Hackers are hijacking online stores to display modern, realistic-looking fake payment forms to steal credit cards from unsuspecting customers.These payment forms are shown as a modal, HTML content overlayed on top of the main webpage, allowing the user to interact with login forms or notification content without leaving the page. When modals are active, the…
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAHRbFetqII&ab_channel=AdamConover[/embed] So-called “artificial intelligence” is one of the most divisive topics of the year, with even those who understand it in total disagreement about its potential impacts. This week, A.I. reseachers and authors of the famous paper “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots,” Emily Bender and Timnit Gebru, join Adam to discuss what everyone gets…
“Starting on April 25, 2023, Smart Campaigns with Multi-platform will no longer support Twitter,” Microsoft said(opens in a new tab). A similar email has begun to go out to Microsoft Advertising users stating that “Digital Marketing Center (DMC) will no longer support Twitter starting on April 25, 2023.”From that date, users will no longer be…
Mid-March of this year saw the very first EverythingOpen conference, held in Naarm/Melbourne at the Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre. Unfortunately, I had some PhD commitments, and only managed to get there for the conference dinner, but was able to catch up afterwards via the conference videos – and this blog post is a recap…
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro130m-f_yk&ab_channel=AdamConover[/embed] The real risk of A.I. isn’t that some super-intelligent computer is going to take over in the future – it’s that the humans in the tech industry are going to screw the rest of us over right now.
Scientists from Copenhagen Business School conducted an experiment in which 375 participants were asked to differentiate between real and fake social media profiles. The fake accounts were created and maintained by some of the latest AI technology. The ensuing results were eye-opening. Subjects largely could not tell the difference between artificially generated fake Twitter accounts…