technology
- Didthis A New App for Hobbyists | The Mozilla Blogblog.mozilla.org Didthis A New App for Hobbyists | The Mozilla Blog
Everyone has a hobby. More generally, everyone has things they’re interested in or passionate about. And pursuing those interests is one of the big reaso
- Pixelfed introduces Loops, a Short-Form Video Appwedistribute.org Pixelfed introduces Loops, a Short-Form Video App
Short-form video might in fact be the next frontier for federated media. The dev behind a popular photo-sharing platform is diving in headfirst.
- Automakers Are Telling Your Insurance Company How You Really Drivewww.wired.com Automakers Are Telling Your Insurance Company How You Really Drive
Plus: The operator of a dark-web cryptocurrency “mixing” service is found guilty, and a US senator reveals that popular safes contain secret backdoors.
- Ethical, sustainable digital services do existcosmosmagazine.com Ethical, sustainable digital services do exist
Once upon a time, being environmentally friendly in the digital age meant not printing emails.
- Hackers exploit WordPress plugin flaw to infect 3,300 sites with malwarewww.bleepingcomputer.com Hackers exploit WordPress plugin flaw to infect 3,300 sites with malware
Hackers are breaching WordPress sites by exploiting a vulnerability in outdated versions of the Popup Builder plugin, infecting over 3,300 websites with malicious code.
- Security News This Week: Russian Hackers Stole Microsoft Source Code—and the Attack Isn’t Overwww.wired.com Security News This Week: Russian Hackers Stole Microsoft Source Code—and the Attack Isn’t Over
Plus: An ex-Google engineer gets arrested for allegedly stealing trade secrets, hackers breach the top US cybersecurity agency, and X’s new feature exposes sensitive user data.
- Microsoft's Copilot AI Gladly Generates Anti-Semitic Stereotypesfuturism.com Microsoft's Copilot AI Gladly Generates Anti-Semitic Stereotypes
Despite assurances to the contrary, Microsoft's newly-rebranded Copilot AI system keeps generating all manner of inappropriate material
- Solar-Powered Farming Is Quickly Depleting the World's Groundwater Supplywww.wired.com Solar-Powered Farming Is Quickly Depleting the World's Groundwater Supply
Farmers in hot, arid regions are turning to low-cost solar pumps to irrigate their fields, eliminating the need for expensive fossil fuels and boosting crop production. But by allowing them to pump throughout the day, the new technology is drying up aquifers around the globe.
- Florida Middle Schoolers Arrested for Allegedly Creating Deepfake Nudes of Classmateswww.wired.com Florida Middle Schoolers Arrested for Allegedly Creating Deepfake Nudes of Classmates
In what appears to be the first criminal case of its kind, two teenage boys were charged under a 2022 Florida law for allegedly creating AI-generated images depicting middle school classmates.
This is strange to me. Did the students create the deepfake nudes or did software create those nudes? A normal image editor program won't just create explicit material on its own, the user has to do it with a mouse/tablet/whatever. But AI algorithms will. Even if the kids were giving the instructions to AI, why isn't the software and/or the company that runs it at least somewhat liable for creating child porn?
Suppose the students drew the nudes themselves, but they were really bad stick figure drawings with a name beside them to say who it's supposed to be? Is that illegal? What if they were really good artists and the drawing looked like a photo? At what point is the art considered good enough to be illegal?
- Post-labor economics: Will capitalism work once we don't need to?newatlas.com Post-labor economics: Will capitalism work when the robots take over?
There's a non-zero chance that human labor and intelligence could be surplus to requirements in the mid-to-near future. That would entail a seismic shift in the balance of power and the way societies and economies function. Let's discuss some ideas.
- Researchers jailbreak AI chatbots with ASCII art -- ArtPrompt bypasses safety measures to unlock malicious querieswww.tomshardware.com Researchers jailbreak AI chatbots with ASCII art -- ArtPrompt bypasses safety measures to unlock malicious queries
ArtPrompt bypassed safety measures in ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Llama2.
- AI drone that could hunt and kill people built in just hours by scientist for 'a game'www.livescience.com AI drone that could hunt and kill people built in just hours by scientist 'for a game'
The scientist who configured a small drone to target people with facial recognition and chase them at full speed warns we have no defenses against such weapons.
- MIT’s Fusion Breakthrough: Unlocking Star Power With Superconducting Magnetsscitechdaily.com MIT’s Fusion Breakthrough: Unlocking Star Power With Superconducting Magnets
Detailed study of high-temperature superconducting magnets built by MIT and Commonwealth Fusion Systems confirms they meet requirements for an economic, compact fusion power plant. In the predawn hours of September 5, 2021, engineers achieved a major milestone in the labs of MIT’s Plasma Science
- Facebook and Messenger back up and running after outages - Feddit UKfeddit.uk Facebook and Messenger back up and running after outages - Feddit UK
Facebook and Messenger appear to be back up and running after Meta apps and websites went down for around an hour.
- New 'Water Batteries' Are Cheaper, Recyclable, And Won't Explodewww.sciencealert.com New 'Water Batteries' Are Cheaper, Recyclable, And Won't Explode
Water and electronics don't usually mix, but as it turns out, batteries could benefit from some H2O.
- New Robotic Surgeon May Be Better Than Humans At Removing Cancerous Tumorswww.iflscience.com New Robotic Surgeon May Be Better Than Humans At Removing Cancerous Tumors
The new surgery system may usher in a new age of precision operations to treat cancer.
- How AI tools can help assess verbal eyewitness statementsphys.org How AI tools can help assess verbal eyewitness statements
In a new paper in Psychological Science, researchers from the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School demonstrate how artificial intelligence (AI) can improve the accuracy of the criminal adjudication process.
- Researchers create AI worms that can spread from one system to anotherarstechnica.com Researchers create AI worms that can spread from one system to another
Worms could potentially steal data and deploy malware.
- 2024 will be a crucial year for evolution of HarmonyOS ecosystem: Huawei - Huawei Centralwww.huaweicentral.com 2024 will be a crucial year for evolution of HarmonyOS ecosystem: Huawei - Huawei Central
The COO of Huawei Smartphone Business Group - He Gang said that 2024 will be a vital year for the evolution of the HarmonyOS ecosystem. As per
- With HR 3557, Broadband Monopolies Are Pushing A Bill That Would Crush Your Town’s Ability To Stand Up To Themwww.techdirt.com With HR 3557, Broadband Monopolies Are Pushing A Bill That Would Crush Your Town’s Ability To Stand Up To Them
For thirty-plus years, giant telecom monopolies have worked tirelessly to crush all broadband competition. At the same time, they’ve lobbied state and federal governments so extensively, that…
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