Collaborate Disseminate
The Washington Post reports that America’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (or CFPB) “is considering legal action against Meta over allegations that it improperly used financial data obtained from third parties in its highly-lucrative advertising … Continue reading US Government Considers Legal Action Over Meta’s Use of Financial Data for Ads
The bureau said the videos and their underlying claims were not genuine, while a disinformation researcher linked the activity to the Russian group Doppelganger.
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Bill Toulas reports: The Dstat.cc DDoS review platform has been seized by law enforcement, and two suspects have been arrested after the service helped fuel distributed denial-of-service attacks for years. The seizure and arrests were conducted as part… Continue reading DDoS site Dstat.cc seized and two suspects arrested in Germany
While Amazon, Google, and other companies build new data centers — sometimes for their AI projects — parts of America “are facing higher electric bills,” reports the Washington Post:
The facilities’ extraordinary demand for electricity to … Continue reading As Data Centers for AI Strain the Power Grid, Bills Rise for Everyday Customers
In 1896 the Dow Jones Industrial Average (or DJIA) was created as a kind of proxy indicator for the wider stock market. “A stock is typically added only if the company has an excellent reputation, demonstrates sustained growth and is of interest to a l… Continue reading NVIDIA Replaces Rival Chipmaker Intel on the Dow Jones Industrial Average
The 2024 Hackaday Supercon is on in Pasadena, but if you couldn’t make it to sunny California this year, don’t worry. We’ve got a live stream of the main stage …read more Continue reading Supercon 2024: Streaming Live
Our system produces preview images of A4 documents, which contain sensitive data (email, phone numbers, social networks and adresses) of our users. We would like to save those preview images in our cloud, to later present them to the corre… Continue reading Extraction of sensitive data out of down- scaled images
As cheap microcontrollers have given us an impressive range of test equipment trinkets to play with, it’s easy to forget some of the old standabys. A curve tracer for example, …read more Continue reading Don’t Forget Your Curve Tracer
The free face-image search engine PimEyes “scans through billions of images from the internet and finds matches of your photo that could have appeared in a church bulletin or a wedding photographer’s website,” -us/news/technology/they-made-a-public-rol… Continue reading PimEyes ‘Made a Public Rolodex of Our Faces’. Should You Opt Out?
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post:
A few weeks ago, analysts at a specialized technological lab put a microchip from China under a powerful microscope. Something didn’t look right… The microscopic proof was there that … Continue reading How America’s Export Controls Failed to Keep Cutting-Edge AI Chips from China’s Huawei