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Posted on 3 December 20246 December 2024

AI, Elections and Nick Clegg

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2024 has been the biggest year in human for elections, nearly half the planet’s population has had a vote. At the same time serious questions have been raised about how much influence AI has had, will have on elections. Bruce Schneier, with Nathan Sanders, have contributed a piece to The …

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Posted on 8 January 202410 January 2024

X – The Wild West of the Internet

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) …

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Posted on 15 April 202314 April 2023

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 …

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Posted on 21 March 202321 March 2023

See what Elon Musk’s Twitter responses can do…

Elon's Twitter messes up

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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Posted on 20 February 202320 February 2023

Twitter saving money but improving your security

If you are using SMS to authenticate your Twitter you will need to switch to another authentication method before 20 March 2023 as Twitter is going to turn the service to save itself $60m. Twitter gets rid of SMS 2FA for non-Blue members — What you need to do (bleepingcomputer.com) …

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