Technology

The intitial investigation is in.

The actions could have resulted in criminal charges had humans been behind the keyboard

Brain signals recorded by a gaming headset or a wellness gadget could one day be used as evidence against you in court, according to a new UN report which warns that neurotechnology is outpacing the laws meant to protect human rights.

They got to him

Cosplaying to be anti “American Tech”, then kissing the empire hand for blessing.

From the even-a-stopped-clock-is-right-twice-a-day department:

This law affects everyone, especially people in the EU and is an attempt to implement ID verification on: Video-sharing platforms, #AI chatbots, AI companions, games, software app stores and operating systems. https://mastodon.social/@madeindex/117285674482286098

An Israeli advertising agency has been serving millions of online adverts that allow “zero-click” spyware to be used against targets, researchers at a Canadian university have said.

On August 18, Fernando Cerimedo was arrested in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, for hiring hitmen to assassinate his ex-partner, Nadia Beller, who was pregnant at the time, after she threatened to go public about his large-scale illegal bot farm operations to throw elections for far-right candidates across Latin America. Still recovering from the multiple gunshot wounds she miraculously survived, she gave an interview this week on the Ventana al Mundo program on Mexico’s public television network, Channel 14. During the interview, she explained how Cerimedo and a member of the Bolsonaro family, who is assumed to be Flavio’s brother Eduardo, met with Meta officials to plot interference in Brazil’s presidential elections. She also said Cerimedo’s largest bot farms are still operating, and that his group is planning to interfere in the Claudia Sheinbaum administration in Mexico. You can watch her interview below. Beneath that, is a transcribed and translated excerpt from her interview.

O&G companies are pushing more AI so they can sell more fossil fuels to AI data centres.

Today an international group of scientists, diplomats, and timekeepers voted to end the leap second, which has been keeping Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) aligned with the time according to Earth’s rotation (UT1) within one second of difference.

Meta glasses were caught spying on their users once more. Meta was quick to “fix” and therefore admit it: “This issue has been resolved…”

The state is seeking potentially millions in damages from Discord, claiming the company misled and deceived children and their parents about safety measures on the app.

Israeli digital advertising agency Discover-Tech spied on internet users through a sprawling network of online ads that it used to ​track targets and help hack their devices, two research groups said on Thursday.

Small EVs and efficient people carriers update familiar names for the modern age.

So this article just popped up on my guardian feed…wild stuff. I’m not a fan of Musk but you gotta admit this is pretty interesting.

Not short, but worth reading: A thorough explanation of the properties of passkeys and why they erode user freedom and privacy.

Excerpts:

The Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32-S3 Sense is for tinkerers, not super-spies.

I can finally start taking heroin!