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Google is using AI to make fake podcasts from your notes
It’s meant to build on NotebookLM’s existing features that help you interact with all your notes, transcripts, and other research documents. The app already uses Google’s Gemini AI model to help summarize your research, and this is sort of like an audio version of that. Google isn’t making things up when it says the AI hosts will “banter” with each…
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Taylor Swift endorses Kamala Harris in response to fake AI Trump endorsement
Taylor Swift said on Tuesday that she plans to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris in November’s presidential election — and that AI-generated images circulating of herself pushed her in part to make her support public. “Recently I was made aware that AI of ‘me’ falsely endorsing Donald Trump’s presidential run was posted to his site. It really conjured up…
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Researchers say a bug let them add fake pilots to rosters used for TSA checks
A pair of security researchers say they discovered a vulnerability in login systems for records that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) uses to verify airline crew members at airport security checkpoints. The bug let anyone with a “basic knowledge of SQL injection” add themselves to airline rosters, potentially letting them breeze through security and into the cockpit of a commercial…
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Fake Palo Alto GlobalProtect used as lure to backdoor enterprises
Threat actors target Middle Eastern organizations with malware disguised as the legitimate Palo Alto GlobalProtect Tool that can steal data and execute remote PowerShell commands to infiltrate internal networks further. Palo Alto GlobalProtect is a legitimate security solution offered by Palo Alto Networks that provides secure VPN access with multi-factor authentication support. Organizations widely use the product to ensure remote employees,…
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AI was responsible for the fake quotes in the Megalopolis trailer
So, all those faked review quotes from the Megalopolis trailer that got pulled last week were apparently AI, after all. Not only that, but the person who was in charge of the materials for the trailer, Eddie Egan, has been removed from the movie’s marketing team. That’s all according to Deadline, which reported on Friday that the AI-ness of it…
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Man sentenced for hacking state registry to fake his own death
A 39-year old man from Somerset, Kentucky, was sentenced to 81 months in federal prison for identity theft and faking his own death in government registry systems. A press release from the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) informs that Jesse Kipf used stolen credentials to access the Hawaii Death Registry System to register himself as a deceased person. The reason…
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New Mad Liberator gang uses fake Windows update screen to hide data theft
A new data extortion group tracked as Mad Liberator is targeting AnyDesk users and runs a fake Microsoft Windows update screen to distract while exfiltrating data from the target device. The operation emerged in July and although researchers observing the activity did not seen any incidents involving data encryption, the gang notes on their data leak site that they use AES/RSA…
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Fake X content warnings on Ukraine war, earthquakes used as clickbait
X has always had a bot problem, but now scammers are utilizing the Ukraine war and earthquake warnings in Japan to entice users into clicking on fake content warnings and videos that lead to scam adult sites, malicious browser extensions, and shady affiliate sites. For months, X has been flooded with posts that contain what appears at first glance to…
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