AI
Google Gemini dubbed ‘high risk’ for kids and teens in new safety assessment
Its analysis found that Gemini could still share “inappropriate and unsafe” material with children, which they may not be ready for, including information related to sex, drugs, alcohol, and other unsafe mental health advice.
“Scott Kirby Promised Me A Refund”—And United’s AI Chatbot Fell For It
Politics
Texas attorney general wants students to pray in school – unless they’re Muslim
Ken Paxton, who is running for US Senate, is urging schools to say the Lord’s Prayer as a Republican law goes into effect.
It’s a piece of Republican legislation allowing schools to set aside time for “prayer and reading of the Bible or other religious texts” during the school day. Critics have condemned the bill as an attempt to imbue a secular public education in the state with the practice of Christianity, in violation of the US constitution’s separation of church and state.
The Spectacular Comeback Tour of a Crypto Overlord
Ross Ulbricht strode into a gold-bedecked banquet hall at the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas, the venue for one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency conventions.
The comeback tour has appalled many of the people who put Mr. Ulbricht in prison, according to seven of those officials who spoke with The New York Times but declined to be named for fear of upsetting his supporters. They called his release and subsequent ascent a perversion of justice.
Trump Angers NRA With Plot to Ban Trans People From Owning Guns
Even the NRA is pissed at Donald Trump now.
You Think the Bari Weiss–CBS News Story Is Bad? No—It’s Much Worse.
And so, exactly 70 years after CBS (and Murrow) took down one demagogue, it cowered and crumbled when confronted by another.
The Fascist Takeover of CBS Is Just Beginning
The network has become a mouthpiece for the Trump administration.
Freshly merged Paramount Skydance announced Friday that it would no longer air edited interviews on Face the Nation, after Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem attacked the program for editing out her smears about Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
Earlier this week, Noem complained that the show had removed a phrase referring to Abrego Garcia as a “known human smuggler, MS-13 gang member” and claiming that he’d solicited nude photographs from minors.
Kennedy Center ticket sales take a nosedive after Trump takeover
Prestigious Stuttgart Ballet likely to face 80% empty seats at DC’s premier arts venue as audiences ‘vote with their feet’
Kaiser: Flu and COVID-19 Vaccine Locations
COVID-19 vaccines are expected in mid-September.
Trump claims Chicago is ‘world’s most dangerous city’. The four most violent ones are all in red states
300 South Koreans detained at Hyundai plant in US to be released, says Seoul
Google Data Breach Exposes 2.5 Billion Gmail Users to New Scam Risks
Kevin Beaumont said this article was AI-written trash.
Gmail's protections are strong and effective, and claims of a major Gmail security warning are false.
Unclear, indirect, rebuttal devoid of numbers and details.
The $500,000 robot servant Elon Musk claims will sell 10 billion units by 2040 can barely walk and struggles with questions like 'where can I get a coke?'
Alarm after FBI arrests US army veteran for ‘conspiracy’ over protest against Ice
Infosec
Burger King hacked, attackers 'impressed by the commitment to terrible security practices' — systems described as 'solid as a paper Whopper wrapper in the rain,’ other RBI brands like Tim Hortons and Popeyes also vulnerable
Fast food firm quickly fixed vulnerabilities of whopping proportions, but didn't acknowledge the white-hat hackers. The vulnerabilties included an unprotected API to register accounts, and passwords in cleartext in email and in HTML.
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Now taking down security research on behalf of big corps
We Hacked Burger King: How Authentication Bypass Led to Drive-Thru Audio Surveillance
The original research archived
DMCA Notice Received
The takedown explanation
Scientists tap 'secret' fresh water under the ocean, raising hopes for a thirsty world
Drilling for fresh water under the salt water off Cape Cod, Expedition 501 extracted thousands of samples from what is now thought to be a massive, hidden aquifer stretching from New Jersey as far north as Maine.
It's just one of many depositories of "secret fresh water" known to exist in shallow salt waters around the world that might some day be tapped to slake the planet's intensifying thirst.
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