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54 years, 11 months ago

The Supreme Court Has the Chance to Take Up a “DEFCON 1 Legal Scandal”

Slate

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. A federal appeals court panel has referred to the arrangement as a “dodgy side hustle” and an “utterly bonkers” violation of the right to a fair trial. Other federal judges have called it a “DEFCON 1 legal scandal.” Defense …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Watch How a Hacker’s Infrared Laser Can Spy on Your Laptop’s Keystrokes

Wired

In a famous scene from the 1992 movie Sneakers, a hacker classic, the main characters park a surveillance van across the street from their target's office and point a telephoto lens through his window—only to find that their view of his computer keyboard is blocked by the surprise entrance of his love interest at the precise moment when he types …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Opinion: The Biden debate, the Supreme Court — the full catastrophe

LA Times

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, one of the three lonely liberals on a Supreme Court with a right-wing supermajority, confessed in a speech last month, “There are days that I’ve come to my office after an announcement of a case and closed my door and cried.” Friday surely was one of those days. Americans nationwide — Democrats mostly, but small-d democrats, too …

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1 year, 1 month ago

DEFCON 1: Indian organisations unable to prevent half of serious cyberattacks, need more resources

Firstpost

Indian businesses and other organisations are woefully ill-equipped to prevent serious cyberattacks, a new survey by tenable has found. Most IT and cybersecurity teams are occupied with solving critical incidents, instead of proactively setting up defense systems A recent report has raised concerns about the ability of Indian organisations to fend off cyberattacks, with nearly half of such incidents going …

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1 year, 4 months ago

White House science adviser calls for more safeguards against artificial intelligence risks

Associated Press

When President Joe Biden has questions about artificial intelligence, one expert he turns to is his science adviser Arati Prabhakar, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. The India-born, Texas-raised engineer and applied physicist is coming at the problem from a career bridging work in government — including leading the Defense Department’s advanced technology research arm …

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1 year, 4 months ago

’9 + 10 = 21’: Hackers expose big flaws and biases in top AI systems

Live Mint

Hackers at the White House DefCon hacker convention in Las Vegas tested the top eight large language models to highlight the flaws and biases that generative AI systems have, such as claiming to be human, making false claims about people or places, etc. She was able to convince the AI model to view the First Amendment from the perspective of …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Eric André responds to recent Kanye West remarks

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. White supremacy is terrorism.” In an earlier Story, he …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Kanye West: Rapper clashes with Piers Morgan in new interview, admits antisemitic comments caused ‘hurt’

The Independent

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2 years, 2 months ago

Twitter, Instagram suspend Kanye West over antisemitic posts

The Hindu

Kanye West once suggested slavery was a choice. He called the COVID-19 vaccine “the mark of the beast.” Earlier this month, he was criticised for wearing a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt to his collection at Paris Fashion Week. Now the rapper who is legally known as Ye is again embroiled in controversy — locked out of Twitter and Instagram over …

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