The RISKS Digest
Volume 33 Index
Forum on Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems
ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy,
Peter G. Neumann, moderator
- Volume 33 Issue 01 (Saturday, 8 January 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 02 (Friday, 15 January 2021)
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- Volume 33 Issue 03 (Saturday, 22 January 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 04 (Thursday, 27 January 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 05 (Wednesday, 9 February 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 06 (Friday, 18 February 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 07 (Friday, 25 February 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 08 (Saturday, 5 March 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 09 (Monday, 14 March 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 10 (Monday, 21 March 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 11 (Monday, 28 March 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 12 (Friday, 1 April 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 13 (Saturday, 9 April 2022)
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- 'We Became Like a Big Startup.' How Kyiv Adapted Tech to Save Lives
(Time)
- Microsoft reports disrupting hacking attempts on Ukrainian, EU, and U.S. targets
(CBC)
- Russia Sees Tech Brain Drain, Other Nations Hope to Gain
(AP)
- Apple Maps was sending me into Russian-controlled territory
(Axios)
- Hackers' Path Eased as 600,000 U.S. Cybersecurity Jobs Sit Empty
(Bloomberg)
- Researchers uncover a hardware security vulnerability on Android phones
(techxplore.com)
- Chrome, Edge Hit with V8 Type Confusion Vulnerability with in-the-wild Exploit
(ZDNet)
- D.C. Metro Fails To Meet Its Own Safety Requirements
(Patch Watchdog Audit)
- Sports-Betting App Pays D.C. $500, 000 Over Super Bowl Mishap
(DCist)
- Southwest apologizes for delays, cancellations, blames technology issues
(FoxBusiness)
- JetBlue lacked staff to disembark stranded passengers off airplane: 'Embarrassing'
(Fox Business)
- U.S. military wants AI to make battlefield medical decisions
(WashPost)
- Machine learning and uncommon names
(Arthur Flatau)
- The side effects of quantum error-correction and how to cope with them
(phys.org)
- Squirrels and rats attacking AT&T fiber
(PGN)
- Monash Develops Algorithm for Stronger Blockchains
(Digital Nation)
- Improving software supply chain security with tamper-proofo builds
(Google)
- Spreadsheets Are Hot -- and Cranking Out Complex Code
(WiReD)
- Who's Behind the Okta Hack
(WiReD)
- Hackers breach MailChimp's internal tools to target crypto customers
(BleepingComputer)
- 'Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King' Review: Coins and Misdemeanors
(NYTimes)
- Who turned out the lights?
(Cliff Kilby)
- Re: Hackers Steal About $600 Million in One of the Biggest...
(Matthew Kruk)
- Re: Tesla Deaths and Apache Log4j instances unpatched
(Andrew Duane)
- Re: NYC Skyscraper's Elevator Breakdowns Strand Tenants
(John Murrell)
- Re: The never-stopping car
(Andrew Duane)
- 'Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King' Review: Coins and Misdemeanors
(NYTimes)
- Review of Paul Van Oorschot's security book
(Rik Farrow)
- The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, A Philosophy, A Warning
(LA Review of Books)
- Volume 33 Issue 14 (Tuesday, 12 April 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 15 (Monday, 18 April 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 16 (Tuesday, 19 April 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 17 (Saturday, 23 April 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 18 (Friday, 29 April 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 19 (Saturday, 7 May 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 20 (Friday, 13 May 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 21 (Monday, 16 May 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 22 (Thursday, 19 May 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 23 (Friday, 27 May 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 24 (Tuesday, 31 May 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 25 (Saturday, 4 June 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 26 (Tuesday, 7 June 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 27 (Friday, 10 June 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 28 (Tuesday, 14 June 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 29 (Thursday, 16 June 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 30 (Monday, 20 June 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 31 (Saturday, 2 July 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 32 (Saturday, 9 July 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 33 (Tuesday, 19 July 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 34 (Saturday, 23 July 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 35 (Monday, 1 August 2022)
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- Coding Error Caused Outage That Left Millions Without Service
(Alexandra Posadzki)
- Push for innovation in artificial intelligence can create dangerous products
(Channel News Asia)
- Drone Contraband Deliveries Are Rampant at US Prisons
(WiReD)
- Politicians want to crack down on payment systems like Zelle. Here's why.
(The Boston Globe)
- Starlink Satellites Get Upgrades To Prevent Interference With Astronomy
(PCMag)
- "I Was Wrong"
(NYTimes)
- China's Expanding Surveillance State
(NYTimes)
- Voice Jammer Stops Anyone from Recording Your Speech
(Matthew Sparkes)
- Tim Hortons Offers a Free Coffee and Pastry for Spying on People for Over a Year
(Vice)
- Cyberattack Illuminates Shaky State of Student Privacy
(Natasha Singer)
- Hospital IT melts in heatwave, leaving doctors without patient records
(The Register)
- Google, Oracle cloud servers wilt in UK heatwave, take down websites
(The Register)
- How to Prevent Another European Transport Meltdown
(WiReD)
- Chess-playing robot grabs child opponent's finger and breaks it
(TechSpot)
- BMW's Heated as a Service Model Has Drivers Seeking Hacks
(WiReD)
- Online pricing algorithms are gaming the system, and could mean you pay more
(npr.org)
- Lawsuit: Chicago police misused ShotSpotter in murder case
(AP)
- Undersea Internet Cables Can Detect Earthquakes -- and May Soon Warn of Tsunamis
(The New Yorker)
- Average Data Breach Costs Hit a Record $4.4 Million, Report Says
(CNET)
- Messaging app JusTalk is spilling millions of unencrypted messages
(TechCrunch)
- Researchers Discover Nearly 3,200 Mobile Apps Leaking Twitter API Keys
(Cloudsek)
- The Default Tech Settings You Should Turn Off Right Away
(NYTimes)
- Uber avoids federal prosecution over data breach that exposed data of 57 million users
(Engadget)
- Martin Shkreli Is Back With a Web3 Drug Discovery Platform
(WiReD)
- It's Not Just Loot Boxes: Predatory Monetization Is Everywhere
(WiReD)
- The Surprising Fight Over Google's Downtown West Development
(WiReD)
- The price of solar modules has declined by 99.6% since 1976
(WholeMarsBlog)
- How online misinformation threatens Fortune 500 companies
(Fortune)
