https://www.wired.co.uk/article/slovakia-election-deepfakes
Fact-checkers scrambled to deal with faked audio recordings released days before a tight election, in a warning for other countries with looming votes.
The case of Jaswant Singh Chail has shone a light on the latest generation of artificial intelligence-powered chatbots.On Thursday, 21-year-old Chail was given a nine-year sentence for breaking into Windsor Castle with a crossbow and declaring he wanted to kill the Queen.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has, for the first time, published rules of engagement for civilian hackers involved in conflicts.The organisation warns unprecedented numbers of people are joining patriotic cyber-gangs since the Ukraine invasion.The eight rules include bans on attacks on hospitals, hacking tools that spread uncontrollably and threats that engender terror among civilians.
https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/how-will-ai-learn-next
As chatbots threaten their own best sources of data, they will have to find new kinds of knowledge.
https://www.roughtype.com/?p=8935
Facebook, it’s now widely accepted, has been a calamity for the world. The obvious solution, most people would agree, is to get rid of Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg has a different idea: Get rid of the world.
https://news.mit.edu/2023/desalination-system-could-produce-freshwater-cheaper-0927
MIT engineers and collaborators developed a solar-powered device that avoids salt-clogging issues of other designs.
Considering that tech giants make most of their revenue from advertising, it wasn’t surprising to see Microsoft introduce ads into Bing Chat shortly after its release. However, online ads have an inherent risk attached to them. In this blog, we show how users searching for software downloads can be tricked into visiting malicious sites and installing malware directly from a Bing Chat conversation.
“The findings revealed subtle but measurable changes in the speech of the overwintering staff during their time in Antarctica,” writes Mental Floss’ Brett Reynolds. “One change was convergence, where individuals in a close-knit group unconsciously begin to adopt similar speech characteristics.
Turns out pumps at gas stations are controlled via Bluetooth, and that the connections are insecure. No details in the article, but it seems that it’s easy to take control of the pump and have it dispense gas without requiring payment.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/10/hacking-gas-pumps-via-bluetooth.html
The pedestrian was struck in a hit and run collision that threw her into the path of a driverless vehicle that then ran her over, stopping on top of her leg and remaining there until she was rescued by police, a witness told the San Francisco Chronicle.
The woman was admitted to hospital and is in a critical condition after the incident, which required the stationary car to be lifted off the ground, San Francisco’s fire department said.