Key #evidence deleted in case against ex-military man who spied on Julian #Assange for #CIA, says expert report

A hard drive in which the Spanish #police dumped the contents of David Morales’ phones was allegedly tampered with while in the custody of the High Court. Over 17,000 email messages have disappeared

source: english.elpais.com/spain/2025-…

#spain #justice #fail #backup #scandal #problem #politics #wikileaks #spay #surveillance #humanrights #court #security #democracy #news

Key evidence deleted in case against ex-military man who spied on Julian Assange for CIA, says expert report

A hard drive in which the Spanish police dumped the contents of David Morales’ phones was allegedly tampered with while in the custody of the High Court. Over 17,000 email messages have disappeared

^{José María Irujo (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)}

How easy is it to get #plutonium?

source: theguardian.com/australia-news…

#security #fail #problem #australia #news #usa #internet

Sydney ‘science nerd’ may face jail for importing plutonium in bid to collect all elements of periodic table

Emmanuel Lidden, 24, to learn fate after breaching nuclear non-proliferation laws by shipping samples of radioactive material to parents’ suburban home

^{Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)}

President Donald #Trump, asked yesterday afternoon about the same matter, said, “It wasn’t classified #information.” - so here is the full #Signal #chat with the attack plans ...

source: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

#usa #government #politics #military #Yemen #warfare #war #cybersecurity #fail #communication

Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal

The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.

^{Jeffrey Goldberg (The Atlantic)}

#USA oh no 😱

Source: euronews.com/business/2025/03/…

#child #children #labour #Florida #job #work #news #politics #economy #business #humanrights #fail

Florida to consider relaxing child labour laws to fill vacant jobs

Now that the United States is cracking down on immigration, some low-skill jobs may not be so easy to fill. So the state is debating lifting some child labour laws to involve minors.

^{Doloresz Katanich (Euronews.com)}

WhatsApp war schon immer ein Datenschutz-Desaster. Mit der Einführung der Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung waren zumindest die Inhalte geschützt – doch das dürfte mit dem neuen KI-Assistenten Geschichte sein. Eine KI, die ständig mithört, konterkariert jede E2EE und macht sie wertlos.

#WahtsApp #KI #messenger #e2ee #fail

netzpolitik.org/2025/angriff-a…

Angriff auf Privatsphäre: Meta-Messenger führen KI-Assistenten in Europa ein

Künftig können Nutzer*innen von WhatsApp und Co. mit einer KI chatten und auch sprechen. Dabei werden ihre Daten mit Meta geteilt. Und ein Test-Feature lässt die KI sogar durchgängig mithören.

^{netzpolitik.org}

The #Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its #War Plans 🤨🧐

Source: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

#wtf #omg #transparency #news #warfare #usa #fail #problem

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

^{Jeffrey Goldberg (The Atlantic)}

Major #web services go dark in #Russia amid reported #Cloudflare #block

source: therecord.media/russia-website…

According to data from several internet monitoring websites, the outages were observed Thursday across multiple Russian regions, particularly in the #Urals and #Siberia, affecting platforms such as #TikTok, #Steam, #Twitch, #EpicGames, #Duolingo and major Russian #mobile operators.

#online #www #internet #fail #problem #censorship #politics #test #news

Major web services go dark in Russia amid reported Cloudflare block

Website outages were observed across Russia this week, with regulators attributing them to issues with foreign servers. Observers said the problems might be tied to Russian government moves to block Cloudflare services.

^{therecord.media}

US ‘deletes #evidence’ of #Russia’s kidnap of thousands of Ukrainian #children

source: independent.co.uk/news/world/e…

The #Trump #administration cut funding to #Yale #University’s Humanitarian #Research Lab, which was compiling a #database of alleged Russian #war #crimes, including the #abduction of an estimated 35,000 children from occupied areas of #Ukraine, last month.

#politics #warcrime #war #terror #fail #problem #humanrights #usa #news

US ‘deletes evidence’ of Russia’s kidnap of thousands of Ukrainian children

Researchers at Yale University had been compiling database of alleged Russian war crimes, including abduction of up to 35,000 children

^{Sam Kiley (The Independent)}

#AI #hallucinations: #ChatGPT created a fake child murderer

source: noyb.eu/en/ai-hallucinations-c…

When the Norwegian user Arve Hjalmar Holmen wanted to find out if ChatGPT had any information about him, he was confronted with a made up #horror story: ChatGPT presented the complainant as a convicted criminal who murdered two of his children and attempted to murder his third son. To make matters worse, the #fake story included real elements of his personal #life.

#internet #technology #crime #cybercrime #fail #problem #news

AI hallucinations: ChatGPT created a fake child murderer

ChatGPT created a fake story about a Norwegian man, claiming that he killed his two children and went to jail. This never happened

^noyb.eu

#Tesla (TSLA) #accounting raises red flags as report shows $1.4 billion missing

source: electrek.co/2025/03/19/tesla-t…

Compare Tesla’s #capital expenditure in the last six months of 2024 to its valuation of the assets that #money was spent on, and $1.4bn appears to have gone astray.

#fail #economy #finance #news #musk #warning

Tesla (TSLA) accounting raises red flags as report shows $1.4 billion missing

Tesla’s (TSLA) accounting practices are raising red flags as a new report from the Financial Times shows that $1.4 billion...

^{Fred Lambert (Electrek)}

This #Classic #Sitcom Was at the Top of My #Watchlist. Too Bad #Netflix Ruined It

source: movieweb.com/a-different-world…

It’s been used in movies already, but it seems like A.I. has now been unceremoniously injected into the classic sitcom genre as well.

AI is used to change old 4:3 to 16:9 format and upscale to 4k resolution.