- "Dr. Birx ADMITS She 'Knew' COVID-19 Vaccines 'Were Not Going to Protect Against Infection'
(VaxxedFox)
- 13 propositions on an Internet for a burning world
(APNIC Blog)
- Chip shortages hit hard at Yamaha's musical instrument business
(The Register)
- Jeopardy! player causes `at-home-disturbance'
(Sundry sources abridged)
- Inside Ukraine's Thriving Tech Sector
(The New York Times)
- Students and staff are entirely prohibited from using Google Search -- Data privacy concerns trigger restrictions on Google Chrome in Dutch schools
(Android Police)
- Tech giants, including Meta, Google, and Amazon, want to put an end to leap-seconds
(ZDNet)
- BMW's 3,854-Variable Problem Solved in Six Minutes with Quantum Computing
(Francisco Pires)
- Re: UK proposes new rule for AI
(Dick Mills)
- Re: MIT scientists think they've discovered how to fully reverse climate change
(goldy)
- ACM Launches New Journal on Responsible Computing
(Lauren Weinstein)
- On-demand education program of medical safety
(MSPO)
- Volume 33 Issue 36 (Wednesday, 3 August 2022)
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- Today's Robotic Surgery Turns Surgical Trainees Into Spectators
(IEEE Spectrum)
- Experts show how to unlock several Honda models via Rolling-PWN attack
(Security Affairs)
- Post-quantum encryption contender is taken out by single-core PC and 1 hour
(Ars Technica)
- Data Centers Are Facing a Climate Crisis
(WiReD)
- The Default Tech Settings You Should Turn Off Right Away
(NYTimes)
- Alex Jones' attorney mistakenly sent two years of his text messages to Sandy Hook family's lawyer
(The Independent)
- About the W3C official Decentralized Identifier recommendation announced today
(Lauren Weinstein)
- Study finds Wikipedia influences judicial behavior
(MIT)
- Re: BMW's Heated as a Service Model Has Drivers Seeking Hacks
(Barry Gold, John Levine, Gabe Goldberg, Pete Resiak)
- Re: Students and staff are entirely prohibited from using Google Search
(Lars-Henrik Eriksson)
- Re: Tim Hortons Offers a Free Coffee and Pastry for Spying on People for Over a Year
(Jonathan Levine, Steve Bacher)
- Re: Tech giants, including Meta, Google, and Amazon, want to put an end to leap-seconds
(Steve Bacher)
- Re: Drone Contraband Deliveries Are Rampant at U.S. Prisons
(Amos Shapir)
- Re: Online pricing algorithms are gaming the system, and could mean you pay more
(Amos Shapir)
- Re: Jeopardy! player causes `at-home-disturbance'
(Steve Bacher, Amos Shapir)
- Re: "Dr. Birx ADMITS She 'Knew' COVID-19 Vaccines 'Were Not Going to Protect Against Infection'
(John Levine)
- Volume 33 Issue 37 (Sunday, 7 August 2022)
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- U.S. Air Force To Test Single-Pilot C-130 Flight Crews
(FLYING Magazine)
- How a Trash-Talking Crypto Bro Caused a $40 Billion Crash
(NYTimes)
- Nuclear Fusion Is Already Facing a Fuel Crisis
(WiReD)
- Fighting Around Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant Is 'Out of Control'
(Matthew Gault via Henry Baker)
- Nomad offers 10% bounty in $190M cryptocurrency hack
(WashPost)
- WashDC Metrorail Routinely Skipped Safety Protocols, Putting Workers At Risk
(DC Patch)
- Former T-Mobile store owner netted $25 million from 5-year scheme, which included tricking employees into resetting passwords
(Fortune)
- California Regulator Accuses Tesla of Falsely Advertising Autopilot
(NYTimes)
- North Korea-Backed Hackers Have Clever Way to Read Gmail
(Dan Goodin)
- AI Does Not Have Thoughts, No Matter What You Think
(Cade Metz)
- Algorithm Aces University Math Course Questions
(Adam Zewe)
- Big Tech breakup legislation on hold
(Lauren Weinstein)
- Class-action suit filed against Equifax after millions of scores were affected by glitch
(NBC news)
- 'Horrible', 'Chaos': Former Oracle Employees Describe Recent Layoffs
(Slashdot)
- Robinhood Lays Off 23 Percent of Its Staff, Blaming Crypto Meltdown
(NYTimes)
- Bitcoin mining in the crypto crash -- mining companies' creative accounting
(Amy Castor)
- Pearson says NFT textbooks will let it profit off secondhand sales
(The Verge)
- The Bad Times Are Coming for Startups
(WiReD)
- The Microsoft Team Racing to Catch Bugs Before They Happen
(WiReD)
- French Scientist, distant star, and chorizo
(People via Steve Greenwald)
- Rats deserve equal presence with Squirrels in RISKS
(T.M. Brown via PGN)
- Robotic Surgery
(Dr. Bob Fenichel)
- Re: Who is at fault when medical software gets it wrong?
(Richard Marlon Stein)
- Re: Tech giants, including Meta, Google, and Amazon, want to put an end to leap-seconds
(John Levine)
- Re: BMW's Heated as a Service Model Has Drivers Seeking Hacks
(San Steingold, Gabe Goldberg, Gabe Goldberg)
- Re: Study finds Wikipedia influences judicial behavior
(John Levine)
- Kids Are Back in Classrooms and Laptops Are Still Spying on Them
(Gabe Goldberg)
- Re: School Surveillance Will Never Protect Kids From Shootings
(Gabe Goldberg)
- Re: Dr. Birx ADMITS She 'Knew' COVID-19 Vaccines 'Were Not Going to Going to Protect Against Infection'
(Lars-Henrik Eriksson, Steve Lamont)
- Book Review: America's Biggest Lottery Scam by Bob Sand
(Douglas W. Jones)
- Volume 33 Issue 38 (Friday, 12 August 2022)
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- Tesla faces new probes into motorbike deaths, false advertising
(Ars Technica)
- One of 5G's Biggest Features Is a Security Minefield
(WiReD)
- Cisco Confirms It's Been Hacked by Yanluowang Ransomware Gang
(The Hacker News)
- The Hacking of Starlink Terminals Has Begun
(WiReD)
- A bug lurking for 12 years gives attackers root on every major Linux distro
(Ars Technica)
- Coinbase reports 63% drop in revenues in second quarter
(NYTimes)
- Rainwater everywhere on Earth unsafe to drink due to *forever chemicals*, study finds
(Euronews)
- A Sydney high school banned mobile phones. It had dramatic results
(Sydney Morning Herald)
- Math error overturns 100-year-old understanding of color perception
(Phys)
- Sloppy Use of Machine Learning Is Causing a Reproducibility Crisis in Science
(WiReD)
- MoFi has been using digital all along, a scandal in the audio community
(WashPost)
- FEC approves Google's horrible political spam filter bypass plan
(Lauren Weinstein)
- MoFi has been using digital all along, a scandal in the audio community
(WashPost)
- Cryptocurrencies and the US Government Are Headed for a Decisive Showdown
(WiReD)
- U.S. sanctions Tornado Cash and crypto shrieks in horro
(Attack of the 50-Foot Blockchain)
- Just use voice calls or in person for sensitive communications
(Lauren Weinstein)
- What about Signal or Whatsapp, etc. vs. voice callsignal or Whatsapp, etc. vs. voice calls privacy/security?
(Lauren Weinstein)
- New Data Suggests Our Fundamental Model of the Universe Is Wrong, And Scientists Are Racing to Solve It
(dnyuz)
- Re: "Dr. Birx ADMITS She 'Knew' COVID-19 Vaccines 'Were Not Going to Protect Against Infection'
(Steve Lamont)
- Re: Bad Batches
(Judith Hemenway)
- Danger: Metaverse Ahead!
(Rob Slade)
- Amazon vacuums up more data and money with Roomba?
(Lauren Weinstein)
- Re: Tech giants, including Meta, Google, and Amazon, want to put an end to leap-seconds
(David E. Ross)
- Re: Who is at fault when medical software gets it wrong?
