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Trainer, advisor and lecturer in the areas of information technology, communication, reputation and infosec . Vice President of ImmuniWeb SA. https://linkedin.com/in/stephanekoch

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ETH Zürich's commitment to training data transparency is impressive. Given the prevalence of black-box models in mainstream AI, could this redefine the open source standard in AI? We look forward to the subsequent release of source code and weights to verify its reproducibility and practical value.

31.07.2025 21:03 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Swiss boffins tease 'fully open' LLM trained on Alps super : Source code and weights coming later this summer with an Apache 2.0 bow on top

"(...) the models will be fully open. Instead of releasing simply the models and weights for the public to scrutinize and tweak, as we've seen with models from Microsoft, Google, Meta, and others, researchers at ETH Zürich also claim that the "training data will be transparent and reproducible.""

11.07.2025 07:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Sophia.chat sophia.chat

Sophia est chatbot IA qui aide les personnes victimes de violences domestiques à « reconnaître les signes de violence, comprendre leurs droits, rassembler des preuves éventuelles et demander de l'aide »

www.sophia.chat

11.07.2025 07:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How to trick ChatGPT into revealing Windows keys? I give up : No, really, those are the magic words

"(...) To combat this type of vulnerability, AI systems must have stronger contextual awareness and multi-layered validation systems, according to Figueroa."

10.07.2025 07:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

2/2 "(...) Un casque de réalité virtuel a également été saisi, "avec un programme permettant de générer des modèles d’enfants en 3D" précisent nos confrères, permettant de leur faire subir les sévices que l’on souhaite."

17.05.2025 14:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Condamné pour avoir agressé sexuellement 22 petites filles, ce père de famille utilisait l’IA pour dénuder les enfants qu’il prenait en photo en cachette Il sévissait dans les cabines d’essayage de l’Aquaboulevard et des magasins, mais aussi dans les transports en commun.

1/2 "(...) L’homme a filmé ou pris en photo 69 autres enfants.Des photos qu’il retouchait ensuite grâce à l’intelligence artificielle pour dénuder les enfants et les représenter dans des situations pornographiques."

17.05.2025 14:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Schneier warns that AI loses integrity due to corporate bias RSAC: Can we turn to govt, academic models instead?

"Corporate AI models are already skewed to serve their makers' interests, and unless governments and academia step up to build transparent alternatives, the tech risks becoming just another tool for commercial manipulation. "

07.05.2025 06:36 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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TikTok fined €530 million for sending European user data to China The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined TikTok €530 million (over $601 million) for illegally transferring the personal data of users in the European Economic Area (EEA) to China, violati...

"(...) The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined TikTok €530 million (over $601 million) for illegally transferring the personal data of users in the European Economic Area (EEA) to China, violating the European Union's GDPR data protection regulations "

02.05.2025 12:32 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Chris Krebs loses Global Entry membership amid Trump feud : President's campaign continues against man he claims covered up evidence of electoral fraud in 2020

"(...) Global Entry is a program that allows low-risk and pre-approved travelers to enter the US while skipping the usual processing lines at border control, saving airport travel time."

02.05.2025 07:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AI companions unsafe for teens under 18, researchers say Testing of popular AI companions revealed details bound to alarm parents.

"(...) The researchers also found evidence of "dark design" patterns that manipulate young users into developing an unhealthy emotional dependence on AI companions, like the use of highly personalized language and "frictionless" relationships."

30.04.2025 15:50 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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X Continues To Lose EU Users According To Latest DSA Report European users are turning away from Elon's social media experiment.

"(...)Either way, if you were wondering whether X is actually gaining traction, and whether Musk’s reformation of the app is actually catching on, these numbers suggest that it remains in steady decline.

ℹ️ From X’s EU disclosure: X has added 211 content moderation staff since last report."

30.04.2025 13:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AIAAIC - Investigation finds dating app AI tools fail to detect rapists Investigation finds Match Group dating app AI tools fail to ban rapists

"An investigation by The Markup uncovered that systems used by Match Group, owner of popular dating apps Tinder and Hinge, to keep sexual predators off its platforms are ineffective."

