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Monday, July 25, 2022

Nobody likes self-checkout. Here's why it's everywhere

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 The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies
Bloomberg
 Driver says GPS made him turn onto train tracks in Everett; at least he was able to escape before train destroyed his car
UniversalHub
 DeepMind AI Learns Simple Physics Like a Baby
Davide Castelvecchi
 As AI Language Skills Grow, So Do Scientists' Concerns
Matt O'Brien


 Researchers Defeat Facial Recognition Systems with Universal Face Mask
Zeljka Zorz
 Pentagon UFO study led by researcher who believes in the supernatural
Science
 Criminal Justice Algorithm Predicts Risk of Biased Sentencing
Jule Pattison-Gordon
 The Long, Strange Relationship Between Psychedelics and Telepathy
Vice
 How your brainwaves could be used in criminal trials
techxplore.com
 New 'Retbleed' Speculative Execution Attack Affects AMD, Intel CPUs
Ravie Lakshmanan
 New UEFI Firmware Vulnerabilities Impact Several Lenovo Notebook
The Hacker News
 Choosing a non-Windows OS on Lenovo Secured-core PCs is trickier than it should be
The Register
 How the FBI Wiretapped the World
Vice
 Democracy dies behind a paywall
Poynter
 User Generated Content
Lauren Weinstein
 Cryptomining Capacity in U.S. Rivals Energy Use of Houston
Hiroko Tabuchi
 How the fall of Celsius dragged down crypto investors
CNBC
 Tech experts send letter to Congress urging them to resist crypto industry lobbying
Twitter
 GM rebate on new Cadillac Lyriq if drivers sign NDA, agree to tracking
USA Today
 Uber leveraged violent attacks against its drivers to pressure politicians
WashPost
 About the Uber Files investigation
WashPost
 Hit the kill switch: Uber used covert tech to thwart government raids
WashPost
 GOOD! - Google bans deepfake-generating AI from Colab
TechCrunch
 Google Voice problems
Lauren Weinstein
 Full text of Google's proposal for political email to bypass Gmail spam filters—and an interesting sentence
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 MIT scientists think they've discovered how to fully reverse climate change
BGR
 Meet the Lobbyist Next Door
WiReD
 Facebook encrypting links to avoid URL-stripping
Henry Baker
 Facebook, privacy and abortion
Reveal News
 Nobody likes self-checkout. Here's why it's everywhere
The Atlantic
 Major American Companies to Schools: Expand Access to Computer Science
Alyson Klein
 FedEx bot apologizes for pending delivery' of missing human remains
WashPost
 Re: Canadian network outage misunderstatement OTD
David W. Hodgins
 ISODARCO 2023
Diego.Latella
 Info on RISKS (comp.risks)