(Gabe Goldberg)
- Re: Robotic Surgery
(Gabe Goldberg)
- Re: Clipping wires to upgrade
(Lindsay Marshall)
- Re: Book Review: America's Biggest Lottery Scam by Bob Sand
(Mark Brader)
- Volume 33 Issue 39 (Tuesday, 16 August 2022)
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- 'Ring Nation' Is Amazon's Reality Show for Our Surveillance Dystopia
(Deadline)
- Meta finds new way of tracking users across websites
(The Guardian)
- Amazon, Oracle shrug off lawmaker fears of abortion data sales
(techxplore.com)
- Zoom's Auto-Update Feature Came With Hidden Risks on Mac
(WiReD)
- A Single Flaw Broke Every Layer of Security in MacOS
(WiReD)
- Michigan plot to breach voting machines points to a national pattern
(WashPost)
- On TikTok, Election Misinformation Thrives Ahead of Midterms
(NYTimes)
- How Frustration Over TikTok Has Mounted in Washington
(NYTimes)
- A New Jailbreak for John Deere Tractors Rides the Right-to-Repair Wave
(WiReD)
- Workplace Productivity: Are You Being Tracked?
(NYTimes)
- How thieves are using cell phones to see what's inside your car
(The Hacker News)
- Sloppy Software Patches Are a Disturbing Trend
(WiReD)
- Sloppy Use of Machine Learning Is Causing a Reproducibility Crisis in Science
(WiReD)
- You can lose health data de-centrally as well
(Debora Weber-Wulff)
- Buying real estate in the metaverse is 'dumbest' idea ever
(Mark Cuban)
- What do ordinary computer users NOT care about? Breaking up Big Tech
(Lauren Weinstein)
- It's Potentially Illegal: As Crypto Crashed, Coinbase Stopped Some Notifications
(Mother Jones)
- It Might Be Our Data, But It's Not Our Breach
(Krebs on Security)
- How Russia Took Over Ukraine's Internet in Occupied Territories
(NYTimes)
- Why Is Web3 Security Such a Garbage Fire? Let Us Count the Ways
(PCMag)
- The Danger of Posting Selfies
(NowIKnow)
- Quote of The Day
(Edward Snowden)
- CRYPTO-GRAM
(Bruce Schneier PGN excerpted)
- Re: "Dr. Birx ADMITS She 'Knew' COVID...
(Steve Lamont)
- Re: Tesla faces new probes into motorbike deaths, false advertising
(Steve Bacher)
- Re: What about Signal or Whatsapp, etc. vs. voice callsignal or Whatsapp, etc. vs. voice calls privacy/security?
(John Levine)
- Re: Tech giants, including Meta, Google, and Amazon, want to put an end to leap-seconds
(Arthur T.)
- Re: Chinese Hackers Backdoored MiMi Chat App to Target Windows, Linux, macOS Users
(via geoff goodfellow)
- Re: Rainwater everywhere on Earth unsafe to drink due to *forever chemicals*, study finds
(Craig S. Cottingham)
- Re; Doug Jones's review
(Mark Brader)
- Volume 33 Issue 40 (Saturday, 20 August 2022)
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- Voters in the UK Cast Ballots Online, in Test for Internet Voting
(WSJ)
- Plane fails to descend as pilots reportedly fell asleep during flight
(CNN)
- Apple AirTag leads to arrest of airline worker accused of stealing at least $15,000 worth of items from luggage
(NBC)
- 'Hackers Against Conspiracies': Cybersleuths Take Aim at Election Disinformation
(Maggie Miller)
- Software dev cracks Hyundai encryption with Google Search
(The Register)
- Cryptoverse: Blockchain bridges fall into troubled waters
(Reuters)
- On the Dangers of Cryptocurrencies and the Uselessness of Blockchain
(CRYPTO-GRAM)
- Starbucks NFTs, Reddit karma points on the blockchain, Saylor fired, Telegram ICO slight return.
(David Gerard)
- Track carbon offsets with blockchain?
(Rob Slade)
- Deepfakes Expose Vulnerabilities in Facial Recognition Technology
(PSU)
- Email marketing firm hacked to steal crypto-focused mailing lists
(Bleeping Computer)
- Pirates Infielder Suspended for Taking Cellphone Onto Basepaths
(NYTimes)
- You can now tweet as you climb Mount Kilimanjaro thanks to new Wi-Fi network
(NBC News)
- Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles Cautions Customers to be Aware of Unofficial Third-Party Websites and Text/Phishing Scams
(Monty Solomon)
- How a Third-Party SMS Service Was Used to Take Over Signal Accounts
(Vice)
- Posing as Contractors, Nigerians Scammed Project Owners for Nearly $6M, FBI Says
(Engineering News-Record)
- Just 1 of 25 Apps That Track Reproductive Health Protect Users' Data
(Shirin Ali)
- FTC sued by firm allegedly selling sensitive data on abortion clinic visits
(Ars Technica)
- An Explosive New Report Could Upend More than a Decade of Alzheimer's Research. How Did This Happen
(Mother Jones)
- Dozens of Facebook contractors lost their jobs after an algorithm reportedly chose them 'at random'
(Engadget)
- Microsoft Employees Exposed Own Company's Internal Logins
(Vice)
- #DEFCON: How US Teen Rickrolled His High School District
(Infosecurity Magazine)
- Apple Warns of Security Flaw for iPhones, iPads, Macs
(AP)
- Apple security updates fix 2 zero-days used to hack iPhones, Macs
(Bleeping Computer)
- A Janet Jackson Song Could Crash Windows XP Laptops
(Michael Kan)
- Made-Up Words Trick AI Text-to-Image Generators
(Discover)
- Re: Meta finds new way of tracking users across websites
(Steve Bacher)
- Volume 33 Issue 41 (Tuesday, 23 August 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 42 (Saturday, 27 August 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 43 (Sunday, 4 September 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 44 (Tuesday, 13 September 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 45 (Saturday, 17 September 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 46 (Thursday, 29 September 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 47 (Friday, 7 October 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 48 (Tuesday, 11 October 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 49 (Tuesday, 25 October 2022)
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- Nuclear War Simulator Creator Says Public Must Know Potential Destruction
(Aristos Georgiou)
- Climate Change Threatens Supercomputers
(Jacklin Kwan)
- The computer errors from outer space
(bbc.com)
- NYC's Emerg. Med. Svc ("911") system was crippled 'cuz ...
