Texas is suing General Motors for collecting driver data without consent and then selling it to insurance companies:
From CNN:
In car models from 2015 and later, the Detroit-based car...
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This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at eCrime 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The event runs from September 24 through...
Read moreReally interesting article on the ancient-manuscript scholars who are applying their techniques to the Voynich Manuscript.
No one has been able to understand the writing yet, but there are...
Read moreInteresting paper: “Generative AI Misuse: A Taxonomy of Tactics and Insights from Real-World Data”:
Generative, multimodal artificial intelligence (GenAI) offers transformative potential across industries, but its misuse poses significant...
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Yet another SQUID acronym: SQUID, short for Surrogate Quantitative Interpretability for Deepnets, is a computational tool created by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) scientists. It’s designed to help interpret how...
Read moreConsumer Reports has a new study of people-search site removal services, concluding that they don’t really work:
As a whole, people-search removal services are largely ineffective. Private information about...
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It’s possible to cancel other people’s voter registrations:
On Friday, four days after Georgia Democrats began warning that bad actors could abuse the state’s new online portal for...
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When an airplane crashes, impartial investigatory bodies leap into action, empowered by law to unearth what happened and why. But there is no such empowered and impartial body to...
Read moreFord has a new patent application for a system where cars monitor each other’s speeds, and then report then to some central authority. Slashdot thread.
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