20.04.2025 08:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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CVE program gets a last-minute save, maybe a new home : Uncertainty is the new certainty

Last night, CISA executed the option period on the contract to ensure there will be no lapse in critical CVE services. (...) CVE board members today announced the formation of a nonprofit foundation.
www.theregister.com/2025/04/16/c...

17.04.2025 07:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Operation Assad: the air mission to smuggle the Syrian despot's valuables As his enemies closed in on Damascus, Bashar al-Assad, who ruled over Syria with an iron fist for 24 years, used a private jet to spirit away cash, valuables and confidential documents mapping the corporate web behind his wealth.

As his enemies closed in on Damascus, Bashar al-Assad, who ruled over Syria with an iron fist for 24 years, used a private jet to spirit away cash, valuables and confidential documents mapping the corporate web behind his wealth reut.rs/42vaPzh

17.04.2025 07:07 — 👍 112    🔁 30    💬 6    📌 2
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Report: EC issues burner phones for visits to US : That would put America on the same level as China for espionage

"The use of clean and locked-down hardware is common practice for anyone visiting China, Russia, and other states where aggressive electronic surveillance is expected. Apparently the European Union has added the United States to that list."

16.04.2025 08:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Homeland Security funding for CVE program expires : Because vulnerability management has nothing to do with national security, right?

"US government funding for the world's CVE program – the centralized Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database of product security flaws – ends Wednesday.

The 25-year-old CVE program plays a huge role in vulnerability management."

16.04.2025 08:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Pharmacist accused of spying on women using work, home cams : Lawsuit claims sick cyber-voyeurism went undetected for years, using hundreds of PCs, due to lax infosec

"The lawsuit targets University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC), rather than the named pharmacist, and claims the organization was negligent for failing to detect or stop Bathula's use of keylogging software on hospital systems. (...)"

10.04.2025 06:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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La désinformation climatique prospère dans une partie des médias audiovisuels français Après avoir passé au crible les programmes d’information des dix-huit principales chaînes de télévision et de radio au premier trimestre, des associations ont recensé 128 cas de désinformation sur le climat.

La désinformation climatique prospère dans une partie des médias audiovisuels français

10.04.2025 05:11 — 👍 109    🔁 69    💬 7    📌 7
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Apple's iPhone may be the new Signalgate scapegoat This is why you shouldn't just mindlessly tap "accept".

"(...) Even so, contact update suggestions are mere suggestions. It's always up to users to check that the information is correct, as well as whether to apply the changes or not. In this case, it appears that Waltz simply accepted his iPhone's suggestion without checking the number."

07.04.2025 23:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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TikTok ban: What's next for app as bidding war rages? | Context TikTok's ban is delayed again as U.S. and China negotiate buyers for app

Instead of banning TikTok, "to truly reduce the supply of data that foreign adversaries can obtain, we need federal privacy legislation that limits how all companies collect and share our personal data,” EFF’s Babette Ngene told @contextnewsroom.bsky.social.

07.04.2025 22:54 — 👍 251    🔁 54    💬 8    📌 2
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Donald Trump : bateleur de foire ou habile stratège ? Ses techniques de négociation décryptées Les annonces brutales de Donald Trump concernant le commerce, l’Ukraine ou le Groenland, déstabilisent la scène internationale. Mais ses techniques de manipulation et de négociation sont bien connues ...

Droits de douane exorbitants, volonté d’annexer certains pays voisins, humiliation du président ukrainie. La tactique incendiaire de D. Trump choque et déstabilise la scène internationale. Mais ses techniques de négociation et de manipulation sont bien connues des chercheurs en psychologie sociale.

04.04.2025 17:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Comment les rédactions de l'éditeur suisse Tamedia se servent (beaucoup) de l'IA générative De la retranscription d'interviews à la suggestion des titres en passant par la consultation des archives, les usages de l'IA générative se multiplient chez les 700 professionnels concernés.

