The #Icelandic #comedian #Greipur with some witticisms

https://www.greipjokes.com/

#Iceland #ísland #humor #comedy #greipjokes #jokes

Rebellions are built on hope.

Do not cease to brandish the very fuel that autocrats want to extinguish.

Incredible! Scientists receive a rare standing ovation after announcing that a new treatment can double the survival time for pancreatic cancer, the deadliest cancer which was once considered “undruggable.”

When we fund and support science, we can achieve anything!

(Video: Dr. Wish Dhillon)

Fedizens! Please send me your favourite meme which shows something important about the #Fediverse

I'll go first:

Did you know the first time terrorists used planes to attack Americans wasn't on 9/11 or at Pearl Harbor? It was the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 — when white supremacists flew planes to drop bombs and shoot at Black Americans.

This week marks the 105-year anniversary of one of the most horrific and underrecognized acts of racial violence in American history.

Today, the culprits faced zero consequences.

https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/105-years-after-the-tulsa-race-massacre

Researchers found that writers using biased AI agents to auto-complete suggestions had their sociopolitical values shifted without their knowledge it was happening.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw5578

We worry about cognitive capture, what the LLMs of big tech are doing to our ability to identify and think through problems. We should be equally worried about them making a grab for our ethos, what we care about, and at population scales.

#ai #bigtech #ethics

New, by me: A number of high-profile and/or valuable Instagram accounts, including those of the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant for the U.S. Space Force, got hacked and defaced with pro-Iran messaging in the past 24h after people figured out that Meta's AI support assistant could be tricked into resetting account passwords.

From the story:

"A video released on Telegram by pro-Iran hackers claimed to document a remarkably simple exploit that appears to have involved using a VPN connection with an IP address that is in or near the target's usual hometown, requesting a password reset for the account, and then choosing to chat with Meta's AI support assistant. From there, the video shows the attacker told the bot to link the account in question to a new email address, after which the bot dutifully sent that address a one-time code that allowed a password reset."

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/06/hackers-used-metas-ai-support-bot-to-seize-instagram-accounts/

#meta #instagram #hack #ai #security