” devices that have parts “not purchased from Samsung.”
The Man Who Killed Google Search (www.wheresyoured.at)
I found this article a bit too elaborate and digressive, but it has a lot of content and sourcing....
HouseFresh disappeared from Google Search results. Now what? - An elaborate historical analysis and overview of Google search results and media landscape (housefresh.com)
From Forbes and Money content farms, to Google search algorithm changes promoting generic and generated content and big media platforms over specific results, to Google prioritizing ads, overpriced, and other worse results.
China is eager to show the world that it can lead in generative AI technology. But one of its first challenges is chillingly unique - how to make its chat bots speak like the Communist Party. (chinamediaproject.org)
China is determined not just that it won’t be left behind, but that it will lead the generative AI trends of the future. But this comes with substantial political risk for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership....
The Birth, Boom and Bust of the Hard Disk Drive (www.youtube.com)
Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue (www.404media.co)
“You can also add about 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue to the sauce to give it more tackiness.”
Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good (arstechnica.com)
Rabbit Gaslit Me, So I Dug Deeper | Coffeezilla (yt.elonego.com)
Is the LAM a Scam? Down the rabbit hole we go
China will reportedly install cameras with a facial recognition system in Hungary (polishnews.co.uk)
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