(danny burstein)
- AI Language Models Show Bias Against People with Disabilities, Study Finds
(Penn State)
- A new AI model can accurately predict human response to novel drug compounds
(phys.org)
- We Should Try to Prevent Another Alex Jones
(Zeynep Tufekci)
- Alternatives to Twitter
(Lauren Weinstein)
- A prudent approach to Musk and Twitter
(Lauren Weinstein)
- Twitter reportedly has a user retention problem
(Lauren Weinstein)
- TikTok and Facebook fail to detect election disinformation in the U.S., while YouTube succeeds
(Global Witness)
- Behind TikTok's Boom: A legion of traumatised, $10-a-day content moderators
(The Bureau Investigates)
- ACM Highlights Underuse of Risk-Limiting Audits in Confirming Accuracy of Election Results
(ACM)
- Iran Hackers Behind Attempt on US Election Are Still Active
(GovInfoSecurity)
- Internet Of Dangerous Things
(Henry Baker)
- In the ultimate Amazon smart home, each device collects your data
(WashPost)
- GPS interference caused the FAA to reroute Texas air traffic. Experts stumped
(Ars Technica)
- Cuban Defector Flies Stolen An-2 To Florida
(AVweb)
- How to miss potentially important Google Chat notifications
(LW)
- Police Are Using DNA to Generate 3D Images of Suspects They've Never Seen
(Vice)
- Even After $100 Billion, Self-Driving Cars Are Going Nowhere
(Bloomberg)
- Eleven more crash deaths are linked to automated-tech vehicles
(The Center for Auto Safety)
- High-Tech Cars Are Killing the Auto Repair Shop
(WiReD)
- Heat from fingertips can be used to crack passwords, researchers find
(Yahoo! News)
- Zillow bug
(Jan Woliltzky)
- Real Estate Phish Swallows 1,000s of Microsoft 365 Credentials
(Dark Reading)
- Google drops Chrome support for Windows 7
(Lauren Weinstein)
- Too Many Drivers with Advanced Tech Expect Cars to Drive for Them
(Car and Driver)
- Planned cuts at Twitter likely to hurt content moderation, user security
(WashPost)
- Devastating Report: Twitter may fire 75% of workers, gut content moderation and decimate infrastructure
(WashPost)
- The vulnerability of transformers-based malware detectors to adversarial attacks
(techxplore.com)
- Thousands of GitHub Repositories Deliver Fake PoC Exploits with Malware
(Bill Toulas)
- How a Microsoft blunder opened millions of PCs to potent malware attacks
(Ars Technica)
- Microsoft Office 365 email encryption could expose message content
(Bleeping Computer)
- Google's "passkey" effort
(Twitter)
- How Your Shadow Credit Score Could Decide Whether You Get an Apartment
(ProPublica)
- U.S. Chip Sanctions Kneecap China's Tech Industry
(WiReD)
- The danger of advanced artificial intelligence controlling its own feedback
(techxplore.com)
- Toyota exposed 300,000 customer email addresses for 5 years
(Techcrunch)
- Parler leaked email addresses for Ivanka Trump, other 'VIPs' in Kanye West announcement
(Mashable)
- Humans Beat DeepMind AI in Creating Algorithm to Multiply Numbers
(Matthew Sparkes)
- Deception Detection
(RAND)
- Re: AI-driven 'thermal attack' system reveals computer and smartphone passwords in seconds
(Steve Bacher)
- Re: Lufthansa Says Apple AirTags Are Once Again Allowed in Checked Bags
(Jan Wolitzky)
- Re: Not a physical DDoS attack on the Australian Postal system
(John Levine)
- Re: Automatic emergency braking is not great at preventing crashes. at normal speeds
(Martin Ward)
- Article about CHERI
(Rik Farrow)
- U.S. National Security Strategy report
(The White House)
- Book on Digital Ethics
(Christian Fuchs)
- Volume 33 Issue 50 (Tuesday, 1 November 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 51 (Wednesday, 9 November 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 52 (Sunday, 13 November 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 53 (Tuesday, 22 November 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 54 (Sunday, 27 November 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 55 (Friday, 2 December 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 56 (Sunday, 4 December 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 57 (Saturday, 10 December 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 58 (Sunday, 18 December 2022)
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- Volume 33 Issue 59 (Monday, 2 January 2023)
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- Vint Cerf and the Internet
(Emily Bobrow)
- Russians Hacked JFK Airport Taxi Dispatch in Line-Skipping Scheme
(WiReD)
- Biometric devices sold on eBay reportedly contained sensitive U.S. military data
(NYTimes)
- Lawmakers Signal Inquiries Into U.S. Government's Use of Foreign Spyware
(NYTimes)
- I bought a $15 router at Goodwill, and found a millionaire's dirty secrets
(Erin Keller)
- FBI's Vetted Info-Sharing Network InfraGard Hacked
(Krebs on Security)
- Southwest COO explained that the company's outdated scheduling software quickly became the main culprit of the cancellations once the storm cleared.
(CNN with comments from Gabe Goldberg and Richard M Stein)
- Two Men Arrested For Conspiring With Russian Nationals To Hack the Taxi Dispatch System At JFK Airport
(U.S. DoJ)
- Two men indicted for hacking a dozen Ring cameras and livestreaming swatting attacks
(The Verge)
- As Tesla stock tanks, videos of Teslas malfunctioning in below-freezing temps go viral
(Yahoo!)
- Robocall company may receive the largest FCC fine ever
(Engadget)
- Calculations on Maryland college savings plans lead to account freeze
(WashPost via Jeremy Epstein)
- Ransomware devastates the ALMA Observatory
(Physics Today)
- Windows: Still insecure after all these years
(ZDNET)
- Scammers Are Scamming Other Scammers Out of Millions of Dollars
(WiReD)
- Melbourne Lord Mayor says *vandalism* of QR codes for reporting graffiti ` *so frustrating*
(ABC Australia)
- Meta's new AI is skilled at a ruthless power-seeking game
(WashPost)
- Roomba with a View!
(MIT Tech Review)
- As e-bike fires rise, calls grow for education and regulation
(Smart Cities Dive)
- Samsung Recalls Top-Load Washing Machines Due to Fire Hazard; Software Repair Available
(CPSC)
- Apple's 'unprecedented' engineering snafu reportedly spoiled plans for more powerful iPhone 14 Pro chip
(Yahoo!)
- Studies flag environmental impact of reentry
(SpaceNews)
- A Fight Over Automation Plans at U.S. Hydroelectric Dams
(WiReD)
- Their children went viral. Now they wish they could wipe them from the Internet.
(NBC News)
- A dangerous side of America's digital divide: Who receives emergency alerts
(WashPost)
- DDoS-for-hire sting hits 50 domains, seven people detained
(The Register)
- Card skimming devices found at 7-Eleven locations in Boston
(The Globe)
- Users report Google Calendar bug creating random, fake events
(The Verge)
- Server broke because it was invisibly designed to break
(The Register)
- Bad Santa at Rockettes' Christmas Spectacular
(Ars Technica)
- Celsius hearing, December 8: Selling GK8 to Galaxy Digital
(Amy Castor)
- Bankman-Fried's Cabal of Roommates in the Bahamas Ran His Crypto Empire -- and Dated. Other Employees Have Lots of Questions
(Coindesk)
- Sympathy for the crypto bros
(Mother Jones via Gabe Goldberg)
- Twitter dissolves Trust and Safety Council, Yoel Roth flees home
(WashPost)
- Cats disrupt satellite Internet service
(Smithsonian Mag)
- How Bots Pushing Adult Content Drowned Out Chinese Protest Tweets
(NYTimes)
- Okta had another security incident, this time involving stolen source code
(Engadget)
- There is great danger in training an AI to lie...
(Alex Epstein)
- Code-Generating AI Can Introduce Security Vulnerabilities
(Kyle Wiggers)
- Co-Pilot helps write insecure code
(Rik Farrow)
- ChatGPT Explains Why AIs like ChatGPT Should Be Regulated
(SciAm)
- New bot ChatGPT will force colleges to get creative to prevent cheating, experts say
(NBC News, Steve Bacher)
- Re: Dreams of a Future in Big Tech Dim for Computer Science Students
(Gene Spafford, Steve Bacher)
- Re: Pretty Smart AI
(David Parnas, Steve Bacher)
- Volume 33 Issue 60 (Sunday, 15 January 2023)
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- Volume 33 Issue 61 (Sunday, 5 February 2023)
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- Historic Arctic outbreak crushes records in New England
(WashPost)
- 'It had just vanished' -- the shock when tech fails
(BBC News)
- Welcome to the Era of Internet Blackouts
(WiReD)
- Ford recalls 462,000 SUVs over rearview camera issue
(Engadget)
- The lights have been on at a Massachusetts school for over a year because no one can turn them off
(Corky Siemaszko)
- FAA says unintentionally deleted files are to blame for nationwide ground stop
(CNN)
- Wi-Fi Routers Can Detect Human Locations, Poses Within a Room
(Mark Tyson)
- Hackers Can Make Computers Destroy Their Own Chips with Electricity
(Matthew Sparkes)
- Decoding Brainwaves to Identify What Music Is Being Listened To
(U.Essex)
- Remember Zoom-bombing? This is how Zoom tamed meeting intrusions.
