The RISKS Digest
Volume 34 Index

Forum on Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems

ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy, Peter G. Neumann, moderator

Volume 34 Issue 01 (Saturday, 30 December 2023)

• DRM bricks Polish trains (404media)
• Rise of AI fake news is creating a misinformation superspreader (WashPost)
• Coffee Cty, GA missing laptop may impact Trump, Curling cases (Douglas Lucas)
• Michael Cohen Used Artificial Intelligence in Feeding Lawyer Bogus Cases (NYTimes)
• Splitting a Large AI Across Several Devices Lets You Run It in Private (New Scientist)
• The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over AI Use of Copyrighted Work (NYTimes)
• Six Big Questions for Generative AI (Tech Review)
• FTC slams Rite Aid for misuse of facial recognition technology in stores (The Washington Post)
• More people at risk as Ontario public bodies face growing wave of cyberattacks, experts say (CBC)
• New AI model can predict human lifespan, researchers say. They want to make sure it's used for good (phys.org)
• BBC has the miraculous report of an AI that is capable of learning. (BBC)
• A New Kind of AI Copy Can Fully Replicate Famous People (Politico)
• AI in the Machine Internet (Dana F. Blankenhorn)
• Chinese Spy Agency Rising to Challenge the CIA (NYTimes)
• Open-Source Chip Design Takes Hold in Silicon Valley (WSJ)
• Operation Triangulation: The last 'hardware' mystery (Securelist)
• TERRAPIN: SSH protects the world's most sensitive networks. It just got a lot weaker (Ars Technica)
• TERRAPIN and SSH Prefix Truncation Attack (Bob Gezelte)
• GTA 6 hacker handed indefinite hospital order (Lapsus$)
• Xfinity waited to patch critical Citrix Bleed 0-day. Now it's paying the price (Ars Technica)
• The 2010 Census Confidentiality Protections Failed, Here's How and Why (Arxiv)
• Quantum Computing's Hard, Cold Reality Check* (IEEE)
• It's easier to convince kids than adults about quantum mechanics (Physicist Bob Coecke)
• FCPD Combats Crypto-Related Scams: How to Avoid Falling Victim to Fraud (Fairfax County Police Department News)
• Israeli hackers shut down 70% of Iran's gas stations (Times of Israel)
• Blog post on CSAE and E2EE (Susan Landau)
• The Disturbing Impact of the Cyberattack at the British Library (The New Yorker)
• Data for nearly 36 million Comcast customers leaked to hackers (Ars Technica)
• Online searches to evaluate misinformation can increase its perceived veracity (Nature)
• The 2023 Good Tech Awards (The NYTimes)
• Do you need git or Subversion? (Cliff Kilby)
• iPhone Thief Explains How He Breaks Into Your Phone (WSJ)
• Former White House scientist was scammed out of $650K and must pay taxes (The Washington Post)
• Re: Ex-Amazon security engineer admits to stealing over $12M in crypto (Gabe Goldberg)
• Re: What to do when receiving unprompted MFA OTP codes (Joseph Gwinn)
• Re: WeWork has failed, leaving damage in its wake (Martin Ward)

Volume 34 Issue 02 (Saturday, 6 January 2024)

• Boeing has a risk managment problem with the 737 Max (BBC)
• Human Error Likely Caused Subway Crash and Derailing, Officials Say (The New York Times)
• Museum World Hit by Cyberattack on Widely Used Software (Zachary Small)
• Teen traveling alone on Frontier Airlines from Tampa accidentally flown to Puerto Rico (NBC News)
• Kai Zhuang: Chinese teen found alive in U.S. after cyber-kidnapping (BBC)
• How the federal ban on Chinese drones could end up costing lives (UAV Coach)
• Fire Breaks Out Aboard Ship Carrying Lithium-Ion Batteries (NYTimes)
• Are Teslas the most or least safe vehicles? (Sam Bull)
• Theft of Vancouver rape crisis centre server containing sensitive data raises privacy concerns (CBC)
• 23andMe told victims of data breach that suing is futile, letter shows (Ars Technica)
• BGP tampering: A "ridiculously weak" password causes disaster for Spain's No. 2 mobile carrier (Ars Technica)
• Qualcomm chip vulnerability enables remote attack by voice call (SC Media)
• Google disabling third-party cookies for millions of users without informing them (Lauren Weinstein)
• Weizenbaum’s nightmares: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI (The Guardian)
• A Chevrolet dealer offered an AI chatbot on its website. It told customers to buy a Ford. (USA Today)
• AI’s big test: Making sense of $4 trillion in medical expenses (Politico)
• A hospital's false death announcement leads to a wife's suicide, husband is later found alive (BoingBoing)
• Dystopian past...and future (The Guardian)
• Wife of Investor Who Pushed for Harvard President’s Exit Is Accused of Plagiarism (NYTimes)
• The NY Times Lawsuit Against OpenAI Would Open Up The NY Times To All Sorts Of Lawsuits Should It Win (Mike Masnick)
• Wiki[d]pedia? (Stephen Mason)
• How Tracking and Technology in Cars Is BeingWeaponized by Abusive Partners (The New York Times)
• Researchers Suggest New AirTag Stalker Preventions That Balance Privacy (PCMag)
• Re: AI in the Machine Internet (Martin Ward)
• Re: Do you need git or Subversion (Dmitri Maziuk)

Volume 34 Issue 03 (Saturday, 13 January 2024)

• Alaska cockpit recording overwritten; limited to 2hrs (Reuters via Henry Baker)
• United finds loose bolts on plug doors during 737 Max 9 inspections (The Air Current)
• Security of Georgia's Dominion Voting Machines on Trial (CBS)
• Linux devices are under attack by a never-before-seen worm (ArsTechnica)
• OpenAI Quietly Deletes Ban on Using ChatGPT for Military and Warfare (The Intercept)
• Pennsylvania government workers will start using ChatGPT in test program (The Verge)
• AI firms' pledges to defend customers from IP issues have real limits (ArsTechnica)
• Microsoft's Image Creator makes violent AI images of Biden, the Pope and more (The Washington Post)
• CLEAR wants to scan your face at airports. Privacy experts are worried. (The Washington Post)
• Advances in Mind-Decoding Technologies Raise Hopes -- and Worries (Undark)
• More Police Are Using Your Cameras for Video Evidence (The Marshall Project)
• UK Post Office Horizon scandal now on TV (Jeremy Epstein)
• How Astronomers Are Saving Astronomy From Satellites -- For Now (NYTimes)
• U.S. School Shooter Emergency Plans Exposed in a Highly Sensitive Database Leak (WiReD)
• FTC bans major data broker from selling invasive location tracking details (The Verge)
• U.S. Criminally Charges EBay in Cyberstalking Case (NYTimes)
• Needham police warn residents to stop using mail collection boxes (The Globe)
• AI fears creep into finance, business and law (WashPost)
• Google is removing 17 'underutilized' Assistant features (TechCrunch)
• Bitcoin ETF ads have already begun. (Lauren Weinstein)
• Courts Forced SEC Into This Disaster (Better Markets)
• Taylor Swift deepfake used for Le Creuset giveaway scam (Engadet)
• Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware (ArsTechnica)
• Apple was warned of AirDrop flaws before China's hack (Monty Solomon)
• Re: The NY Subway crash and derailment (George Neville-Neil)
• Re: How Tracking and Technology in Cars Is Being Weaponized by Abusive Partners (Steve Bacher)

Volume 34 Issue 04 (Saturday, 20 January 2024)

• Your pacemaker and open-source software (The Register)
• ChatGPT can answer yes or no at the same time (Paul Robinson)
• From corny jokes to job applications, ChatGPT's new store is selling specialized AI software (CBC)
• AI’s big test: Making sense of $4 trillion in medical expenses (Politico)
• AI-powered disinformation is spreading; is Canada ready for the political impact? (CBC)
• Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day day (Tomshardware)
• Even after a recall, Tesla's Autopilot does dumb dangerous things (WashPost)
• Tesla Drivers in Chicago Confront a Harsh Foe: Cold Weather (The New York (NYTimes)
• Imaging privacy threats from an ambient light sensor (Science)
• Microsoft says its corporate network hacked by a Russian state-sponsored group on Jan 12 (Lauren Weinstein)
• EFI IPv6/PXE Security Flaw (ArsTechnica)
• AT&T is trying to kill all landlines in California, which would have devastating effects (Lauren Weinstein)
• Washington takes aim at facial recognition (Politico)
• Your Medical Data Is Code Blue (WiReD)
• Google layoffs continue with 'hundreds' from sales team (The Verge)
• About my criticisms of Google ... (Lauren Weinstein)
• Re: Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware (Jonathan Levine)
• Re: UK Post Office Accounting Systems Errors Lead to Convictions and Worse (Bob Gezelter)
• Re: Alaska cockpit recording overwritten; limited to 2hrs (Lars-Henrik Eriksson)
• Re: Linux devices are under attack by a never-before-seen worm (Steve Bacher)
• Re: CLEAR wants to scan your face at airports. Privacy experts are worried. (John Levine)
• Re: CLEAR wants to scan your face at airports. Privacy experts are worried. (John Levine)

Volume 34 Issue 05 (Wednesday, 31 January 2024)

• Offshore Wind Farms Vulnerable to Cyberattacks (Rizwan Choudhury)
• Tesla Hacked at Pwn2Own Automotive 2024 (Sergiu Gatlan)
• America's Dangerous Trucks (Frontline)
• Authorities investigating massive security breach at Global Affairs Canada (CBC)
• Why the 737 MAX 9 door plug blew out (Lauren Weinstein)
• Man sues Macy's, saying false facial recognition match led to jail assault (WashPost)
• Bugs in our pockets: the risks of client-side scanning (Journal of Cybersecurity Oxford Academic)
• Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training (Arxiv)
• ERCIM News 136 published - Special Theme: Large Language Models (Peter Kunz)
• Deepfake Audio of Biden Alarms Experts (Margi Murphy)
• The Great Freight-Train Heists of the 21st Century (Slashdot)
• Nightshade: a new tool artists can use to *poison* AI models that scrape their online work (Lauren Weinstein)
• ChatGPT is leaking passwords from private conversations of users (Ars Technica reader says)
• Impact of AI on Software Development (Taylor Soper)
• AI maxim (Lauren Weinstein)
• Is American Journalism Headed Toward an Extinction-Level Event? (geoff goodfellow)
• Huge Proportion of Internet Is AI-Generated Slime, Researchers Find (Maggie Harrison)
• How Beloved Indie Blog 'The Hairpin' Turned Into an AI Clickbait Farm (WiReD)
• Twitter/X says that it has temporarily blocked some searches for Taylor Swift while they try deal with the flood of AI-porn related to her (LW)
• Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce and a MAGA Meltdown (NYTimes)
• YOUR PAPERS PLEASE! - Florida House passes bill that would ban children under 16 from social media (Axios)
• Hawley and the tech CEOs (Lauren Weinstein)
• Congress and the states want to bring a Chinese-style police state Internet to the U.S. (Lauren Weinstein)
• iPhone Apps Secretly Harvest Data When They Send Notifications (Thomas Germain)
• In India, an algorithm declares them dead; they have to prove they're alive (Steve Bacher)
• Tech Layoffs Shock Young Workers. The Older People? Not So Much. (NYTimes)
• Re: Even after a recall, Tesla's Autopilot does dumb dangerous things (Geoff Kuenning)
• Re: ChatGPT can answer yes or no at the same time (Amos Shapir)
• Re: Tesla Drivers in Chicago Confront a Harsh Foe: Cold Weather (Goldberg, (John Levine)
• One-star rating deserved for apps that allow full-screen ads (Dan Jacobson)

Volume 34 Issue 06 (Monday, 12 February 2024)

