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web developer working in the conservation space. I'm here to see what everyone is working on! :)
WhatsApp reports spyware group, who holds active contract with ICE, tried hacking journalists in the US.
techcrunch.com/2025/01/31/w...
techcrunch.com/2025/01/31/w...
WhatsApp says it disrupted a hacking campaign targeting journalists with Paragon spyware | TechCrunch
The Meta-owned company said the campaign was linked to Israeli spyware maker Paragon.
techcrunch.com
February 1, 2025 at 2:45 AM
WhatsApp reports spyware group, who holds active contract with ICE, tried hacking journalists in the US.
techcrunch.com/2025/01/31/w...
techcrunch.com/2025/01/31/w...
Remember when we said our phones were predicting our searches so accurately that they HAD to be listening to our conversations? And remember that tech companies denied it and said their algorithms were just that good?
Ya, they were just listening to us.
apnews.com/article/appl...
Ya, they were just listening to us.
apnews.com/article/appl...
What to know about Apple's $95 million settlement of the snooping Siri case
Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the company of turning its virtual assistant Siri into a snoop that eavesdropped on the users of iPhones and other trendy devices i...
apnews.com
January 4, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Remember when we said our phones were predicting our searches so accurately that they HAD to be listening to our conversations? And remember that tech companies denied it and said their algorithms were just that good?
Ya, they were just listening to us.
apnews.com/article/appl...
Ya, they were just listening to us.
apnews.com/article/appl...
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This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?
December 11, 2024 at 10:43 PM
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
SF is absolutely on a path to being a police state. This is too powerful for any of us to have and it should be banned.
www.sfchronicle.com/crime/articl...
www.sfchronicle.com/crime/articl...
3 million photos a day: Inside SFPD’s huge surveillance tech expansion this year
San Francisco police dramatically increased their use of tech in 2024. Police say they’re better equipped to solve crimes, but privacy advocates are worried.
www.sfchronicle.com
January 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
SF is absolutely on a path to being a police state. This is too powerful for any of us to have and it should be banned.
www.sfchronicle.com/crime/articl...
www.sfchronicle.com/crime/articl...
Russia is OBSESSED with nesting dolls!
December 6, 2024 at 6:01 AM
Russia is OBSESSED with nesting dolls!
Lots of great tips here on how you can better protect your privacy, which is something that's always important
Trump has vowed to deport millions of immigrants and jail his political enemies. Conservative groups who helped elect him want more restrictions on abortion and a crackdown on protest.
All of that requires surveillance. We put together a guide to protect yourself. www.wired.com/story/the-wi...
All of that requires surveillance. We put together a guide to protect yourself. www.wired.com/story/the-wi...
The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance
Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to ev...
www.wired.com
November 28, 2024 at 5:05 AM
Lots of great tips here on how you can better protect your privacy, which is something that's always important
The plastics industry wants to hide where the pro-plastic messaging is coming from, but we're not buying it!
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/c...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/c...
Inside the Plastic Industry’s Battle to Win Over Hearts and Minds
Documents leaked from an industry group show how plastics companies are pushing back against a “tide of anti-plastic sentiment.”
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2024 at 3:09 AM
The plastics industry wants to hide where the pro-plastic messaging is coming from, but we're not buying it!
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/c...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/c...
So happy to see that Point Blue Conservation Science has joined the Bluesky community!!!
Hello Bluesky! We are so happy to be here to connect with you, share our #conservation #science activities & opportunities, and build #community to grow conservation impact together!
Here's a sampling of us and our partners in Sierra meadows, along the San Francisco Bay, and in interior wetlands.
Here's a sampling of us and our partners in Sierra meadows, along the San Francisco Bay, and in interior wetlands.
November 28, 2024 at 2:46 AM
So happy to see that Point Blue Conservation Science has joined the Bluesky community!!!
One day AI bots will scam call you and your AI granny will answer, and the cycle of bots will be complete
‘AI Granny’ is happy to talk with phone scammers all day
‘AI Granny’ is happy to talk with phone scammers all day
On Thursday, the UK’s largest mobile network operator, O2, introduced a chatbot designed to frustrate phone scammers. Called “dAIsy,” it mimics an older woman with all kinds of time to chat – about knitting, her cat Fluffy – with the aim of keeping…
tcrn.ch
November 16, 2024 at 8:38 AM
One day AI bots will scam call you and your AI granny will answer, and the cycle of bots will be complete