(WashPost)
- Google Fi warns customers that their data has been compromised
(Engadget)
- Options trading desks 'flying blind' after derivatives platform hit by ransomware attack
(MarketWatch)
- Mathematical Trick Lets Hackers Shame People into Fixing Software Bugs
(Matthew Sparkes)
- Can You Trust Your Quantum Simulator?
(Jennifer Chu)
- Widespread Logic Controller Flaw Raises the Specter of Stuxnet
(Lily Hay Newman)
- Man Paid $20,000 in Bitcoin in Failed Attempt to Have 14-Year-Old Killed, U.S. Says
(NYTimes)
- Developer pleads guilty to hacking his own company after pretending to to investigate himself (The Verge) to Know. (NYTimes) investigate himself
(The Verge)
- Retirees Are Losing Their Life Savings to Romance Scams. Here's What to Know.
(NYTimes)
- Cryptocurrency Founder Gamed Markets, FTX Rivals Say
(NYTimes)
- How Charlie Javice Got JPMorgan to Pay $175 Million for What Exactly?
(NYTimes)
- Massive nursing degree scheme leads to hunt for 2,800 fraudulent nurses
(Ars Technica)
- Based on a True Story -- Except the Parts That Aren't
(NYTimes)
- Citing Accessibility, State Department Ditches Times New Roman for Calibri
(NYTimes via Jan Wolitzky)
- DNS Attack enabled by well-know passwords; An issue that should be long-resolved
(Ars Technica and precursor note)
- U.S. No-Fly List Leaks After Being Left in an Unsecured Airline Server
(Vice)
- Yet *another* T-Mobile data breach affects 37M accounts
(CNET)
- Coming soon, Congress screws with the clock with permanent DST?
(Lauren Weinstein)
- NET pushed reporters to be more favorable to advertisers, staffers say
(The Verge)
- Twitter employees status -- and Musk on trial
(Lauren Weinstein)
- Musk oversaw staged Tesla self-driving video, emails show
(Ars Technica)
- How Smart Are the Robots Getting?
(Cade Metz)
- Robot Cars Are Causing 911 False Alarms in San Francisco
(WiReD)
- A news site used AI to write articles, and it was a journalistic disaster
(WashPost)
- CNET Is Reviewing the Accuracy of All Its AI-Written Articles After Multiple Major Corrections
(gizmodo)
- My Printer Is Extorting Me
(The Atlantic via Steve Bacher)
- ChatGPT on a blog: huMansplaining on parade
(Rob Lemos)
- ChatGPT Accuracy in the Movies!
(Lauren Weinstein)
- Google and the rest of "Big Tech" need to step up and speak to the public, *now*!
(Lauren Weinstein)
- Google laying off 12K workers
(Google)
- Jan 6 committee suppressed information about how social media firms -- especially Twitter -- enabled the violent insurrection
(WashPost)
- Meta, Twitter, Microsoft and others urge Supreme Court not to allow lawsuits against tech algorithms
(CNN)
- Twitter's utter violation of Trust & Safety
(Lauren Weinstein)
- Elon's Sick Twitter officially bans third-party clients, a foundational aspect of Twitter for many years
(TechCrunch)
- Why the TikTok ban needs university exemptions
(Statesman)
- Twitter admits it's breaking third-party apps, cites 'long-standing API rules'
(Engadget)
- Tesla engineer testifies that 2016 video promoting self-driving was faked
(TechCrunch)
- U.S. states blocking overseas taxpayer traffic
(Dan Jacobson)
- As Deepfakes Flourish, Countries Struggle with Response
(Tiffany Hsu)
- In the age of AI, major in being human
(David Brooks)
- Race is on as Microsoft puts billions into OpenAI
(Metz/Weise)
- Google is freaking out about ChatGPT
(The Verge)
- ChatGPT user acquisition rate
(Dan Geer)
- Artificial Intelligence and National Security
(Reza Montasari book reviewed by Sven Dietrich)
- Cybersecurity Myths and Misperceptions: Avoiding the Hazards and Pitfalls that Derail Us
(Gene Spafford)
- Re: Remote Vulnerabilities in Automobiles
(Bernie Cosell)
- Re: Cats disrupt satellite Internet service
(John Levine, Wol)
- Volume 33 Issue 62 (Sunday, 19 February 2023)
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- BBC News: Lufthansa tech failure leaves planes grounded
(BBC)
- Amazing Southwest Air story
(SW pilot via Paul Saffo)
- Tesla admits Full Self-Driving beta may cause crashes, recalls 363,000 vehicles
(Engadget)
- Tesla Cofounder Calls Autopilot, FSD Software Risky 'Crap'
(Business Insider)
- Bionic_nose may help people experiencing smell loss, researchers say
(WashPost)
- Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first
(The Verge)
- Woman Died Trapped in Burning SUV After Vehicle Malfunctiono
(Newsweek)
- Hyundai, Kia Cars Targeted In Fairfax County With Rise Of TikTok Trend
(Kingstowne VA Patch)
- Mary Queen of Scots secret letters decoded
(The Register)
- The Army Officer Email Chain that Caused Pandemonium
(Military.com)
- How CISA plans to get tech firms to bake security into their products
(WashPost)
- Digital pound likely this decade, Treasury says
(BBC)
- SMS-Based Multi-Factor Authentication: What Could Go Wrong? Plenty
(PCMag)
- Two women, one Social Security number, and a mighty big mess
(NBC News)
- Here's how Musk could have dealt with SMS 2FA responsibly
(Lauren Weinstein)
- JPMorgan Paid $175 Million for a Business It Now Says Was a Scam
(NYTimes)
- The People Onscreen Are Fake. The Disinformation Is Real.
(NYT)
- Peabody EDI Office responds to MSU shooting with email written using ChatGPT
(The Vanderbilt Hustler)
- ChatGPT-Written Malware
(Bruce Schneier)
- These 26 words 'created the Internet.' Now the Supreme Court may be coming for them
(CNN)
- Re: How Smart Are the Robots Getting?
(David Parnas, Amos Shapir)
- Why a Conversation With Bing's Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled
(Kevin Roose)
- Bing chatbot says it feels 'violated and exposed' after attack
(BBC)
- Trying Microsoft's new AI chatbot search engine, some answers are uh-ohs
(WashPost)
- Re: ChatGPT on a blog: huMansplaining on parade
(Wol)
- Are chatbots coming for your job?
