Author: Robin Edgar
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EU at it again: Says ‘Child Safety’. The Reality is Mandatory ID Verification for Every Adult.
[…] Leaked drafts, confirmed by POLITICO, Bloomberg, Reuters and Euractiv over the past week, lay out an age ladder. Accounts run entirely by parents under 13. Restricted “introductory” accounts from 13 to 15. Full independence from 15 on. The same ladder covers social media, video platforms, games, and AI chatbots, with a narrow carve-out for…
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TagTinker – hack e-ink supermarket price tags
TagTinker is a Flipper Zero app for exploring infrared electronic shelf-label (ESL) protocols. It allows you to transmit custom images and text to supported graphics tags. A companion web image preparer runs entirely in the browser and lets you drop, dither and download Flipper-ready BMPs without any install. As the Flipper Zero team notes: “FYI:…
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Wardogs CEO: Studio Can’t plan or budget and so won’t Hire People Who Are Against Crunch and being underpaid
Requiring people to work for days on end and expecting them to do this often in advance basically means that you are not paying enough people to do the job. You have no idea how to plan your projects and subprojects. You have most likely overpromised to your customers. And worse of all, as you…
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Nearly 10,000 patients reveal what works best for knee arthritis pain relief | ScienceDaily
A major analysis of 139 clinical trials involving nearly 10,000 people suggests that some of the simplest treatments may work best for knee osteoarthritis. Knee braces ranked highest overall for reducing pain, stiffness, and mobility problems, while water-based therapy was especially effective for pain and regular exercise consistently improved both pain and physical function. More…
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220 million traveler records exposed in Vietnam-linked APIS leak
An Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) database holding more than 220 million passenger and crew records, including passport numbers and flight details, was accessible online through a chain of security misconfigurations. The system appears linked to a Vietnamese organization, according to the researchers who discovered it. Advance Passenger Information Systems are used worldwide to collect…
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Ex-FTC boss Khan urges Uncle Sam to break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent
Former FTC chair Lina Khan wants the federal government to know that it doesn’t need to wait for new laws to address AI threats. There are already laws and regulations on the books, including a 92-year-old Supreme Court precedent, that she argues could be used to hold AI companies and, in some circumstances, their executives…
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Dramatically Increasing Usable Closet Space for coats
How to build Narnia’s closet, this video is much more fascinating than it really should be […] many things are so filled with air that we can get a lot more usable storage space by compressing them down a little bit. [Super Valid Designs] took this concept to a coat closet, building one that can…
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LG Denies Accusations Of Smart TVs “Continuously” Recording Its Users – but don’t deny all the rest of the data stealing
Note the use of the word “continuosly” – it does, however intermittently record and transmit your conversations. And there is a LOT of other data that it is stealing. After an unsettling report that accused LG’s smart TVs of spying on its users, the company has responded by saying that “some recent media coverage may…
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OpenAI Stamps Feet, Is Beefing With Mathematicians, Will No Longer Sponsor Caltech ‘Mathathon’
OpenAI research lead Dan Roberts tweeted on Thursday that the firm would be yanking its sponsorship of the Caltech Mathathon, an upcoming event where 100 teams of mathematicians will compete to provide the best answer to the question, “How can we responsibly use AI tools to augment human understanding of mathematics?” As Business Insider noted,…
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Felony Bench – how often has an AI committed a felony?
