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cyberic , in Zoom CEO envisions AI deepfakes attending meetings in your place
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Just AIs attending meetings with the other AIs.

awesome_lowlander , in Researchers crash Baidu robo-cars with tinfoil and paint daubed on cardboard

Well yes, if you cover my eyes with cardboard and tinfoil I'm probably crashing into something too.

pennomi ,

It’s actually a small metal object you can place in front of the car to make it think something big and dangerous is there. The article suggests attacking such an object to a drone for maximum chaos.

awesome_lowlander ,

Actually the opposite, it makes them unable to see the big and dangerous object ahead of them.

I would liken it to flashing lasers at drivers' eyes. Obviously illegal, dangerous, but reasonably uncommon in the real world and something the authorities should be able to reasonably prevent.

mvilain , in Researchers: an ex-Florida deputy sheriff who received asylum in Russia has built a network of 160+ fake news sites with the help of ChatGPT and other AI tools (Steven Lee Myers/New York Times)

Another useful idiot who has to stay clear of tall buildings with windows. For obvious reasons.

BatrickPateman , in An analysis of ChatGPT-3.5's answers to 517 programming questions on Stack Overflow: 52% of answers contain incorrect information, 77% are verbose, and more (Sharon Adarlo/Futurism)

I get that they are testing what is effectively free for all to use at this point. But at the same time it is definitely the weakest of the models.

TootSweet , in Bitcoin is worth $69,000 — unless you’re an FTX creditor

Invests in scam

Loses money

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chicken ,

Before the collapse, FTX had a lot of mainstream credibility. The head of the SEC was personally meeting with the CEO, along with various other government figures, who were getting huge donations. Celebrities were endorsing the exchange, which on the surface seemed massively successful and legitimate. Yes, people in the know warned about the suspiciously high rewards it offered for keeping your money there, and there was information to make the correct choice to stay away out of caution, but to the average investor this wasn't the equivalent of a nigerian prince email. The cryptocurrency community should have done more to foster skepticism. The government should have been investigating for the criminal fraud instead of chumming around with its lobbyists. The blame doesn't all land on dumb investors.

TootSweet ,

The "scam" I'm referring to is cryptocurrency, not FTX.

And I suspect FTX always looked more "legitimate" to folks who were already bought into the blockchain delusion than to the general public.

chicken ,

Right, I just thought I'd give you the benefit of the doubt. The article is about FTX, and FTX was a scam, but crypto is clearly not, by any reasonably specific definition of the word.

ericjmorey ,
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FTX had a lot of mainstream credibility.

this wasn’t the equivalent of a nigerian prince email

Hard disagree. There were red flags all over FTX if you spent a minute on their own website.

chicken ,

Honestly I didn't bother because of the external red flags, what were they?

ericjmorey ,
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The fact that they used a cryptocurrency they invented to be the basis of account for all internal funds and accounting. This cryptocurrency they invented was for the sole purpose of keeping their records in the invented cryptocurrency as disclosured prominently on their website.

chicken ,

That was definitely incredibly sus but not something I would expect the average person mostly unfamiliar with finance and cryptocurrency to identify as a red flag and not an "innovation", especially before the cascade of disasters related to various schemes of this type.

Zeppo , in Russia Is Increasingly Blocking Ukraine’s Starlink Service
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Sounds overly complicated. They can’t just get Elton to sabotage it himself?

ladicius ,

Pretty sure he'd be open for a cooperation as long as the ruzzkis tell him he's the goat.

Zeppo ,
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“Was I a good fascist traitor??”
“I’m told you were the best.”

MotoAsh , in Google Urges Feds to Ditch Microsoft Over Security Concerns

Yea.. Switching from MS to Google is like switching from battery acid to draino for a refreshing drink...

ghostface ,

I was thinking battery acid to antifreeze to keep the car theme going 🙂

pop , in An attorney says she saw her library reading habits reflected in mobile ads. That's not supposed to happen

listening to a book on her iPhone while playing a game on her Android tablet when she started to see in-game ads that reflected the audiobooks she recently checked out of the San Francisco Public Library.…

The problem seems to be the iPhone and not the Library?

NegativeLookBehind , in Pushy Microsoft app wants you to "repair" your PC by switching to Bing
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I repaired my PC by switching to Linux. Thanks Microsoft!

Hobbes_Dent , in American Radio Relay League cyberattack takes Logbook of the World offline

There will be no more enthusiastic fighter against cyber threats than pissed off private radio operators.

Pistcow ,

nuclear launch detected

breakingcups , in Some researchers say GPT-4o's Chinese token-training data is polluted by spam and porn websites, likely due to inadequate data cleaning (Zeyi Yang/MIT Technology Review)

It's only an 86 billion dollar company, can't expect them to have decent quality control before major releases.

penquin , in Android bug can leak DNS traffic with VPN kill switch enabled
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Are you sure that that's a bug, not a feature?

Guy_Fieris_Hair , (edited ) in Net Neutrality Is Back. Yes, You Should Care

I have found that when I am on my work internet (verizon) I can't log into the account for my home internet (optimum) or my personal cell (tmobile) until I turn in my vpn. The page just endlessly loads. It was already starting. They started slow, and it was going to get real shitty in the next 10 years as soon as we forgot about it. It was the boiling frogs situation. If they immediately made the internet a wasteland we would have rioted. Instead they were slowly acclimating us. Glad we (hopefully) got pulled out of the pot.

sexy_peach , in Most people still rely on memory or pen and paper for password management

Replying on pen and paper is a very secure method to handle your passwords.

GiveOver ,

Until they take a photo so they can have them on their phone

unmagical , in FBI warns against using unlicensed crypto transfer services

Law Enforcement Agency warns against using certain businesses so you don't lose money if that same Law Enforcement Agency forcibly closes the business and steals your money.

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