Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.
https://t.co/VdWe9uhi8p
🚨 New blog post: ELEGANTBOUNCER - Catch iOS 0-click exploits without having the samples.
Features iOS backup forensics & messaging app scanning for iMessage, WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram & Viber attachments.
🔗 Link -> https://t.co/tFnJDrFT0M
NPR EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data from the NLRB and hid its tracks.
A must-read from @JennaMC_Laugh.
https://t.co/9kuJUXaptn
Shingles vax appears to prevent dementia! Our Nature paper is first of many from my group to show this. We use a really neat natural experiment to provide causal (not just correlational!) evidence. Paper: https://t.co/yKWKFhGrUn; video (👏 @DrMayaAdam): https://t.co/po7OUP76vq
There are so many great reasons to be on Signal.
Now including the opportunity for the vice president of the United States of America to randomly add you to a group chat for coordination of sensitive military operations.
Don’t sleep on this opportunity…
As OpenAI and Meta introduce LLM-driven searchbots, I'd like to once again remind people that neither LLMs nor chatbots are good technology for information access.
A thread, with links:
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The Nobel prize just supercharged corporations' data theft, labor exploitation & plundering of the environment by lending credence to the notion that they have built "superintelligent" things that are gonna either take us out or bring us utopia any day now (who knows which one).
Leading article in NYT this morning: why can’t the US do anything to stop Israel’s aggression? They’re powerless, bumbling around in the dark looking for their dicks. Oh well
8 paragraphs in: Well, Biden can stop Israel but just doesn’t want to? Anyway moving on.
As @RachelTobac points out, this auto opting in craze has to stop. Just like the EU cookie directive, which yes had a terrible implementation, made many aware of the pervasive nature of ad tracking, we need the same for AI data training
At the height of One Million Checkboxes's popularity I thought I'd been hacked. A few hours later I was tearing up, extraordinarily proud of some brilliant teens.
A thread about my favorite story from running OMCB....
Excellent new essay by Ted Chiang, who gets to the heart of why language and art are inherently about conveying meaning and experience, not just form:
https://t.co/agSPvlaLb0
Train vendor in Poland is suing Polish ethical hackers who identified logic bombs making trains stop. I'm not sure how the courts will handle this case. But I am sure how it would fare in Court of Justice of European Union. It would be a precedent! Perhaps it's worth it :-)