• Most Distant Space Probe Jeopardized by Glitch (Stephen Clar)
• Attacks in the Metaverse Are Booming. Police Start to Pay Attention (Naomi Nix)
• Chinese malware removed from SOHO routers after FBI issues covert commands (Ars Technica)
• Deep fakes (CNN)
• Have we lost faith in technology? (BBC)
• AIs sometimes consider nuclear war the best way to achieve peace (Lauren Weinstein)
• Police Turn to AI to Review Bodycam Footage (ProPublica)
• The real wolf menacing the news business? AI (Jim Albrecht)
• Google CEO suggests that "*hallucinating* AI misinformation is a *feature* (WiReD)
• Diving deep into OpenAI's new study on LLM's and bioweapons (Gary Marcus vis Gabe Goldberg)
• How AI is quietly changing everyday life (Politico)
• FCC votes to ban AI-generated misleading robocalls, which ... (Lauren Weinstein)
• Google changes Bard to Gemini -- and links it to Google Assistant -- but it's still a misleading idiot LLM AI (Lauren Weinstein)
• The Internet of Toothbrushes (Tom Van Vleck)
• No, 3 million electric toothbrushes were not used in a DDoS attack (Bleeping Computer via Steve Bacher)
• AI deepfakes get very real as 2024 election season begins] (Fast Company)
• Hurd in reflection (Jon Callas)
• VR fail safe vs. driving (Lauren Weinstein)
• Manipulated Biden Video Can Remain Online (CNN)
• Re: AI maxim (Ian)
• Re: ChatGPT can answer yes or no at the same time (DJC)
• Re: Even after a recall, Tesla's Autopilot does dumb dangerous things (John Levine)
• A Whistleblower's tale about the Boeing 737 MAX 9 door plug (LeeHamNews via Thomas Koenig)
• Re: Why the 737 MAX 9 door plug blew out (Dick Mills)

Volume 34 Issue 07 (Thursday, 15 February 2024)

• Waymo recalls software after two self-driving cars hit the same truck (CNN)
• Tesla's latest screwup involves making the font size of its braking system too small (The Verge)
• OpenAI Gives ChatGPT a Memory (WiReD)
• Imran Khan's 'Victory Speech' from Jail Shows AI's Peril, Promise" (Yan Zhuang)
• Threats to Election Systems Prompt U.S. Cybersecurity Agency to Boost Cooperation with States (Christina A. Cassidy)
• Odometers: A voting machine analogue (Jeremy Epstein)
• Spying on Security Cameras Through Walls (Rizwan Choudhury)
• Cryptography-Breaking Algorithm Upgraded (Madison Goldberg)
• How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin's Anonymity (WiReD)
• Anxiety, Mood Swings and Sleepless Nights: Life Near a Bitcoin Mine (NYTimes via Jan Wolitzky)
• Amazon Prime Video Ad Tier Sparks Class Action Lawsuit From Subscribers (Hollywood Reporter)
• Noname Storage Devices are not always what they seem (ArsTechnica)
• Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox (ArsTechnica)
• Robocalls, ringless voicemails and AI: Real estate enters the age of automation (LA Times)
• Uber Fined Almost $11 Million by Dutch Privacy Watchdog (WSJ)
• Automatic braking systems don't work at typical speeds? (Steve Bacher on LA Times coverage)
• Chrome devs working on automatic micropayments to websites without user interactions directly from wallets (The Register)
• Small outtakes from a big war, part 4: The end of GPS (Amos Shapir)
• Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown (ArsTechnica)
• Google Scholar can be manipulated (arxiv via LW)
• Google's and Microsoft's chatbots are making up Super Bowl stats (TechCrunch)
• There's a hole in the boot, part deux (Cliff Kilby)
• Amazon hides cheaper items with faster delivery, lawsuit alleges (ArsTechnica)
• Russia Is Using Elon Musk’s Starlink at the Front Line, Ukraine Says (WSJ)
• Tech giants prepare pledge to fight deceptive AI election content (Politico)
• Help! His HP Envy doesn't work. Can he get a replacement or a refund? (Gabe Goldberg)
• Re: Why the 737 MAX 9 door plug blew out (Henry Baker)
• The Friar Who Became the Vatican's Go-To Guy on AI (NYTimes)
• Why Bloat Is Still Software’s Biggest Vulnerability (Steve Bacher)

Volume 34 Issue 08 (Tuesday, 20 February 2024)

• How persuasive is AI-generated propaganda? (Lauren Weinstein)
• New Era of AI Deepfakes Complicates 2024 Elections (WSJ)
• Cybercriminals are stealing iOS users' face scans to break into mobile banking accounts (The Register)
• Air Canada chatbot makes up travel rules (Jeremy Epstein)
• Big Tech tells politicians: We'll control the deepfakes (Politico)
• New bill would let defendants inspect algorithms used against them in court (The Verge)
• Chinese hackers infiltrated home wifi routers to attack infrastructure, FBI warns (MSN)
• DOJ quietly removed Russian malware from routers in U.S. homes and businesses (ArsTechnica)
• TETRA Radio Code Encryption Has a Flaw: A Backdoor (WiReD)
• Chinese hackers infiltrated home wifi routers to attack infrastructure, FBI warns (MSN)
• The $50K Scam: FTC, CIA, and Amazon Weigh In on NY Magazine's Charlotte Cowles (The New York Times)
• TETRA Radio Code Encryption Has a Flaw: A Backdoor (WiReD)
• Powerball Posted the Wrong Numbers. Now He’s Suing for $340M (NYTimes)
• `Most Wanted’ man pleads guilty in cyberattack that upended Vermont hospital (The Globe)
• Nginx core developer quits project in security dispute, starts free-nginx fork (ArsTechnica)
• Officials Investigate How a Woman Flew to Los Angeles Without a Ticket (NYTimes)
• This Is Why Tesla's Stainless Steel Cybertrucks May Be Rusting (WiReD)
• The Tech Friend: Apple's nanny state (WashPost)
• An Important Security Message from Wyze (via Victor Miller)
• Report on Intelligent Vehicle Dependability and Security (Chuck Weinstock)
• Re: Odometers: A voting machine analogue (Wol)
• Re: Tesla's latest screwup (Andrew)
• Re: Waymo recalls software after two self-driving cars hit the same truck (Ned Harris, Sam Bull)
• Re: Software bloat (Roderick Rees)

Volume 34 Issue 09 (Wednesday, 6 March 2024)

• White House urges developers to dump C and C++ (Steve Bacher)
• NZ Leap Day Self Pay Petrol Pump Failures (sundry via Jim Geissman and Brian Inglis)
• Risks of Leap Years and Dumb Digital Watches (Mark Brader)
• Health-care hack spreads pain across hospitals and doctors nationwide (WashPost via Jan Wolitzky)
• Cyberattack Paralyzes the Largest U.S. Health Care Payment System (NYTimes.com via Jim Geissman)
• Re: Healthcare Cyberattack (Doug McIlroy)
• More than 2 Million Research Papers Have Disappeared from the Internet (Sarah Wild)
• GitHub Besieged by Millions of Malicious Repositories in Ongoing Attack (Dan Goodin)
• A Vending Machine Error Revealed Secret Face Recognition Tech (WiReD)
• Vending machines had eyes all over this Ontario campus until the students wised up (CBC)
• End-to-End Encryption under attack in Nevada (Mastodon)
• 1-million books and 4-months later, Toronto's library recovers from a cyberattack (CBC via Matthew Kruk)
• Anycubic 3D Printers Hacked in Attempt to Inform Owners of Security Hole (Christopher Harper)
• 'Keytrap' DNS bug threatens widespread Internet outages (Becky Bracken)
• Wyze security issue exposed private cameras to strangers (Heather Kelly)
• Fingerprints Recreated from Sounds of Swiping a Touchscreen (Mark Tyson)
• Algorithm Reveals What's Hidden (Rizwan Choudhury)
• 'AI Godfather', Others Urge More Deepfake Regulation (Amy Tong)
• AI feedback loop will spell death for future generative models (TechSpot)
• Malware Worm Can Poison ChatGPT, Gemini-Powered Assistants (Kate Irwin)
• "AI Warfare Is Already Here" (Katrina Manson)
• I'm begging you not to Google for airline customer service numbers (Monty Solomon on a WashPost item)
• comp.risks via Panix? (Ed Ravin on the servers)

Volume 34 Issue 10 (Saturday, 16 March 2024)

• SFO-bound flight returns to Australia (Jordan Parker PGN-ed)
• Latam flight event (Jim Geissman)
• Boeing tells pilots to check seats after Latam plane (BBC)
• Alaska Airlines Flight Was Scheduled for Safety Check on Day Panel Blew Off (NYTimes)
• Hackers Breached Key Microsoft Systems (Sean Lyngaas)
• Cut submarine cables cause web outages across Africa; 6 countries still affected (ArsTechnica)
• McDonald's hit by outages at stores worldwide (BBC)
• McDonald's blames global outage on third party (BBC)
• Phony Billionaires on Facebook Are Scamming Americans Out of Their Life Savings (WashPost)
• Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power (WashPost)
• CISA hacked (Sean Lungaas)
• Even a security expert can get phished (Pluralistic)
• Microsoft says Kremlin-backed hackers accessed its source and internal systems (ArsTechnica)
• Spate of Mock News Sites With Russian Ties Pop Up in U.S (NYTimes) companies (NYTimes)
• Aescape's Robot-Arm-Powered Massage Table (WiReD)
• ATT outage under FCC investigation (WashPost)
• The AI-generated hell of the 2024 election (The Verge)
• New Hampshire voters sue Biden deepfake robocall creators (NBCNews)
• Google Restricts Gemini Chatbot Election Answers (Peter Hoskins)
• Robot Ships Are Setting Sail (BBC)
• Your Doctor's Office Might Be Bugged (Jesse Pines)
• AI Is Being Built on Dated, Flawed Motion-Capture Data (Julianne Pepitone)
• Researchers Jailbreak Chatbots with ASCII Art (Mark Tyson)
• Nvidia sued over AI training data as copyright clashes continue (ArsTechnica)
• Reports of DJI data breach turn out to be false apparently (Lauren Weinstein)
• Pornhub disables website in Texas amid legal battle with attorney general's office (NBCNews)
• Massively Popular Safe Locks Have Secret Backdoor Codes (Victor Miller)
• D-Wave Says Its Quantum Computers Can Solve Otherwise Impossible Tasks ( (Matthew Sparkes)
• Re: End-to-End Encryption under attack in Nevada (John Levine)
• Re: A Vending Machine Error Revealed Secret Face Recognition Tech (Steve Bacher)
• Re: comp.risks via Panix? (Steve Bacher)
• Re: More than 2 Million Research Papers Have Disappeared from the Internet (Martin Ward)
• Re: Risks of Leap Years and Dumb Digital Watches (Amos Shapir)
• Re: Risks of hype, 'Keytrap' DNS bug threatens widespread (John Levine)

Volume 34 Issue 11 (Sunday, 24 March 2024)

• DMVs Nationwide Hit With Outage, Officials In Multiple States Say Across America (U.S. Patch)
• DMV services disrupted nationwide by system out[r]age (Henry Baker)
• McDonald's blames global outage on third party (BBC)
• Re: McDonald's hit by outages at stores worldwide (Steve Bacher)
• Re: McDonald's (=?UTF-8?Q?turgut_kalfao=C4=9Flu?)
• Tesco and Sainsbury's working to fix technical issues that suspended food deliveries to customers (CNN)
• Anti-drone radio jammers marketed on Amazon and Google despite being outlawed by FCC rules (Steve Bacher)
• A ChatGPT for Music Is Here. Inside Suno, the Startup Changing Everything (Rolling Stone)
• Albertans have lost at least $156M to fraud this decade (CBC)
• Chinese & Western Scientists Identify 'Red Lines' on AI Risks (Financial Times)
• Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys (Ars Technica)
• Apple has effectively abandoned HomeKit Secure Routers (Monty Solomon)
• Paper about the gofetch attack (Victor Miller)
• Why Tech Companies Are Not Your Friends: Lessons From Roku (NYTimes)
• Is your smart device safe from hackers? New FCC program will label cybersecure technology (LA Times)
• Hackers can unlock over 3 million hotel doors in seconds (ArsTechnica)
• Man Boarded Delta Flight Using Ticket Ruse (NYTimes)
• Never-before-seen data wiper may have been used by Russia against Ukraine (ArsTechnica)
• UPS worker charged after $1.3M Apple product theft spree fines, report finds (WashPost)
• Social Security program failed to properly notify people of huge service (Ars Technica)
• FCC bans cable TV industry's favorite trick for hiding full cost of service (Ars Technica)
• Hype cycle meets rinse cycle: does dishwasher really need a mobile app? (Rob Pegoraro)
• LAUSD's new student advisor is an AI bot that designs academic plans, suggests books (LATimes)
• Lawyer warns 'integrity of the entire system in jeopardy' if rising use of AI in legal circles goes wrong (CBC)
• I recommend DISABLING Google's new Chrome "real-time, privacy-preserving URL protection" (Lauren Weinstein)
• Why Tech Companies Are Not Your Friends: Lessons From Roku (NYTimes)
• Re: Risks of Leap Years and Dumb Digital Watches (Mark Brader)
• Re: AT&T proposals to kill landlines and more in California (Lauren Weinstein)
• Re: Hackers Breached Key Microsoft Systems (Bernie Cosell)

