Tag: ai

Angry Tech News #84: Guardrail Distraction

Post author By Ryan Bemrose
Post date August 5, 2024

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 37:45 — 19.8MB)

A long overdue show! All the AI news you missed. Internet security is crap. Europe tries to make driving better. Google tries to make it worse.

Links:

Crowdstrike takes down the world
https://www.wired.com/story/crowdstrike-outage-update-windows/
Snowflake breach
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/07/threat-actors-exploited-windows-0-day-for-more-than-a-year-before-microsoft-fixed-it/
https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/12/att-phone-records-stolen-data-breach/
Microsoft develops dangerous AI for the highest bidder
https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/ai-speech-generator-reaches-human-parity-but-its-too-dangerous-to-release-scientists-say
Euro NCAP demands physical car controls
https://www.techspot.com/news/102134-car-makers-must-bring-back-physical-controls-if.html

Tags ai, cars, crowdstrike, enshittification, google, microsoft, security-breach

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Angry Tech News #82: Subsystem Derision

Post author By Ryan Bemrose
Post date May 8, 2024

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 32:58 — 30.2MB)

ATN is back after a small hiatus! Time to clear some tabs and pour sarcasm on some choice stories from the last three months.

Forced updates, Insecure IoT doorbells, The craze to put AI into all the things, Tesla’s safety record, and a rundown of Windows 11 news

Links

Consumer Reports: many smart doorbells have major security problems
https://www.consumerreports.org/home-garden/home-security-cameras/video-doorbells-sold-by-major-retailers-have-security-flaws-a2579288796/
Logitech releases M750 mouse, which is M650 with an AI button
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/ai-marketing-hype-is-coming-for-your-favorite-gadgets/
Speculation: AI could destroy call center industry
https://www.techspot.com/news/102749-generative-ai-could-soon-decimate-call-center-industry.html
NHTSA report on Tesla Autopilot crashes
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/26/tesla-autopilot-linked-to-hundreds-of-collisions-has-critical-safety-gap-nhtsa.html
Windows 11 stuff
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/windows-11-24h2-goes-from-unsupported-to-unbootable-on-some-older-pcs/
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/windows-11-will-reportedly-display-a-watermark-if-your-pc-does-not-support-ai-requirements
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-to-warn-if-your-windows-11-pc-doesnt-meet-system-requirements-for-ai-explorer/
https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/windows-11-24h2-update/
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/rip-to-the-windows-subsystem-for-android-which-goes-away-in-2025/
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/24/24138949/microsoft-windows-11-start-menu-ads-recommendations-setting-disable
https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/windows-11-is-forcing-users-to-upgrade-mail-app-to-new-outlook-client-which-comes-with-a-nasty-addition-adverts

Tags ai, forced-updates, iot, logitech, microsoft, smart-doorbells, tesla, windows-11

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Angry Tech News #80: Artist Proxy

Post author By Ryan Bemrose
Post date January 3, 2024

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 24:19 — 22.3MB)

Apple wants to control your digital life, Google wants to control the entire internet, and artists finally get a weapon in the war against AI

Links

AI data poisoning tool “Nightshade”
https://www.zdnet.com/article/data-poisoning-tool-lets-artists-fight-back-against-ai-scraping-heres-how/

Apple makes biometrics authoritative with “Stolen Device Protection” feature
https://www.macrumors.com/2023/12/12/ios-17-3-stolen-device-protection-feature/

Google’s latest move to control the whole world-wide-web
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-chromes-new-ip-protection-will-hide-users-ip-addresses/

Tags ai, apple, google, privacy, proxy, security

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Angry Tech News #75: Plonked Stratum

Post author By Ryan Bemrose
Post date September 5, 2023

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 19:38 — 18.0MB)

Breaches, breaches, breaches! Google solves meetings. And a Microsoft service becomes a liability in time

Links

UMich attack
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/08/30/um/70716806007/

Forever 21 breach
https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/31/forever-21-data-breach-half-million/

Callaway breach
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/golf-gear-giant-callaway-data-breach-exposes-info-of-11-million/

Google Duet AI vs meetings
https://metro.co.uk/2023/08/31/googles-ai-will-go-to-your-boring-meetings-for-you-19423340/

Windows Secure Time feature
https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/08/windows-feature-that-resets-system-clocks-based-on-random-data-is-wreaking-havoc/

Tags ai, callaway, forever21, google, meetings, microsoft, ntp, time, u-michigan

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Angry Tech News #73: Identity Bubble

Post author By Ryan Bemrose
Post date August 22, 2023

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:29 — 26.1MB)

News Flash: CAPTCHAs are worthless! Plus, Food AI wants to kill us all. Microservices security is more scary and complicated than we imagined. And copyrights are eroding our culture

Links

Bots can solve CAPTCHAS faster than humans
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/15/so_much_for_captcha_then/

NZ supermarket chain Pak ‘n’ Save AI meal planner suggests poison recipes
https://www.techspot.com/news/99750-supermarket-ai-meal-planner-suggests-chlorine-gas-ant.html

Shadow Access Impact Report
https://stackidentity.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Shadow-Access-Impact-Report.pdf

Music labels only want culture preserved if they can control it
https://www.engadget.com/sony-and-other-music-labels-sue-internet-archive-for-digitizing-old-records-110108988.html

Tags ai, archive.org, captcha, copyright, microservices, security

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Angry Tech News #70: Pixelated Grace

Post author By Ryan Bemrose
Post date July 26, 2023

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 19:17 — 17.6MB)

New EU battery regulations, Ubisoft does another bad thing, NFTs aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on, and a Native Ad for porn!

Links

EU requires all phones to have replacable batteries
https://www.androidauthority.com/phones-with-replaceable-batteries-2027-3345155/

Ubisoft deletes accounts, digital libraries, if you haven’t logged in recently
https://www.techspot.com/news/99507-ubisoft-delete-account-game-library-if-inactive-long.html

$2.9M Dorsey tweet NFT for sale, $2k OBO
https://www.techspot.com/news/99510-auction-29-million-jack-dorsey-tweet-nft-has.html

Unstable Diffusion releases AI porn generator
https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/21/as-ai-porn-generators-get-better-the-stakes-raise/

Tags ai, batteries, bored-ape, digital-libraries, europe, nfts, porn, smartphone, ubisoft, unstable-diffusion

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Angry Tech News #68: Unpaywalled Pings

Post author By Ryan Bemrose
Post date July 11, 2023

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 16:08 — 14.8MB)

AI injected into everything; hilarity ensues! Also, patched vulnerabilities in FortiGate firewalls and Mastodon servers. Plus, a rumor that suprises no-one

Links

OpenAI enables, disables Browse-With-Bing feature
https://www.techspot.com/news/99297-openai-yanks-bing-integration-chatgpt-after-users-exploit.html
MDN Web adds AI hallucinations to online docs
https://www.techspot.com/news/99285-mozilla-ai-help-infects-web-documentation-gpt-hallucinations.html
https://github.com/mdn/yari/issues/9208
More than 300k Fortinet firewalls still vulnerable to RCE, a month after patch
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/300-000-plus-fortinet-firewalls-vulnerable-to-critical-fortios-rce-bug/
TootRoot and other mastodon vulnerabilities
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/critical-tootroot-bug-lets-attackers-hijack-mastodon-servers
Rumor: Windows 12
https://www.techspot.com/news/99301-windows-12-rumored-arrive-next-fall-floating-taskbar.html