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Cybercriminalité: «Léa Rossier» a berné plus de 13 000 fonctionnaires vaudois

14 janvier 2025 / noflux

“Une certaine «Léa Rossier» a envoyé un courriel aux quelque 47’000 collaborateurs de l’État de Vaud durant la première semaine de novembre. Mais Léa n’existe pas. Il s’agit d’un «faux mail malveillant» diffusé dans le cadre de la sixième campagne de sensibilisation aux dangers de l’hameçonnage par messagerie. La première à une échelle aussi large à l’État. Résultat: c’est un échec. Comme le relate la Gazette de l’État de Vaud dans un article de décembre, plus d’un quart des destinataires (29%), soit 13’661 employés de l’État, se sont fait avoir par ce mail envoyé par «lea.rossier@adminaccounts.ch» et ont cliqué sur la pièce jointe «Plan_amelioration_processus_Urgent». En outre, 5182 (11%) d’entre eux ont même saisi un identifiant et un mot de passe.”

Source : Cybercriminalité: «Léa Rossier» a berné plus de 13 000 fonctionnaires vaudois | 24 heures

The Ministry of Empowerment

9 janvier 2025 / noflux

“Fuck you Facebook. That was the first thought I had when I woke up this morning. Followed by: What ministry is Mark Zuckerberg volunteering to manage for the dictators of the world? All I could think of is how Orwell’s Ministry of Love is about hate. So what are we creating here? The Ministry of Empowerment to ensure the oppression of the most vulnerable? Lovely. But maybe you, dear reader, have a better Ministry name for their new organizational identity?”

Source : The Ministry of Empowerment

More Speech and Fewer Mistakes | Meta

7 janvier 2025 / noflux

“Starting in the US, we are ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to a Community Notes model.

We will allow more speech by lifting restrictions on some topics that are part of mainstream discourse and focusing our enforcement on illegal and high-severity violations.

We will take a more personalized approach to political content, so that people who want to see more of it in their feeds can.”

Source : More Speech and Fewer Mistakes | Meta

US newspapers are deleting old crime stories, offering subjects a ‘clean slate’

5 janvier 2025 / noflux

“Civil rights advocates across the US have long fought to free people from their criminal records, with campaigns to expunge old cases and keep people’s past arrests private when they apply for jobs and housing.The efforts are critical, as more than 70 million Americans have prior convictions or arrests – roughly one in three adults. But the policies haven’t addressed one of the most damaging ways past run-ins with police can derail people’s lives: old media coverage. Some newsrooms are working to fill that gap. A handful of local newspapers across the US have in recent years launched programs to review their archives and consider requests to remove names or delete old stories to protect the privacy of subjects involved in minor crimes.”

Source : US newspapers are deleting old crime stories, offering subjects a ‘clean slate’ | US news | The Guardian

Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Add Live AI, Live Translation, & Shazam Support

17 décembre 2024 / noflux

“Your glasses will be able to translate speech in real time between English and either Spanish, French, or Italian. When you’re talking to someone speaking one of those three languages, you’ll hear what they say in English through the glasses’ open-ear speakers or viewed as transcripts on your phone, and vice versa. Not only is this great for traveling, it should help break down language barriers and bring people closer together. ”

Source : Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Add Live AI, Live Translation, & Shazam Support | Blog Meta Quest | Meta Store

Lawsuit: A chatbot hinted a kid should kill his parents over screen time limits

13 décembre 2024 / noflux

Two examples of interactions users have had with chatbots from the company Character.AI.

“ »It is simply a terrible harm these defendants and others like them are causing and concealing as a matter of product design, distribution and programming, » the lawsuit states.The suit argues that the concerning interactions experienced by the plaintiffs’ children were not « hallucinations, » a term researchers use to refer to an AI chatbot’s tendency to make things up. « This was ongoing manipulation and abuse, active isolation and encouragement designed to and that did incite anger and violence. »According to the suit, the 17-year-old engaged in self-harm after being encouraged to do so by the bot, which the suit says « convinced him that his family did not love him. »”

Source : Lawsuit: A chatbot hinted a kid should kill his parents over screen time limits : NPR

Cruise’s robotaxi service will likely shut down as GM pulls its funding

11 décembre 2024 / noflux

Cruise Car

“General Motors said it would no longer fund its Cruise robotaxi service as it seeks to focus its spending on autonomous vehicle development specifically for personally owned vehicles. Now Cruise employees will be combined with GM’s internal teams working on advanced driver assist systems, like Super Cruise, as well as its project to develop autonomous vehicles to sell to customers for personal use. Ultimately, the project became too expensive for GM to justify the huge amounts of money spent to prop it up. And the automaker found it increasingly difficult to convince its shareholders that the money-losing operation would eventually pay off. The robotaxi subsidiary lost a staggering $3.48 billion in 2023 and has been seen by some as an albatross for the automaker, sucking up cash and lacking a clear path to profits.”

Source : Cruise’s robotaxi service will likely shut down as GM pulls its funding – The Verge

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11 décembre 2024 / noflux

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Source : Artisan Blog – B2B Prospecting and Cold Outreach Content

Un expert judiciaire accusé d’utiliser une IA pour générer son rapport sur les deepfakes

10 décembre 2024 / noflux

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“…dans son texte, Jeff Hancock explique aussi que « la difficulté à identifier les deepfakes vient de la technologie sophistiquée utilisée pour créer des reproductions homogènes et réalistes de l’apparence et de la voix d’une personne. ». Pour l’affirmer, il s’appuie sur une étude qui « a montré que même lorsque les individus sont informés de l’existence des deepfakes, ils peuvent avoir du mal à faire la distinction entre un contenu réel et un contenu manipulé. Cette difficulté est exacerbée sur les plateformes de médias sociaux, où les deepfakes peuvent se propager rapidement avant d’être identifiés et supprimés. ». Sauf que cette étude ne semble pas exister.”

Source : Un expert judiciaire accusé d’utiliser une IA pour générer son rapport sur les deepfakes – Next

Brussels probes Google and Meta secret ads deal to target teens

10 décembre 2024 / noflux

A montage of a teenager using a phone with the logos of Google and Meta in the background

“During the ad campaign, first revealed in an FT investigation published in August, staff at Google were helping Meta bypass the search company’s policies on how online advertising can be directed to minors. While Google bans ad personalisation for teens, the campaign for Instagram on YouTube deliberately pushed messages to a group of users labelled as “unknown” in its system. Google employees told Meta that it had internal data that showed this group skewed towards under-18s and was a way of “hacking” the audience safeguards in their system.”

Source : Brussels probes Google and Meta secret ads deal to target teens