An interview with Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes about the state's efforts to curb AI-manufactured deceptions ahead of the upcoming 2024 US elections (A Martínez/NPR)

A Martínez / NPR:
An interview with Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes about the state's efforts to curb AI-manufactured deceptions ahead of the upcoming 2024 US elections  —  NPR's A Martinez talks with Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes about the use of artificial intelligence to curb AI-manufactured threats …

How Midjourney v6 and DALL-E 3 produce "plagiaristic outputs", even when not directly asked to do so, which could expose users to copyright infringement claims (IEEE Spectrum)

IEEE Spectrum:
How Midjourney v6 and DALL-E 3 produce “plagiaristic outputs”, even when not directly asked to do so, which could expose users to copyright infringement claims  —  This is a guest post.  The views expressed here are solely those of the authors and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE.

Users say X is increasingly showing malicious crypto ads, including links to crypto drainers, fake airdrops, and Telegram channels promoting pump and dumps (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Users say X is increasingly showing malicious crypto ads, including links to crypto drainers, fake airdrops, and Telegram channels promoting pump and dumps  —  Cybercriminals are abusing X advertisements to promote websites that lead to crypto drainers, fake airdrops, and other scams.

Adam Mosseri says Threads had some issues with "low quality recommendations" over the last few weeks and should get "much better over the next few weeks" (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Jay Peters / The Verge:
Adam Mosseri says Threads had some issues with “low quality recommendations” over the last few weeks and should get “much better over the next few weeks”  —  Adam Mosseri says that Threads has had some issues with what he calls “low quality recommendations” over the last few weeks.

The British Library will spend £6M-£7M, or 40% of its reserves, to recover from an October 2023 cyber attack that has rendered most of its services inaccessible (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
The British Library will spend £6M-£7M, or 40% of its reserves, to recover from an October 2023 cyber attack that has rendered most of its services inaccessible  —  London-based institution faces spending millions of pounds to rebuild most digital services

Daniel Stenberg, founder of open-source project curl, says easy access to LLMs is resulting in junk AI-assisted bug reports, wasting developer time and energy (Daniel Stenberg/daniel.haxx.se)

Daniel Stenberg / daniel.haxx.se:
Daniel Stenberg, founder of open-source project curl, says easy access to LLMs is resulting in junk AI-assisted bug reports, wasting developer time and energy  —  I have held back on writing anything about AI or how we (not) use AI for development in the curl factory.  Now I can't hold back anymore.