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security
Rights groups brand Home Office's AI age guesser for asylum-seekers as biased and inaccurate
Campaigners say tech is unable to reliably distinguish between kids and adults at the boundary where use is planned
ai and ml
Devs in the trenches are stressed from the mandate to automate everything, but Render thinks it can help
San Francisco plays host to hosting company's Localhost conference
ai + ml
Midjourney pivots from AI image generation to body scanning medical spa where patients bathe in 'golden light'
The underlying technology is real...and borrowed from a partner the company failed to mention
AI AND ML
Committed skeptic finds himself warming to new Amazon AI products that actually don't suck
Ed's note to Corey: Blink once if you're safe, twice if you're in danger
OS platforms
Canonical reveals Myna, its local speech-to-text app
Bird-branded AI will ride on Stonking Stingray
Infosec #
Security
Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks
PLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!
Security
Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack
PLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more
Black Hat and DEF CON
DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructure
Voting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included
Security
EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz Acronis
Went at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified
Malware Month
Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight
On the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career
FOSS #
France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well
Nextcloud rollout shows locally controlled storage is one thing; getting users off Office is quite another
History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system
When a community came together after Red Hat said Windows was 'probably the right product'
Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it
Project Headroom could save you big money, too
OpenBSD 7.9 arrives, a diamond in the rough proud of every sharp edge
Sixtieth release adds more cores, delayed hibernation, and basic Wi-Fi 6 without losing its ascetic streak
Fedora: Microsoft is all aboard, but Deepin is dumped
Red Hat’s free distro loses a desktop, but makes an important new friend
LocalSend puts your sneakernet out of business
Like AirDrop, minus the Apple lock-in