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- Comment on The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs 20 hours ago:
The certificate authority and their auditor will need to answer questions from browsers.
They both should have detected and reported this.
- Comment on Tidy McSpaceplace 4 days ago:
Space Junk Grabber
- Comment on Meta may use sweeping new commercial TOS to avoid millions in AI licensing fees 4 days ago:
Businesses would be wise to prepare migration Away from Meta’s walled gardens/platform.
Business associations could use their weight to coordinate and promote such move, if they wanted to protect their members from being ripped off by Meta. Not holding my breath, those groups seem oblivious to big tech’s dominance.
- Comment on Cyberattack destroys food at hundreds of French grocery stores 1 week ago:
Enshittification everywhere.
- Comment on Cyberattack destroys food at hundreds of French grocery stores 1 week ago:
I disagree. For any given attack, the attacker has most responsibilty. Destroying food is particularily vicious. If someone breaks into a house, taking davantage of an old rusted lock, and trashes the inside, the owner shouldn’t be called stupid.
It’s certainly a good idea a harden security and replace weak locks when the number of attacks increase.
- Comment on Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all — targets 100% parity in one month despite piracy claims and safety warnings 1 week ago:
Musk said it would be full self driving several years ago.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@beehaw.org | 8 comments
- Comment on New Mexico jury finds Facebook liable for over 43 million violations of consumer protection law—and Meta could owe over $200 billion in penalties 3 weeks ago:
violations of state consumer protection law
Presidential pardon is not an option.
- Comment on Bang! 3 weeks ago:
In such hypothetical situation, it may be a bit more ethical to do like in the Alias series finale. Don’t kill the vilain, let him to starve in a remote place. If he happens to be immortal for some reason, ensure he’s burried deep.
- Comment on How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month 4 weeks ago:
Ad-blockers like uBlock origin can filter slop websites.
A blocklist for AI images codeberg.org/…/uBlockOrigin-AI-Blocklist/ this is a “fork and expansion of laylavish’ AI image blocklist on github”.
I’m not aware of a similar blocklist for written content, which could block slop farms like the one mention in the article. Recommandations are welcome.
- Comment on Microsoft director called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ while OpenAI head brands ChatGPT an ‘existential threat’ to publishers — revelations come from legal briefs filed… 4 weeks ago:
This headline should be eye opening for LLM AI users, regarless of the outcome of this lawsuit.
- Comment on US coal ‘biggest contributor by far’ to rise in global emissions 5 weeks ago:
The rise in coal use was largely driven by the growth of data centres
AI summaries, agents, chatbots, brought to you by coal and tech oligarchs.
- Comment on AI Is Creating New Jobs But Millions of Workers May Not Be Ready 1 month ago:
This article have lots of signs it has in large part AI generated. Multiples lists, em-dashes, AI generated illustrations.
I don’t see any clear disclosure on the article’s page, but there’s a AI policy page explaining how those are used in many way, including for the writing.
It make it hard to take this seriously. If this online media don’t bother writing articles, why bother reading them?
- Comment on Microsoft Paint and Photos Embed Server-Issued GUIDs as Invisible Watermarks in Locally-Generated Images 1 month ago:
1.67 MB in size, which is unusually large for such trivial functionality
Don’t underestimate Microsoft’s ability to write bloated software. Any sloppy developer really.
- Comment on Quantum Computer Solves a Problem in 15 Minutes That Classical Methods Can’t Practically Compute 1 month ago:
It’s too early to publish a news article about it, then.
- Comment on ‘Nightmare fodder’: Roku’s AI slop channel is even worse than expected 2 months ago:
They are loosing billions… of investor money.
This may include people investing in index funds, now that Musk’s Space/AI company is publicly listed. Maybe a piece of people’s pension fund as well, if NVIDIA’s wish comes true. fortune.com/…/nvidia-wants-your-pension-fund-in-t…
The layman with money in index or pension fund probably don’t intend to invest in AI, but here we are.