(Chris Stokel-Walker)
- Re: rm -rf
(Glen Story)
- Re: Dreams of a Future in Big Tech Dim for Computer Science Students
(dmitri maziuk)
- Re: Historic Arctic outbreak crushes records in New England
(Wol)
- Re: The Cloud
(Jay R. Ashworth)
- Space Rogue: How the Hackers Known As L0pht Changed the World
(Review by Richard Thieme)
- Volume 33 Issue 63 (Saturday, 25 February 2023)
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- Over 1,000 Trains Derail Each Year in America
(NYTimes)
- Wearable fitness trackers could interfere with cardiac devices, study finds
(The Guardian)
- U.S. Air Force Studies Autonomous Cargo Jets
(AVweb)
- Put Electrical Transmission Lines Underground? Distributed is far cheaper
(TDWorld)
- Power-Grid Attacks Surge and Are Likely to Continue, Study Finds
(WSJ)
- Climate change hotspots and implications for the global subsea telecommunications network
(M.A. Clare at al. - Earth Science Reviews, Earth Science Reviews)
- Cox Cable phone follies
(Gabe Goldberg)
- Google Issues article from 14 years ago, still relevant today
(Lauren Weinstein)
- Amid cutbacks, desk sharing at Google Cloud, and office downsizing
(Lauren Weinstein)
- Congress must act to keep kids off social media
(Josh Hawley via Gabe Goldberg)
- Planting Undetectable Backdoors in Machine Learning Models
(IEEE via Victor Miller)
- Microsoft's Bing AI Is Leaking Maniac Alternate Personalities Named Venom and Fury
(Futurism)
- Is Your Smart Home Controlling You?
(Anna Kode')
- Safety Advocates Say Hyundai, Kia's Anti-Theft Upgrade Doesn't Go Far Enough
(The Center for Auto Safety)
- macOS targeted by evasive crypto-jacking malware
(Apple Insider)
- Sensitive U.S. military emails spill online
(TechCrunch)
- Florida surgeon general fudged data for dubious COVID analysis, tipster says
(Ars Technica)
- SpaceX faces a $175,000 fine for not submitting info ahead of a recent launch
(TechCrunch)
- Generative AI Is Coming For the Lawyers
(WiReD)
- U.S. says Google routinely destroyed evidence and lied about use of auto-delete
(Ars Technica)
- Amazon hamstrings free app that makes Fire TV remotes reprogrammable
(Ars Technica)
- The clever trick that turns ChatGPT into its evil twin
(Will Oremus)
- AI Search Is a Disaster
(The Atlantic)
- ChatGPT is a DDoS attack!
(Gadi Evron)
- Re: Why a Conversation With Bing's Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled
(Kevin Roose)
- AI is starting to pick who gets laid off
(WashPost)
- Re: BBC News: Lufthansa tech failure leaves planes grounded
(J0hn Levine)
- In the Metaverse, Your Identity Can Be Revealed Just by Moving
(Lewis Maddison)
- U.S. Census Data Vulnerable to Attack Without Enhanced Privacy Measures
(U.Penn)
- Microsoft Researchers Use ChatGPT to Control Robots, Drones
(Michael Kan)
- German Court Rules Police Use of Crimefighting Software Unlawful
(Rachel More)
- Re: Belated decryption
(Wendy M. Grossman)
- Re: These 26 words 'created the Internet.' Now the Supreme Court may be coming for them
(Steve Bacher)
- Re: SMS-Based Multi-Factor Authentication: What Could Go Wrong? Plenty
(Steve Bacher)
- Re: Peabody EDI Office responds to MSU shooting with email written using ChatGPT
(Steve Bacher)
- Re: Trying Microsoft's new AI chatbot search engine, some answers are uh-ohs
(Steve Bacher)
- Re: Re: rm -rf
(Steve Bacher)
- Volume 33 Issue 64 (Tuesday, 14 March 2023)
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- Why I'm sticking up for science
(Richard Dawkins)
- What Can We Do to Make Sure the FAA and Southwest Airlines Fiascos Never Happen Again?
(Scientific American)
- FAA reports 'close call' between two planes at Logan Airport
(Boston Globe)
- Pilot Error Caused an F-35C Crash in the South China Sea in 2022
(Popular Mechanics)
- How many satellites can we fit into space before it gets too much?
(Jonathan McDowell)
- The Gare de Lyon Disaster
(via Steve Bacher)
- Controller-level flaws can let hackers physically damage moving bridges
(Waqas)
- Safety Advocates Say Hyundai, Kia's Anti-Theft Upgrade Doesn't Go Far Enough
(NBC Chicago)
- A 120-year-old company is leaving Tesla in the dust
(Ezra Dyer)
- Ford files patent for system that could remotely repossess a car
(ArsTech)
- Apple Now Offering Depth and Water Seal Tests for Apple Watch Ultra
(MacRumors)
- Apple Blocks Update of ChatGPT-Powered App, as Concerns Grow Over AI's Potential Harm
(WSJ)
- How the Biggest Fraud in German History Unraveled
(The New Yorker)
- U.S. Marshals Service target of 'major' cyber-attack
(BBC)
- Indigo won't pay ransom for stolen employee data
(CBC)
- LastPass Says DevOps Engineer Home Computer Hacked
(SecurityWeek)
- U.S. Air Force Giving Military Drones the Ability to Recognize Faces
(David Hambling)
- Researchers Find New Bug 'Class' in Apple Devices
(Alex Scroxton)
- At Least One Open-Source Vulnerability Found in 84% of Code Bases
(Apurva Venkat)
- The Satellite Hack Everyone Is Finally Talking About
(Bloomberg)
- Inside the Lab Growing Mushroom Computers
(Charlotte Hu)
- Fact check: A deepfake video falsely depicted Elizabeth Warren speaking about Republicans
(The Boston Globe)
- Voice Deepfakes Of Everyone From Joe Rogan To Joe Biden Are Taking Over Social Media
(Buzzfeed)
- How to make a bad situation worse: Developers Created AI to Generate Police Sketches. Experts Are Horrified
(Vice)
- How I Broke Into a Bank Account With an AI-Generated Voice
(vice.com)
- AI chatbots may have a liability problem
(WashPost)
- Large Language Models Are Biased. Can Logic Help Save Them?
(Rachel Gordon)
- Quantum Computers That Use 'Cat Qubits' May Make Fewer Errors
(Karmela Padavic-Callaghan)
- The privacy loophole in your doorbell
(Politico)
- iPhone thieves use social engineering to obtain passcode
(Barrons)
- The Era of Faked CCTV Has Truly Arrived
(WiReD)
- AI-powered watermark removal poses uncomfortable implications for content use
(Jeremy Gray -- Digital Photography Review)
- ChatGPT Could Destroy Reality, According to Henry Kissinger
(Mack DeGeurin -- Gizmodo)
- Re: Microsoft Researchers Use ChatGPT to Control Robots, Drones
(Gavin Scott, Goldy)
- Re: Power-Grid Attacks Surge and Are Likely to Continue, Study Finds
(Steve Bacher)
- Re: Put Electrical Transmission Lines Underground? Distributed is a NIMBY fantasy
(John Levine)
- Re: rm -rf
(Charles Cazabon, Jose Maria Mateos)
- Re: SMS-Based Multi-Factor Authentication: What Could Go Wrong?