Felony Bench counts unique instances where AI agents inadvertently compromise or affect third-party entities. Escaping a sandbox by itself or deliberate misuse are not counted as events. It is for these reasons that Frontier Security’s Kimi K3 incident and Alibaba’s ROME incident are not counted. Source: Felony Bench
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Russian, Chinese, Iranian bot armies targeting German and French elections, Sweden warns
[…] In an interview with POLITICO, Magnus Hjort, director general of the Swedish Psychological Defence Agency, said elections were an “opportunity” for Vladimir Putin’s information war machine to try to polarize and divide European societies. The Kremlin’s key objective is to make voters doubt whether their politicians should keep sending money and weapons to Kyiv…
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UK to make everyone ID themselves to use their phones under excuse of… not allowing them to see naked pictures
So again CSAM is being rolled out for total surveillance and mandatory ID’s / age verification on your device. Government preparing legislation to force tech companies to make it impossible for anyone under the age of 18 to take, view or send nude images Apple and Google make progress but Government will prepare new laws…
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Android rolling out passkey transfers between password managers
Source: Android rolling out passkey transfers between password managers
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Lawmakers Ask Lutnick To Blacklist Appin, The Hack-For-Hire Firm That Threatens Almost Anyone Who Prints Its Name
Remember Appin? It’s the Indian “hack for hire” company that got so upset about Reuters’ giant investigation — which detailed how Appin grew into a “leading cyberespionage firm” that “stole secrets from executives, politicians, military officials and wealthy elites around the globe” — that it convinced an Indian court to make Reuters take the story…
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Report: Roughly Half the World’s Governments Underestimated Covid Deaths by the Millions
[…] new research from social scientists in London and Jerusalem is now providing strong indications that the scope of this tragedy was far worse than many governments let on. Moses Shayo and Ariel Karlinsky, two researchers who specialize in political and health economics, compiled an unusually comprehensive dataset from “all-cause mortality” reports, taken across 134…
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The Record Labels Are Done Fighting AI. Now They Want a Cut
Accusing LLMs of copyright theft is not plausible – because of the way they store the material. The music industry has figured out that the courts will not help them, so they are going to make a few bucks from it. Probably 0 goes to the artists themselves, but hey! that’s copyright! Just days after…
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Apple Watch Series 12 Will Listen To Your Conversations all the time
And there are still people who call Apple the “privacy” company – note the word “exclave” when it talks about processing. The bandwidth this thing is going to consume… At its customary early-September event, Apple announced the Watch Series 12 with “Audio Intelligence.” It’s a feature designed to listen out for and keep track of…
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OpenAI may be listening – stealing your work to solve maths problems and then taking the credit
tl;dr – be very aware of what you query OpenAI on – they will take your inputs and outputs, put them into an internal model and then claim the credit for your work, whilst strong arming you to distance yourself from your own work. OpenAI’s latest mathematical milestone has quickly become mired in controversy. Today,…
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A List Of Times Sony Told People They Own Their Digital Games
As part of an ongoing lawsuit against Sony, the company’s lawyers recently claimed “reasonable” consumers understand that when they buy a digital game on PlayStation, they don’t actually own it. So it doesn’t need to better disclose this fact on its store page. However, people have been documenting all the times PlayStation has told players…
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US government argues with EFF that fair use applies to OpenAI’s training of LLMs in key copyright case – unbelievably the US govt has some sanity somewhere
[…]One particularly important issue is whether it is fair use to use copyright material to train AI (at least in jurisdictions where fair use rights exist). The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has a long history of defending fair use, and of trying to thwart attempts to expand copyright protections – a theme that also runs…
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Flushing the toilet shoots out aerosols, including microbes
Researchers from Flinders University have found that flushing toilets can release aerosols and bioaerosols into the surrounding air, with some studies detecting particles at heights corresponding to the breathing zone of adults. The new study, published in Science of the Total Environment, systematically reviewed research into aerosol and bioaerosol that is generated during toilet flushing,…
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Australia to let social media users ‘opt out’ of algorithm-based feeds
It’s odd to see the Aussies – who have a knack for getting things internet incredibly wrong, such as banning encryption which isn’t broken and identity checking for the whole internet – get something right. Australia plans to give social media users the ability to switch off algorithm-based feeds in proposed legislation, making the latest…
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Epic games to give your ID data to 4 different providers if you want to play 18+ games
The amount of providers is pretty staggering, if not really surprising. But it is super sensitive and private and really hammers home how easy it is becoming for hackers to grab your data from one of several repositories. To comply with local regulations (Opens in new tab), players in Australia will need to verify they…
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Bitcoin-based Liquid Network says $320 million withdrawn in hack
Liquid Network, a Bitcoin-based payments and settlement network, said on Sunday that about $320 million was withdrawn from its federation wallet in a hack. “Purported white-hat hackers” withdrew around 4,000 of the 4,200 bitcoin held in its Liquid Federation wallet, Liquid Network said in a post on X. “Liquid wallets will be impacted, and we’re…
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Pranos: Transform Car Windows into Digital Displays and Screens
A complete kit that projects videos outward through a precision-cut screen made for your car. Everything you need, from $289. Source: Pranos: Transform Car Windows into Digital Displays and Screens – Pranos Inc
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