Volume 34 Issue 12 (Monday, 1 April 2024)

• Two major losses (PGN)
• America's Nuclear War Plan in the 1960s Was Utter Madness. It Still Is. (Mother Jones)
• FDA Warning Links Heart Pump to Deaths (Christina Jewett) Persist (NYTimes)
• Iowa fertilizer spell kills 750K fish in Iowa and Missouri over 60-mile stretch of rivers (NYTimes)
• Red Hat Fedora 41 hacked (Tom Van Vleck)
• Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys (ArsTechnica via Gabe Goldberg, Gabe Goldberg)
• The race between positive and negative applications of Generative AI is on -???? and not looking pretty (Gary Marcus via Gabe)
• U.S. Military's Investments into AI Skyrocket (Will Henshall)
• AI bots hallucinate software packages and devs download them (Steve Bacher via The Register)
• OpenAI Reveals but Will Not Release Human Voice Cloning Feature (WSJ)
• The Online Degradation of Women and Girls That We Meet With a Shrug (The New York Times)
• America's first biometric 'smart gun' is finally here. Will it work? (SmartGun)
• Hackers Found a Way to Open Any of 3 Million Hotel Keycard Locks in Seconds (WiReD)
• AT&T Resets Millions of Passcodes After Customer Records Are Leaked (Jan Wolitzky)
• Time for Social Engineering Training (Kingfish1935 via Ben Moore)
• Internet Age Verification schemes -- e.g., Florida's new law (Lauren Weinstein)
• Scientists aghast at bizarre AI rat with huge genitals in peer-reviewed article (ArsTechnica)
• Israel Deploys Expansive Facial Recognition Program in Gaza (NYTimes)
• Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal (TechCrunch)
• Elon Musk's Starlink Terminals Are Falling Into the Wrong Hands? (Henry Baker)
• Explanations of Australian emergency phone number failure (John Colville)

Volume 34 Issue 13 (Thursday, 4 April 2024)

• Review of the Summer 2023 Microsoft Exchange Online Intrusion (CISA)
• China's Advancing Efforts to Influence U.S. Election (NYTimes)
• RMV warning customers of scams amid statewide outage (The Boston Globe)
• Missouri county declares state of emergency amid suspected ransomware attack (ArsTechnica)
• Tech Glitch Upends Financial Aid for About a Million Students (WSJ)
• Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack? (NYTimes)
• Carmakers give up on software that avoids kangaroos (ArsTechnica)
• Browsing in Google Chrome's incognito mode doesn't protect you as much as you might think (The Boston Globe)
• Google Deepmind CEO says AI industry is full of 'hype' and 'grifting' (ReadWrite)
• The wonders of AI! (Lauren Weinstein)
• AI that targets civilians: 'The machine did it coldly': Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets (The Guardian via Lauren Weinstein)
• Washington state judge blocks use of AI-enhanced video as evidence in possible first-of-its-kind ruling (NBC News)
• Amazon's AI-powered "Just Walk Out" checkout option turns out to be 1000 workers watching you shop (BoingBoing)
• This tool makes AI models hallucinate cats to fight copyright infringement (NBC News)
• An unending array of jailbreaking attacks could be the death of LLMs (Gary Marcus)
• When AI Meets Toast (Lauren Weinstein)
• Medicare forced to expand forms to fit 10-digit bill a penny shy of $100M (ArsTechnica)
• The FTC is trying to help victims of impersonation scams get their money back (The Verge)
• Google Maps for CarPlay is a disaster compared to the Android Auto app (9-to-5 Google)
• Indian company sold contaminated shrimp to U.S. grocery stores, 'whistleblower' says (NBC News)
• CA Governor to install 480 new Flock LPR cameras (ACLU via Henry Baker)
• Your boss could forward a mail message to you that shows you text he won't see, but you will (Lutrasecurity)
• Should we be rethinking using Outlook at work? (Victor Miller)
• Man pleads guilty to stealing former coworker's identity for 30 years? (ArsTechnica)
• Re: xz (Victor Miller et al.)
• Re: Ross Anderson (Wendy M. Grossman)
• Re: The race between positive and negative applications of GenAI (Rob Slade)

Volume 34 Issue 14 (Saturday, 6 April 2024)

• Eclipse tourists should plan for overloaded cell networks (PGN)
• AI Researcher Takes on Election Deepfakes (NYTimes)
• ETH Zurich student requirement for Windows 11/MacOS, "safe browser" (Thomas Koenig)
• Assisted living managers say an algorithm prevented hiring enough (WashPost)
• Many-shot jailbreaking (Anthropic)
• Google fixes two Pixel zero-day flaws exploited by forensics firms (BleepingComputer)
• GPS shut down in parts of Israel (Jim Geissman)
• House, Senate leaders nearing deal on landmark online privacy bill (WashPost)
• For Data-Guzzling AI Companies, the Internet Is Too Small (WSJ)
• Re: AI that targets civilians ... (Amos Shapir)
• Re: Your boss could forward a mail message to you that shows you text he won't see, but you will (Geoff Kuenning)
• Re: The FTC is trying to help victims of impersonation scams get their money back (Steve Bacher)
• Re: Browsing in Google Chrome's incognito mode doesn't protect you as much as you might think (Steve Bacher)
• Re: Elon Musk's Starlink Terminals Are Falling Into the Wrong Hands? (Amos Shapir)

Volume 34 Issue 15 (Monday, 8 April 2024)

• Weather Service radar, warning systems fail during severe storm outbreak (WashPost)
• No weather report? It helps if NOAA pays its electric (Bloomberg)
• In 2018 crash, Tesla's Autopilot just followed the lane lines (WashPost)
• APRA Privacy Legislation (WiReD)
• Data brokers are gearing up to fight privacy bills (The Verge)
• NIST Unveils New Consortium to Operate National Vulnerability (PGN)
• Jon Stewart On The False Promises of AI (The Daily Show)
• UK plots massive expansion of live facial recognition (Joseph Bambridge)
• Knocking cloud security off its game (ETH Zurich)
• ‘Reverse’ searches: The sneaky ways that police tap tech companies for your private data (TechCrunch)
• U.S. Police Warn Those Driving to Canada to Watch for Hidden AirTags (Emily Price)
• Demystifying privacy in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox (Apurvak)
• Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse (The Guardian)
• Roku patent invents a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV (ArsTechnica)
• Disney+ Password Sharing Crackdown to Start in June (MacRumors)
• Teen Girls Confront an Epidemic of Deepfake Nudes in Schools (NYTimes)
• How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for AI (NYTimes)
• Elon Musk's X pushed a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel. X's AI chatbot Grok made it up. (Mashable)
• An AI app claims it can detect sexually transmitted infections. (LATimes)
• Google's passkey mess (Lauren Weinstein)
• Re: Starlink Terminals (Charles Cazabon)
• Re: Your boss could forward a mail message to you that show you text he won't see, but you will (Jurek Kirakowski)
• Re: The FTC is trying to help (Dmitri Mazziuk)

Volume 34 Issue 16 (Wednesday, 10 April 2024)

• The total eclipse shows us how important solar energy is to the U.S. (The Verge)
• Chinese Hack of Microsoft Exchange Online Was Preventable, Reviwe Board Finds (Kim S. Nash)
• Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has retracted 7 studies amid controversy over errors (NBC News)
• A once-ignored community of science sleuths now has the research community on its heels (NBC News)
• Can AI help fill the therapist shortage? Mental health apps show promise and pitfalls (CBS News)
• Hackers stole 340,000 Social Security numbers from government consulting firm (TechCrunch)
• Critical takeover vulnerabilities in 92,000 D-Link devices under active exploitation (ArsTechnica)
• Targus says cyberattack is causing operational outage (TechCrunch)
• After pushing cloud storage, TV provider to auto-delete 61-day-old DVR recordings (ArsTechnica)
• Texas Will Use Computers to Grade STAAR Tests (Keaton Peters)
• Cheshire Cat GPS Jamming/Spoofing in Ukraine, Israel, ... (Henry Baker)
• Scammers exploiting people who change their status to #OpenToWork (Ben Rothke)
• Mr Bates vs The Post Office now available on PBS in the U.S. (PBS via Jeremy Epstein)
• Why Open Source Can't Innovate (Dana F. Blankenhorn)
• Elon Musk Didn't Want His Latest Deposition Released. Here It Is. (HuffPost Latest News)
• Russian trolls target U.S. support for Ukraine, Kremlin documents show (WashPost)
• California judge dismisses one of ‘Are We Dating the Same Guy?’ lawsuits (NBC News)
• YouTube is the most consequential technology in America (WashPost)
• Yet another 419 variant (Rob Slade)
• Tesla is settling with the family of the Apple engineer who died in an Autopilot crash (The Verge)
• Re: AI that targets civilians ... (Dylan Northrup)

Volume 34 Issue 17 (Sunday, 14 April 2024)

• 96% of US hospital websites share visitor info with Meta, Google, data brokers (Steve Bacher)
• Corporate Greed Made the Change Healthcare Cyberattack Worse (NYMag)
• Hackable Intel and Lenovo hardware that went undetected for 5 years won't ever be fixed (ArsTechnica)
• Thermostats and Complexity (Tom Vab Vleck)
• "Are We Watching the Internet Die?" (Ed Zitron via Rich Kulawiec)
• AI chatbots spread falsehoods about the EU elections, report finds (Clothilde Goujard)
• How I Built an AI-Powered, Self-Running Propaganda Machine for $105 (WSJ)
• Norwescon sci-fi con: Knightscope, AI manuscript deluge, genre in crisis (Douglas Lucas)
• Hatsune Miku is playing Coachella, but she's not human. Why brands are working with digital avatars (LA Times)
• AI on Wall Street (NYTimes)
• Humane AI Pin review: the post-smartphone future isn't here yet (David Pierce)
• AT&T Data breach affects 73 million or 51-million customers. No, we won't explain. (ArsTechnica)
• Apple alerts users in 92 nations to mercenary spyware attacks (TechCrunch)
• Apple will open the iPhone to repair with used parts -- but ... (The Verge and TechCrunch via Monty Solomon)
• Texas Surgeon Is Accused of Secretly Denying Liver Transplants (NYTimes)
• Palo Alto Zero exploit (Cliff Kilby)
• After the Eclipse, Motorists Observe a Path of Immobility (NYTimes via PGN)
• Delta eclipse flight from Dallas veered off path of totality (WashPost)
• Re: The total eclipse shows us how important solar energy is to the U.S. (Douglas Lucas)
• Re: AI that targets civilians ... (Amos Shapir)
• Re: Texas Will Use Computers to Grade STAAR Tests (Douglas Lucas)

Volume 34 Issue 18 (Friday, 19 April 2024)

• Texas Hack May Be First Disruption of U.S. Water System by Russia (WashPost)
• A chunk of metal that tore through a Florida home definitely came from the ISS (Ars Technica)
• FAA investigating after Boston-bound JetBlue flight involved in near collision (The Boston Globe)
• A Paris Olympics' Sure Thing: Cyberattacks (Tariq Panja)
• PuTTY vulnerability vuln-p521-bias (sgtatham via Victor Miller)
• Multistate 911 outage shows fragility of systems, experts say (NBC News)
• Police bust global cyber-gang accused of industrial-scale fraud (BBC)
• U.S. Air Force confirms first successful AI dogfight (The Verge)
• Feds expand investigation into Honda's automatic emergency braking system (ArsTechnica)
• LastPass users targeted in phishing attacks good enough to trick even the savvy (ArsTechnica)
• Wrong button clicked, wrong divorce cannot be undone (The Guardian)
• Big Tech can’t hoard brainwave data for ad targeting, Colorado law says (ArsTechnica)
• Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, U.S. court rules (ArsTechnica)
• Alleged cryptojacking scheme consumed $3.5M of stolen computing to make just $1M (ArsTechnica)
• Tech Friend: Fire at 35,000 feet (WashPost)
• Are Flying Cars Finally Here? (Gideon Lewis-Kraus)
• Rust Flaw Enables Windows Command Injection Attacks (Sergiu Gatlan)
• AI Made These Movies Sharper. Critics Say It Ruined Them. (NYTimes)
• Will AI transform baseball forever? (The Washington Post)
• Senate advances vote on reauthorizing warrantless surveillance program (The Verge)
• Crypto trader Avi Eisenberg convicted of fraud in $110M tradescheme (Axios)
• At Kernel, your veggie burger will be served by a robot (The Verge)
• Author granted copyright over book with AI-generated text -- with a twist (Ars Technica)
• Re: AI on Wall Street (Henry Baker)
• Re: AI chatbots spread falsehoods about the EU elections, report finds (Amos Shapir)
• Re: Palo Alto Zero Exploit (Steve Bacher, Cliff Kilby)

