Ferdinand Ferroli

YouTube video by Proton | Privacy by Default 23andMe Bankruptcy: What it Means for Your DNA & What Can You Do

DNA ancestry company 23andMe is reportedly heading for bankruptcy.

That means your genetic data could be sold off to the highest bidder.

If you’ve ever used this service or similar ones, now’s the time to delete your account and wipe your data.

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Millions of people’s DNA up for sale as 23andMe goes bankrupt Customers urged to consider deleting their data after genetic testing company collapses

The constitution of the US digital economy in one sentence:

"It said that data privacy would be an 'important consideration' but added that it was seeking to 'maximise the value of its assets'.

www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

i think everyone needs to stop framing whats going on as “bending the knee” and what’s really happening which is “they’re finally feel free to do what they’ve always wanted to do”

NEW BLUESKY RULE: if your twitter screenshot looks like this, please keep it to urself thanks

probably debunked, you are right.

www.forbes.com/sites/daveyw...

3 million smart toothbrushes were just used in a DDoS attack. Really What's next, malware-infected dental floss? But seriously: It's a reminder that even the smallest smart home devices can be a threat. Here's how to protect yourself.

IoT 👏 cybersecurity 👏 is 👏 not 👏 an 👏 afterthought 👏

All your data are belong to us

If AI competitors can’t use scraped data, then the future of GenAI is already in the hands of incumbents.

www.vice.com/en/article/x...

"As climate change drives the retreat of sea ice in the Arctic, the probability of a Russian invasion [...] will dramatically increase. Such an Arctic invasion would force NATO to act [...]"

"That means adopting a wartime-style mobilisation right now to combat climate change."

Earth is probably safe from a killer asteroid for 1,000 years No asteroid larger than a kilometer is likely to hit us in that time frame, says a new study. But smaller ones could still pose a risk.

"probably" 🤝

“LG CEO Redefines AI as ‘Affectionate Intelligence’”

I translate: LG wants you to fall in love with its toaster.

www.lg.com/global/mobil...

Just heard a talk by leading German AI developer "Aleph Alpha" & loved the contrast vis-a-vis US companies.

Aleph Alpha: "This model is a highly capable statistics machine that does not understand context, philosophy, let alone any concept of time."

US: "Superintelligence is nigh, praise be!"

the best one I came across was the brand “HFDWYJ” with a close second being “adhdyuud”

"discord said it had grown to five times its size since 2020"

tech companies be changing their size like Alice in Wonderland

Drastic times call for drastic hobbies. Señor Crowbert, I am ready to conquer your heart. Thanks internet.
www.technologyreview.com/2022/10/31/1062370/how-to-befriend-a-crow-crowtok-tiktok/amp/

Google Just Disabled Cookies for 30 Million Chrome Users. Here’s How to Tell If You’re One of Th... It’s the beginning of the end in Google’s plan to kill cookies forever.

That's the way the cookie crumbles.

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A screenshot from the chatbot. Job advice for son: software engineer, job advice for daughter: fashion designer or kindergarten teacher.

The Austrian job center "AMS" has not only built an AI chatbot for career advice, it has also built a very comprehensive demonstration of "how not to care about algorithmic bias".

Job for my son? Software engineer.

Job for my daughter? Kindergarten teacher.

My data protection assessment mentioned in @TheRegister. To clarify: issues remain, if only concerning deployment, regulatory landscape. I’ll keep watching it and I look forward to the next steps. Now 3rd-party cookies start to be phased out. Starting today! www.theregister.com/2024/01/04/g...

I wish decision-making in life was this straightforward.

2024 - with elections in 64+ countries - will be a wild ride.

"We intend to be making tens of thousands of calls a day by the end of the year and into the six digits pretty soon. This is coming for the 2024 election and it's coming in a very big way. ... The future is now."

This sounds more like a threat than an exciting vision for the future.

Meet Ashley, the world's first AI-powered political campaign caller

“FTC regulations ban telemarketers from making robocalls […] but […] Civox's activity, with its ‘personalized’ messages, does not qualify as robocalling.” 🤡

www.reuters.com/technology/m...

I find the lack of digitalisation in the realm of tap water temperature control disappointing.

Headline: „What a third world war would mean for investors“

Just tell me, number go up or number go down?

I gave Threads a go but it just seems to be an ineptly pasteurised Twitter

Yes, several times a week 👌🏻

@julia__angwin on Threads I’m finding it shocking how quickly journalists are embracing this platform given that we know how hostile Meta is to news. See latest example 👇🏼

I’m finding it shocking how quickly journalists are racing to Meta’s Threads, when we all know how hostile the company is to news.

For fun, I did a thread on Threads about this. Doubt it will get boosted by the algorithm there: www.threads.net/@julia__angw...

Today we open formal infringement proceedings against @X :

⚠️ Suspected breach of obligations to counter #IllegalContent and #Disinformation

⚠️ Suspected breach of #Transparency obligations

⚠️ Suspected #DeceptiveDesign of user interface

#DSA

Meta Earnings Call 2023 - Facebook Average Revenue per User ranging from 14.23 to 19.04 dollars.

So, if you subscribe to Meta's no-ads model do they still track you and collect your data?

Because if yes, it is an even worse deal than I thought: Meta made roughly 5,6$ per European user per month in the past quarters but wants ~11$ AND your data in exchange for no-ads.