- Comment on Burnham to consider ban on disposable barbecues as wildfires rage in UK 2 months ago:
Who came up with that terrible idea!?
- Comment on Primary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment 2 months ago:
Give the list of every children enrolled at school. Everyone is at risk of unemployment if governments keep focus on people being at fault for being unemployed, rather than ensuring proper conditions and training are available to avoid unemployment.
- Comment on Skill Issue 😓 2 months ago:
“If you need extra hire, a friend is looking for a job, I could get you in touch”
- Comment on Forgot your Google password? Now you can log in with a selfie. 2 months ago:
It might be possible to fool it.
More important, it’s normalizing use of facial recognition in everyday situations. This is a very invasive tech and prime for abuse by increasingly autoratarian governments.
- Comment on Amazon Web Services customers receive bills for up to $1.5tn after global glitch 2 months ago:
I guess developers working on AWS are increasingly vibe coding.
Or maybe the invoive are accurate, and LLMs continue to increase memory and hosing cost for everyone.
- Comment on London's police asked Big Tech for private communications data over 700,000 times last year 4 months ago:
But who knows
Apparently not the public. Lack of transparency makes it hard for citizens and lawmakers to make informed policy decisions.
- Comment on London's police asked Big Tech for private communications data over 700,000 times last year 4 months ago:
Thanks for the background, I’m not familiar with UK’s regulation on telcos.
I stand corrected, this isn’t like wiretap as the article mention Communication Data (CD) is metadata rather than content. It’s still very intrusive as it show who is talking to who, when, and possibily where (location is metadata).
The scale is still surprising, what kind of crime is London police investigating at a scale of 700k (or even 100k) a year ? It still beaches privacy so it should be proportional. It make sense to make access to metadata a bit easier than metadata+content. That’s food for thought for citizens and lawmakers.
- Comment on London's police asked Big Tech for private communications data over 700,000 times last year 4 months ago:
Requesting communications data from an ISP isn’t any of those things though.
What do you mean? It’s not a wiretap? Not about serious crime? Not an abuse of police power? None of the above?
- Comment on London's police asked Big Tech for private communications data over 700,000 times last year 4 months ago:
Where the warrant comes in is if you need to search a house and seize things.
A warrant is absolutely proportional for accessing private communications or searching private devices.
Privacy is a human right. It must be protected even if it’s not absolute. Having a judge approuve the equivalent of a wiretap is the right thing to do.
Abuse and disproportionate breach of privacy would certainly grind to a halt. It’s worth bothering a judge to wiretap a crime suspects, nor for minor offense or to harrass activists.
- Comment on London's police asked Big Tech for private communications data over 700,000 times last year 4 months ago:
The ability for police to request information is not controversial for crimes and online threats, given independant oversight, ideally a judge auhorizing a warrant.
What’s controversial is the scale, which suggest this power may be abuser and/or used disproportionately.
- Submitted 5 months ago to cybersecurity@infosec.pub | 1 comment
- Comment on Windows BitLocker 0-Day Vulnerability Enables Access to Encrypted Drives 5 months ago:
Windows is a toy OS, good enough to play video games. But many confused people think it’s okay to use for critical or sensitive operations.
- Comment on New Mexico proposes $3.7bn fine for Meta and sweeping changes to its social platforms 5 months ago:
They’re requesting mostly wrong solutions for real problems.
Age verification doesn’t address social media’s problems, but does increase data collection and decrease privacy. Same for decrypting private messages.
A guardian account does seem reasonable.
They could also completely turn off user seach for minors, so they would have to add contacts by username or email, and couldn’t reach or be reached easily by online strangers.
- Comment on Google says 75% of the company's new code is AI-generated 5 months ago:
And I guess engineers would be held responsible for the code produced by the AI agent’s they’re pressured to use.
So they can blame and fire more engineers when things go wrong.