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)

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