NHS data breach: trusts shared patient details with Facebook without consent | The Guardian
Observer investigation reveals Meta Pixel tool passed on private details of web browsing on medical sites
Report: ‘massive’ Tesla leak reveals data breaches, thousands of safety complaints | The Guardian
Tesla has failed to adequately protect data from customers, employees and business partners and has received thousands of customer complaints regarding the carmaker’s driver assistance system, Germany’s Handelsblatt has reported, citing 100 gigabytes of confidential data leaked by a whistleblower.
The Handelsblatt report said customer data could be found “in abundance” in a data set labelled “Tesla Files”.
35 Ways Real People Are Using A.I. Right Now - The New York Times
AI image generation puts video game illustrators out of work - Rest of World
https://restofworld.org/2023/ai-image-china-video-game-layoffs/
Recent breakthroughs in AI image generation have created widespread anxiety in China’s video game art industry.
Given the high quality of AI-produced artwork, many illustrators are losing their jobs to AI image generators such as Stable Diffusion and DALL-E 2.
The gaming industry’s job market was already precarious after the Chinese government’s licensing freeze in 2021 threw thousands of game developers out of business.
ChatGPT sets record for fastest-growing user base | Reuters
ChatGPT, the popular chatbot from OpenAI, is estimated to have reached 100 million monthly active users in January, just two months after launch, making it the fastest-growing consumer application in history, according to a UBS study on Wednesday.
CISA, FDA warn of new Illumina DNA device vulnerability
https://therecord.media/illumina-dna-sequencing-devices-vulnerability-fda-cisa
Several U.S. agencies warned this week about a vulnerability affecting software in devices used for DNA research that would allow hackers access to sensitive patient information.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the company behind the devices — Illumina — said they have not received any reports indicating the vulnerability has been exploited.
Illumina is one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of medical devices that handle bioanalysis and DNA sequencing.
Europeisk forbrukernettverk advarer mot å bruke Klarna – NRK Kultur og underholdning
https://www.nrk.no/kultur/europeisk-forbrukernettverk-advarer-mot-a-bruke-klarna-1.16401582
Forbruker Europa er Forbrukertilsynets avdeling for handel på tvers av landegrensene i EU. De hjelper norske forbrukere som handler fra andre EU-land hvis noe går galt.
I fjor og hittil i år har de sett en økning av klager mot betalingstjenesten Klarna og nå advarer de mot å bruke tjenesten.
Facebook to be fined £648m for mishandling user information | Facebook | The Guardian
Decision by Ireland’s privacy regulator will set record for breach of EU’s data protection rules
Hibernation artificially triggered in potential space travel breakthrough | The Guardian
… scientists showed that hibernation can be artificially triggered in rodents using ultrasonic pulses.
The advance is seen as significant because the technique was effective in rats – animals that do not naturally hibernate. This raises the prospect that humans may also retain a vestigial hibernation circuit in the brain that could be artificially reactivated.
“If this proves feasible in humans, we could envision astronauts wearing a helmet-like device designed to target the hypothalamus region for inducing a hypothermia and hypometabolism state,” said Hong Chen, an associate professor at Washington University in St Louis, who led the work.
Hyundai and Kia thefts keep rising despite security fix
https://news.yahoo.com/hyundai-kia-thefts-keep-rising-144034139.html
Nearly three months ago, Hyundai and Kia unveiled software that was designed to thwart an epidemic of thefts of their vehicles, caused by a security flaw that was exposed on TikTok and other social media sites.
So far, it hasn’t solved the problem. Across the country, thieves are still driving off with the vehicles at an alarming rate.
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The companies’ affected cars, many of them lower-cost models from the 2011 to early 2022 model years, were not equipped with a theft immobilizer. Such a device contains a computer chip in the key that must be recognized by another chip in the steering column before the engines will start.
Though most automakers have had the chips for years, Hyundai and Kia have lagged behind the industry as a whole in installing them on many models, thereby allowing thieves to exploit the security gap.