"(...) Au cœur du réacteur, on retrouve quatre LLM (Claude, ChatGPT, Le Chat et Gemini), que Tamedia utilise via API et sur lesquels se basent de nombreuses fonctionnalités développées en interne, en plus d'une poignée d'outils du marché."

25.03.2025 12:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Gamer Felicia Day on Gamergate Gamer and online personality Felicia Day hasn't said much about Gamergate. Today, she opened up on her blog. "Why have I remained mostly silent? Self-protection and fear." Her post is…

Thanks (the article is from 2014)
boingboing.net/2014/10/22/g...

22.03.2025 09:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Report Finds Community Notes Fail To Address Proven Misinformation on X As Meta launches the first Community Notes in its apps, another report finds significant flaws in the process.

"(...) a new report has once again highlighted the flaws of the Community Notes system that’s currently in place on X, which Meta is building its own approach around."

20.03.2025 15:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Profession « chatteurs » : qui sont les petites mains derrière les influenceuses érotiques d’OnlyFans ? Retrouvez sur StreetPress nos enquêtes & infos, sur Paris et en banlieue. Et découvrez chaque jour les lieux et les gens qui font l’actu urbaine en Île-de-France.

"Derrière les plateformes comme OnlyFans ou Mym, de plus en plus de petites mains « chattent » à la place des créatrices de contenus porno-érotiques. Un job qui séduit aussi à Madagascar ou au Bénin, malgré la précarité."

20.03.2025 11:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"En ligne, c'est plus facile de ne pas se retenir" : pourquoi les Français se sentent-ils plus libres (et plus méchants) derrière leurs écrans ? Plus de quatre internautes sur dix déclarent adopter une personnalité différente sur les réseaux sociaux, d'après une enquête de l'institut Flashs. Une tendance particulièrement marquée chez les plus ...

Plus de quatre internautes sur dix déclarent adopter une personnalité différente sur les réseaux sociaux, d'après une enquête de l'institut Flashs. Une tendance particulièrement marquée chez les plus jeunes.

20.03.2025 11:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How billionaires and powerful law firms are working to restrict libel protections and silence the press in Trump’s America A new book by ‘New York Times’ journalist David Enrich exposes the campaign to overturn a precious legal precedent that protects investigative journalism.

The Sullivan decision upended the status quo and made it much more difficult for any public figure to win a libel case. “The test is what’s known as the ‘actual malice standard’,”

19.03.2025 08:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Moscou et Pékin utilisent un "arsenal digital massif", selon l'UE La Chine et la Russie ont recours à un "arsenal digital massif" pour s'ingérer et manipuler les démocraties occidentales, a averti mardi l'Union européenne. L'an dernier, plus de 80 pays et 200 organi...

"La Chine et la Russie ont recours à un "arsenal digital massif" pour s'ingérer et manipuler les démocraties occidentales, a averti mardi l'Union européenne. L'an dernier, plus de 80 pays et 200 organisations ont été ciblés."

18.03.2025 14:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Le Royaume-Uni supprime discr�tement les recommandations en mati�re de chiffrement des sites web gouvernementaux, apr�s avoir exig� d'Apple une porte d�rob�e pour acc�der aux donn�es iCloud Le gouvernement britannique semble op�rer un revirement inqui�tant en mati�re de politique de chiffrement, en supprimant discr�tement les recommandations officielles encourageant l'utilisation d'outil...

En 2023, le NCSC publiait un guide recommandant d'utiliser des outils de chiffrement comme l'ADP d'Apple pour sécuriser leurs données. Cependant, ce document a depuis été supprimé et redirige désormais vers une page ne mentionnant plus le chiffrement,

12.03.2025 20:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ex-Employee Found Guilty in Revenge Kill-Switch Scheme Clandestine kill switch was designed to lock out other users if the developer's account in the company's Windows Active Directory was ever disabled.

"Davis Lu, a software developer for the company, lost some of his job responsibilities following a 2018 corporate restructuring. Lu began introducing the malicious code in August 2019, which would ultimately cause operational and monetary damages."

10.03.2025 21:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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