It looks like Elon Musk’s social network X has become the new favourite place for threat actors who want to distribute their malware, especially malicious crypto-malware. X users fed up with constant stream of malicious crypto ads (bleepingcomputer.com) Hackers hijack govt and business accounts on X for crypto scams (bleepingcomputer.com) …
The UK’s Online Safety Bill is now Law
The Conservative Government’s Online Safety Bill is now law. Online Safety Bill: divisive internet rules become law – BBC Do you have an opinion on it? I do. Let’s see if Big Tech does leave the UK in protest to being asked to compromise our privacy or will they follow …
The UK’s Online Safety Bill and Big Tech, you and me…
Before we start i have written a lot about the Government’s Online Safety Bill – I think some of the bill will address serious issue of bad online activity and disagree that the weakening of end-to-end-encryption (E2EE) for everyone, to enable law enforcement to catch criminals and particularly child abusers …
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What Musk had to say to the BBC.
There has been a lot of negative press about Twitter lately – I have covered it on Smart Thinking – this interview by James Clayton, the BBC North America tech reporter, is worth listening to as it is Elon Musk’s own words about Twitter and the state the company is …
See what Elon Musk’s Twitter responses can do…
A couple of weeks back I posted a link to an article by Marianna Spring, the BBC’s Disinformation and social media correspondent, that examined how Twitter was functioning having now laid so many people off – many of whom appeared to be working as Twitter’s social conscience. Twitter, trolls, child …
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Poisoning AI output
We all know (unless you have had your head under a pillow) that ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence system that among its capabilities it can write a love poem, and academic paper, computer code or even your homework. It can also answer your questions – just ask Bing! ChatGPT AI …
Wikipedia and the UK Online Safety Bill
The worldwide community encyclopaedia, Wikipedia has spoken out against the UK Online Safety Bill. The Wikipedia Foundation does not want community based organisations to be treated as a “Big Tech” company. How organisation are treated in the bill depends on their size not their operations. Wikipedia criticises ‘harsh’ new Online …