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A leading misinformation expert is being accused of citing non-existent sources to defend Minnesota’s new law banning election misinformation.

At the behest of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, Hancock recently submitted an affidavit supporting new legislation that bans the use of so-called “deep fake” technology to influence an election. The law is being challenged in federal court by a conservative YouTuber and Republican state Rep. Mary Franson of Alexandria for violating First Amendment free speech protections.

Hancock’s expert declaration in support of the deep fake law cites numerous academic works. But several of those sources do not appear to exist, and the lawyers challenging the law say they appear to have been made up by artificial intelligence software like ChatGPT.

 

A recent study published in the Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice sheds light on people's motivations to use Z-Library. Expensive books and limited access to academic material play a key role among those surveyed. That includes a group of Chinese postgraduate students who believe that shadow libraries help to overcome (academic) poverty.

 

Amazon, Amazon Music, and Audible, an Amazon-owned online audiobook and podcast service, have been flooded with bogus listings that push dubious "forex trading" sites, Telegram channels, and suspicious links claiming to offer pirated software.

 

Google has updated its site reputation abuse policy to expand what is included in abuse. It now includes third-party content that has first-party involvement or content oversight. Google also dropped a mention of the starkly different content algorithm but made no mention that site reputation abuse is enforced algorithmically—so it must still be only through manual actions.

 

AI chatbots are now in everyday use both across different industries and recreationally. In this blog, we consider the growing possibility that these AI tools are the next home of the multi-billion-dollar advertising industry. We look at examples from some AI companies that have already announced demos of sponsored ads in their AI chatbot tools, and discuss why this is dangerous territory for users.

 

 
  • 57% of the population is already connected to mobile internet.
  • In Pakistan, Nigeria, and Mexico, the rate of new mobile internet subscriber growth is slowing.
  • The remaining populations will be harder, and more expensive, to get online.
 

A team of hackers from Brazil have taken first place in a hackathon organized by the country's telecoms regulator. The challenge was to develop a solution to prevent non-approved 'pirate' set-top devices from functioning in people's homes. The team say they were able to remotely transfer code which completely disabled a target device. Once implemented, "there will be a general failure in most of the irregular boxes in use," the hacker predicted.

 

French regional daily Ouest-France, the top-selling paper in the country, is the latest in a string of European publications to suspend posts on X, formerly Twitter. The social media platform is accused of enabling the spread of disinformation under its owner Elon Musk, an ally of US president-elect Donald Trump.

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submitted 19 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) by Joker@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
 

Disable JavaScript, to bypass paywall.

 

Disable JavaScript, for the best experience.

The company that has helped millions of people cut security lines wants to give you a frictionless future—in exchange for your face.

[–] Joker@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (11 children)

What Lemmy client do you use?

I am asking because it caught my attention that you didn't upvote your own comment.

Also, funny reference 😂

[–] Joker@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

*On TEMU or AliExpress.

[–] Joker@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

They already have Servo.

[–] Joker@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago (5 children)

It has a soft paywall.

[–] Joker@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Did you read the article?

I am asking genuinely.

[–] Joker@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Let me warn you first, your GPU might cause some issues with the distro.

Based on all the info you told me about the distro you want, I would recommend Opensuse Tumbleweed.

After installing you would just need to install Nvidia drivers and the codecs and you will be ready to go.

If you plan to use flatpacks for your media playing software and browser then you won't need codecs as it's included in the flatpacks.

Just don't forget to configure auto update and when you start installing at the final screen before clicking install make sure that ssh is disabled and selinux is enabled for extra security.

Extra notes:

  • The default browser is firefox, but it can be replaced with any other browser.

  • If you want a working office suite and you don't have high requirements, you can choose between Libre Office, Free office[Prop] or WPS office [Prop].

I hope you enjoy your time on linux.

[–] Joker@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

What is your preferred desktop environment from below?

Based on your choice I can recommend you a one.

Also do you prefer stability or getting the latest updates?

[–] Joker@sh.itjust.works 14 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Move to piracy and donate to the artists directly to better support the artist, if that is an option.

Tidal still take a cut from the artists revenue.

[–] Joker@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I posted it for the sake of alerting people here.

I believe that people here are smart enough to not fall for Bitdefender marketing.

I post also on the cyber security community articles from antivirus vendors that contains a valuable info, with the same belief that people won't fall for marketing.

[–] Joker@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago

404 Media also goes into more detail of exactly what’s happening and, crucially, when. According to Chris Wade, founder and CTO of the cybersecurity startup Corellium, the reboot happens after four days.

Well, that’s information which will be useful to the police in Detroit, who can simply ensure they access each iPhone before the four days’ limited expires.

Of course, as the report goes on, it means that the real target of this update, criminals who have stolen your iPhone, will also now know to check in with the phone every few days. As cryptographer Matthew Green pointed out to 404 Media, “This feature means that if your phone gets stolen, the thieves can’t nurse it along for months until they develop the tech to crack it. I would bet that rebooting after a reasonable inactivity period probably doesn’t inconvenience anyone, but does make your phone a lot more secure. So, it seems like a pretty good idea.”

The original issue was making police in Detroit think that a series of iPhones were sneakily communicating with each other, as we’ll discuss below, but a new report talks about a “hidden feature,” as Charles Martin at Apple Insider describes it.

This feature is called inactivity reboot and it means that if the iPhone hasn’t been unlocked for a certain period of time, it will automatically reboot. Rebooting puts the iPhone in a state where a physical password is required to unlock it, “and is similar to a feature found on Macs. The Mac version, known as ‘hibernation mode,’ saves the state of the device to disk when put to sleep, in case the power fails or the battery runs out before the user can return to the machine,” as the report describes it.

[–] Joker@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

TikTok is more important apparently.

[–] Joker@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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