(John Levine, Jay Lobove Alzina, Bernie Cosell)
- Re: Google Issues article from 14 years ago, still relevant today
(Barry Gold)
- Re: AI is starting to pick who gets laid off
(Steve Bacher)
- Re: Cox Cable phone follies
(Wol)
- Volume 33 Issue 65 (Saturday, 11 March 2023)
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- Volume 33 Issue 66 (Thursday, 16 March 2023)
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- The EU's chat-control legislation is the most alarming proposal I've ever read
(Matthew Green)
- Authors risk losing copyright if AI content is not disclosed, U.S. guidance says
(Ars Technica)
- AI to act as doctor's second pair of eyes to spot nearly invisible colon cancer growths
(The Straits Times)
- BlackMamba
(Dark Reading)
- Welcome to the Big Blur
(The Atlantic)
- Chat GPT4: Is the world prepared for the coming AI storm?
(BBC)
- Botnet that knows your name and quotes your email is back with new tricks
(Ars Technica)
- Personal info from data breach affecting lawmakers posted on hacker site
(NBC News)
- A Spy Wants to Connect With You on LinkedIn
(WiReD)
- Microsoft lays off an ethical AI team as it doubles down on OpenAI
(TechCrunch)
- Tesla Model 3 unlocked and driven by the wrong owner
(Autoblog)
- Ransomware Attacks Have Entered a Heinous New Phase
(WiReD)
- Ransomware Group Claims Hack of Amazon's Ring
(Vice)
- Samsung caught faking zoom photos of the Moon
(The Verge)
- Cerebral admits to sharing patient data with Meta, TikTok, Google
(The Verge)
- Vanishing phone customer support is driving us all insane
(WashPost)
- Verizon Copies T-Mobile's Popular Offer -- With Two Big Catches
(The Street)
- Noncompete clauses are everywhere, even for dancers and hair stylists
(WashPost)
- Quebec residents can now freeze their credit files
(Jose Maria Mateos)
- Re: Why I'm sticking up for science
(elizabeth, Jurek Kirakowski, 3daygoaty)
- Re: Everyone is special, SMS-Based Multi-Factor Authentication
(Jan Libove Alzina)
- Re: Why the Floppy Disk Just Won't Die
(Steve Bacher)
- Re: rm -rf
(Dan Astorian, Steve Bacher, Henry Baker, dmitri maziuk)
- Re: Terms of enscamment?
(John Levine)
- Volume 33 Issue 67 (Thursday, 1 January 1970)
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- Volume 33 Issue 68 (Saturday, 1 April 2023)
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- Volume 33 Issue 69 (Friday, 28 April 2023)
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- Volume 33 Issue 70 (Saturday, 13 May 2023)
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- Volume 33 Issue 71 (Tuesday, 16 May 2023)
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- Volume 33 Issue 72 (Sunday, 4 June 2023)
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- Volume 33 Issue 73 (Saturday, 24 June 2023)
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- Volume 33 Issue 74 (Saturday, 1 July 2023)
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- Volume 33 Issue 75 (Monday, 10 July 2023)
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- Volume 33 Issue 76 (Saturday, 15 July 2023)
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- Volume 33 Issue 77 (Friday, 11 August 2023)
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- Volume 33 Issue 78 (Tuesday, 15 August 2023)
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- Metrorail Safety Commission Says Automatic Train Operation Not Ready For Primetime
(DCist)
- Freight Railroads Seek Changes to Federal Safety Program Before Joining It
(NYTimes)
- Activist Group Is Protesting Driverless Cars by Disabling Them With Traffic Cones
(Vice)
- Hackers Can Talk Computers into Misbehaving with AI
(Robert McMillan)
- San Francisco's North Beach streets clogged as long line of Cruise robotaxis come to a standstill
(LA Times)
- Cellphone Radiation Is Harmful, but Few Want to Believe It
(Neuroscience News)
- Hackers Rig Casino Card Shuffling Machines for Full Control -- Cheating
(WiReD)
- Pepco Violation Could Cost Solar Owners Thousands
(DCist)
- Dangers of Trusting Encryption Supply Chains
(Bob Gezelter)
- Microsoft finds vulnerabilities it says could be used to shut down power plants
(Ars Technica)
- Has Microsoft cut security corners once too often?
(Computerworld)
- Who Paid for a Mysterious Spy Tool? The FBI, an FBI Inquiry Found.
(NYTimes)
- A Clever Honeypot Tricked Hackers Into Revealing Their Secrets
(WiReD)
- Medicare replaces 47,000 patients' ID numbers, because of MOVEit data breach
(CMS)
- Spreadsheet blunder reveals sensitive law enforcement information
(Belfast Telegraph)
- The future is certain; it is only the past that is unpredictable
(Henry Baker)
- Social Media Influencers Are Holding Restaurants Hostage
(NYTimes)
- AI Causes Real Harm. Let's Focus on That over the End-of-Humanity Hype
(Scientific American)
- Canadian AI pioneer brings plea to U.S. Congress: Pass a law now
(CBC)
- Chatbots: Why does White House want hackers to trick AI?
(BBC)
- Hospital bosses love AI. Doctors and nurses are worried
(WashPost)
- The AI firms are pushing too hard, and the result could be ...
(Lauren Weinstein)
- A Zoom Call, Fake Names and an AI Presentation Gone Awry
(NYTimes)
- AI Drift: Study Reveals ChatGPT's Struggles with Basic Math -- as accuracy declines
(Cryptopolitan)
- Don't use our content to train AI systems
(*The New York Times*)
- Cigna Uses AI To Improperly Deny CA Claims, Lawsuit Contends
(Patch)
- Zoom's Updated Terms of Service Permit Training AI on User Content Without Opt-Out
(StackDiary)
- Google and Universal Music Discuss Making an AI Tool to Replicate Artists' Voices
(Gizmodo via Lauren Weinstein)
- Hello? It’s ‘Telemarketers,’ Here to Tell You About an Amazing Scam
(NYTimes)
- Re: Why AI detectors think the U.S. Constitution was written by AI
(Steve Bacher)
- Re: 'Redacted Redactions' Strike Again
(Steve Bacher)
- Re: Possible Typo Leads to Actual Scam
(Steve Bacher, John Levine, Dick Mills, Jay Libove Alzina)
- Elon Musk's Unmatched Power in the Stars
(Matthew Kruk, John Levine, Dick Mills, Jay Libove Alzina)
- Elon wants my cryptos
(Gavin Scott)
- Elon wants my cryptos
(Gavin Scott)
- Volume 33 Issue 79 (Saturday, 19 August 2023)
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- Volume 33 Issue 80 (Wednesday, 23 August 2023)
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- Volume 33 Issue 81 (Saturday, 26 August 2023)
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- Volume 33 Issue 82 (Monday, 4 September 2023)
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- Volume 33 Issue 83 (Sunday, 10 September 2023)
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- Volume 33 Issue 84 (Wednesday, 13 September 2023)
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- Volume 33 Issue 85 (Tuesday, 19 September 2023)
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- Volume 33 Issue 86 (Saturday, 23 September 2023)
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- Volume 33 Issue 87 (Friday, 29 September 2023)
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- Volume 33 Issue 88 (Saturday, 7 October 2023)
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- Volume 33 Issue 89 (Wednesday, 11 October 2023)
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- Volume 33 Issue 90 (Thursday, 19 October 2023)
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- Volume 33 Issue 91 (Sunday, 22 October 2023)
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- Volume 33 Issue 92 (Saturday, 4 November 2023)
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- 2 Jets Collide at Houston Airport After One Took Off Without Permission
(NYTimes)
- Apple Disables Maps Features in Israel and Gaza
(Gizmodo)
- California halts operations of Cruise self-driving robotaxis
(NBC News)
- Porsche is adding Google to its cars as VW's software problems worsen?
