Schneier: AI will enable a shift from observing actions to interpreting intentions, en masse.

Benj Edwards - 12/5/2023, 8:53 PM

In an editorial for Slate published Monday, renowned security researcher Bruce Schneier warned that AI models may enable a new era of mass spying, allowing companies and governments to automate the process of analyzing and summarizing large volumes of conversation data, fundamentally lowering barriers to spying activities that currently require human labor.

UEFIs booting Windows and Linux devices can be hacked by malicious logo images.

Dan Goodin - 12/6/2023, 3:02 PM

Insider report details clash over one board member's criticism in an academic paper.

Kyle Orland - 12/5/2023, 9:31 PM

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/10090903

Checkmate climate scientists

The priest’s data has been obtained from commercially available databases

TLDR: $4 million, and 52 weeks of data for a catholic organization to out the "sinner". A dragnet search, not checking him specifically.

What is uploaded to the internet stays on the internet. For analysis by random people until there ceases to be an internet.

GOP mayor dies by suicide after cross-dressing revealed by rightwing site

Edit01: This story is associated with a lot of different topics. It is posted here because I see it as primarily someone who wanted to keep an aspect of their digital life private.

• Pakistan launched its second nationwide anti-polio campaign of the year, aiming to inoculate 44 million children under 5 years old, as the country nears eradicating the disease.
• Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul-Haq-Kakar urged parents to cooperate with the 350,000 health workers going door-to-door to administer vaccine drops. This campaign follows previous attacks on vaccine providers and police assigned to protect them.
• Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only two countries where polio continues to threaten children, and the recent cases reported this year were from the border region with Afghanistan.

Comparison:

• "Left leaning sources" emphasize Pakistan's efforts and previous successes against polio.
• "Center leaning sources" note the campaign's security measures and parental collaboration.
• "Right leaning sources" point out past attacks on vaccine providers.

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