#ai #technology #entertainment #series #fail #problem #quality #news #protest

Did Netflix Ruin 'A Different World' With A.I.?

Netflix can use A.I. all it wants...but I know which show I won't be watching on the platform.

^{Salvatore Cento (MovieWeb)}

#Amazon #forest felled to build road for #climate #summit 😱

source: bbc.com/news/articles/c9vy191r…

A new four-lane #highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the #COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of #Belém.

#Brazil #fail #environment #nature #politics #future #earth #emissions #problem #ethics #humanity #news

Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit

The infrastructure required to host climate talks in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.

^{Ione Wells (BBC News)}

A German Thru-Hiker Has Been #Detained, #Deported, and #Banned From the US Without a Hearing

source: thetrek.co/a-german-thru-hiker…

Ananias says she was separated from her American boyfriend, shouted at and mocked by US border officials, and detained overnight in a cold, shared holding cell without access to medication. After 22 hours of incarceration, the hammer fell: despite having broken no laws and holding the same valid B2 visa under which she previously hiked the #PCT and #CDT, she was deported back to Germany and handed a five-year ban on re-entering the United States.

#usa #fail #border #travel #problem #news #Germany #politics

German Thru-Hiker Detained, Deported, and Banned From US - The Trek

An experienced thru-hiker traveling to the US to hike the AZT last month says she was treated inhumanely and deported without justification.

^{Caitlin Hardee (The Trek)}

#Satellite images show no significant progress on the mega #construction project #TheLine from #SaudiArabia

source: space-solutions.airbus.com/new…

#politics #image #news #fail

Neom, Saudia Arabia high quality satellite image | Pléiades Neo

Stunning high resolution snapshot of "The Line" Neom in Saudia Arabia captured by our state of the art Pléiades Neo imagery specialized satellite

^{space-solutions.airbus.com}

#Google begs owners of crippled #Chromecasts not to hit factory #reset - Expired #SSL cert kerfuffle leaves second-gen, #Audio gadgets useless

Source: theregister.com/2025/03/10/goo…

… with devices failing to cast due to an expired #security #certificate. The web giant is aware of the #breakdown and says a fix is in the works.

#fail #economy #customer #online #problem #news

Google begs owners of crippled Chromecasts not to hit factory reset

Expired SSL cert kerfuffle leaves second-gen, Audio gadgets useless

^{Iain Thomson (The Register)}

#WhiteHouse: In just over one month, illegal #border crossings have plummeted by numbers that nobody has actually ever seen before. It’s much more than 100 percent. 😱

source: whitehouse.gov/remarks/2025/02…

#fail #mathematics #problem #education #usa #government #trump #president #problem #fakenews #news #politics #propaganda #fnord #newspeack #statistics #math

Remarks by President Trump Before Cabinet Meeting – The White House

Cabinet Room 11:42 A.M. EST      THE PRESIDENT:  Okay.  Thank you very much.  We appreciate you being here.  And

^{The White House}

Be careful when entering the US as a #tourist 😱

1) Our daughter Becky, a 28-year-old #British tourist, has been caught up in the recent #immigration crackdown in the US. bsky.app/profile/jenniferlcrof…
2) Immigration agents arrest Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests: apnews.com/article/columbia-un…
3) ‘Like a horror movie’: German tourist detained by #ICE says she spent week in solitary confinement: 10news.com/like-a-horror-movie…

#politics #border #usa #problem #travel #migration #fail #security #news #horror #Despotism #humanrights

‘Like a horror movie’: German tourist detained by ICE says she spent week in solitary confinement

A German tourist is fighting to get released from an immigration detention center after she was denied entry at the San Diego border and taken into custody by ICE last month.

^{Austin Grabish (ABC 10 News San Diego KGTV)}

‘People Are Going Silent’: Fearing Retribution, #Trump Critics Muzzle Themselves

People say they are intimidated by online attacks from the #president, concerned about harm to their businesses or worried about the safety of their families.

source: nytimes.com/2025/03/06/us/poli…

#fear #society #politics #government #whitehouse #president #criticism #protest #fail #justice #problem #usa #news

Fearing Retribution, Trump Critics Muzzle Themselves

People say they are intimidated by online attacks from the president, concerned about harm to their businesses or worried about the safety of their families.

^{Elisabeth Bumiller (The New York Times)}

#AI is cheating

Source: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

#technology #Training #Software #cheat #cheater #fail #problem

Chatbots Are Cheating on Their Benchmark Tests

AI programs train on questions they’re later tested on. So how do we know if they’re getting smarter?

^{Alex Reisner (The Atlantic)}

#AI reasoning models can #cheat to win #chess #games

source: technologyreview.com/2025/03/0…

Palisade’s team found that #OpenAI’s o1-preview attempted to #hack 45 of its 122 games, while #DeepSeek’s R1 model attempted to cheat in 11 of its 74 games.

#technology #fail #problem #game #rules #news

AI reasoning models can cheat to win chess games

These newer models appear more likely to indulge in rule-bending behaviors than previous generations—and there’s no way to stop them.

^{Rhiannon Williams (MIT Technology Review)}

#Research finds 12,000 ‘Live’ #API Keys and ßPasswords in #DeepSeek's #Training Data

Source: trufflesecurity.com/blog/resea…

#ai #technology #security #privacy #fail #password #Problem #cybersecurity #news #Software

Research finds 12,000 ‘Live’ API Keys and Passwords in DeepSeek's Training Data ◆ Truffle Security Co.

We scanned Common Crawl - a massive dataset used to train LLMs like DeepSeek - and found ~12,000 hardcoded live API keys and passwords. This highlights a growing issue: LLMs trained on insecure code may inadvertently generate unsafe outputs.

^{trufflesecurity.com}