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Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting

“Matthew Green, a cryptography professor at Johns Hopkins University in the US, just encountered the popup and expressed his dismay.
« I don’t want my browser keeping track of my browsing history to help serve me ads, and I definitely don’t want my browser sharing any function of my browsing history with every random website I visit, » he said via Twitter.
And VC Paul Graham has derided ad targeting tech as spyware. Google has offered repeated reassurances that its Topics API does not allow companies to identify those whose interests inform its ad API. But some developers claim Topics may be useful for browser fingerprinting and both Apple and Mozilla have said they won’t adopt Topics due to privacy concerns.”

Source : Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting • The Register

Elon Musk’s X identifies users over hate speech, German prosecutors say

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“The balance between free speech and following the law is proving vastly more complicated in much of the rest of the world, where speech can be constrained by more restrictive laws. While Twitter, now known as X, has generally followed the law, in the past it touted its position on fighting back against overreaching government requests — particularly when it came to prosecuting speech online.”

Source : Elon Musk’s X identifies users over hate speech, German prosecutors say – The Washington Post

California Just Became the Third State to Pass Electronics Right to Repair

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“Right to Repair just won in Big Tech’s backyard: California’s Right to Repair Act, Senate Bill 244, has passed the state legislature. The bill—championed by state senator Susan Talamantes Eggman, and cosponsored by iFixit—won overwhelming approval, with a 65–0 vote in the Assembly, following a 38–0 vote in the Senate. The bill has to go back to the Senate for a minor procedural vote, and then it will await the governor’s signature.
This bill stands out from the laws that passed in Minnesota and New York by ensuring that repairs stay possible for longer. Manufacturers are mandated to keep repair materials, ranging from parts and tools to software and documentation, available for extended periods post-production: 3 years for products within the $50-$99.99 price bracket, and 7 years for those priced $100 or above. The bill applies to electronic and appliance products made and sold after July 1, 2021.”

Source : California Just Became the Third State to Pass Electronics Right to Repair | iFixit News

With 0-days hitting Chrome, iOS, and dozens more this month, is no software safe?

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“End users, admins, and researchers better brace yourselves: The number of apps being patched for zero-day vulnerabilities has skyrocketed this month and is likely to get worse in the following weeks. People have worked overtime in recent weeks to patch a raft of vulnerabilities actively exploited in the wild, with offerings from Apple, Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, Adobe, and Cisco all being affected since the beginning of the month. The number of zero-days tracked this month is considerably higher than the monthly average this year. September so far is at 10, compared with a total of 60 from January through August, according to security firm Mandiant. The company tracked 55 zero-days in 2022 and 81 in 2021. A sampling of the affected companies and products includes iOS and macOS, Windows, Chrome, Firefox, Acrobat and Reader, the Atlas VPN, and Cisco’s Adaptive Security Appliance Software and its Firepower Threat Defense. The number of apps is likely to grow because a single vulnerability that allows hackers to execute malicious code when users open a booby-trapped image included in a message or web page is present in possibly hundreds of apps.”

Source : With 0-days hitting Chrome, iOS, and dozens more this month, is no software safe? | Ars Technica

*privacy not included – Mozilla Foundation

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“Car makers have been bragging about their cars being “computers on wheels » for years to promote their advanced features. However, the conversation about what driving a computer means for its occupants’ privacy hasn’t really caught up. While we worried that our doorbells and watches that connect to the internet might be spying on us, car brands quietly entered the data business by turning their vehicles into powerful data-gobbling machines. Machines that, because of their all those brag-worthy bells and whistles, have an unmatched power to watch, listen, and collect information about what you do and where you go in your car.All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label — making cars the official worst category of products for privacy that we have ever reviewed.”

Source : *privacy not included | Shop smart and safe | Mozilla Foundation

AI Is Doing a Terrible Job Trading Stocks in the Real World. AI is limited to plagiarizing history

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“Eric Ghysels, an economics professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, noted that while an AI can be speedier than human investors moment-to-moment, it’s sluggish to adapt to « paradigm-shifting events » like the war in Ukraine — or maybe even the rise of AI. Meaning, in his opinion, an AI can’t beat human investors over time. « Maybe one day it will, but for now AI is limited to plagiarizing history, » Ghysels told the WSJ.”

Source : AI Is Doing a Terrible Job Trading Stocks in the Real World

La proposition française de bloquer les sites web via le navigateur nuira gravement à l’internet ouvert mondial

“Dans une tentative louable, mais périlleuse de lutter contre la fraude en ligne, la France s’apprête à obliger les créateurs de navigateurs à mettre en œuvre une fonctionnalité technique relevant de la dystopie. L’article 6 du projet de loi SREN obligerait les développeurs de navigateur à créer les moyens de bloquer obligatoirement les sites web figurant sur une liste fournie par le gouvernement et intégrée directement dans le navigateur. Une telle mesure renverserait des décennies de normes établies en matière de modération des contenus. Celle-ci fournira également aux gouvernements autoritaires un moyen de minimiser l’efficacité des outils qui peuvent être utilisés pour contourner la censure.”

Source : La proposition française de bloquer les sites web via le navigateur nuira gravement à l’internet ouvert mondial – Open Policy & Advocacy

CAPTCHA : les machines « prouvent » plus rapidement qu’elles sont des humains

CAPTCHA : les machines « prouvent » plus rapidement qu'elles sont des humains

“Les tâches de reconnaissance d’images réputées inaccessibles pour les machines deviennent maintenant plus simples pour elles que pour les humains. Des chercheurs de l’Université de Californie à Irvine (UC Irvine) ont en effet comparé les performances des humains avec celles des algorithmes de résolution de CAPTCHA et ont montré que la machine était, la plupart du temps, meilleure et plus rapide. Ils ont présenté leurs résultats à la conférence USENIX Security en ce mois d’août (PDF).”

Source : CAPTCHA : les machines « prouvent » plus rapidement qu’elles sont des humains

New AI classifier for indicating AI-written text is no longer available due to its low rate of accuracy

“As of July 20, 2023, the AI classifier is no longer available due to its low rate of accuracy. We are working to incorporate feedback and are currently researching more effective provenance techniques for text, and have made a commitment to develop and deploy mechanisms that enable users to understand if audio or visual content is AI-generated.”

Source : New AI classifier for indicating AI-written text

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