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Amazon Loves AI, Except When Candidates Use It in Job Interviews

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“Recent Amazon guidelines shared with internal recruiters at the company say that job applicants can be disqualified from the hiring process if they are found to have used an AI tool during job interviews.

  • The candidate can be seen typing whilst being asked questions. (Note, it is not uncommon for candidates to write down/type the question asked as they prepare to answer.)
  • The candidate appears to be reading their answers rather than responding naturally. This could include correcting themselves when they misread a word.
  • The candidate’s eyes appear to be tracking text or looking elsewhere, rather than viewing their primary display or moving naturally during conversation.
  • The candidate delivers confident responses that do not clearly or directly address the question.
  • The candidate reacts to the outputs of the AI tool when they appear to be incorrect or irrelevant. This is often demonstrated by the candidate being distracted or confused as they are trying to make sense of the outputs.”

Source : Amazon Loves AI, Except When Candidates Use It in Job Interviews – Business Insider

25 arrested in global hit against AI-generated child sexual abuse material | Europol

Operation Cumberland

“Europol has supported authorities from 19 countries in a large-scale hit against child sexual exploitation that has led to 25 arrests worldwide. The suspects were part of a criminal group whose members were engaged in the distribution of images of minors fully generated by artificial intelligence (AI). ”

Source : 25 arrested in global hit against AI-generated child sexual abuse material | Europol

WhatsApp says journalists and civil society members were targets of Israeli spyware

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“Nearly 100 journalists and other members of civil society using WhatsApp, the popular messaging app owned by Meta, were targeted by spyware owned by Paragon Solutions, an Israeli maker of hacking software, the company alleged on Friday.The journalists and other civil society members were being alerted of a possible breach of their devices, with WhatsApp telling the Guardian it had “high confidence” that the 90 users in question had been targeted and “possibly compromised”.It is not clear who was behind the attack. Like other spyware makers, Paragon’s hacking software is used by government clients and WhatsApp said it had not been able to identify the clients who ordered the alleged attacks.Experts said the targeting was a “zero-click” attack, which means targets would not have had to click on any malicious links to be infected.”

Source : WhatsApp says journalists and civil society members were targets of Israeli spyware | WhatsApp | The Guardian

Lawsuit accuses Amazon of secretly tracking consumers through cellphones

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“According to a proposed class action in San Francisco federal court, Amazon obtained « backdoor access » to consumers’ phones by providing tens of thousands of app developers with code known as Amazon Ads SDK to be embedded in their apps. This allegedly enabled Amazon to collect an enormous amount of timestamped geolocation data about where consumers live, work, shop and visit, revealing sensitive information such as religious affiliations, sexual orientations and health concerns. « Amazon has effectively fingerprinted consumers and has correlated a vast amount of personal information about them entirely without consumers’ knowledge and consent, » the complaint said.”

Source : Lawsuit accuses Amazon of secretly tracking consumers through cellphones | Reuters

Wiz Research Uncovers Exposed DeepSeek Database Leaking Sensitive Information, Including Chat History

“As DeepSeek made waves in the AI space, the Wiz Research team set out to assess its external security posture and identify any potential vulnerabilities. Within minutes, we found a publicly accessible ClickHouse database linked to DeepSeek, completely open and unauthenticated, exposing sensitive data. It was hosted at oauth2callback.deepseek.com:9000 and dev.deepseek.com:9000. This database contained a significant volume of chat history, backend data and sensitive information, including log streams, API Secrets, and operational details. ”

Source : Wiz Research Uncovers Exposed DeepSeek Database Leaking Sensitive Information, Including Chat History | Wiz Blog

Subaru Security Flaws Exposed Its System for Tracking Millions of Cars

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“Most disturbing for Curry, though, was that they found they could also track the Subaru’s location—not merely where it was at the moment but also where it had been for the entire year that his mother had owned it. The map of the car’s whereabouts was so accurate and detailed, Curry says, that he was able to see her doctor visits, the homes of the friends she visited, even which exact parking space his mother parked in every time she went to church.”

Source : Subaru Security Flaws Exposed Its System for Tracking Millions of Cars | WIRED

Trump revokes Biden executive order on addressing AI risks

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“U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday revoked a 2023 executive order signed by Joe Biden that sought to reduce the risks that artificial intelligence poses to consumers, workers and national security.Biden’s order required developers of AI systems that pose risks to U.S. national security, the economy, public health or safety to share the results of safety tests with the U.S. government, in line with the Defense Production Act, before they were released to the public.The order also directed agencies to set standards for that testing and address related chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and cybersecurity risks. Biden’s order came as U.S. lawmakers have failed to pass legislation setting guardrails for AI development.”

Source : Trump revokes Biden executive order on addressing AI risks | Reuters

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

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“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

“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

  • “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

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