Malevolent Technology
For those of you who cannot cope with fuzzy images, it reads:
‘For those of my generation who do not, and cannot, comprehend why Facebook exists: I am trying to make friends outside of Facebook while applying the same principles. Therefore, every day I walk down the street and tell passersby what I have eaten, how I feel at the moment, what I have done the night before, what I will do later and with whom. I give them pictures of my family, my dog, of me gardening, taking things apart in the garage, standing in front of landmarks, having lunch and doing what anybody and everybody does every day. I also listen to their conversations, give them ‘thumbs up’ and tell them that I “like” them. And it works just like Facebook. I have four people following me already: 2 police officers, a private investigator and a psychiatrist.’
The post reminds me of the politically incorrect tale of the Mexican, the Indian and the American…
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New Delhi: Neville Roy Singham, American millionaire accused of spreading Chinese propaganda in India and abroad, has now been summoned by Enforcement Directorate in connection with a money laundering case against NewsClick, sources have said
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Read MoreAmid concerns raised by MPs they weren’t warned about a Chinese hack against them, the House of Commons administration says it had effectively prevented the cyberattack.
The House of Commons Administration “determined that the risk-mitigation measures in place had successfully prevented any attack,” spokesperson Mathieu Gravel told The Epoch Times.
Mr. Gravel said the administration investigates all incidents flagged by its security partners. “There were no cybersecurity impacts to any Members or their communications,” he added.
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Read MoreCustoms officers warn of another ArriveCan-style fiasco with a Canada Border Services Agency plan to digitize $32 billion in yearly tariff collections. The computer system to be launched May 13 has been delayed until October.
“We have general concerns regarding the decision to implement it in the first place,” the Customs and Immigration Union wrote the Commons trade committee. “It seems to follow the same pattern established by previous projects, notably ArriveCan, where a rushed system is deployed as a solution to a non-existent problem.”
The Agency’s Assessment And Revenue Management System or CARM has been in planning since 2016. The project originally budgeted at $370 million has cost $526 million to date, by Agency estimate.
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Read MoreMultiple cancer-causing mechanisms have been associated with COVID injections. With the unprecedented rise in cancer cases worldwide, it’s time for an immediate moratorium on the vaccination campaign.
A ‘baffling’ rise in cancer cases
In 2022, there were an estimated 20 million new cancer cases and 9.7 million deaths from cancer. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that about one in five people develop cancer in their lifetimes, and approximately one in nine men and one in 12 women die from the disease (WHO, 2024). The WHO has predicted a rise in cancer rates of 77% by 2050, which represents 35 million new cases. But the actual increase will exceed this by far. The Wall Street Journal reported in January 2024 that “cancer is striking more young people, and that doctors are alarmed and baffled,” (WSJ, 2024) with the reasons for this said to be ‘unknown’.
In 2020, SARS-CoV-2 gained worldwide attention and has since been discussed as a potential carcinogen (Chambers, 2023). But it is actually since 2021 – the year of the so-called COVID-19 ‘vaccine’ rollout – that the rates of onset and progression of cancer changed dramatically worldwide. Due to receiving emergency approval, this gene therapy did not require any carcinogenicity studies at all. Since then, however, countries all over the world have reported a steady rise in new cancer cases.
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Read MoreTikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, said it will not sell the popular video sharing app to continue its business in the U.S., despite facing a potential ban under a law President Biden signed Wednesday.
The bill, included in a foreign aid package Biden signed, gives ByteDance up to a year to sell TikTok or be banned from operating in the U.S. The proposal was fueled by national security concerns raised by the supporters, who argued the Chinese government could compel TikTok to share U.S. user data.
It is the latest and most critical threat TikTok has faced in the U.S. yet — but the company is not backing down.
The company issued a statement on Toutiao, a news aggregation app ByteDance owns, dispelling a Thursday report by The Information that claimed ByteDance was exploring options for selling TikTok in the U.S. without its algorithm, according to a copy of the statement reported by CNN.
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Read MoreLawyers for the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) sent Apple a cease-and-desist order Thursday threatening legal action unless the tech giant stops using allegedly illegally exported minerals harvested from the DRC’s conflict zones and smuggled through Rwanda.
According to Agence France-Presse (AFP), which reviewed the cease-and-desist letter prepared by French lawyers working for the Congolese government, Apple allegedly “sold technology made with minerals sourced from a region whose population is being devastated by grave human rights violations.” Those violations in
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Read MoreArtistic project aims to spark debate about AI deepfakes
It’s natural to be leery regarding the ways in which people may use artificial intelligence to cause problems for society in the near future. On a personal level, you may be concerned about a future where artificial intelligence takes your job or creates a Terminator that comes back in time to try to eliminate a younger you. (We admittedly might be overthinking that one.)
One fear regarding AI on a personal level that you should know about because it’s very much in the present is the creation of deepfake photos, including those that strip you of the most basic of privacy rights: the right to protect images of your body.
Two German artists recently created a camera called NUCA that uses AI to create deepfake photos of subjects by stripping away their clothing. The automated removal of the photo subject’s clothing occurs in close to real-time, speeding up the creepy factor exponentially.
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