Volume 34 Issue 19 (Monday, 22 April 2024)

• Influential women's tech network shuts down unexpectedly (BBC)
• Re: Women Who Code shut down today (Rebecca Mercuri)
• Re: Women Who Code shut down today (Wendy Grossman)
• ‘We’re a dead ship’: Hundreds of cargo ships lost propulsion in U.S. waters in recent years (WashPost)
• Tesla Cybertruck turns into world's most expensive brick after car wash (The Register)
• Software upgrade error grounds all Alaska Airlines flights for 1 hour (Seattle Times)
• San Francisco’s Train System Still Uses Floppy Disks -- and Will for Years (WiReD)
• GPT-4 and CVE = exploit (Rik Farrow)
• The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the Internet afloat (The Verge)
• Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track (Ars Technica)
• Hospital prices for the same emergency care vary up to 16-fold, a study finds (ArsTechnica)
• Chirp mandates open-door policy -- in a bad way (Krebs)
• Netflix doc accused of using AI to manipulate true crime story (ArsTechnica)
• China orders Apple to remove Meta apps after “inflammatory” posts about president (ArsTechnica)
• Roku forcing 2-factor authentication after 2 breaches of 600K accounts (ArsTechnica)
• The GMO tooth microbe that is supposed to prevent cavities (Undark)
• Virginia to become first state to allow online-only local nesw sites to publish legal notices (ARLnow)
• Amazon is filled with garbage ebooks. Here’s how they get made. (Esquire)
• Re: Palo Alto Zero Exploit (Martin Ward)
• Re: AI chatbots spread falsehoods about the EU elections (Martin Ward)
• Re: U.S. Air Force confirms first successful AI dogfight (Turgut Kalfaoglu)
• Re: Wrong button clicked, wrong divorce cannot be undone (Henry Baker)

Volume 34 Issue 20 (Thursday, 25 April 2024)

• Tesla being operated in autonomous driving mode kills motorcyclist in stop and go traffic (Katie Wade)
• Waymo car filmed on wrong side of street for two blocks (Ricardo Cano)
• UK Smart motorway failures (BBC)
• Generative AI Arrives in the Gene Editing World of CRISPR (Cade Metz)
• It’s the End of the Web as We Know It -- and I don't feel fine... (The Atlantic)
• You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 (ArsTechnica)
• Meta's newest AI model beats some peers. But its amped-up AI agents are confusing Facebook users (APNews)
• Deepfakes of Bollywood Stars Spark Worries of Meddling in India Election (Reuters)
• Advanced Brain Science Without Coding Expertise (Helmholtz Centers)
• Group Joins Fight Over Online Disinformation (NYTimes)
• Cisco ASA CVE-2024-20353 (ArsTechnica via Cliff Kilby)
• Why Is Tech Going Down More? (Liv mcMahon)
• Utah law Aimed at AI (Politico)
• How United Airlines uses AI to make flying the friendly skies a bit easier (TechCrunch)
• AI-powered cameras installed on LA buses to ticket illegally parked cars (LA Times)
• ResearchRabbit et al. (Debora Weber-Wulff)
• Hospital prices for the same emergency care vary up to 16X, study find (ArsTechnica)
• South Korean Defense Industry Under Siege by North Korean Hacker (Presale1)
• "Killed by a Traffic Engineer" (IslandPress via Prashanth Mundkur)
• This camera trades pictures for AI poetry (TechCrunch)
• Re: AI Made These Movies Sharper. Critics Say It Ruined Them. (EPG)
• Re: Wrong button clicked, wrong divorce cannot be undone (Henry Baker)
• Re: UK Post Office IT scandal (Jim Geissman)
• Re: UK Post Office IT scandal (Jim Geissman)

Volume 34 Issue 21 (Saturday, 27 April 2024)

• AI deepfakes threaten to upend global elections. No one can stop them. (WashPost)
• Tesla's Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths (The Verge)
• Cisco Says Hackers Subverted Its Security Devices to Spy on Governments (Reuters)
• Hackers Use Developing Countries as Testing Ground for New Ransomware Attacks (Ellesheva Kissin)
• 9 Disturbing Stories From People Who Say They Found Cameras in Their Airbnb (Gizmodo)
• Millions of IPs remain infected by USB worm years after its creators left it for dead (ArsTechnica)
• Chinese Firm Is America's Favorite Drone Maker, Except in Washington (NYTimes)
• Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone (Gizmodo)
• How Google's SGE Could Destroy the Internet (Lauren Weinstein)
• FTC questions Amazon's use of disappearing messages on Signal (WashPost)
• FTC says Amazon executives destroyed potential evidence by using apps like Signal (The Verge)
• Tech brands are forcing AI into your gadgets, whether you asked for it or not (ArsTechnica)
• Health insurance giant Kaiser will notify millions of a data breach after sharing patients’ data with advertisers (TechCrunch)
• Chaturbate Owes Texas $675,000 for Not Verifying the Age of Users (Gizmodo)
• Android TV has access to your entire account, but Google is changing that (ArsTechnica)
• Health insurance giant Kaiser will notify millions of a data breach after sharing patients’ data with advertisers (TechCrunch)
• We're always fighting the last war (Henry Baker)
• Prescient Fiction: 'Forbidden Planet' & 21st C. AI (Henry Baker)

Volume 34 Issue 22 (Saturday, 4 May 2024)

• Locating where a photo was taken (Jeremy Epstein)
• Russia Accused of Meddling in GPS Systems (France24)
• An AI tool used in thousands of criminal cases is facing legal challenges (NBC News)
• SonarMed Inc. Recalls Airway Monitors Due to a Software Anomaly Resulting in Failure to Detect a Partial Obstruction in 2.5mm Sensors and Up To 3mm Distal to the Sensor Tip (Einpresswire)
• Engine cover falls off Boeing plane, hits wing flap; Southwest flight returns to Denver airport (NBC News)
• AI Faces Its 'Oppenheimer Moment (Jonathan Tirone)
• AI priest avatar gets the chop in first week of digital ministry - (Catholic Herald)
• Meta AI falsely claims lawmakers were accused of sexua harassment (City & State New York)
• ChatGPT provides false information about people (NOYB)
• GitHub's Take on AI-Powered Software Engineering (Kyle Wiggers)
• Developers seethe as Google surfaces buggy AI-written code (The Register)
• Precision Attacks Target Intel and AMD Processors (ScienceBlog)
• Phone Keyboard Exploits Leaves Billion Users Exposed (Margo Anderson)
• Coffee County, GA, this time ransomware (Douglas Lucas)
• EU Investigates Meta Over Fears of Election Interference, Foreign Disinformation (Brian Fung)
• Lawsuits test Tesla claim that drivers are solely responsible for crashes (WashPost)
• UK bans devices with weak passwords (Computing)
• Net Neutrality Is Back as FCC Votes to Regulate Internet Providers (Brian Fung)
• FCC Fines Wireless Carriers About $200 Million for Sharing Customer Data (WSJ)
• London Drugs closes stores until further notice due to cyberattack (CBC News)
• Century wrap-around: 101-year old becomes 1-year old (BBC)
• Healthcare giant comes clean about recent hack and paid ransom (ArsTechnica)
• Google SGE and shoplifting (Lauren Weinstein)
• New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, and others sue OpenAI and Microsoft (The Verge)
• Can AI-powered drive-throughs save the day for fast food operators? (LATimes)
• Unexpected S3 bucket costs (Medium)
• CenturyLink left users with no service for two months, then billed them $239 (ArsTechnica)
• More customers say 'tap-to-pay' charged their credit card through bags, pockets (ABC7)
• New Job Scams Targeting Young Professionals Are Flourishing (WSJ)
• Court upholds New York law that says ISPs must offer $15 broadband (ArsTechnica)
• We Are Blowing the Fight to Contain Bird Flu (NYTimes)
• Covid Vaccine Side Effects: 4 Takeaways From Our Investigation (NYTimes)
• Re: We're always fighting the last war (Amos Shapir)
• Re: A Chinese firm is America's favorite drone maker except in Washington (Lauren Weinstein)

Volume 34 Issue 23 (Monday, 6 May 2024)

• Could the Covid-19 Vaccines Have Caused Some People Harm? Thousands think that their cases have been ignored. (Apoorva Mandavilli)
• Electric car driver turned away from hospital car park (BBC)
• Drones Changed Myanmar Civil War, Linked Rebels to the World (NYTimes)
• Hacker Free-for-All in Fight for Routers (Dan Goodin)
• Politicians Use Social Media to 'Buy' Votes (New Scientist)
• Zeekill: From teenage cyber-thug to Europe's most wanted? (BBC)
• What Happens When a Romance Writer Gets Locked Out of Google Docs (WiReD)
• Apple Password Reset Propagations (Marvin Schaefer)
• AI Lobbying Frenzy in Washington Dominated by Big Tech (Will Henshall)
• When grief and AI collide: These people are communicating with the dead (CNN Business)
• The Sam Altman Playbook (Gary Marcus on AI)
• Tiffany Haddish started tracking down her online trolls and calling them on the phone (NBC News)
• Microsoft announces ZTDNS (Cliff Kilby)
• Former 'Employee Express' Phone Number Being Used by Fraudsters, Warns IG (FedWeek)
• How Scammers Are Stealing Food Stamps From Struggling Americans (NYTimes)
• Medical Debt Shows Up Less Often on Credit Reports (NYTimes)
• More on Google Chrome and the vanishing UNDO function! (Lauren Weinstein)
• Universal Music Artists Will Return to TikTok (NYTimes)
• Change Healthcare hackers broke in using stolen credentials—and no MFA, says UHG CEO (TechCrunch)
• If your iPhone alarm has gone quiet, Apple says it's working on a fix (The Verge)
• Re: Phone Keyboard Exploits Leaves Billion Users Exposed (Martin Ward)
• Re: Boeing's problems (Martin Ward)
• Re: Can AI-powered drive-throughs save the day for fast food operators? (Steve Bacher)
• Re: Developers seethe as Google surfaces buggy AI-written code operators (Steve Bacher)
• Re: Net Neutrality and Black Boxes (Bob Rahe)

Volume 34 Issue 24 (Saturday, 11 May 2024)

• System outage affecting UniSuper services (via Colin Sutton)
• More than 200 people with diabetes injured after software issue drained insulin pump batteries (Jamie Gubrecht and FDA)
• New Spectre-Style 'Pathfinder' Attack Targets Intel CPU, Leak Encryption Keys and Data (The Hacker News)
• Solar Flares and Northern Lights (WashPost)
• Wildfires causing widespread telecom outages in the NWT Yukon (CBC)
• State actor blamed for cyberattack on B.C. government systems (CBC)
• Interview With the Russian-Military-Linked Hackers Targeting U.S. Water Utilities (WiReD)
• AI Is Declared Ready to Make Decisions in War (APNews)
• Microsoft Creates Top Secret Generative AI Service for U.S. Spies (Katrina Manson)
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• Translation Tech Is Amazing, Except When It's Not (WiReD)
• Hundreds of charges laid in OPP child sexual abuse investigation (CBC)
• Did Rihanna and Katy Perry attend the Met Gala? No, but AI had fans thinking otherwise (LATimes)
• Ethereum's Cofounder Says SEC Is Gaslighting Everyone About Crypto (WiReD)
• New TunnelVision Attack Allows Hijacking of VPN Traffic via DHCP Manipulation (LevianthanSecurity)
• UnitedHealth Top Executive Slammed Over Cyberattack (NYTimes)
• Risks with websites providing data that is difficult to interpret (Lars-Henrik Eriksson)
• Fake photos, but make it fashion. Why the Met Gala pics are just the beginning of AI deception (CBC)
• Stack Overflow users sabotage their posts after OpenAI deal (ArsTechnica)
• No Country Should be Making Speech Rules for the World (EFF)
• Apple faces celebrity backlash over piano crushing (BBC)
• Robot dogs armed with AI-aimed rifles undergo U.S. Marines Special Ops evaluation (ArsTechnica)
• Parts supplied to Boeing had 'serious defects' (whistleblower via BBC)
• How Google Became Evil (Dana F. Blankenhorn)
• Google's new *Find My* device network is useful but a stalking risk (WashPost)
• Re: Could the Covid-19 Vaccines Have Caused Some People Harm? (Joseph Gwinn, Jay Libove Alzina)

