Prem Nawaz Khan

Digital accessibility enthusiast, ex-PayPal, ex-Csc, ex-Yahoo!

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

17-year-old Beth Knight was at a London train station when she was approached by a man.

She didn't know at the time, but she was being secretly filmed on his Meta glasses. She tells Channel 4 News she was "terrified" and didn't know how the interaction would end.

Billed as the latest high-tech must have, there's growing backlash against Meta's smart glasses amid evidence some users are secretly filming women without their knowledge or consent.

Meta insists they designed their AI glasses with privacy and safety features built in from the start - including an LED light which comes on whenever someone is filming.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

So you know the company that makes Claude, the AI you’ve probably used?

They just built something so dangerous they refuse to release it to the public.

It is called Claude Mythos, and here is the insane part:

Anthropic did not train it to be a hacking tool, the capabilities just appeared on their own as a byproduct of making it smarter.

They looked at what it could do and said we cannot let anyone have this.

What can it do?

It found thousands of previously unknown security vulnerabilities in every major operating system and every major web browser.

Including a 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD, one of the most secure operating systems ever built, that the entire global security community missed for nearly three decades.

An Anthropic engineer with zero security training asked it to find a remote code execution vulnerability before going to bed, woke up the next morning and had a complete working exploit waiting.

Over 99% of the vulnerabilities it found were still unpatched at the time of the breach.

So instead of releasing it, Anthropic gave access to 40 companies including Apple, Google, Microsoft, and JPMorgan under Project Glasswing, backed by $100 million in usage credits.

The idea being: let defenders use it before attackers get something similar.

Then unauthorized users got in anyway, on the exact same day it was announced, exploiting a contractor's credentials and making educated guesses about the model's location.

The U.S. Treasury Secretary called an emergency meeting with Goldman Sachs, Citi, and other big banks specifically because of Mythos.

Mozilla used it to find and patch 271 Firefox vulnerabilities in weeks.

The UK's AI Security Institute confirmed it is the first AI model to complete a simulated full network takeover.

And OpenAI announced a similar model just one week later.

We are in a completely different era with this stuff and most people have no idea.

Source: Anthropic, TechCrunch, Bloomberg

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Trump:

The United States can’t take care of daycare.

We can’t take care of daycare. We’re a big country. We have 50 states. We have all these other people. We’re fighting wars.

It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things.

[Johnny Cadillac @lippyent]

Truth

[The Associated Press @AP]

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gives Anthropic a Friday deadline to open its AI technology for unrestricted military use or risk losing contract, source tells AP. https://t.co/WthiNqHv8y

[Prem Nawaz Khan @mpnkhan]

A class-action suit over Siri spying has led to a $95 million Apple payout — you have to July 2 to file a claim.

https://t.co/ejdeetp725

[JELLY HEAD @LordOrk]

Nearly 250 people fell into gap between Tube trains + platform last year

16 incidents of falling into gap between train + platform on London Overground

⁦@LevelBoarding⁩ safer for all

Infrastructure upgrades now ⁦@TfL⁩ ⁦@networkrail⁩ https://t.co/KhkNnfa9UB

[Prem Nawaz Khan @mpnkhan]

https://t.co/7bwW48ZJkl

[Prem Nawaz Khan @mpnkhan]

@NewzHook @shibulijack Lot of useful info

[Saqib Shaikh @saqibs]

Excited to share our work on AI Audio Descriptions. Generates descriptions of video and fits the gaps between dialog. Releasing as open source for media companies to integrate into their workflows. Here's to making content more inclusive for blind viewers! https://t.co/v5obvWFUtc

[Freedom Scientific, a Vispero Company @FreedomSci]

Looking for short training videos on specific topics? You’ll find them on the freedom Scientific Training channel on YouTube. #FreedomScientificTraining
https://t.co/Zt0Qv9YYwG

[Prem Nawaz Khan @mpnkhan]

Watch- Practical Steps to Deter and Win Web Accessibility Lawsuit from TPGi
https://t.co/Ka96pPIhVW

[Prem Nawaz Khan @mpnkhan]

Watch - "So, You Want an Accessibility Score?" by @karlgroves
https://t.co/JShuhLt8zA

[Jon Avila @JonAvilaA11y]

Walmart rolling out inclusive, accessible carts at stores in 11 states https://t.co/91vL4R6iWx

[macy ♡ @7RlNGSINHAND]

actual piracy sites have less ads than youtube now

[Paul Hudson @twostraws]

Hearing aid built into AirPods Pro? Well done to that entire team 👏 #AppleEvent

[GitHub Projects Community @GithubProjects]

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[GitHub Projects Community @GithubProjects]

Why is a "pull request" not a "push request"? 🤔

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Thread of cool maps you've (probably) never seen before 🧵

1. All roads lead to Rome

[Node.js @nodejs]

⚠️ We're encouraging all users to temporarily downgrade to Node.js v22.4.1 due to a bug in v22.5.0.

Full details here: https://t.co/N0UFoLqoak