A prolific hacking group known as Scattered Spider is targeting the transportation sector, including airlines, the FBI and cybersecurity firms say. Read about it [@Techcrunch]( ): #Tech #CyberSecurity #Hacking #Internet
Does age verification aimed at preventing young people from accessing adult content violate the First Amendment in the United States? The country’s Supreme Court just emphatically said “no,” and tech editor Adi Robertson has questions. Read more at [@theverge]( ) (story may be paywalled): #Tech #SCOTUS #FirstAmendment #USA #Internet
Denmark's solution to the problem of deepfakes is to let people copyright their own features. While the department of culture still needs to submit a proposal to amend existing copyright law, it has already secured cross-party support. “In the bill we agree and are sending an unequivocal message that everybody has the right to their own body, their own voice and their own facial features, which is apparently not how the current law is protecting people against generative AI,” Jakob Engel-Schmidt, Danish culture minister, told The Guardian. Here's more from [@Techcrunch]( ). #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Deepfakes #Copyright #CopyrightLaw #Tech #Technology
Apple has been promoting its new “F1” movie through the iPhone’s built-in Wallet app. Just a little bit of an overreach? Tech writer Jamie Richards thinks so. Read about why [@TechRadar]( ): #Tech #Apple #F1 #iPhone
To what extent is AI killing jobs? @npub10zpz...fkta put out a call to try and find some answers, and now he's sharing the first of them in his Blood in the Machine newsletter. "Generative AI is the most hyped, most well-capitalized technology of our generation, and its key promise, that it will automate jobs, desperately needs to be examined. This is the start of that examination," he writes. His series will be broken down by field and background, and starts with the tech industry, including stories from a TikTok content moderator, former staff engineer at Dropbox, fintech worker and more. #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Technology #TechIndustry #SoftwareEngineer #ComputerProgramming
Perhaps we’re paying too much attention to humans striking up relationships with AI chatbots, Anthropic tells us. A new report from the maker of Claude says people seek companionship and roleplay in only a tiny percentage of conversations. Read more from [@Techcrunch]( ): #Tech #AI #Chatbots #ArtificialIntelligence
The Trump Phone no longer promises it’s "made in America." @npub1j302...tme2 reports: "The Trump Mobile website now includes what can only be described as vague, pro-American gestures in the direction of smartphone manufacturing." #TrumpPhone #Mobile #SmartPhone #Trump #Tech #Technology
Tesla new car sales in Europe fell for a fifth straight month in May. The latest data says the carmaker's sales are down 27.9% year on year in the EU, Britain and European Free Trade Association. The company's stock is down more than 18% so far this year. Here's more from CNBC. #Tech #Technology #ElectricVehicles #EVs #Tesla
Anthropic wins a major fair use victory for AI — but it’s still in trouble for stealing books. @npub1j302...tme2 reports: "Judge William Alsup determined that Anthropic training its AI models on purchased copies of books is fair use." #Anthropic #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Technology #Books