Security Sparkle

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Joined for the infosec, stayed for the joy, can be counted on to add ✨glitter✨ to anything

You need to stop using Chrome NOW. It’s not hyperbole: Google just rolled out a change to Chrome that tracks the sites you visit, builds a profile, and shares that with any page you visit that asks.

This is real. It’s not tech bro conspiracy shit.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome

#privacy #google #chrome

Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome

Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a “topic” list it shares with advertisers.

Ars Technica
Elon Musk’s new AI company is staffed entirely by men https://qz.com/elon-musk-s-new-ai-company-is-staffed-entirely-by-men-1850633240
Elon Musk’s new AI company is staffed entirely by men

There's not much information about xAI, but diversity is already an issue

Quartz

Reddit's CEO is attacking Reddit moderators, calling them spoiled "landed gentry" who are messing up his service ...

... when in reality Reddit mods do over $3.4 million in free labor annually, as per a recent scholarly estimate

And that's a lowballed, conservative estimate

My essay on it here: https://clivethompson.medium.com/reddit-moderators-do-over-3-4-million-in-free-labor-every-year-d3571235c32c

A "friend" link in case you're not a Medium subscriber: https://clivethompson.medium.com/reddit-moderators-do-over-3-4-million-in-free-labor-every-year-d3571235c32c?sk=8526a9c3671885cce45a2bd3d1e36b82

I love this whole article but the opening line is especially a banger. 😁👍

"White House Wants Your Comments On AI Policy, But Doesn’t Want You To Find Out How"

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/16/white-house-wants-your-comments-on-ai-policy-but-doesnt-want-you-to-find-out-how/

White House Wants Your Comments On AI Policy, But Doesn’t Want You To Find Out How

Via Tarah Wheeler (who just destroyed the EARN IT Act recently) we find out that, while the White House has announced that it wants public comment on AI regulation, it hasn’t made it at all easy to…

Techdirt

I have no words. How can this person just go free after murdering a mother in front of her kid just for ringing the doorbell?!? My heart breaks for this family and these kids.

Marion County (Ocala) Sheriff’s Office: (352) 732-8181

https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/141hsgz/woman_murder_neighbor_drinks_coffee_on_her_front/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1

Woman murder neighbor, drinks coffee on her front porch the next day like nothing happened.

Ocala Police Department

reddit
My 3yo is playing with her Barbies and she just told them, “Don’t cross me.” And then she dropped them both off the table.
😳
She’s a second child. Should I be concerned?
Elon Musk changed Twitter's algorithm to feature his own tweets and now he's using that power to promote his preferred presidential candidate.

The FBI and CISA issued a joint advisory to warn that the Bl00dy Ransomware gang is now also actively exploiting a PaperCut remote-code execution vulnerability to gain initial access to networks.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-bl00dy-ransomware-targets-education-orgs-in-papercut-attacks/

FBI: Bl00dy Ransomware targets education orgs in PaperCut attacks

The FBI and CISA issued a joint advisory to warn that the Bl00dy Ransomware gang is now also actively exploiting a PaperCut remote-code execution vulnerability to gain initial access to networks.

BleepingComputer

Just as I become fully recovered, no longer contagious, and out of isolation, #dearspouse tested positive and is now in the thick of symptoms 😩

Kids still ok, but the probability they get it has increased and it’s scaring/stressing me out.
#COVIDSucks #ihatethistimeline

Still tired wrapping up day 4 of #COVID and going into the 7th dose of #Paxlovid but otherwise feeling great 👍

Getting tired of being tired tho 😒