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10 Aug

Instagram Already Loaded With AI Girlfriends and Boyfriends

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Love is in the air.Sweet NothingsMost social media sites try to purge bots from their platforms. But Meta-owned Instagram says hey, why not let people create their own bots, using — wait for it — AI?That's the idea behind Meta's newly released AI Studio, which allows US-based Instagram accounts to create a digital version of themselves or even an "AI character" that can have conversations with other people.The outcome of this was perhaps predictable, as spotted by Business Insider: loads of AI "boyfriends" and "girlfriends" flooding the site for lonely sadsacks everywhere to get their rocks off.Take the AI called…

10 Aug

The Trump campaign, citing a Microsoft threat report, says it was hacked and blames ‘foreign sources’

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The campaign of former President Donald Trump on Saturday said it had been hacked following Politico's receipt of internal campaign documents from an anonymous email account.Documents sent to Politico included vice-presidential vetting materials related to Ohio Sen. JD Vance, who Trump selected as his running mate shortly before the Republican National Convention in July.So far, Politico has been unable to pinpoint the identity of the person behind the email account or the individual's reasoning for sending the materials to their outlet.The Trump campaign, in a statement to BI, didn't offer direct evidence supporting the claim of Iranian involvement in the…

10 Aug

The Copilot AI Microsoft Built Into Windows Makes It Incredibly Hackable, Research Shows

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"When you give AI access to data, that data is now an attack surface for prompt injection."Total SnitchA security researcher has demonstrated that Microsoft's Copilot AI can easily be manipulated into revealing an organization's sensitive data, including emails and bank transactions. On top of that, Wired reports, it can also be weaponized into a powerful phishing machine that requires little of the effort usually needed to carry out these kinds of attacks."I can do this with everyone you have ever spoken to, and I can send hundreds of emails on your behalf," Michael Bargury, the cofounder and CTO of security…

10 Aug

Turkey unblocks Instagram after talks to address its concerns about crime and censorship

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Turkey has restored access to Instagram after the social media site agreed to meet the country’s demands around censorship and crime-related content, reports. Transport Minister announced the agreement in a post on X. Instagram was blocked for a little over a week; users in the country , but no official explanation for the decision was provided at the time.However, the block came after Turkey’s head of communications, , accused the platform of censoring posts that expressed condolences for Ismail Haniyeh, a Hamas leader who was recently killed. In the post on Saturday, Uraloglu cited concerns over content relating to catalog…

10 Aug

The Story behind typeof null returning “object” in Javascript

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Like in many languages, JavaScript represents objects as references (pointers) to memory locations where the object data is stored. When JavaScript was created, null was represented as a special pointer value that didn't point to any memory location (a "null pointer"). When the typeof operator was later introduced, it used the same internal mechanism of the JavaScript engine to check the type of values. Since null was represented as a special type of object (a null pointer), the typeof operator returns "object" for null. This behavior, though technically a bug, has not been fixed to maintain JavaScript's backward compatibility. Source…

10 Aug

Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Dies at 56

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The unassuming house on Santa Margarita Avenue in Menlo Park, California, had been empty for only a couple of years when I visited in 2008, but the ghosts were still there. This was where Larry Page and Sergey Brin started Google a decade previous. Here was the garage once packed with newly delivered servers and routers; there were the carpeted rooms at the back of the house where Page, Brin, and their first employee, Craig Silverstein, churned out code; out the window was the backyard with the hot tub.In Google’s infancy the house belonged to a young couple, Dennis Troper…

10 Aug

Investigation Finds Actual Source of All That AI Slop on Facebook

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"Don't worry. I'll show you how to create images with the help of AI."Digging GravesFacebook has been overrun with "slop," in the form of AI-generated images of dubious, nonsensical junk.Images like "shrimp Jesus," an 18-wheeler overflowing with babies, or a police officer holding a massive holy bible while wading through floodwater, are regularly going viral on the ancient social media network, garnering tens of thousands of likes.In an effort to chase down the source of all of this slop, 404 Media did some extensive digging and uncovered an entire marketplace dedicated to disseminating AI images of emaciated people, starving children, and natural…

10 Aug

Zelle says it’s up to the police to stop scams

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Scams on payment apps like Zelle are getting so out of hand that federal authorities are starting to investigate.This week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau launched an investigation into JP Morgan, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo — all part owners of Zelle — after Sen. Richard Blumenthal wrote a letter to the agency.The Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations found that reimbursements from the three banks for transactions that Zelle users disputed fell from 62% in 2019 to 38% in 2023, Blumenthal said in the letter."PSI's investigation of the three banks indicates that they provide their respective employees with broad…

10 Aug

Turkey to Lift Instagram Ban on Pledge to Work ‘Jointly’

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Turkey will lift its ban on Instagram, saying the social media site has promised to meet government demands on censorship and content.Turkey’s internet regulator halted Instagram access on Aug. 2 without explaining why. It came after a senior aide to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized the platform for what he described as “censorship” of posts related to the death of Ismail Haniyeh, political chief of the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Source link lol

10 Aug

Russia’s GDP growth slowed in Q2 while inflation continued to soar on the back of heavy state spending: report

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Russia's economic growth slowed to 4% in the second quarter of 2024, down from 5.4% in Q1, AFP reported, citing official data released on Friday.While the Russian economy continues to expand, it marked the lowest quarterly GDP growth result since the beginning of 2023, the report said.It comes as the Kremlin battles rising inflation and warnings that the economy is overheating.Russia's economic growth has come off the back of huge Kremlin spending on its military campaign in Ukraine, which it launched in February 2022.While that spending helped quell earlier predictions of an imminent recession linked to Western sanctions, it has…