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  • Wired: Inside the Booming ‘AI Pimping’ Industry

    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/ai-pimping-industry-deepfakes-instagram/ Source: Wired Title: Inside the Booming ‘AI Pimping’ Industry Feedly Summary: AI-generated influencers based on stolen images of real-life adult content creators are flooding social media. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights the emerging issue of AI-generated influencers on Instagram that are appropriating the likenesses of real creators, leading…

  • Hacker News: Let’s Encrypt is 10 years old now

    Source URL: https://letsencrypt.org/2014/11/18/announcing-lets-encrypt/ Source: Hacker News Title: Let’s Encrypt is 10 years old now Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the launch of Let’s Encrypt, a free certificate authority aimed at simplifying the process of obtaining TLS certificates to enhance internet security. The initiative champions principles such as free…

  • The Register: Data is the new uranium – incredibly powerful and amazingly dangerous

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/20/data_is_the_new_uranium/ Source: The Register Title: Data is the new uranium – incredibly powerful and amazingly dangerous Feedly Summary: CISOs are quietly wishing they had less data, because the cost of management sometimes exceeds its value I recently got to play a ‘fly on the wall’ at a roundtable of chief information security officers.…

  • Wired: Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults and Brothels in Germany

    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/phone-data-us-soldiers-spies-nuclear-germany/ Source: Wired Title: Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults and Brothels in Germany Feedly Summary: More than 3 billion phone coordinates collected by a US data broker expose the detailed movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany—and the Pentagon is powerless to stop it.…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft, Atom Computing Leap Ahead On the Quantum Frontier With Logical Qubits

    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/11/20/0026222/microsoft-atom-computing-leap-ahead-on-the-quantum-frontier-with-logical-qubits?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft, Atom Computing Leap Ahead On the Quantum Frontier With Logical Qubits Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft and Atom Computing have achieved a significant milestone in developing fault-tolerant quantum computing. The advancement involves utilizing quantum capabilities through Azure cloud service, while also addressing error correction…

  • Hacker News: OpenJDK Authorization

    Source URL: https://github.com/pfirmstone/jdk-with-authorization/blob/master/README.md Source: Hacker News Title: OpenJDK Authorization Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a community fork of OpenJDK focused on enhancing Authorization functionalities while maintaining performance and scalability. It emphasizes policies based on the principle of least privilege and the importance of auditing untrusted code, while simultaneously…

  • The Register: China-linked group abuses Fortinet 0-day with post-exploit VPN-credential stealer

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/19/china_brazenbamboo_fortinet_0day/ Source: The Register Title: China-linked group abuses Fortinet 0-day with post-exploit VPN-credential stealer Feedly Summary: No word on when or if the issue will be fixed Chinese government-linked snoops are exploiting a zero-day bug in Fortinet’s Windows VPN client to steal credentials and other information, according to memory forensics outfit Volexity.… AI…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Notes from Bing Chat—Our First Encounter With Manipulative AI

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/19/notes-from-bing-chat/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Notes from Bing Chat—Our First Encounter With Manipulative AI Feedly Summary: A participated in an Ars Live conversation with Benj Edwards of Ars Technica today, talking about that wild period of LLM history last year when Microsoft launched Bing Chat and it instantly started misbehaving, gaslighting and…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft Rolls Out Recovery Tools After CrowdStrike Incident

    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/11/19/180210/microsoft-rolls-out-recovery-tools-after-crowdstrike-incident?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Rolls Out Recovery Tools After CrowdStrike Incident Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft is implementing significant changes to its Windows security architecture to enhance system resilience and response capabilities. Key features include a remote recovery initiative for unbootable systems and stricter guidelines for third-party security…

  • The Register: America’s drinking water systems have a hard-to-swallow cybersecurity problem

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/19/us_drinking_water_systems_cybersecurity/ Source: The Register Title: America’s drinking water systems have a hard-to-swallow cybersecurity problem Feedly Summary: More than 100 million rely on systems rife with vulnerabilities, says EPA OIG Nearly a third of US residents are served by drinking water systems with cybersecurity shortcomings, the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Inspector General found…