Volume 34 Issue 25 (Sunday, 19 May 2024)

• Ex-CDC Director Says It's High Time To Admit Significant Side Effects* of COVID-19 Vaccines (zerohedge)
• Re: Could the Covid-19 Vaccines Have Caused Some People Harm? (Peter Bernard Ladkin)
• A woman was dragged by a self-driving Cruise taxi in San Francisco. (LA Times)
• U.S. Fears Undersea Cables Are Vulnerable to Espionage From Chinese Repair Ships (WSJ)
• Linux maintainers were infected for 2 years by SSH-dwelling backdoor with huge reach (ArsTechnica)
• Lethal AI weapons are here: how can we control them? (Nature)
• Artificial Intelligence Trained To Deceive Humans, Lie (StudyFinds)
• American IT Scammer Helped North Korea Fund Nuclear Weapons Program, U.S. Says (WSJ)
• Half of calls to gambling helpline were for help placing mobile bets (The Boston Globe)
• An identity thief stole $5,000 from me. I spent two years tracking down how. (The Boston Globe)
• Schumer's AI Roadmap now online (PGN)
• UnitedHealth Top Executive Slammed Over Cyberattack (NYTimes)
• Cape Cod Hospital to pay $24.4 million for Medicare billing issues (The Boston Globe)
• At-Home IV-Drip Therapy Is the Latest Luxury Building issues Amenity (The New York Times)
• Is the news media picking on Tesla? (LATimes/YouTube)
• Smarter Vehicles Could Mean Changes to Traffic Lights (Jeff McMurray)
• Is Your Car Spying on You? Dale Harrington (AP)
• Tech Giants Treat Southeast Asia Like Next Big Thing (Bloomberg)
• Will Chatbots Eat India's IT Industry? (The Economist)
• Newspaper conglomerate Gannett is adding AI-generated summaries to the top of its articles (The Verge)
• The Night That Sotheby's Was Crypto-Punked (NYImes)
• MIT students stole $25M in seconds by exploiting ETH blockchain bug, DOJ says (Ars Technica)
• What Meltdown? Crypto Comes Roaring Back in the Philippines. (NYTimes)
• OpenAI disbands team devoted to artificial intelligence risks (AFP) (NYTimes)
• ChatGPT Gets Real (NYMag)
• The man who turned his dead father into a chatbot (BBC)
• Dell Hell Redux -- More Personal Info Stolen by Menelik (Security Boulevard)
• Link Rot and Digital Decay on Government, News and Other Webpages (Pew Research Center)
• The Rise of Large-Language-Model Optimization backups (ArsTechnica)
• Unprecedented Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its optimi (ArsTechnica)
• A horrifying software bug (trofi)
• New Wi-Fi Vulnerability Enables Network Eavesdropping via Downgrad Attacks (The Hacker News)
• Deleted photos of former owners reappearing on sold iPads -- and probably iPhones (PhoneArena)
• As AI becomes more human-like, experts warn users must think more critically about its responses (CBC)
• AI turned a Ukrainian into Russian propaganda (BBC)
• Two unlikely U.S. states are leading the charge on regulating AI (Politico)
• Google tests AI to detect scam phone calls. Privacy advocates are terrified (NBC News)
• Flood of Fake Science Forces Multiple Journal Closures (WSJ)
• Newspaper groups warn Apple over ad-blocking plans (Financial Times)
• Slack users horrified to discover messages used for AI training (ArsTechnica)
• Tractors that don't know where they are (John Levinw)
• She was accused of faking an incriminating video of teenage cheerleaders. The problem? Nothing was fake after all (The Guadian)
• She was accused of faking an incriminating video of teenage cheerleaders. The problem? Nothing was fake after all (The Guadian)

Volume 34 Issue 26 (Sunday, 26 May 2024)

• Waymo Under Investigation for Autonomous Driving Technology (Tom Krisher)
• U.S. halted safety inspections of public housing for weeks after IT failure (NBC News)
• Microsoft outage took down Copilot, DuckDuckGo, and ChatGPT search features (MSN)
• Arup lost HK$25mn in Hong Kong deepfake video conference scam (FT)
• Can we rid artificial intelligence of bias? (techxplore.com)
• Electricity grids creak as AI demands soar (Matthew Kruk)
• ChatGPT's evil cousin: Explaining WormGPT, Malicious Generative AI (Presale1)
• CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (CNN)
• ChatGPT Answers Programming Questions Incorrectly 52% of the Time (Lauren Weinstein)
• Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud (Krebs on Security)
• Composer Tan Dun spreads his wings as an audience unmutes their phones (WashPost)
• Los Angeles suburb to test drone that claims to 'revolutionize' 911 response (Steve Bacher)
• Spyware found on U.S. hotel check-in computers (TechCrunch)
• Review and recommendations based on May/June 2023 Microsoft email incidents (CSRB)
• Why Your VPN May Not Be As Secure As It Claims (Krebs on Security)
• CIA Twitter Files (Schellenberger)
• I stumbled upon LLM Kryptonite and no one wants to fix it (The Register)
• Explosive emails show top NIH adviser deleted records, used *secret* back channels to help Fauci evade COVID transparency (Josh Christenson)
• Doctors `bribed to use infected blood products' (Telegraph)
• 10,000 YouTube videos (Lauren Weinstein)
• Sam Altman Is Full Of Sh*t (The Verge)
• ASML, TSMC Can Disable Chip Machines If China Invades Taiwan (Bloomberg)
• Re: Ex-CDC Director Says It's High Time To Admit *Significant Side Effects* Of COVID-19 Vaccines (Steve Lamont)
• Re: Deleted photos of former owners reappearing on sold iPads -- and probably iPhones (Gabe Goldberg)
• Re: Is the news media picking on Tesla? (Wol)
• Re: A woman was dragged by a self-driving Cruise (Steve Lamont)
• Re: Newspaper groups warn Apple over ad-blocking plans (Steve Bacher)
• Re: Half of calls to gambling helpline were for help placing mobile bets (Steve Bacher)

Volume 34 Issue 27 (Tuesday, 28 May 2024)

• Unions Raise Safety Concerns Over Remote-Controlled Trains (The New York Times)
• 'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition tech' (BBC)
• Facebook account takeovers are targeting people you know, turning friendship into fraud (CBC)
• What Does an AI Do When It Sees an Optical Illusion? (Scientific American)
• AI-powered hate content is on the rise, experts say (Matthew Kruk)
• The order in which data is fed to LLMs can make a big difference (PGN)
• Crowds Flocked to the New York-Dublin Livestream. Then Things Got Racy. (WSJ)
• The Harsh Truth Behind Samsung's Phone Repair Program (Florence Ion)
• Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift’s Private Jet (Gizmodo)
• Elon Musk wants our help with a [minor|huge] problem. (Rob Slade)
• Re: A woman was dragged by a self-driving Cruise taxi in San Francisco (Geoff Kuenning, Wol)
• Re: Half of calls to gambling helpline were for help (Amos Shapir)
• Re: I stumbled upon LLM Kryptonite and no one wants to fix it (Steve Bacher)
• Re: MITRE ATLAS on obscurity (Jared Richo et al.)

Volume 34 Issue 28 (Thursday, 30 May 2024)

• Australia looking into alleged Ticketmaster hack (BBC)
• Mystery malware destroys 600,000 routers from a single ISP during 72-hour span (ArsTechnica)
• Linux vulnerability and some info on namespaces (Ars Technica)
• CVE-2024-24919: Check Point Security Gateway Info Disclosure (Presale1)
• How Easy Is It to Teach Chatbots to Spew Disinformation? VERY! (Jeremy White)
• Trump supporters try to doxx jurors and post violent threats after his conviction (NBC News)
• If AI Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your CEO (NYTimes)
• Rural ISP Routers Bricked Beyond Repair (Security Boulevard)
• Touch Controls on Stoves Suck. Knobs Are Way Better (WiReD)
• If you use Veeam (Cliff Kilby)
• Re: PGN on Ethics in RISKS-34.25 (Stever Robbins)
• Review of *Wicked Problems*, new book on risks of new technology (Judith Hemenway)

Volume 34 Issue 29 (Wednesday, 5 June 2024)

• NYSE technical error sends stocks tumbling (The Register)
• NYSE says bizarre glitch that showed Berkshire Hathaway down 99.97% has been resolved (CNN)
• London Hospitals Face Major Disruptions After Cyberattack (NYTimes)
• Harvard grad who went off script to address Gaza protests said she quietly revised her speech last minute (NBC News)
• A New Bone of Contention: Trigger Warnings in Archaeology Class (WSJ)
• How Researchers Cracked an 11-Year-Old Password to a $3 Million Crypto Wallet (WiReD)
• 361 million stolen accounts leaked on Telegram added to HIBP (SecureClick)
• Digital surveillance and customer isolation are individualizing the prices we pay (Prospect)
• A Pacific Island With Ties to Taiwan Was Hacked. Was It Political? (The NY Times)
• Deepfake of U.S. Official Appears After Shift on Ukraine Attacks in Russia (The NY Times)
• Fake News Reports and Videos Seek to Undermine the Paris Olympics (The NY Times)
• They Spent Their Life Savings on Life Coaching (NYTimes)
• How a Samsung Washing Machine Chime Triggered a YouTube Copyright Fiasco (WiReD)
• Don't You Dare Call Me Without Texting First (WSJ)
• Miracle AI Weapons (Background Briefing)
• Oral-B bricking Alexa toothbrush is cautionary tale against buzzy tech ( (Ars Technica)
• New technique can automate data curation for self-supervised pre- training of AI datasets (techxplore.com)
• Artists threaten to leave Instagram in droves over AI art training (Creative Blog)
• Today's Funny Pages (Indeed via Cliff Kilby)
• Re: PGN on Ethics (Jan Wolitzky, Henry Baker, Monty Solomon)
• Twilight Zone predicted robot CEO (Jeff Jonas)

Volume 34 Issue 30 (Sunday, 9 June 2024)

• An Object Lesson From Covid on How to Destroy Public Trust (Zeynep Tufekci)
• From the *It's Not a Glitch* Dept. (9NEWS Colorado)
• Colorado discovers error causing EV tax credit denials Architecture (Zhang Tong)
• Scientists Find Security Risk in RISC-V Open-Source Chip (The Register)
• The best video I've seen explaining the techical reasons why keeping AM radios in cars is so important! (YouTube)
• AI Systems Are Learning to Lie and Deceive (Henry Baker)
• Hamane's Ai Pin (The NYTimes)
• Microsoft's Jaime Teevan doubles down on Windows Recall's "privacy sh*t-show" (Henry Baker)
• U.S. to open broad antitrust probe into AI giants (Axios)
• PHP+Windows Vulnerability (Cliff Kilby)
• Annandale man wins fraud case against a bank (Annandale Today)

Volume 34 Issue 31 (Sunday, 16 June 2024)

