Of the things you thought of upon waking up this morning, we’re betting “solar stalking” wasn’t on the list. And yet, here we are. A solar stalker is someone who could hack the energy system of a home with rooftop solar panels. Unlikely? Perhaps, but the U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA recently published an advisory about security vulnerabilities with a particular solar energy company’s solar inverters. [@Techcrunch](
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How your solar rooftop became a national security issue | TechCrunch
Texas solar company EG4 became the poster child for home energy cybersecurity risks this week after federal officials published an advisory detaili...
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Anthropic has announced new capabilities that will allow its Claude AI models to end conversations described as “rare, extreme cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions.” Read more from [@Techcrunch](
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Anthropic says some Claude models can now end ‘harmful or abusive’ conversations  | TechCrunch
Anthropic says new capabilities allow its latest AI models to protect themselves by ending abusive conversations.
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Would AI systems like ChatGPT, Claude AI and Gemini be doing humans a favor by looking out for us? “We need AI mothers rather than AI assistants,” Geoffrey Hinton, the widely recognized “Godfather of AI” recently said. [@TechRadar](
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The Godfather of AI thinks we need ‘AI mothers,’ and I think we’re in for a world of trouble
An artificial mom none of us need
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Anti-vaccine myths surged on social media ahead of the CDC shooting in Atlanta. NBC News reports: "Before the shooting, social media companies relaxed their protocols around misinformation."
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Anti-vaccine myths surged on social media ahead of the CDC shooting
Before the shooting, social media companies relaxed their protocols around misinformation.
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Canada is experiencing its second-worst wildfire season on record (more than 7.3 million hectares have burned so far in 2025) and it's been particularly bad in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Paris Marx writes about how social media, particularly Facebook, has led to the spread of misinformation. False claims include that resources are being taken from one fire to prioritize another, and even that the states of emergency declared are part of a government campaign to take people's rights. "We can become accustomed to the harms of these platforms and the information environment they create, but the social damage really comes to the fore in a moment of crisis when you can see just how bad they are informing people," Marx says. https://flip.it/5o4Hw1 #Canada #Wildfires #Environment #Tech #Technology #SocialMedia #Facebook #Misinformation #Disinformation
Oopsie! It's Signal Gate, the sequel. A random person was added to a law enforcement group chat that included officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In it, they discussed highly sensitive information about an active search for an individual seemingly marked for deportation. Here's more from @404 Media
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ICE Adds Random Person to Group Chat, Exposes Details of Manhunt in Real-Time
The texts were sent to a group called “Mass Text” and show ICE using DMV and license plate reader data in an attempt to find their target, copi...
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As artificial intelligence takes jobs from office workers, drivers and others, where is the fabled universal income that was promised as part of an AI utopia? [@WSJ](
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Russia restricts calls via WhatsApp and Telegram, the latest step to control the internet. [@AssociatedPress](
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Russia restricts calls via WhatsApp and Telegram, the latest step to control the internet
Russian authorities have announced partial restrictions on calls in messaging apps Telegram and WhatsApp. This is part of a long-standing effort to...
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A new study from two researchers at the University of Amsterdam looks at what makes social media so terrible — and found that it's not algorithms, non-chronological feeds or humans' tendency to seek out negativity. "Rather, the dynamics that give rise to all those negative outcomes are structurally embedded in the very architecture of social media. So we're probably doomed to endless toxic feedback loops unless someone hits upon a brilliant fundamental redesign that manages to change those dynamics," writes @Ars Technica's @Jennifer Ouellette. She spoke with Dr. Petter Törnberg, one of the study's authors, to learn more.
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Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed
The [structural] mechanism producing these problematic outcomes is really robust and hard to resolve."
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Inside Silicon Valley’s growing obsession with having smarter babies, from [@WSJ](
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