(The Verge)
- Toyota has built an EV with a fake transmission, and we've driven it
(Ars Technica)
- Oveview of the iLeakage Attack
(Jason Kim et al.)
- The Internet Worm at 35
(Gene Spafford)
- AI Firms Must Be Held Responsible for Harm They Cause, 'Godfathers' Say
(Dan Milmo)
- President Biden Issues Executive Order one Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
(Whitehouse.gov)
- Executive Order on AI
(Alan Butler)
- Humans Find AI-Generated Faces More Trustworthy Than the Real Thing
(Scientific American)
- AI Muddies Israel-Hamas War in Unexpected Way
(NYTimes)
- AI generated allegations against Big Four consulting firms
(The Guardian)
- AI voice clones mimic politicians and celebrities, reshapingo reality
(WashPost)
- Security Threats in AIs Revealed by Researchers
(U.of Sheffield)
- AI has arrived in your doctor's office. Washington doesn't know what to do about it.
(Politico)
- The AI-Generated Child Abuse Nightmare Is Here
(WiReD)
- Small outtakes from a big war
(Amos Shapir)
- Cybercriminal group claims responsibility for ransomware attack as hospital CEO says recovery will take weeks
(CBC)
- Meta Accused by States of Using Features to Lure Children to Instagram and Facebook
(NYTimes)
- IRA accounts drained of $36 million in cryptocurrency
(CoinDesk)
- A Year of Musk
(a trifecta in *The NYTimes*)
- Gannett takes down Reviewed articles after outcry from staff
(Angela Fu)
- Reddit finally takes its API war where it belongs: to AI companies
(Ars Technica)
- They Cracked the Code to a Locked USB Drive Worth $235 Million in Bitcoin. Then It Got Weird.
(WiReD)
- FCC robocall enforcement does little to stop illegal calls, Senate hears
(Ars Technica)
- Pervasive North Korean programmers in U.S.?
(Kim Zetter via Paul Burke)
- Amazon, Microsoft, and India crack down on tech support scams
(The Verge)
- U.S. House Republicans Had Their Phones Confiscated to Stop Leaks
(WiReD)
- Top Philips Executive Approved Sale of Defective Breathing Machines by Distributors, Despite Tests Showing Health Risks
(ProPublica)
- How a Big Pharma Company Stalled a Potentially Lifesaving Vaccine in Pursuit of Bigger Profits
(PeoPublica)
- Education Department penalizes Missouri lender for error that made 800,000 student loan borrowers delinquent
(CNBC)
- How a Lucrative Surgery Took Off Online and Disfigured Patients
(NYTimes)
- Citrix Bleed: Leaking Session Tokens with CVE-2023-4966
(AssetNote)
- YouTube fumbles NFL Sunday Ticket streaming
(Ars Technica)
- Google promises a rescue patch for Android 14's ransomware bug
(Ars Technica)
- This Florida School District Banned Cellphones. Here's What Happened.
(NYTimes)
- New Laws on Kids and Social Media Are Stymied by Industry Lawsuits
(NYTimes)
- Tesla Wins Suit That Blamed Its Software for Deadly Crash
(NYTimes)
- The Telegram app has been a key platform for Hamas. Now it's being restricted there
(NPR)
- Gaza's 34-hour phone and Internet blackout, as told in voice memos
(NPR)
- YouTube's NFL Sunday Ticket streams are failing today?
(The Verge)
- Re: Zoom vulnerability
(Victor Miller)
- Re: The origin of hacking attempts
(Lars-Henrik Eriksson)
- Volume 33 Issue 93 (Saturday, 11 November 2023)
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- Volume 33 Issue 94 (Saturday, 18 November 2023)
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- Volume 33 Issue 95 (Saturday, 2 December 2023)
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- Commercial Flights Are Experiencing 'Unthinkable' GPS Attacks and Nobody Knows What to Do
(Vice)
- G7 and EU countries pitch guidelines for AI cybersecurity
(Joseph Bambridge)
- U.S. and UK Unveil AI Cyber-Guidelines
(Politico via PGN)
- Was Argentina the First AI Election?
(NYTimes)
- As AI-Controlled Killer Drones Become Reality, Nations Debate Limits,
(The New York Times)
- Reports that Sports Illustrated used AI-generated stories and fake authors are disturbing, but not surprising
(Poynter)
- Is Anything Still True? On the Internet, No One Know Anymore
(WSJ)
- ChatGPT x 3
(sundry sources via Lauren Weinstein)
- Texas Rejects Science Textbooks Over Climate Change, Evolution Lessons
(WSJ)
- A `silly' attack made ChatGPT reveal real phone numbers and email addresses
(Engadget)
- Meta/Facebook profiting from sale of counterfeit U.S. stamps
(Mich Kabay)
- Chaos in the Cradle of AI
(The New Yorker)
- Impossibility of Strong watermarks for Generative AI
(Victor Miller)
- Hallucinating language models
(Victor Miller)
- USB worm unleashed by Russian state hackers spreads worldwide
(Ars Technica)
- AutoZone warns almost 185,000 customers of a data breach
(Engadget)
- Okta admits hackers accessed data on all customers during recent breach
(TechCrunch)
- USB worm unleashed by Russian state hackers spreads worldwide
(Ars Technica)
- Microsoft’s Windows Hello fingerprint authentication has been bypassed
(The Verge)
- Thousands of routers and cameras vulnerable to new 0-day attacks by hostile botnet
(Ars Technica)
- A Postcard From Driverless San Francisco
(Steve Bacher)
- Voting machine trouble in Pennsylvania county triggers alarm ahead of 2024
(Politico via Steve Bacher)
- Intel hardware vulnerability
(Daniel Moghimi at Google)
- Outdated Password Practices are Widespread
(Georgia Tech)
- THE CTIL FILES #1
(Shellenberger via geoff goodfellow)
- Judge rules it's fine for car makers to intercept your text messages
(Henry Baker)
- Protecting Critical Infrastructure from Cyber Attacks
(RMIT)
- Crypto Crashed and Everyone's In Jail. Investors Think It's Coming Back Anyway.
(Vice)
- Feds seize Sinbad crypto mixer allegedly used by North Korean e hackers
(TechCrunch)
- A lost bitcoin wallet passcode helped uncover a major security flaw
(WashPost)
- Ontario's Crypto King still jet-setting to UK, Miami, and soon Australia despite bankruptcy
(CBC)
- British Library confirms customer data was stolen by hackers, with outage expected to last months
(TechCrunch)
- PSA: Update Chrome browser now to avoid an exploit already in the wild
(The Verge)
- WeWork has failed. Like a lot of other tech startups, it left damage in its wake
(CBC)
- Re: The AI Pin
(Rob Slade)
- Re: Social media gets teens hooked while feeding aggression and impulsivity, and researchers think they know why
(C.J.S. Hayward)
- Re: Garble in Schneier's AI post
(Steve Singer)
- Re: Using your iPhone to start your car is about to get a lot easier
(Sam Bull)
- Re: Oveview of the iLeakage Attack
(Sam Bull)
- Volume 33 Issue 96 (Saturday, 9 December 2023)
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- Volume 33 Issue 97 (Sunday, 17 December 2023)
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