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Lenovo has unveiled a ThinkBook concept that boasts a futuristic transparent display and combined touch keyboard/drawing pad. The concept is part of the company’s new tech offerings announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week.Continue Rea… Continue reading First transparent laptop shows Lenovo’s clear vision for future working
In April 2023, DataBreaches reported on an alleged incident involving TIC Hosting in Romania. No one from TIC Hosting ever responded to inquiries from this site, and inquiries to the data protection regulator for the country indicated that TIC Hosting… Continue reading Two hosting companies in Romania had what appear to be unrelated breaches. Did either one ever issue a public notice?
Back in mid-2014, LG unveiled its first experimental transparent OLED display panel. That measured just 18 diagonal inches, but now the company has revealed a 77-inch transparent OLED television that’s almost completely wireless.Continue ReadingCategor… Continue reading LG’s “wireless” 77-inch transparent OLED TV due for release in 2024
Today’s internet- and cellular-connected cars require antennas more than ever, but working the devices into vehicles’ bodies limits the design possibilities. LG is out to change that, with a windshield-integrated transparent antenna.Continue ReadingCat… Continue reading LG’s new transparent car antenna is part of the windshield
When you get a push notification on your Apple or Google phone, those notifications go through Apple and Google servers. Which means that those companies can spy on them—either for their own reasons or in response to government demands.
Sen. Wyden is trying to get to the bottom of this:
In a statement, Apple said that Wyden’s letter gave them the opening they needed to share more details with the public about how governments monitored push notifications.
“In this case, the federal government prohibited us from sharing any information,” the company said in a statement. “Now that this method has become public we are updating our transparency reporting to detail these kinds of requests.”…
On November 8, Pacific Union College in California notified the Maine Attorney General’s Office of a breach in March 2023 that impacted 56,041 people. Their notification, submitted by external counsel at McDonald Hopkins, indicates that the brea… Continue reading Paging regulators to Aisle 4 to look at Pacific Union College’s data security and breach disclosure
Earlier this week, the Republican National Committee released a video that it claims was “built entirely with AI imagery.” The content of the ad isn’t especially novel—a dystopian vision of America under a second term with President Joe Biden—but the deliberate emphasis on the technology used to create it stands out: It’s a “Daisy” moment for the 2020s.
We should expect more of this kind of thing. The applications of AI to political advertising have not escaped campaigners, who are already “pressure testing” possible uses for the technology. In the 2024 presidential election campaign, you can bank on the appearance of AI-generated personalized fundraising emails, text messages from chatbots urging you to vote, and maybe even some deepfaked campaign …
“Human writing can be so beautiful. There is beauty in the human prose that computers can never and should never co-opt.” Continue reading A CompSci Student Built an App That Can Detect ChatGPT-Generated Text
Create this neat collage effect with one picture and a few line shapes.
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This is from a court deposition:
Facebook’s stonewalling has been revealing on its own, providing variations on the same theme: It has amassed so much data on so many billions of people and organized it so confusingly that full transparency is impossible on a technical level. In the March 2022 hearing, Zarashaw and Steven Elia, a software engineering manager, described Facebook as a data-processing apparatus so complex that it defies understanding from within. The hearing amounted to two high-ranking engineers at one of the most powerful and resource-flush engineering outfits in history describing their product as an unknowable machine…