Tag: scam
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The Register: Rather than add a backdoor, Apple decides to kill iCloud E2EE for UK peeps
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/24/rather_than_add_a_backdoor/ Source: The Register Title: Rather than add a backdoor, Apple decides to kill iCloud E2EE for UK peeps Feedly Summary: PLUS: SEC launches new crypto crime unit; Phishing toolkit upgraded; and more Infosec in brief Apple has responded to the UK government’s demand for access to its customers’ data stored in iCloud…
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The Register: US minerals company says crooks broke into email and helped themselves to $500K
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/niocorp_bec_scam/ Source: The Register Title: US minerals company says crooks broke into email and helped themselves to $500K Feedly Summary: A painful loss for young company that’s yet to generate revenue A NASDAQ-listed US minerals company says cybercriminals broke into its systems on Valentine’s Day and paid themselves around $500,000 – money earmarked…
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The Register: This open text-to-speech model needs just seconds of audio to clone your voice
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/16/ai_voice_clone/ Source: The Register Title: This open text-to-speech model needs just seconds of audio to clone your voice Feedly Summary: El Reg shows you how to run Zypher’s speech-replicating AI on your own box Hands on Palo Alto-based AI startup Zyphra unveiled a pair of open text-to-speech (TTS) models this week said to…
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The Register: I’m a security expert, and I almost fell for a North Korea-style deepfake job applicant …Twice
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/11/it_worker_scam/ Source: The Register Title: I’m a security expert, and I almost fell for a North Korea-style deepfake job applicant …Twice Feedly Summary: Remote position, webcam not working, then glitchy AI face … Red alert! Twice, over the past two months, Dawid Moczadło has interviewed purported job seekers only to discover that these…
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Hacker News: The LLMentalist Effect
Source URL: https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/ Source: Hacker News Title: The LLMentalist Effect Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Short Summary with Insight:** The text provides a critical examination of large language models (LLMs) and generative AI, arguing that the perceptions of these models as “intelligent” are largely illusions fostered by cognitive biases, particularly subjective validation.…
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Schneier on Security: AIs and Robots Should Sound Robotic
Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/02/ais-and-robots-should-sound-robotic.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: AIs and Robots Should Sound Robotic Feedly Summary: Most people know that robots no longer sound like tinny trash cans. They sound like Siri, Alexa, and Gemini. They sound like the voices in labyrinthine customer support phone trees. And even those robot voices are being made obsolete…