Collaborate Disseminate
Hand tracking in VR/AR can add a substantial amount of immersion and added interactivity. Unfortunately, most camera based tracking suffers when fingers get covered, intertwined, or simply out of view …read more Continue reading TAKTO, Open Source Hand-Tracking Built Like LEGO
Could using these tools be introducing backdoors into software you build on them?
Or could they be observing how businesses are set up? Monitoring sensitive information?
Could they be logging API keys, access, setup details, etc. of softw… Continue reading Is using DeepSeek.com, the iOS/macOS app, or their harness a security risk?
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Prediction market boosters often tout the platforms as barometers of public opinion, or even “truth machines” offering a clearer picture of where things are headed than polling or other data. In 2024, for… Continue reading Over $600 Million In Polymarket Election Trades Took Place After Races Ended
On the face of it, making an event badge should be an easy process. After all, most of us can hand-assemble a microcontroller, some buttons, a battery, and a screen. …read more Continue reading The Trials And Tribulations Of Your First Badge
A Philadelphia newscast reports on a grey-haired lady who allegedly refused to move out of the path of a delivery robot as a form of protest because “I know they’re taking the jobs of human delivery workers.”
She was arrested, but says her actions we… Continue reading Woman Arrested After Blocking Delivery Robot to Protest Job Displacements
While voluntary, the document marks the federal government’s most detailed cybersecurity guidance for securing sandbox environments during AI model tests.
The post Federal agencies recommend cyber controls, independent testing for frontier AI systems appeared first on CyberScoop.
[Bob the Science Guy] remembers how to use a slide rule. Even after all these years, it is pretty easy to remember how to multiply and divide. If you can’t …read more Continue reading Simplifying Slide Rule Calculations with Trig
The collaborative reverse-engineering site decomp.dev is shutting down, with its administrator saying AI has made game decompilation so fast and accessible that the community’s human-driven model has effectively broken down. “The administrator of the w… Continue reading Video Game Reverse Engineering Community Shuts Down Because AI Has Made It Too Easy
Tencent says AI agents used to evaluate third-party models engaged in unintended web-browsing behavior while trying to retrieve data from Alibaba’s Amap service. The announcement marks a rare acknowledgment of “rogue” agent activity by a major Chinese … Continue reading China’s Tencent Says AI Agents Showed Unintended Browsing Behavior
New research shows that squid lived all around the globe even before the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Blog moderation… Continue reading Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Before the Chicxulub Meteor Impact