[nonostantement #289] - wind telephone / parmesan & microtransponders / hackers vs ai chatbots
Now with MORE TikTok frauds!
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Ciao, my name is Joele and this is the place where I collect links to the best things I come across online while doing my job. My job is to help brands, companies and institutions doing their thing, but on the internet. Or something like that.
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#PEOPLE
The Era of Ultracheap Stuff Is Under Threat
Factories across Asia are struggling to attract young workers, which is bad news for Western consumers accustomed to inexpensive goodsFourteen days across the Atlantic, perched on a ship’s rudder
Four Nigerian stowaways set out for Europe on a tanker rudder. Two weeks later they were in Brazil.I didn’t know I was bisexual — did Netflix find out before me?
A BBC producer is working out why the streaming platform’s algorithm was recommending her LGBT shows six months before she came outWind Telephone – Otsuchi, Japan
Discover Wind Telephone in Otsuchi, Japan: A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.
#TECH
Should Computers Decide How Much Things Cost?
If you feel like you’re spending more online all the time, it might be because you areThe Illusion Of AI’s Existential Risk
Focusing on the prospect of human extinction by AI in the distant future may prevent us from addressing AI’s disruptive dangers to society today.Cheese and chips: parmesan producers fight fakes with microtransponders
Counterfeits are the bane of the Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium, which is now trialling tech in the rind
#SOCIALMEDIA
X apparently added 5-second delay for links to sites Musk doesn’t like
X, formerly Twitter, "confirmed the delay was removed but did not elaborate."
#ART
SpY_COLAPSO
“Colapso” is an installation consisting of a globe 10 meters in diameter placed at the center of a cube-shaped structure. [..] Eventually, the mounting pressure within the globe caused its surface to explode, revealing for a fleeting instant a huge and perfect sphere of red smoke.
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#THEDARKSIDE
Tax Office TikTok fraud blows out to $4.6b
Banks had been warning since 2020 of a GST scam, which became the largest tax fraud in Australian history after it was promoted on the social media platform.$5 billion Google lawsuit over ‘Incognito mode’ tracking moves a step closer to trial - The Verge
Google’s push for a summary judgment in a lawsuit over tracking internet activity even after users activated Chrome’s “Incognito mode” was denied.How hackers at the Def Con conference tried to break AI chatbots
In a Jeopardy-style game at the annual Def Con hacking convention in Las Vegas, hackers tried to get chatbots from OpenAI, Google and Meta to create misinformation and share harmful content.
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