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Meta Unmasks Hundreds Of AI Spies On Facebook And Instagram Made By Italian Surveillance Dealers

Nearly 1,000 fake profiles with AI-generated images have been posing as protesters, journalists and young women, Meta warns, and they appeared to be targeted at reporters and political activists.

www.forbes.com

 

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U.S. Internet Leaked Years of Internal, Customer Emails – Krebs on Security

 

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One of the best videos reviewing the global shutter found on the Sony A9 III.

 

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Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot

Air Canada appears to have quietly killed its costly chatbot support.

arstechnica.com

 

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Fake Funeral Live Stream Scams Are All Over Facebook

Scammers are copying genuine funeral service announcements, making their own Facebook accounts, then directing vulnerable victims to a fake livestream page. “It causes panic on the day where you shouldn't be thinking of that,” one impacted person said.

www.404media.co

 

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Instacart’s AI Recipes Look Literally Impossible

Instacart is showing customers images of AI-generated food and recipes with ingredients that don’t seem to exist.

www.404media.co

 

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Gab’s Racist AI Chatbots Have Been Instructed to Deny the Holocaust

The proliferation of generative AI chatbots on extremist platforms could lead to increased radicalization, experts warn.

www.wired.com

 

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Bezos, Nvidia Join OpenAI in Funding Humanoid Robot Startup

Jeff Bezos, Nvidia Corp. and other big technology names are investing in a business that’s developing human-like robots, according to people with knowledge of the situation, part of a scramble to find new applications for artificial intelligence.

www.bloomberg.com

 

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JavaScript Bloat in 2024

What is the average size of JavaScript code downloaded per website? Fuck around and find out!

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