• Waymo issues software and mapping recall after robotaxi crashes into a telephone pole (The Verge)
• Driver using FSD, staring at phone ... (LATimes)
• Voting machine contract under scrutiny following discrepancies in Puerto Rico's primaries (AP)
• Phishing attack hits L.A. County public health agency, jeopardizing 200,000-plus residents' personal info (LATimes)
• Leaked documents reveal patient safety issue at Amazon's One Medical (The Washington Post)
• Crooks plant backdoor in software used by courtrooms around the world (Dan Goodin)
• How a New Jersey man was wrongly arrested through facial recognition tech now in use in Ontario (CBC)
• Clearview AI Used Your Face. Now You May Get a Stake in the Company. (NYTimes)
• Microsoft Refused to Fix Flaw Years Before SolarWinds Hack (ProPublica)
• iOS 18 cracks down on apps asking for full address book access (TechCrunch)
• A reportedly fake group recruited a real candidate for Congress (Poliico)
• After sustained attacks by the GOP, Stanford Internet Observatory is being shut down (Casey Newton and Zoë Schiffer)
• Tile/Life360 Breach: Millions of Users' Data at Risk (Security Boulevard)
• Generative AI and the law (Lauren Weinstein)
• New Wi-Fi Takeover Attack -- All Windows Users Warned To Update Now (Forbes)
• Japan Runs on Vending Machines. It’s About to Break Millions of Them. (NYTimes)
• The surprisingly not so doomed effort to force U.S. drivers to stop speeding (The Verge)
• Vax (Jim Geissman)
• The Age of the Drone Police Is Here (WiReD)
• MXThunder and FBL (Cliff Kilby)
• Retired engineer discovers 55-year-old bug in Lunar Lander computer game code (Ars Technica)
• Google, Cloudflare & Cisco Will Poison DNS to Stop Piracy Block Circumvention (TorrentFreak)
• Wells Fargo Fires Over a Dozen for 'mouse jiggling' (Henry Baker)
• Why Microsoft, Google, and others screw up (Lauren Weinstein)
• Re: Microsoft and Recall (Lauren Weinstein)
• Re: Tom Van Vleck (Cliff Kilby)
• Quote of The Day (Edward Snowden)
• Re: Quote of The Day (James Joyce)

Volume 34 Issue 32 (Wednesday, 26 June 2024)

• Waymo gets green light for expansion into LA and beyond (The Register)
• World's biggest music labels sue over AI copyright (BBC)
• Apple Patches AirPods Bluetooth Vulnerability That Could Allow Eavesdropping (The Hacker News)
• In 6-3 ruling based on lack of standing, Supreme Court rules government may continue fighting social media misinformation (CNN)
• U.S. Surgeon General declares gun violence a public health crisis (Giffords)

Volume 34 Issue 33 (Tuesday, 25 June 2024)

• Titan Disaster Forces Global Rethinking of Deep Sea Exploration (William J. Broad)
• Dead Tesla Traps Toddler In Hot Car, Raises Concerns About Electric Doors (CarScoops)
• Nuclear power Senate Vote (BackgroundBriefing)
• Musk calls for elimination of electronic voting machines, full hand count of all ballots (Politico)
• Dash to Ditch Paper Money in Sweden Created a Playground for Criminals (Bloomberg)
• A Catastrophic Hospital Hack Ends in a Leak of 300M Patient Records (WiReD)
• Antivirus Shuffle over Kaspersky (TechMonitor)
• Passwords Weakened by Advancements in Computing Processing (Sead Fadilpasic)
• Hacker Accesses Internal Tile Tool That Provides Location Data to Cops (494 Media)
• Ozone Hole Mk. II (NCBI)
• California plans to enlist AI to translate healthcare information (LA Times)
• In AI we trust, part II: Wherein AI adjudicates every Supreme Court case (adamunikowsky)
• Incoming *WashPost* editor tied to self-described thief who claimed role in his reporting (Monty Solomon)
• Amazon-Powered AI Cameras Used to Detect Emotions of Unwitting UK Train Passengers (WiReD)
• Bacon ice cream and nugget overload sees misfiring McDonald's AI withdrawn (BBC)
• More productive AI => Self-Poisoned Training = GIGO (Henry Baker)
• Mass.'s "911 system" crashes... (danny burstein)
• Mass. 911 system back online after outage (Monty Solomon)
• AWS MFA/2FA Changes (Cliff kilby)
• Hacker selling AMD data breach dated June 2024. Europol involved (Presale1)
• Even Doctors Like Me Are Falling Into This Medical Bill Trap (NYTimes)
• How Crypto Money Is Poised to Influence the Election (NYTimes)
• NYC Congestion Pricing paused; but its LPR tracking not paused (Henry Baker)
• Firefox and Cancer? (The Register)
• Re: How a New Jersey man was wrongly arrested through facial recognition tech now in use in Ontario (Amos Shapir)
• Re: Generative AI and the law (John Levine, Lauren Weinstein)
• Re: Generative AI and the law (John Levine, Lauren Weinstein)

Volume 34 Issue 34 (Friday, 28 June 2024)

• GPS Interference Over Land a Recurring Problem for Transatlantic Flights (Rntfnd)
• Safety-critical aircraft parts (Jim Geissman)
• Boeing 737 Max fabrication changes (NYTimes)
• Software engineers, not astronauts, are the heroes of today's space industry (The Washington Post)
• The end of the world (Rob Slade)
• Another major hospital hack (The Guardian)
• 30,000 Dealerships Down -- Ransomware Outage Outrage no.2 at CDK Global (Security Boulevard)
• ID verification service fail (404media)
• Rampant Identity Theft Is Taxing the IRS (NYTimes)
• ID Verification Service for TikTok, Uber, X Exposed Driver Licenses (404Media via X)
• Ask Google Search a simple question, and get an AI Overview "guess" that is totally wrong (Lauren Weinstein)
• China's AI-Powered Sex Dolls Set To Revolutionise Intimacy (NDTV)
• Supreme Court accidentally posts with Biden admin on Idaho abortion case with Biden admin on Idaho abortion case (CNN)
• ID verification service reportedly left credentials wide open for a year (Engadget)
• Firefighter charity bot call (Rob Slade)
• Voice assistants and AI chatbots still can't say who won the 2020 election (CA News Yahoo!)
• Ding dong drama: Video doorbells have UK election campaigners spooked (Politico)
• Re: Dead Tesla Traps Toddler In Hot Car, Raises Concerns About Electric Doors (Steve Bacher)
• What to do when you send money to the wrong person through Zelle (Elliott Report)
• Re: Ozone Hole Mk. II (Martin Ward)
• Re: Antivirus Shuffle over Kaspersky (Steve Bacher)

Volume 34 Issue 35 (Thursday, 11 July 2024)

• Electronic voting in Switzerland (Bertrand Mayer)
• U.S. and Allies Issue Rare Warning on Chinese Hacking Group (WSJ)
• Nations Warn Key Open-Source Programs Not Sufficiently Protected (Craig Hale)
• Russia Breaches TeamViewer: No Evidence Billions of Devices at Risk (Security Boulevard)
• 10 Billion Passwords Exposed in Largest Leak Ever (Emily Price)
• Canada warns of AI-driven Russian 'bot farm' spreading disinformation online (CBC)
• A Bugatti car, a first lady and the fake stories aimed at Americans (BBC)
• New OpenSSH Vulnerability Discovered: Potential Remote Code Execution Risk (The Hacker News)
• New tool for creating exploits (Rik Farrow)
• AI Accelerates Software Development to Breakneck Speeds (Joe McKendrick)
• Microsoft Security Sieve (Cliff Kilby)
• Americans abroad suffering hours-long roaming outage (The Register)
• Second Factor SMS: Worse Than Its Reputation (CCC Denmark)
• Hackers reverse engineer Ticketmaster (404media)
• BLAST RADIUS (Victor Miller)
• Feds *finally* starting to take privacy records seriously (HHS press release)
• Unintended consequences of building population tracking for COVID; public semi-nudity (riaka in ch)
• Nike killing app for $350 self-tying sneakers (Ars Technica)
• Re: Software engineers, not astronauts, are the heroes of today's, space industry (Niklas Holsti)
• Re: What to do when you send money to the wrong person through Zelle (John Levine)
• Re: Firefighter charity bot call (Jurek Kirakowski)
• Re: Fwd: Ozone Hole Mk. II (Martin Ward)
• Re: More productive AI => Self-Poisoned Training GIGO (Amos Shapir)

Volume 34 Issue 36 (Sunday, 21 July 2024)

• CrowdStrike IT outage affected 8.5 million Windows (BBC via Matthew Kruk)
• A CrowdStrike update crashed the world's computers. What comes next? (WiReD)
• The MTA's Old Computer Technology Kept Going During Today's MS-related Outrage (Curbed via Henry Baker)
• Cyber Criminals Seek to Exploit Crowdstrike Outage (Gabe Goldberg)
• Re: Crowdstrike (Cliff Kilby)
• Boeing and Failures (BBC viz Jim Geissman)
• U.S. Gender Care Is Ignoring Science (Pamela Paul)
• AT&T says hacker stole call records of ‘nearly all’ wireless customers (WashPost)
• Data breach exposes millions of mSpy spyware customers (TechCrunch)
• Rite Aid says June data breach impacts 2.2 million people (Victor Miller)
• What comes around: SSH CVE-2024-6387 (Qualys via Cliff Kilby)
• Exim attachment flaw CVE-2024-39929 (Censys)
• New Intel CPU Vulnerability 'Indirector' Exposes Sensitive Data (geoff goodfellow)
• German Navy still uses 8-inch floppy disks, working on emulating a replacement (ArsTechnica)
• Zombie browser says "what"? (Betanews)
• You're holding your phone wrong? (WashPost)
• In Ukraine War, A.I. Begins Ushering In an Age of Killer Robots (The New York Times)
• Perfect Apple Supply Chain Bug -- Millions of Apps at Risk of CocoaPods RCE (Security Boulevard)
• When AI tells you to verify (Lauren Weinstein)
• In GA the Biggest Election Breach in History Has Gone Uninvestigated (Notus via Susan Greenhagh)
• OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks, whistleblowers say (WashPost)
• Drone photographer pleads guilty to Espionage Act charges (The Verge)
• Re: Electronic Voting (Risks-34.35) (Bertrand Meyer, Rebecca Mercuri)
• Re: Voting in Switzerland (Rebecca Mercuri, Bertrand Meyer)
• Re: Russian Disinformation (PGN)

Volume 34 Issue 37 (Thursday, 25 July 2024)

• When it comes to math, AI is dumb (Steve Lohr)
• Microsoft's Global Sprawl Under Fire After Historic Outage (WashPost)
• Why no public outrage over CrowdStrike/Microsoft and ATT failures? (John Rushby, Andy Poggio)
• Worldwide BSOD outage (via Rebecca Mercuri)
• Crowdstrike references (Cliff Kilby)
• Secure Boot is Completely Compromised (ArsTechnica via Wendy Grossman)
• Hackers could create traffic jams thanks to flaw in traffic-light controller, researcher says (TechCrunch)
• Encultured: an AI doomer’s video game startup pivots to medicine. It’ll be fine. (Pivot to AI)
• New findings shed light on risks and benefits of integrating AI into medical decision-making (medicalxpress.com)
• Steven Wilson Struggles To Hear That It's Not Him Singingxo AI-Created Songs (Blabbermouth)
• Limitless AI (Gabe Goldberg)
• AI captions (Jim Geissman)
• Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source (ZDNET)
• Bipartisan legislation that would require all users to use government IDs to access major websites advances in Senate (NBC News)
• LLM AI Bios (Rob Slade)
• Re: U.S. Gender Care Is Ignoring Science (Martin Ward)
• Re: In Ukraine War, AI Begins Ushering In an Age of Killer Robots (Amos Shapir)
• Re: Fwd: Ozone Hole Mk. II (Cliff Kilby)

Volume 34 Issue 38 (Monday, 29 July 2024)

• Lithium Battery Fire Traps Drivers in Sweltering Heat on 'California Highway (The New York Times)
• Spy v spy v spy: Jamming home wifi's by crims & cops (Henry Baker)
• Lawmaker uses AI voice clone to address Congress (BBC via Matthew Kruk)
• AI May Save Us, or May Construct Viruses to Kill Us (NYTimes)
• Robots sacked, screenings shut down: a new movement of Luddites is rising up against AI (Ed Newton-Rex)
• Restrictions on AI training data (NYTimes via Jim Geissman)
• Apple signs on to Biden's responsible AI guidelines (Politico)
• Crypto fanatics flock to Trump, hoping to *make bitcoin great again*. (WashPost)
• Devastating ransomware attack shuts down L.A. County courts (LATimes)
• Proofpoint Email Routing Flaw Exploited to Send Millions of Spoofed Phishing Emails (The Hacker News)
• Prominent Short Seller Made Millions Off Bait-and-Switch Scheme, U.S. Says (NYTimes)
• Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers (Ars Technica)
• Hackers steal call records of 'nearly all' AT&T customers (BBC)
• Security Firm Discovers Remote Worker Is North Korean Hacker (Michael Kan)
• New Israeli Spyware (Israel News)
• Windows resiliency: Best practices and the path forward (MS vis PGN)
• Google reverts TV YouTube app to original search history behavior (Lauren Weinsteain)
• CrowdStrike and fuzz testing (Martin Ward)
• Re: U.S. Gender Care Is Ignoring ... (Julizn Bradford)
• Re: Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source (Amos Shapir)

