Archive for the 'Social Engineering' Category
Stop Hiding My Controls: Hidden Interface Controls Are Affecting Usability
July 6th, 2025Via: Interactions: With drop-down menus, people without specific, detailed training, and knowledge could access and use computers effectively and efficiently for a variety of new tasks that became attainable because of the new interface paradigm. Fast-forward 40 years and we are frequently reverting to a state where significant knowledge in the head is required to […]
The Force-Feeding of AI on an Unwilling Public
July 6th, 2025I’ve been using Windows 11 for a short time and I was shocked to learn that I was able to simply uninstall Copilot. I was expecting a kludge of reg hacks combined with the group policy editor. Nope. It just uninstalled. (For now…) Via: The Honest Broker: A few months ago, I needed to send […]
Australians to Face Age Checks from Search Engines
July 1st, 2025“Age checks,” means, identity checks. Via: Information Age: Australians using search engines while logged in to accounts from the likes of Google and Microsoft will have their age checked by the end of 2025, under a new online safety code co-developed by technology companies and registered by the eSafety Commissioner. Search engines operating in Australia […]
Dyson: “We’ve Got Wonderful Land, and We Should be Able to Grow Everything We Eat” – In Greenhouses?
June 29th, 2025Don’t forget the protein: Via: Dyson:
“ChatGPT Psychosis”
June 28th, 2025If you haven’t read, Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson recently, now might be the time to dust that one off. —Spoiler Warning— Recall that Snow Crash is a mind virus that is spread both online and as an addictive drug through Reverend Wayne’s Pearly Gates franchises. The “faithful” are addicted, brainwashed and suffer from glossolalia […]
RFK Jr’s: Health Trackers for All?
June 26th, 2025No thanks, Bobby. Via: Daily Mail: Robert F Kennedy Jr wants to fit all Americans with a tracking device within the next four years. The Health and Human Services secretary revealed his plans during a House hearing yesterday, saying the devices — like Apple Watch, Fitbit, Whoop and Oura ring — were ‘key to the […]
Executives from OpenAI, Meta, and Palantir Join U.S. Army
June 24th, 2025Via: Business Insider: Four top tech execs from OpenAI, Meta, and Palantir have just joined the US Army — no obstacle courses, shouted orders, or grueling marches required. The Army Reserve has commissioned these senior tech leaders to serve as midlevel officers, skipping tradition to pursue transformation. The newcomers won’t attend any current version of […]
Norwegian Tourist Barred from Entering the U.S. After ICE Found Meme Showing JD Vance with a Bald Head on His Phone
June 24th, 2025You might be a terrorist if… pic.twitter.com/mwbwOqEDok — cryptogon (@cryptogon) June 24, 2025 Via: Daily Mail: A Norwegian tourist claims he was harassed and refused entry to the US after immigration officers found a meme of JD Vance on his phone. Mads Mikkelsen, 21, arrived at New Jersey’s Newark Airport on June 11, excited about […]
Musk Wants Grok AI to “Rewrite the Entire Corpus of Human Knowledge”
June 23rd, 2025Tell us another one, Elon. Via: Coin Telegraph: Elon Musk says his artificial intelligence company xAI will retrain its AI model, Grok, on a new knowledge base free of “garbage” and “uncorrected data” — by first using it to rewrite history. In an X post on Saturday, Musk said the upcoming Grok 3.5 model will […]
ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills
June 21st, 2025Via: Time: The study divided 54 subjects—18 to 39 year-olds from the Boston area—into three groups, and asked them to write several SAT essays using OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s search engine, and nothing at all, respectively. Researchers used an EEG to record the writers’ brain activity across 32 regions, and found that of the three groups, […]
