Powerful A.I. Super PACs Duel Over U.S. Midterm Elections
https://pxlnv.com/linklog/ai-super-pacs-duel/Powerful A.I. Super PACs Duel Over U.S. Midterm Elections – Pixel Envy
Theodore Schleifer, New York Times (gift link): The bad blood between the super PACs comes as powerful Silicon Valley companies race to shape the future of A.I. regulation. The groups are two of the biggest spenders in this year’s midterm elections, laying out nearly $24 million and promising that over $100 million more is on […]
The Meta A.I.-Powered Instagram Account Takeover Problem Gets Worse
https://pxlnv.com/linklog/meta-ai-support-reset-followup/The Meta A.I.-Powered Instagram Account Takeover Problem Gets Worse – Pixel Envy
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, TechCrunch: The widespread hacking campaign that relied on simply asking Meta AI’s chatbot to take over a victim’s Instagram account appears to have continued even after the company said the issue had been resolved. Meanwhile, the company has been scrambling to secure the targeted accounts and alert victims. It is not very often […]
Bill Gates’s Carefully Manicured Image Is Cracking
https://pxlnv.com/linklog/gates-public-image/Bill Gates’s Carefully Manicured Image Is Cracking – Pixel Envy
Emily Glazer, Wall Street Journal: His [Bill Gates’] carefully crafted image has been shattered as more details of Gates’s association with the late Jeffrey Epstein have spilled into public view, challenging prior efforts by the 70-year-old to downplay his relationship with the sex offender. In a February town hall with foundation employees, Gates owned up […]
Meta A.I. Support Bot Meets Robert Hackerman, the County Password Inspector
https://pxlnv.com/linklog/meta-ai-support-reset/Meta A.I. Support Bot Meets Robert Hackerman, the County Password Inspector – Pixel Envy
Brian Krebs: 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 […]
Meta Legal Action Forces Sarah Wynn-Williams to Sit Onstage in Silence
https://pxlnv.com/linklog/wynn-williams-hay-festival/Meta Legal Action Forces Sarah Wynn-Williams to Sit Onstage in Silence – Pixel Envy
Emma Loffhagen, the Guardian: [Sarah] Wynn-Williams, whose bestselling memoir, Careless People, details her years working at Facebook, was due to appear in conversation with the investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr and academic Tim Wu. Instead, Wynn-Williams sat on stage for the duration of the hour-long discussion between Cadwalladr and Wu, without speaking or responding. She was […]
The Effects of Another Ad in iOS App Store Search – Pixel Envy
Jeremy Provost of development firm Think Tap Work: It’s been 64 days since we first noticed Apple’s second ad position in search results for iPhone and iPad. Our update after two weeks showed consistently less search ad impressions for our apps, unless we invested heavily in paying for Search Ads. Here are some updated numbers. […]
Checking in on Some Pro-Hate-Speech Social Networks – Pixel Envy
The Agence France-Presse reporting on the U.S. president’s social-media-and-cryptocurrency-and-maybe-nuclear-fusion operation: Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) reported revenue of less than US$1 million for the three months ending March 31, according to a company filing. Under $4 million in annual revenue is less than how much Twitter was earning in 2009 — unadjusted for inflation […]
Iris, a Photo History Explorer – Pixel Envy
Tyler Hall (finally) released Iris, and it is excellent: And somewhere along the way the whole emotional center of the thing shifted. I set out to build an anti-Photos utility — a search engine for a hard drive. What I actually ended up with is a memory keeper. Open a photo today and Iris tells […]
Last.fm Announces It Has Gone Independent – Pixel Envy
After nearly twenty years under CBS ownership, Last.fm is once again independent: Your account, your listening history, and your data remain exactly where they are. The team building Last.fm is the same. The service continues as normal. It is difficult to know whether it is riskier for Last.fm to be independent or under the banner […]
The Mythical App Store Reviewer Month – Pixel Envy
Jeff Johnson: I’d like to make an analogy between software development and Apple App Store review. A common, cursory reaction to the obvious failures of app review, the continual appearance of countless scams in the App Store, is to suggest that Apple hire more reviewers. My contention is that adding reviewers is not a solution […]
