Major Photography Prize Winner Reveals Image Is AI-Generated, Rejects Award
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3vxy/sony-world-photography-awards-ai-generated
“I applied as a cheeky monkey, to find out if the competitions are prepared for AI images to enter. They are not,” he wrote. “We, the photo world, need an open discussion. A discussion about what we want to consider photography and what not. Is the umbrella of photography large enough to invite AI images to enter—or would this be a mistake? With my refusal of the award I hope to speed up this debate.”
NSO Group Exploited New Zero-Click Vulnerabilities in iOS
https://gizmodo.com/nso-group-exploited-new-zero-click-vulnerabilities-in-i-1850347936
Citizen Lab identified three new exploits that targeted iOS users worldwide in 2022. Apple’s Lockdown Mode reportedly worked as promised.
Quantum computing could break the internet. This is how
Reddit Moderators Brace for a ChatGPT Spam Apocalypse
https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg5qy8/reddit-moderators-brace-for-a-chatgpt-spam-apocalypse
Reddit moderators say they already see an increase in spam and that the future will “require a lot of human labor.”
Scientists use AI to discover new antibiotic to treat deadly superbug | The Guardian
According to a new study published on Thursday in the science journal Nature Chemical Biology, a group of scientists from McMaster University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered a new antibiotic that can be used to kill a deadly hospital superbug.
The superbug in question is Acinetobacter baumannii, which the World Health Organization has classified as a “critical” threat among its “priority pathogens” – a group of bacteria families that pose the “greatest threat” to human health.
Students’ psychological reports, abuse allegations leaked by ransomware hackers
Hackers who broke into the Minneapolis Public Schools earlier this year have circulated an enormous cache of files that appear to include highly sensitive documents on schoolchildren and teachers, including allegations of teacher abuse and students’ psychological reports.
The poisoning of ChatGPT
https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/the-poisoning-of-chatgpt/
Given that we’ve known about model poisoning for years, and given the strong incentives the black-hat SEO crowd has to manipulate results, it’s entirely possible that bad actors have been poisoning ChatGPT for months. We don’t know because OpenAI doesn’t talk about their processes, how they validate the prompts they use for training, how they vet their training data set, or how they fine-tune ChatGPT. Their secrecy means we don’t know if ChatGPT has been safely managed.
Thieves Can Steal Modern Cars By Tapping Into a Headlight Wire
https://jalopnik.com/car-thieves-hack-can-bus-headlight-wire-bluetooth-1850307214
Hackers can inject malicious code into a car’s electronic network via headlight or taillight wires, fooling the car into thinking the key is present.
Brain implants help paralysed man to walk again - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65689580
A paralysed man has been able to walk simply by thinking about it thanks to electronic brain implants, a medical first he says has changed his life.
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The electronic implants wirelessly transmit his thoughts to his legs and feet via a second implant on his spine.