Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Former NSA Director Joins OpenAI; Will Serve On Board And “Security” Committee
June 14th, 2024Chat GPT-4o: OpenAI’s New Realtime Multimodal Model: This will make the individual profiling and surveillance that has been done by search engines for decades seem trivial. OpenAI almost certainly wants this to be free for everyone in order to gather up as much personal and training data as possible. OpenAI is probably able to review […]
Microsoft Delays Recall AI Feature on Security Concerns
June 13th, 2024Via: Reuters: Microsoft will not roll out “Recall”, an AI-powered feature that tracks computer usage, with its new computers next week and will instead preview it with a smaller group later, the tech giant said on Thursday, amid concerns of privacy risks. The Recall feature tracks web browsing to voice chats, creating a history stored […]
U.S. Spending More Money On Chip Manufacturing Construction This Year Than In Previous 28 Years Combined
June 12th, 2024Via: Tom’s Hardware: The Biden administration’s CHIPS Act is pumping money into chip manufacturing construction at an historic rate. According to a recent report from the U.S. Census Bureau, the growth of computer and electrical manufacturing construction funding is so great that the U.S. government will add as much funding to the sector in 2024 […]
Apple Intelligence
June 10th, 2024“Your requests and information will not be logged.” Mmm hmm. pic.twitter.com/KEH013QA8Y — cryptogon (@cryptogon) June 11, 2024 Via: The Verge: Apple announced “Apple Intelligence” at WWDC 2024, its name for a new suite of AI features for the iPhone, Mac, and more. Starting later this year, Apple is rolling out what it says is a […]
Full Tucker Carlson Interview with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY)
June 10th, 2024Rep. Thomas Massie doesn’t care what you think of him, which is pretty great. (3:19) Where Does US Debt End?(10:32) Why Massie Voted 15 Times Against Funding Israel(14:53) AIPAC(34:04) Mitch McConnell(42:25) Area 51(50:32) Massie's Relationship with Trump(57:09) Kill… pic.twitter.com/VBOiWjq056 — Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) June 7, 2024
Ultrasonic Investigations in Shopping Centres
June 9th, 2024For the handful of people who can hear it… Via: Absorptions: I can’t remember how I first came across these near-ultrasonic ‘beacons’ ubiquitous in PA systems. I might have been scrolling through the audio spectrum while waiting for the underground train; or it might have been the screeching ‘tinnitus-like’ sensation I would often get near […]
Adobe: “We May Access Your Content Through Both Automated and Manual Methods, Such as for Content Review”
June 7th, 2024Madness. Via: Venture Beat: In particular, users have objected to Adobe’s claims that it “may access, view, or listen to your Content through both automated and manual methods…using techniques such as machine learning in order to improve our Services and Software and the user experience,” which many took to be a tacit admission both of […]
Microsoft Will Switch Off Recall by Default After Security Backlash
June 7th, 2024Via: Wired: When Microsoft named its new Windows feature Recall, the company intended the word to refer to a kind of perfect, AI-enabled memory for your device. Today, the other, unintended definition of “recall”—a company’s admission that a product is too dangerous or defective to be left on the market in its current form—seems more […]
Israeli Government Funded Covert Influence Campaign Targeting U.S. Lawmakers
June 7th, 2024Via: Common Dreams: Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs organized and paid for a digital campaign to influence U.S. lawmakers, especially Democrats who are Black, The New York Timesreported on Wednesday. The ministry allotted $2 million to the operation in October and hired Stoic, a Tel Aviv-based political marketing firm, to carry it out. Stoic established […]
South Carolina: Another Container Ship Disaster Narrowly Averted, Engines “Were Stuck Nearly Full-Ahead”
June 6th, 2024Via: The Hill: An investigation is underway after a large container ship lost the ability to control its engines in Charleston Harbor, prompting a temporary closure of the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge. U.S. Coast Guard Sector Command Center in Charleston, South Carolina, received a report from the harbor’s pilot dispatch around 12:17 p.m. of an […]
