Politics
Musk interviews German far-right frontwoman
Elon Musk took his endorsement of Germany's far-right party to the next level on Thursday, hosting a live chat with its frontwoman, Alice Weidel. She insisted her party was "conservative" and "libertarian" but had been "negatively framed" by mainstream media as extremist.The AfD is polling second in Germany, with a snap federal election scheduled for 23 February. However, it won't be able to take power as other parties won't work with it.
Elon Musk makes 'Nazi-style salute' at Donald Trump's inauguration parade
The Trouble with Elon
In March of 2020, Elon claimed that COVID would not be a significant problem in the USA. He even bet Sam Harris a million dollars with San Harris that there would never be 35,000 cases of Covid in the United States. When this happened, he failed to pay the bet, ended his friendship with Sam Harris, and took to attacking him with false accusations on Twitter.Trump's freshly minted meme coin passes $10B market cap
80% of the coins are owned by Trump, which is outrageous as cryptocurrencies go. This is a rigged game, like a Ponzi scheme.RFK Jr. Asked FDA to Nix COVID Vaccine During Pandemic
The vax conspiracist and nominee to head HHS wanted the vaccines pulled during the worst months of the pandemic.
AI
I spent hours testing ChatGPT Tasks - and its refusal to follow directions was mildly terrifying
I tried to get ChatGPT to give me current news stories and sources. Sometimes, it just made them up. Sometimes, it gave me sources and stories from a year ago. Sometimes it cited stories that supposedly came from one site but came from completely different sites. Some links that said they were about one topic actually pointed somewhere entirely different.Apple pulls AI news summaries after blatantly false headlines
In December, BBC News accused Apple's AI of sending a false push notification attributed to the news outlet reporting that Luigi Mangione, arrested for the murder of UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson, had died by suicide. In January, the National Union of Journalists and journalism body Reporters Without Borders publicly urged Apple to remove the generative AI feature, the latter criticising "the inability of AI systems to systematically publish quality information, even when it is based on journalistic sources."OpenAI's ChatGPT crawler can be tricked into DDoSing sites, answering your queries
A single HTTP request to the ChatGPT API can be used to flood a targeted website with network requests from the ChatGPT crawler. Due to this amplification, the attacker can send a small number of requests to ChatGPT API, but the victim will receive a very large number of requests. The API is also vulnerable to prompt injection--the crawler answers queries.Sage Copilot grounded briefly to fix AI misbehavior
A customer found when they asked [Sage Copilot] to show a list of recent invoices, the AI pulled data from other customer accounts including their own.The Powerful AI Tool That Cops (or Stalkers) Can Use to Geolocate Photos in Seconds
GeoSpy can predict with high accuracy the location of photos based on features inside the image itself—such as vegetation, architecture, and the distance between buildings—in seconds, with the company now marketing the tool to law enforcement officers and government agencies.
Tech
Tiny insect-like robot can flip, loop and hover for up to 15 minutes
However, the robot is currently unable to fly untethered, as the team have yet to miniaturise a power source and the electronics that control it – though they hope to improve this with future designs.D3FEND™ A knowledge graph of cybersecurity countermeasures
Researchers Proposed Quantum Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange for Future Quantum Cryptography
The proposed quantum DH protocol uses symmetric coherent states with bijective mapping, similar to classical discrete logarithm functions, but in a quantum setting.Tested again and again: Google's AirTag competitors are as unreliable as ever
Under absolutely no circumstance should you rely on Google's Find My Device network. The problem is with the network itself and how Google keeps an eye on items. Sometimes it takes over eight hours to update.MFA Failures - The Worst is Yet to Come
With AI, phishing is no longer a crude art and has now become an exact science. Combined with the weaknesses of legacy MFA, these tools enable large-scale, high-success campaigns that are redefining the landscape of cybercrime and organizational risk. The main methods are:Sleeping pills stop the brain’s system for cleaning out waste
- Phishing:
- Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) Attacks
- MFA Prompt Bombing
- SIM Swapping
- Credential Stuffing
The brain flushes out waste with cerebrospinal fluid, but it only works when sleep is natural. Anesthesia and sleeping pills shut this process down nearly completely.