Faking Receipts with AI

Over the past few decades, it’s become easier and easier to create fake receipts. Decades ago, it required special paper and printers—I remember a company in the UK advertising its services to people trying to cover up their affairs. Then, receipts became computerized, and faking them required some artistic skills to make the page look realistic.

Now, AI can do it all:

Several receipts shown to the FT by expense management platforms demonstrated the realistic nature of the images, which included wrinkles in paper, detailed itemization that matched real-life menus, and signatures.

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The rise in these more realistic copies has led companies to...

Data Sovereignty in a Privacy First Future

Builders redefining privacy and sovereignty—where control of data, identity, and computation is real.

39C3 — hat hier jemand halfnarp gesagt?

tl;dr: halfnarp.events.ccc.de

In vorfreudiger Erwartung des 39C3 haben die dutzenden Kuratorinnen in den sechs Content-Teams sich in den letzten Wochen mächtig ins Zeug gelegt: Sie haben eingeladen, ausgewertet, angeschrieben, recherchiert, abgeglichen, rote Fäden gebastelt und verworfen, verfeinert und verknotet, Einreichungen sortiert, bewertet, diskutiert. Schließlich konnten sie die 763 eingereichten und eingeladenen Vortrags-Vorschläge auf 164 herunterdestillieren und einen Plan zusammenstellen, von dem wir alle überzeugt sind, dass uns alle auf den Bühnen lehrreiches, unterhaltsames und denkwürdiges Programm erwartet.

Doch nun seid ihr dran: Wir wollen in zwei Wochen aus der noch unsortierten Liste der Vorträge ein komplettes Programm bauen und brauchen dazu wieder...

Rigged Poker Games

The Department of Justice has indicted thirty-one people over the high-tech rigging of high-stakes poker games.

In a typical legitimate poker game, a dealer uses a shuffling machine to shuffle the cards randomly before dealing them to all the players in a particular order. As set forth in the indictment, the rigged games used altered shuffling machines that contained hidden technology allowing the machines to read all the cards in the deck. Because the cards were always dealt in a particular order to the players at the table, the machines could determine which player would have the winning hand....

Scientists Need a Positive Vision for AI

For many in the research community, it’s gotten harder to be optimistic about the impacts of artificial intelligence.

As authoritarianism is rising around the world, AI-generated “slop” is overwhelming legitimate media, while AI-generated deepfakes are spreading misinformation and parroting extremist messages. AI is making warfare more precise and deadly amidst intransigent conflicts. AI companies are exploiting people in the global South who work as data labelers, and profiting from content creators worldwide by using their work without license or compensation. The industry is also affecting an already-roiling climate with its enormous energy demands.

Meanwhile, particularly in the United States, public investment in...

39C3: Call for Assemblies

tl;dr: Registriert eure Assembly ab sofort im Hub, spätestens aber bis Sonntag, den 23. November, 23:42 Uhr (MEZ).

Auch zum 39C3 wird es auf mehreren Flächen und Ebenen des CCH wieder Tische, Stühle und Orte geben, die mit euren Ideen, Themen und Projekten gefüllt werden wollen. Bringt mit, was euch in euren Communities, Hackspaces, Erfas und Chaostreffs beschäftigt und begeistert. Schraubt gemeinsam an Projekten und Ideen, kommt mit Interessierten in Kontakt, lehrt und lernt, zeigt, erkundet und entdeckt Neues – und manchmal Altes.

Frei nach dem diesjährigen Motto Power Cycles wird es dieses Jahr Anpassungen im Assemblies-Bereich geben.

Verteilt auf den gesamten...

Cybercriminals Targeting Payroll Sites

Microsoft is warning of a scam involving online payroll systems. Criminals use social engineering to steal people’s credentials, and then divert direct deposits into accounts that they control. Sometimes they do other things to make it harder for the victim to realize what is happening.

I feel like this kind of thing is happening everywhere, with everything. As we move more of our personal and professional lives online, we enable criminals to subvert the very systems we rely on.

AI Summarization Optimization

These days, the most important meeting attendee isn’t a person: It’s the AI notetaker.

This system assigns action items and determines the importance of what is said. If it becomes necessary to revisit the facts of the meeting, its summary is treated as impartial evidence.

But clever meeting attendees can manipulate this system’s record by speaking more to what the underlying AI weights for summarization and importance than to their colleagues. As a result, you can expect some meeting attendees to use language more likely to be captured in summaries, timing their interventions strategically, repeating key points, and employing formulaic phrasing that...

Daily Guide (jh25)

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