“Ask for a roast beef sandwich at an Arby’s drive-thru east of Los Angeles and you may be talking to Tori — an artificially intelligent voice assistant that will take your order and send it to the line cooks,” reports the Associated Press.
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Is Remote Working Leading to a Boom in Worker Surveillance?
A Guardian article begins with the story of how a digital surveillance platform called Sneek ruined the first week on the job for a remote worker named David:
Every minute or so, the program would capture a live photo of David and his workmates via th…
New Company Raises Hundreds of Millions of Dollars for Anti-Aging Research
MIT’s Technology Review reports on “Silicon Valley’s latest wild bet on living forever,” the newly-formed Altos Labs which it describes as “an ambitious new anti-aging company…
“Altos is pursuing biological reprogramming technology, a way to rejuven…
Lawsuits Accuse Siri, Alexa, and Google of Listening When They’re Not Supposed To
“Tech companies have long encouraged putting listening devices in homes and pockets…” reports the Washington Post. “But some are growing concerned that these devices are recording even when they’re not supposed to — and they’re taking their fea…
Malware Found Preinstalled In Classic Push-button Phones Sold In Russia
“A security researcher has discovered malicious code inside the firmware of four low-budget push-button mobile phones sold through Russian online stores,” reports the Record:
In a report published this week by a Russian security researcher named Valdi…
High Ivermectin Overdosages Caused 1,143 Calls to America’s Poison Control Centers This Year
America’s poison control centers are getting more calls this year from people who tried self-medicating with ivermectin, NPR reports — with at least 592 calls coming since July 1:
According to the National Poison Data System, which collects info…
The ‘Dead Internet’ Theory Posits Forums are Now Almost Entirely Overrun By AI
Ideas from 4chan (including its paranormal section) have percolated into the “dead internet” theory, writes the Atlantic, with a seminal post on another forum by “IlluminatiPirate” now arguing that the internet is almost entirely overrun by artificial …
In Novel Attack Technique, Salesforce Email Service Used For Phishing Campaign
Slashdot reader storagedude writes: In a novel attack technique, Israeli security researchers discovered that cybercriminals were subscribing to Salesforce in order to use its email service to launch a phishing campaign and thus bypass corporate securi…
Facebook is Subcontracting Its Content Moderation for Hundreds of Millions of Dollars
“For years, Facebook has been under scrutiny for the violent and hateful content that flows through its site….” reports the New York Times. “But behind the scenes, Facebook has quietly paid others to take on much of the responsibility. Since 2012, th…
IBM’s New Mainframe 7nm CPU Telum: 16 Cores At 5GHz, Virtual L3 and L4 Cache
Long-time Slashdot reader UnknowingFool writes:
Last week IBM announced their next generation mainframe CPU Telum. Manufactured by Samsung’s 7nm node, each Telum processor has 8 cores with each core running at a base 5GHz. Two processors are combined …