Volume 34 Issue 39 (Saturday, 3 August 2024)

• Teenager Accused of Derailing Train and Posting Crash Video Online (NYTimes)
• Mythbusting SOC costs (Cliff Kilby)
• How One Man Lost $740,000 to Scammers Targeting His Retirement Savings (NYTimes)
• Are we too dependent on Microsoft? (CBC)
• MBTA's new contactless payment system launches Thursday (The Globe)
• Personal Data of 3 Billion People Stolen in Hack, Suit Says (BloombergLaw)
• Trolls Used Her Face to Make Fake Porn. There Was Nothing She Could Do. (NYTimes)
• Amazon forced to recall 400K products that could kill, electrocute people (ArsTechnica)
• Don't Let Your Domain Name Become a crime site (Krebs on Security)
• About Kid's Online Safety Act and age verification (Lauren Weinstein)
• A $100b plan with "70% risk of killing us all" (Stephen Fry)
• Leaked github token could have put the entire python infrastructure at risk (TechRadar)
• Argentina will use AI to ‘predict future crimes’ but experts worry for citizens’ rights (The Guardian, geoff goodfellow)
• Gender Dysphoria and the Cass Review - A Summary of a Discussion (Peter Bernard Ladkin)
• Re: Google reverts TV YouTube app to original search history behavior (Jim Geissman)
• Re: AT&T local news (Jim Geissman)
• Re: Switzerland now requires all government software to open source (Martin Ward, Wol)
• Re: CrowdStrike and fuzz testing (Jurek Kirakowski)
• Re: Robots sacked, screenings shut down: a new movement of Luddites is rising up against AI (Wol)
• IEEE Project on Digital Forensics for Trusted Learning Systems (via Rebecca Mercuri)

Volume 34 Issue 40 (Wednesday, 14 August 2024)

• Bird Flu Shows That the U.S. Learned All the Wrong Lessons from Covid (David Wallace Wells)
• Beware Politicians' Newfound Love of Crytpo[currency] (Eswar Prasad)
• Illinois Voter Data Exposed by Unsecured Databases (Lily Hay Newman)
• Trump Campaign Confirms It Was Hacked (Alex Isenstadt)
• Boeing Starliner software (ArsTechnica)
• Outages Plague Trading Platforms During Stock-Market Selloff (WSJ)
• Canada's food supply -— under threat? (CBC)
• French Museum Network Hit by Ransomware Attack (AP)
• UK PM Warns Social Media Firms After Misinformation Fuels Riots (Reuters)
• Chipmaking Giant Learns What Works in Taiwan Doesn't in Arizona (John Liu)
• Power-hungry AI data centers are raising electric bills and blackout risk (LA Times)
• Cisco to Lay Off Thousands in Latest Round of Tech Cuts (Reuters)
• Intel Will Fire 15,000 Workers (Eva Dou)
• Excess memes and ‘reply all’ emails are bad for climate, researcher warns (The Guardian)
• Experts to PNT leaders: “It’s not working!” (GPS World)
• The nation’s best hackers found vulnerabilities in voting machines -— but no time to fix them (MSN)
• We're Entering an AI Price-Fixing Dystopia (The Atlantic) Unfixable Infections (WiReD)
• Flaw in Hundreds of Mill?ions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections (WiReD)
• New Flaws in Sonos Smart Speakers Allow Hackers to Eavesdrop on Users (The Hacker News)
• Logic Gone Astray: A Security Analysis Framework for the Control Plane Protocols of 5G Basebands (USENIX)
• Call to ban DJI drones introduced in US Senate, company responds (dronedj)
• DDoS Attacks Surge 46% in First Half of 2024 (Gcore Report)
• NIST announces post quantum encryption standards (SecurityWeek)
• Generative AI Has a 'Shoplifting' Problem. This Startup CEO Has a Plan to Fix It (WiReD)
• Kroger unveils AI-powered automatic price gouger (Pivot to AI)
• Corporation Email Looks Like A Scam (Bob Smith)
• ICANN Approves DNS Top-Level Domain for Intranets (Bob Gezelter)

Volume 34 Issue 41 (Saturday, 24 August 2024)

• FAA Proposes New Cybersecurity Standards For Aircraft (AVweb)
• Power Outages at Port of Los Angeles (LA Times)
• High-end racing bikes are now vulnerable to hacking (The Verge)
• Halliburton Hit by Apparent Cyberattack (Matt Egan)
• German Cyber-Agency Wants Changes in Microsoft, CrowdStrike Products after Outage (Catherine Stupp)
• Revoked DigiCert Digital Certificates: 27% Not Yet Replaced (BankinfoSecurity)
• GM to Cut More Than 1,000 Software Engineers, Mostly in U.S. (David Welch)
• Feds sue Georgia Tech for lying bigly about computer security (DoJ)
• Policy, due care, and the failure of Heartland Tri-State Bank (NBC News)
• Birmingham council faces huge loss over Oracle debacle (The Register)
• Which devices on your network are most vulnerable? (Kaspersky)
• The Long Arms of Terms of Service (NYTimes)
• Meta Kills Off Misinformation Tracking Tool (Barbara Ortutay)
• Microsoft Copilot makes a court reporter into a child molester (Heise)
• AI Cheating Is Getting Worse (The Atlantic)
• U.S. Government Wants You -- Yes, You -- to Hunt Down Generative AI Flaws (Lily Hay Newman)
• Silicon Valley Is Coming Out in Force Against an AI-Safety Bill (The Atlantic)
• A Loophole in Digital Wallet Security (UMass)
• AI is an energy hog. It's a strain on the power grid (LA Times)
• AI and stand-up comedy (BBC)
• These 'living computers' are made from human neurons — and you can rent one for $500 a month (LiveScience)
• Florida company faces multiple lawsuits after massive data breach (CBC)
• Number of Women Taking CS Degrees in UK Continues to Grow (BCS)
• Is it safer to use an app or a website on your phone? (WashPost)
• My latest column: How the lab leak controversy will harm you (Jim Geissman)
• Android Phones Sold with Hidden Insecure Feature (Joseph Menn)
• Nightly Waymo Robotaxi Parking Lot Honkfest Is Waking Neighbors (Wes Davis)
• Denver Water's loss of pressure at 5 AM every Monday is the same problem as San Francisco's 4 AM robot taxi honkfest (The Verge)
• OpenAI Blocks Iranian Influence Operation Using ChatGPT for U.S. Election Propaganda (geoff goodfellow)
• Regulators May Not Like Deepfakes, But Businesses Are Using Them Anyway (WSJ)
• AI Detection Tools Often Fail to Catch Election Deepfakes (WashPost)
• Trump posts fake AI images of Taylor Swift and Swifties, falsely suggesting he has the singer's support (CNN)
• Re: Illinois Voter Data Exposed by Unsecured Databases (Kevin Kostols)
• Re: Corporation Email Looks Like A Scam (Steve Bacher, Geoff Kuenning)
• Re: Kroger unveils AI-powered automatic price gouger (John Levine)
• Re: NIST announces post quantum encryption standards (John Levine)

Volume 34 Issue 42 (Monday, 26 August 2024)

• Protecting Connected Self-Driving Vehicles from Hackers (Patricia DeLacey)
• ARRL hit with ransomware (Steve Golson)
• Fake QR codes posted on Redondo Beach parking meters to scam drivers, police say (LA Times)
• Toward a Code-Breaking Quantum Computer (Adam Zewe)
• Multiple Flaws in Microsoft macOS Apps Unpatched Despite Potential Risks (Connor Jones)
• More on Boeing fuselage panel blowout (Seattle Times)
• Park'N Fly reveals data breach affecting 1 million customer files (CBC)
• Local Networks Go Global When Domain Names Collide (Krebs)
• Biometrics in the workplace may be the way of the future. But at what cost? (CBC)
• Telegram billionaire co-founder Pavel Durov arrested (Lauren Weinstein)
• Almost half of FDA-approved AI medical devices are not trained on real patient data (MedicalXpress.com)
• How much more water and power does AI computing demand? Tech firms don't want you to know (LA Times)
• How Section 230 Is Being Used Against Tech Giants Like Meta (NY Times)
• Two policy articles suggested by Dan Geer (PGN)
• Re: Policy, due care, and the failure of Heartland Tri-State (Geoff Kuenning, Cliff Kilby)
• Re: Birmingham Oracle (Cliff Kilby)
• Re: High-end racing bikes are now vulnerable to hacking (Geoff Kuenning)
• Re: Feds sue Georgia Tech for lying bigly about computer security (Geoff Kuenning)
• Re: Kroger unveils AI-powered automatic price gouger (Wol)

Volume 34 Issue 43 (Thursday, 29 August 2024)

• Apparent cyberattack at Seattle airport causes internet outages (WCBV)
• Scammers dupe chemical company into wiring $60 million (Help Net Security)
• Moscow’s Spies Were Stealing U.S. Tech, Until the FBI Started a Sabotage Campaign (Politico)
• Android malware steals payment card data using previously unseen technique (ArsTechnica)
• Recent bot campaign backing Poilievre shows AI easily accessible for political messaging: report (CBC)
• Without Guardrails, Generative AI Can Harm Education (Dave Farber)
• Foreign Policy: TikTok ban & global data commons (Douglas Lucas)
• Telco fined $1M for transmitting Biden deepfake without verifying Caller ID (ArsTechnica)
• RFID cards could turn into a global security mess after discovery of hardware backdoor (Techspot)
• Apple to Let iPhone Users Delete Safari, Other Native Apps to Comply With EU Law (WSJ)
• Re: Feds sue Georgia Tech for lying bigly about computer security (Cliff Kilby)
• Re: Fake QR codes posted on Redondo Beach parking meters to scam drivers, police say (Geoff Luenning)
• Re: Birmingham Oracle (Wol)
• Re: Telegram billionaire co-founder Pavel Durov arrested (Turgut Kalfaoglu)
• Re: Policy, due care, and the failure of Heartland Tri-State (Phil Smith III)

Volume 34 Issue 44 (Sunday, 8 September 2024)

• How Navy chiefs conspired to get themselves illegal warship Wi-Fi (Navy Times)
• Chinese Government Hackers Penetrate U.S. ISPs (Joseph Menn)
• New Yubikey vulnerability (ArsTechnica)
• JPMorgan Plans to Report Customers Who Exploited TikTok ‘Glitch’ to Authorities (WSJ)
• California Passes AI Safety Bill (Bloomberg)
• Musk and xAI accused of worsening Memphis smog with unauthorized turbines (CNBC)
• AI Could Engineer a Pandemic, Experts Warn (Time)
• The Bands and the Fans Were Fake. The $10 Million Was Real. (NYTimes)
• Kids who use ChatGPT as a study assistant do worse on tests (Hechinger Report)
• Chatbots Are Primed to Warp Reality (The Atlantic)
• Automated trading bots scheme results in millions of dollars, Teslas, Rolexes, and federal wire-fraud convictions (Justice)
• Former Tesla Autopilot Head And Ex-OpenAI Researcher Says 'Programming Is Changing So Fast' That He Cannot Think Of Going Back To Coding Without AI (Benzinga)
• Electric toothbrushes and light-up sneakers are setting France on fire (Politico)
• Wake me when the Internet of Things is over (StraitsTimes.com)
• Risks of Rogue WiFi on Navy ships (Navy Times)
• In feud with Musk, Brazilian justice restricts access to X (LA Times)
• North Korea Aggressively Targeting Crypto Industry with Well-Disguised Social Engineering Attacks (IC3)
• Five-day O2/Telefonica DSL outage in Berlin, Germany (SCTB)
• What The CrowdStrike Outage Can Teach Us about Testing and Failure Modes (Packet Pushers)
• Visa required for EU entry starting next year (Edward Hasbrouck)
• Russian 'spy whale' found dead off Norway (BBC)
• Re:_Moscow's Spies Were Stealing U.S. Tech, Until the FBI Started a Sabotage Campaign (Amos Shapir)
• Foreign Policy: TikTok ban & global data commons (Cliff Kilby)
• How Telegram Became Criminals’ Favorite Marketplace (WSJ)
• Telegram Founder's Indictment Thrusts Encryption into the Spotlightooo (NYTimes)
• Re: Telegram billionaire co-founder Pavel Durov arrested (John Levine)
• Re: Feds sue Georgia Tech for lying bigly about computer security (Dylan Norhtrup)
• Re: Standard security policies and variances (Charles Cazabon)

