February 20, 2023

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Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh

I've been doing my weekly Science News for about 4 months now. I have literally read thousands of press releases to that end. The major insight that I have taken away from this is to never, ever, trust a press release.

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Albanians gangs setup 500 CCTV cameras o monitor cops

hat tip to Zack Whittaker’s newsletter

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgynb4/albanian-gangs-cctv

https://euronews.al/en/shkodra-police-dismantles-38-more-security-cameras-they-served-criminal-groups/

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guy @ShyReplyGuy

@skatie420 Everything happening when the queen died was wild, but this one was special

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badidea 🪐 @0xabad1dea

the overwhelming moral of the story recently is that AI is terrifyingly dangerous but also hilariously easily tricked

arstechnica.comMan beats machine at Go in human victory over AIAmateur exploited weakness in systems that have otherwise dominated grandmasters.

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Thomas Rid @RidT

This week Google/Mandiant published a blockbuster report on cyber ops in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Google is probably, next to Microsoft, the company with the most high-res visibility into CNE/CNA in and around the war. A few thoughts

blog.googleFog of war: how the Ukraine conflict transformed the cyber threat landscapeOne year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we’re sharing insights into changes in the cyber threat landscape triggered by the war.

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Brandon Friedman @BFriedmanDC

Lord have mercy this guy called it

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Justin Seitz @jms_dot_py

This is such a great talk by @jana_pruden on the ethics of true crime reporting (ps if you watched the Hitchhiking Axe Murderer it was Jana’s work originally)👇 youtu.be/uE0eDn7TPUI

youtu.beThe Misery Beat with Jana PrudenThe Misery Beat: The Ethics of Reporting on Crime and Human Suffering From the front page to the home page, stories of crime and tragedy have dominated news ...

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Lukasz Olejnik (@LukaszOlejnik@Mastodon.Social) @lukOlejnik

Yesterday a Russian propagandist in a regular TV talk show said something along the lines of "let's start with Starlink, a commercial structure that is used in the interests of the Department of Defense. You can touch it. Let them feel it"

Lukasz Olejnik (@LukaszOlejnik@Mastodon.Social) @lukOlejnik

Cyberpolicy/warfare analysis time! China apparently just called out US and Starlink for alleged interference in an armed conflict (understood as: in Ukraine). Interesting. Where does this lead to? https://t.co/sUPO01DTCj https://t.co/dBJLZW33ON https://t.co/ZRl1JSAUMU

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