Mastodawn

The Sleight Doctor 🃏Nov 23, 2024

Among the President-elect's closest pals.

"Nearly 200 mobile devices of people who visited Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious "pedophile island"...left an invisible trail of data pointing back to their own homes and offices...data amassed by Near Intelligence, a location data broker roiled by allegations of mismanagement...reveals with high precision the residences of many guests...where Epstein is accused of having groomed, assaulted and trafficked countless women and girls."

https://www.wired.com/story/jeffrey-epstein-island-visitors-data-broker-leak/

Jeffrey Epstein’s Island Visitors Exposed by Data Broker

A WIRED investigation uncovered coordinates collected by a controversial data broker that reveal sensitive information about visitors to an island once owned by Epstein, the notorious sex offender.

WIRED

DEFCON 201 21h ago

WIRED 1d ago

Wi-Fi in the US Could Get Worse Under Trump's New Law
https://www.wired.com/story/wi-fi-in-the-us-could-get-worse-under-trumps-new-law/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Gear & Gadgets @gear-gadgets-WIRED

Wi-Fi in the US Could Get Worse Under Trump's New Law

The FCC wants to auction off spectrum that's behind next-gen Wi-Fi. Consumer advocacy groups say this will make connections busier and slower, and could affect under-resourced communities the most.

WIRED

DEFCON 201 21h ago

WIRED 1d ago

Grok Is Spewing Antisemitic Garbage on X
https://www.wired.com/story/grok-antisemitic-posts-x-xai/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Business @business-WIRED

Grok Is Spewing Antisemitic Garbage on X

Elon Musk’s chatbot has gone on a tirade, praising Adolph Hitler and parroting antisemitic tropes.

WIRED

DEFCON 201 21h ago

WIRED 23h ago

Linda Yaccarino Tried to Tame X. Now She’s Out as CEO
https://www.wired.com/story/linda-yaccarino-x-ceo-resigns-elon-musk/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Elon Musk's Twitter @elon-musk-s-twitter-WIRED

Linda Yaccarino Tried to Tame X. Now She’s Out as CEO

Yaccarino announced Wednesday she’s stepping down, and it’s not clear if the platform’s owner, Elon Musk, plans to announce a successor.

WIRED

DEFCON 201 22h ago

The bathroom near @DC_HHV at #defcon33:

@defcon

DEFCON 201 22h ago

JP 1d ago

really not loving the trend of people adding ugly content-free obvious LLM slop images to "illustrate" their blog posts. i don't think they understand how much it undermines readers' trust in the writing. "but posts with images get better engagement" - stop thinking with Content Brain and stand by what you've actually written. or just give up entirely and generate the whole thing. what are you doing with your life here?

DEFCON 201 22h ago

Russian Opposition 22h ago

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will issue subpoenas to Harvard for data on foreign students https://theins.ru/news/282946

Министерство внутренней безопасности США направит повестки в Гарвард для получения данных об иностранных ст...

Министерство внутренней безопасности США объявило в среду, что направит повестки в Гарвардский университет для получения «соответствующей информации» об иностранных студентах, передает the Hill

The Insider

DEFCON 201 22h ago

Sebastian Lasse 22h ago

#Musk
„Das Team von #Grok hatte am Sonntag auf der Plattform Github ein Update des Quellcodes hinter dem Textroboter veröffentlicht. Dort war eine Systemanweisung enthalten, die das KI-System aufforderte, „nicht davor zurückzuschrecken, politisch unkorrekte Aussagen zu machen – sofern diese gut belegt sind“.

Gleichzeitig verordnete das Team Grok eine generelle Skepsis gegenüber Medien […]“

https://www.handelsblatt.com/technik/ki/xai-musk-ki-grok-lobt-hitler-und-der-code-legt-offen-warum/100140425.html