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Interested in what happened in the cybersecurity world last week? In this video weâll cover the death of Microsoftâs Internet Explorer, lawsuits against Meta, the way Bluetooth can now be used to track you, and an AI that mightâve become sentient.
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Contents:
00:00 Intro
00:24 R.I.P. Internet Explorer
01:12 Meta sued
02:33 Bluetooth fingerprinting
03:34 Engineer says AI is sentient
05:03 Outro
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Hi, and welcome to our weekly cybersecurity news!
The Internet's favorite punching bag, Internet Explorer, has been retired at the age of 26.
Microsoft pulled support for Internet Explorer on June 15, 2022. It has been a long time coming, of course, as usage of the browser has plummeted in recent years. Microsoft will start prompting those still using the Explorer to switch over to Microsoft Edge.Eventually, Internet Explorer will be permanently disabled as part of a future Windows update. It is truly the end of an era. Rest in peace, Internet Explorer.
Now, onto a company thatâs still alive and kicking. Meta. Last week, Facebookâs parent company, Meta, was slapped with eight different lawsuits for exploiting young people for profit.
The suits claim that the companyâs algorithms contributed to mental health issues like eating disorders, sleeplessness, suicidal thoughts, and actual suicides in younger users.
According to the complaints, excessive time on Facebook and Instagram pose serious mental health risks and Meta misrepresented the safety, utility, and non-addictive properties of its social media platforms.
Because of section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which states that platforms canât be held accountable for the third-party content on their websites, the suits are going after the algorithm itself.
Meta implemented sophisticated algorithms designed to encourage frequent access to the platforms and prolonged exposure to harmful content, said one of the attorneys suing the company.
This is just the latest, but probably not the last time Meta will come under scrutiny. The companyâs platforms have received endless criticism for enabling the spread of fake news and hate speech, unethical data collection, data breaches, dubious advertising practices and much more.
Speaking of living in a surveillance dystopia, it turns out your Bluetooth signal can be fingerprinted and tracked. Usually, you use Bluetooth to connect to your wireless headphones or speakers, or for Covid tracing apps.
But now, researchers from the University of California San Diego found that due to small, unique imperfections in the Bluetooth chips that appear during the manufacturing process, your Bluetooth signal may be unique and can be tracked.
Letâs talk about the future. A Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, claims that an artificial intelligence chatbot, LaMDA, had become sentient. LaMDA is Googleâs system for building chatbots that mimic speech by ingesting trillions of words from the internet.
Lemoine has been placed on leave since the article in The Washington Post came out. Google denies that the AI has become sentient.
Many in the AI community have agreed with Googleâs assessment, claiming that itâs more likely to be a case of anthropomorphizing â assigning human attributes to an inanimate object. And whatâs worse, according to some experts, itâs distracting from real problems plaguing AI right now.
Timnit Gebru, a former Google Ethical AI team co-lead who was fired after a dispute over a paper that covered the ethical risks of large language models like LaMDA, commented on Lemaineâs claims.
She told Wired that the focus on artificial intelligence sentience misses the point. According to Gebru, it prevents us from focusing on existing threats like AI colonialism, false arrests, or an economic model that pays those who label data little while tech executives get rich. It also distracts from genuine concerns about LaMDA, like how it was trained or its propensity to generate toxic text.
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