Media has the ability to make good seem evil and evil seem good.
Australia Post responds as Sunshine Coast residents shocked to find mail dumped in bin
Study reveals the key reason why fake news spreads on social media
Washington Post: “More storms are expected to drench the West Coast this week as parts of California are still dealing with flooding, destruction and power outages caused by recent atmospheric rivers.
It’s the latest extreme weather to hit the country this winter. A powerful winter “bomb cyclone” pummeled the central U.S. and Great Lakes region in December. A smartphone can be a lifeline in these types of natural disasters, connecting you to assistance and real-time resources. Unfortunately, events like winter storms, hurricanes, wildfires and heat wavescan take out the power grids and cell networks phones rely on to do that work. It’s an increasingly common situation.
More than 40 percent of Americans live in a county that was struck by climate-related extreme weather last year, a Post analysis of federal data showed. If you’re preparing for, in the midst of, or recovering from dangerous weather or climate disasters, here are some of the best ways to get your phone in the best shape to help you.”
Lifehacker: “One Gmail, one address. That seems right. After all, you have one phone number, and one home address. The same should be true for your email addresses, Gmail included. As it happens, though, your Gmail account has an unlimited number of addresses you can use whenever you want, fooling everyone from Netflix to spammers alike. There are actually a couple of methods here.
The first is what allows you to turn your single gmail address into infinite addresses, through a tactic called “plus addressing” (a fitting name). In order to take advantage of plus addressing, you simply type a plus (+) after the local-part (the name before the @), then type whatever you want. For example, if my Gmail address were jake@gmail.com, I could type jake+lifehacker@gmail.com, or jake+gomedia@gmail.com. The service you’re using that email with will think it’s an entirely new address, but any emails to that address will still be sent to your inbox. This works for any Gmail address, even if the domain isn’t gmail.com.”
A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?
MIT Technology Report: “…While the images shared with us did not come from iRobot customers, consumers regularly consent to having our data monitored to varying degrees on devices ranging from iPhones to washing machines.
It’s a practice that has only grown more common over the past decade, as data-hungry artificial intelligence has been increasingly integrated into a whole new array of products and services. Much of this technology is based on machine learning, a technique that uses large troves of data—including our voices, faces, homes, and other personal information—to train algorithms to recognize patterns.
The most useful data sets are the most realistic, making data sourced from real environments, like homes, especially valuable. Often, we opt in simply by using the product, as noted in privacy policies with vague language that gives companies broad discretion in how they disseminate and analyze consumer information. The data collected by robot vacuums can be particularly invasive. They have “powerful hardware, powerful sensors,” says Dennis Giese, a PhD candidate at Northeastern University who studies the security vulnerabilities of Internet of Things devices, including robot vacuums.
“And they can drive around in your home—and you have no way to control that.” This is especially true, he adds, of devices with advanced cameras and artificial intelligence—like iRobot’s Roomba J7 series. This data is then used to build smarter robots whose purpose may one day go far beyond vacuuming. But to make these data sets useful for machine learning, individual humans must first view, categorize, label, and otherwise add context to each bit of data.
This process is called data annotation… iRobot has said that it has shared over 2 million images with Scale AI and an unknown quantity more with other data annotation platforms; the company has confirmed that Scale is just one of the data annotators it has used…”
Contents
- NASA just brought a spacecraft 23 billion kilometres away to LIFE and the results are Astonishing
- ViralOnce
- Remote Vulnerabilities in Automobiles
- Bruce Schneier
- Linux Malware Uses 30 Plugin Exploits to Backdoor WordPress Sites
- Bill Toulas
- Cops Hacked Thousands of Phones. Was It Legal?
- WiReD
- The next time scammers call your grandparents asking for money, it will be with your voice.
- MPost
- Ransomware group LockBit apologizes saying 'partner' was behind SickKids attack
- CBC-CA
- Matt Levine on Ransomware compliance
- Joe Loughry
- Programming Languages: Why This Old Favorite Is on the Rise Again
- Liam Tung
- 3rd-party Twitter apps stop working without warning, leaks indicate Twitter did this intentionally
- Engadget
- How ChatGPT Hijacks Democracy
- *The New York Times*
- ChatGPT-Written Malware
- Bruce Schneier
- Microsoft to challenge Google by integrating ChatGPT with Bing Search
- The Verge
- A New Area of AI Booms, Even Amid the Tech Gloom
- NYTimes
- Re: Pretty Smart AI
- Jurek Kirakowski
- State of the cybersecurity art
- NCSC UK via Gary Hinson
- Artist Banned from reddit/Art Because Mods Thought They Used AI
- Vice
- Re: Calculations on Maryland college savings plans lead to account freeze)
- Martin Ward
- Southwest airline disruption
- Martin Ward
- Amazing Southwest story...
- Paul Saffo
- The oven won't talk to the fridge: 'smart' homes struggle
- techxplore.com
- Colorado ski town emergency dispatch centers fielding dozens of automated 911 calls from skier iPhones
- Jason Blevins via Paul Saffo
- Re: As Tesla stock tanks, videos of Teslas malfunctioning in below-freezing temps go viral
- John Levine
- Re: Cats disrupt satellite Internet service
- Henry Baker
- Re: I bought a $15 router at Goodwill, and found a millionaire's dirty secrets
- Steve Bacher
- Info on RISKS (comp.risks)