Volume 34 Issue 45 (Saturday, 14 September 2024)

• The Social Impact of those Little Computers in Our Pockets (Peter Bernard Ladkin)
• The U.S. Military Is Not Ready for the New Era of Warfare (NYTimes via Susmit Jha)
• The AI nightmare is already here, thanks to our own governments (Lauren Weinstein)
• Hacker tricks ChatGPT into giving out detailed instructions for making homemade bombs (TechCrunch)
• AI Wants to Be Free -- Or at least very, very cheap (NYMag)
• Tech giants fight plan to make them pay more for electric grid upgrades (WashPost)
• A tech firm stole our voices: then cloned and sold them (BBC)
• The Bands and the Fans Were Fake. The $10 Million Was Real. (NYTimes)
• Authors fighting deluge of fake writers and AI-generated books (CBC)
• AI + Script-Kiddies: Malware/Ransomware explosion? (Henry Baker)
• Insurance company spied on house from the sky. Then the real nightmare began. (via GG)
• AI worse than humans in every way at summarising information, government trial finds (Crikey)
• Generative AI Transformed English Homework. Math Is Next (WiReD)
• The national security threats in U.S. election software -- hiding in plain sight (Politico)
• He’s Known as *Ivan the Troll*. His 3D-Printed Guns Have Gone Viral. (NYTimes)
• Quantum Computer Corrected Its Own Errors, Improving Its Calculations (Emily Conover)
• Debloating Windows made me realize how packed with useless features it is (Ada Developers)
• 50,000 gallons of water needed to put out Tesla Semi fire (AP News) (AP)
• See How Humans Help Self-Driving Cars Navigate City Streets (The New York Times)
• Love (of cybersecurity) is a battlefield (ArsTechnica)
• Senate Proposal for Crypto Tax Exemption Is Long Overdue (Cato Institute)
• More on tariffs and bans against Chinese or other countries' goods (Lauren Weinstein)
• Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong (WiReD)
• The For-Profit City That Might Come Crashing Down (NYTimes)
• ``It just exploded.'' Springfield woman claims she never meant to spark false rumors about Haitians (NBC NEws)
• Re: Feds sue Georgia Tech for lying bigly about computer security (Cliff Kilby, Dylan Northrup, Cliff Kilby)
• Re: Standard security policies and variances (Cliff Kilby)
• Re: How Navy chiefs conspired to get themselves illegal warship WiFi (Shapir, Stan Brown)
• Re: Former Tesla Autopilot Head And Ex-OpenAI Researcher Says 'Programming Is Changing So Fast' That He Cannot Think Of Going Back To Coding Without AI (Steve Bacher)
• Re: Moscow's Spies Were Stealing U.S. Tech, Until the FBI Started a Sabotage Campaign (djc)

Volume 34 Issue 46 (Tuesday, 1 October 2024)

• When GPS spoofing messes up your airplane... reboot it (WSJ)
• More than 1,000 people, including Hezbollah members, wounded in Lebanon after pagers detonate (CBC)
• More on the Hezbollah pagers (Voice of America News)
• More skynetish than exploding pagers (Axios)
• More Than 4 Million Robots Are Working in Factories Worldwide (ACM TechNews)
• Social media platforms engaged in 'vast surveillance' and failed to protect young people, FTC finds (LA Times)
• Chatbot Pulls People Away from Conspiracy Theories (ACM TechNews)
• Crash-detection devices can save lives. But false alarms are a problem for first responders (CBC)
• A Canadian has been arrested in global crackdown on the Ghost encrypted app. Here's how it works (Matthew Kruk)
• Millions of Vehicles Could Be Hacked and Tracked Thanks to a Simple Website Bug (WiReD)
• Ford seeks patent for tech that listens to driver conversations to serve ads (The Record)
• The Internet's AI Slop Problem Is Only Going to GetWorse (NYMag)
• OpenAI Is Growing Fast and Burning Through Piles of Money (NYTimes)
• California governor blocks landmark AI safety bill (Pivot 5)
• Southern California's hottest commercial real-estate market is for tenants that aren't human (LA Times)
• CISA state of the industry commentary (The Register)
• A Canadian has been arrested in global crackdown on the Ghost encrypted app. Here's how it works (CBC)
• Arrests Made in Relation to $243M Crypto Heist Targeting Genesis Creditor (Coindesk)
• The crypto bros who dream of crowdfunding a new country (BBC)
• Cybercriminals Exploit HTTP Headers for Credential Theft via Large-Scale Phishing Attacks (The Hacker News)
• Three Mile Island nuclear plant to help power Microsoft's data-center needs (NBC Nees)
• Why Does My iPhone Keep Asking Me to Check In With My Ex? (NYImes)
• How pen and paper comes to the rescue in an IT crisis (BBC)
• Lionsgate sells movie catalog to AI video startup Runway hoping to replace artists and FX (Pivot to AI)
• Linux RCE, CUPS CVE-2024-47176 (The Register)
• Re: The U.S. Military Is Not Ready for the New Era of Warfare (Dylan Northrup)

Volume 34 Issue 47 (Thursday, 17 October 2024)

• This Is What Electoral Fraud Looks Like (Jesse Wegman)
• 2024 Election Protection As AI Increases the Risk of Disenfranchisement (Lillie Coney)
• Notes for my HealthSec24 paper on Healthcare Risks (PGN)
• More on money drives healthcare (Robert Boyer)
• Millions of Vehicles Could Be Hacked and Tracked Thanks to a Simple Website Bug (WiReD)
• Website Bug Allowed Kia Vehicles to Be Hacked, Tracked (Andy Greenberg)
• Tesla driver killed in solo crash (PGN)
• Tesla Cybertruck -- too big and sharp for European roads, say campaigners (The Guardian)
• Are taxis safer with no driver? These women think so (nbcnews.com)
• South China Sea tensions and undersea cables (WashingtonReport)
• Starlink satellites create light pollution and disrupt radio frequencies. And its getting worse (CBC)
• I-XRAY: The AI Glasses That Reveal Anyone's Personal Details Just from Looking at Them (The Globe)
• How to Opt Out of AI Online (The New Yorker)
• California Governor Vetoes AI Safety Bill (Politico)
• AI Crawlers Are Hammering Sites (Chris Stokel-Walker)
• Kamala Harris, AI, and the Bletchley Park ghost (Douglas Lucas)
• Steganographic covert channel (Dan Goodin)
• Intel is a security risk for China, says influential industry group (cnn.com)
• K8S Image Builder, CVE-2024-9486 (The Register via Cliff Kilby)
• WSJ reports China compromised U.S. lawful access systems (Matt Blaze)
• Calgary Public Library locations remain closed after cyberattack (CBC) (CBC)
• Parents sue son's high-school history teacher (NBC News)
• Dynamic pricing unpopular (BBC)
• Earth has overshot key planetary bounda, scientists warn (Hastings Tribune)
• China Is Writing World's Technology Rules (The Economist)
• Mystery Drones Swarmed a U.S. Military Base for 17 Days. The Pentagon Is Stumped. (WSJ)
• Spotify criticized for letting fake albums appear on real artist pages (ArsTechnica)
• *The New York Times* tells *Perplexity* to stop using its content (Pivot5)
• Complete, free CISSP review seminar (Rob Slade)
• DoJ vs. Google: Users have the most to lose (Lauren Weinstein)
• Kremlin refutes Trump denial on sending Putin COVID tests (Lauren Weinstein)
• NBC's former marketing chief: We Created a Monster: Trump Was a TV Fantasy Invented for 'The Apprentice' (USNews)
• Suspect arrested after reports of threats toward FEMA operations in North Carolina (CNN)
• Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models (arxiv)
• Why Restoring Power After Helene Is Complicated (Brad Plumer)
• Rob's usual disaster season call for emergency management training (Rob Slade)
• Re: More than 1,000 people, including Hezbollah members, wounded in Lebanon after pagers detonate (Rik Farrow)

Volume 34 Issue 48 (Friday, 8 November 2024)

• Falsehoods from Russia on Election Were Brazen (NTYimes)
• 1700 letters from the tax office: Daylight exit messed up (Debora Weber-Wulff)
• Username Over 52 Characters with No Password says Okta (Presale1)
• X is the latest social media site letting 3rd parties use your data to train AI models (CBC)
• Australia plans social media ban for under-16s (BBC)
• Man who made 'depraved' child images with AI jailed (BBC)
• Election Officials Are Prepared for a Lot More Than You Might Think (NYTimes)
• Annoyed Redditors tanking Google Search results illustrates perils of AI scrapers (Ars Technica)
• FBI says hackers are sending fraudulent police data requests ot tech giants to steal people's private information (TechCrunch)
• AI in radio: A Polish interviewer fired (Jim Geissman)
• When Google's AI agent messes with ya' (Lauren Weinstein)
• Nobody wants Copilot Pro AI for Office365, so Microsoft will force-bundle it and raise the price? (Pivot to AI)
• Microsoft, Google and Amazon turn to nuclear energy to fuel the AI boom (CBC)
• Anthropic Wants Its AI Agent to Control Your Computer (WiReD)
• AI decodes oinks and grunts to keep pigs happy (Reuters)
• AI frisking (LA Times)
• Tribal digital sovereignty in today's dystopia (Douglas Lucas)
• SF Muni finally ditching floppies (ArsTechnica)
• Law enforcement operation takes down 22,000 malicious IP addresses worldwide (Ars Technica)
• LA man wearing GPS ankle monitor is accused of a robbery string. Officials can't track him (LA Times)
• Yet another danger of cryptocurrencies ... (Rob Slade)
• The FTC comes after neobank Dave for misleading marketing, hidden fees (TechCrunch)
• Intel Floundry -> Solyntel (Henry Baker)
• Intel 2024 = Sow's Ear (Semafor via Henry Baker)

Volume 34 Issue 49 (Friday, 15 November 2024)

• Was this election well conducted? (Peter G. Neumann)
• After Trump Took the Lead, Election Deniers Went Suddenly Silent (The NY Times)
• Terrified friends burned to death in Tesla as electronic doors (The Mirror)
• Robotaxis open for business in Los Angele (LsTimes)
• Zoox's pill-shaped robotaxis become latest self-driving cars to hit California's streets (LA Times)
• Anomalous Windows Server Update (MSPowerUser)
• North Korea Jams GPS Signals (The Korea Times)
• A new iOS 18 security feature makes it harder for police to unlock iPhones (The Verge)
• A kayaker was missing for months. Authorities say he faked his death. (WashPost)
• Robotaxis open for business in Los Angeles (LA Times)
• Fake images of hurricane survivors have become a bizarre meme (NBC News)
• import what? (The Register)
• 42% of daily X users have a negative view of it -- losing the block feature won't help (ZDNET)
• AI fails a student's paper, with "98% accuracy" (The Star via Ed Ravin)
• Top Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities in 2023 (CISA.GOV)
• Inside the Massive Crime Industry That??s Hacking Billion-Dollar Companies (WiReD)
• How Tech Created a *Recipe for Loneliness* (The NY Times)
• Hidden Data in Amgen Publicly-released Spreadsheet Possible Cause of Stock Drop (CNBC)
• I was moderating hundreds of horrific and traumatising videos (BBC)
• Re: Families Battle Tech Giants as Australia Pushes for an Under-16 Social-Media Ban (WSJ via Monty Solomon)
• Re: Australia plans social media ban for under-16s (Steve Bacher)
• Re: Man who made 'depraved' child images with AI jailed (Steve Bacher)
• Re: Nobody wants Copilot Pro AI for Office365, so Microsoft will force-bundle it and raise the price? (Pivot to AI) (Steve Bacher)
• Re: AI decodes oinks and grunts to keep pigs happy (Steve Bacher)

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