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atrielienz

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  • Robot Vacuums Privacy

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  • So, whether they store the information or not, the information may not be encrypted while being processed (lots of IoT tech doesn't encrypt data streams, and some of them don't even have a firewall between them and the internet).

    There's no good reason for them to need Internet access to sweep or mop your house.

  • FBI Got Grok to Hand Over Prompts Used to Create Nonconsensual Porn

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  • You mean Xitter doesn't hand over data without a warrant when it can harm their products?

  • Slick came to Wild Heart Ranch in 2014 after being found completely submerged in oil. Here is his before and after.

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  • Slick went from "you and the horse you road in on" to "has seen some *ish" in the span of these photos.

    I'm glad Slick is doing okay now.

  • User accidentally gains control of over 6,700 robot vacuums while tinkering with their own device to enable control with a PlayStation controller

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  • Or just ignorant.

  • Discord will require a face scan or ID globally for full access next month

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  • We both know that this isn't about stopping criminals or underaged users. That's just a pretext to conveniently use as cover for their real reason which is surveillance.

  • S p i n o s a r u s

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  • Don't threaten him with a good time!

  • Study finds declining perceptions of safety of COVID-19, flu, and MMR vaccines in the United States

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  • And potentially inhibiting both the manufacture of the COVID vaccine and MRNA vaccine research as a whole.

  • S p i n o s a r u s

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  • He has no business being this creatively talented.

  • 'A Big F*ck You to Big Tech': New Jersey Residents Defeat AI Data Center

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  • Not exactly. Princeton NJ and the surrounding areas are quite wealthy. The wealthy/elites have decided they don't want their places polluted or to subsidize the costs of these data centers. It certainly wasn't Newark and Camden that fought and won this.

  • Before We Blame AI For Suicide, We Should Admit How Little We Know About Suicide

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  • While I don't agree that AI alone caused anything (because there had to be some instability there for the words of the AI to manipulate, I can absolutely agree that use of the AI is a very apparent contributing factor in the cause.

    With suicide you need some very specific circumstances.

    1. Opportunity. A time and place where the person can't or won't be stopped from the attempt.
    2. A feeling of pain or helplessness that eclipses that person's ability to deal with or find and outlet for.
    3. Means/mode. A bus, a rope and anchor point, a weapon.
    4. Intent.

    I think the last one is where things get a bit murky from a legal standpoint.

    Barring accidental suicide, what can legally be considered as responsible for causing suicide is limited. If you encourage a suicidal person to kill themselves, you as the other person had intent to harm, even if you didn't mean for them to actually follow through, or believe that they would.

    My fear is that these legal battles won't result in the AI being held accountable because they're not able to have intent.

    My bigger fear is that the companies who are responsible are not going to be held responsible for the same reason a fun manufacturer isn't when someone sticks the barrel in their mouth and pulls the trigger. The argument that it's a "tool" that's been "misused" is gonna be thrown around a lot.

    I wish I could believe we'd get more stringent regulations out of such lawsuits. But I just don't have that kind of hope.

  • Cyberpunk platformer Replaced catches another delay for "final tweaks" based on demo feedback

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  • Cyberpunk platformer "Replaced". . .

  • Why are so many academics in the Epstein files? It’s not just about money

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  • Or anyone he could use. That's the thing about espionage. You don't have to be in on it to benefit the people taking advantage of you.

  • Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article

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  • Saying Generative AI lies is attributing the ability to reason to it. That's not what it's doing. It can't think. It doesn't "understand".

    So at best it can fabricate information by choosing the statistically best word that comes next based on its training set. That's why there is a distinction between Generative AI hallucinations and actual lying. Humans lie. They tell untruths because they have a motive to. The Generative AI can't have a motive.

  • Ring calls off partnership with police surveillance provider Flock Safety

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  • They may have done, but if you're referring to the kidnapped woman who's footage was pulled from the backend after they said she didn't have a subscription, she had a Google Nest Camera.

    I wouldn't doubt that Amazon does this too but Google is just as bad if not worse.

  • 🔥AI wrongly tells user a fire alarm is just a drill

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  • My hope is they did this after they evacuated. But honestly could go either way.

  • Umwelt - Wikipedia

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  • I always wondered if the shape and size of your ears and nose etc change the way you register smells and hear sounds. Like your hearing isn't the same as the person next to you etc.

    Sort of like how different radar arrays are shaped different and pick up different frequencies differently etc.

  • 🔥AI wrongly tells user a fire alarm is just a drill

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  • I didn't realize until I read your comment that the AI was integrated into Slack and told this person that they didn't need to evacuate without them specifically asking the AI for advice.

    On the other hand, this does show that anything typed into that slack channel is treated like a query. Which is also terrifyingly stupid.

  • Steam Deck is out of stock in the US?

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  • Ok. So explain where the investment is. What does "eating the loss" do for them in the long term? How do they recoup that loss? Loss leaders (the Costco hotdog, PlayStation consoles etc) are used by businesses as a way to get people to buy into their other products that do make healthy profits. Costco's hotdog gets people in the door, and those people buy other stuff because "while we're here". There's a psychology to that strategy.

    Sony uses sales of the PlayStation consoles to get people locked into their platform where they spend money on games, and skins, and micro transactions etc. People used the PlayStation to play Blu-ray (also a Sony property), and DVDs, and stream content like movies, and music. This nets them healthy profits while selling the hardware at or below cost.

    Nintendo is said to do the same thing with the Switch/Switch 2. So there's a cost to benefit ratio equation going on in each case.

    What is the cost to benefit equation for Valve selling the Steam Deck at a loss? Their e-shop doesn't depend on the hardware to sell games. They aren't locking people into Steam in a way that's meaningful because other hardware exists with the same or better ability to play all the same games. The Steam e-shop doesn't require you to only play games on the Steam Deck.

    So that's where you lose me.

  • Cinnamon Bun is baking: Google confirms Android 17 Beta 1 is coming soon

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  • No. They are pointing out that Google is trying to demonize installing software outside their app store. But that's exactly what you're doing when you download an os update. Installing software outside the app store.

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    atrielienz @lemmy.world

    Windows Defender Anti-virus Bypassed Using Direct Syscalls & XOR Encryption

    cybersecuritynews.com /researchers-bypassed-windows-defender-antivirus-using-direct-syscalls/
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    atrielienz @lemmy.world

    Sweeping Cyber Security Order

    www.theregister.com /2025/01/17/biden_cybersecurity_eo/
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    atrielienz @lemmy.world

    UBO Lite Pulled from Firefox Store by developer

    www.pcworld.com /article/2474353/popular-ad-blocker-removed-from-firefox-extension-store.html
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    atrielienz @lemmy.world

    A Novel Approach to Youtube Ads

    9to5google.com /2023/11/25/youtube-ads-speed-up-workaround/