US officials and their allies identified and destroyed the AI-powered device Russian bot farm It consists of about 1000 accounts. These accounts managed to spread disinformation and pro-Russian sentiment on X, formerly Twitter. The Justice Department said the scheme was made possible by software created by the digital media department at RT, the Russian state-controlled media outlet.
It focused on a tool called Meliorator, which can create “massively authentic-looking social media personas,” creating text messages as well as images, according to a cybersecurity consultancy from the FBI, Dutch intelligence agencies and Canadian cybersecurity agencies. misinformation reflected from other bot personas. For example, an account called Ricardo Abbott, allegedly from Minneapolis, posted a video of Russian President Vladimir Putin justifying Russia’s actions in Ukraine.
The Justice Department is still monitoring and trying to find all 968 accounts used by Russian actors to spread false information. X has shared information with authorities about all identified accounts and has already suspended them.
– Matt Smith
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And what to expect.
Samsung’s next big event starts in a few hours. We’ll be covering all the announcements (and testing the devices), so stay tuned . We expect to see the Galaxy Fold 6 and Galaxy Z Flip 6, but their updates may be minor, as well as Samsung’s newest wearable, the Galaxy Ring. If you want to get some idea of what to expect, you can read about it here.
With not-so-new content from writers who haven’t been there for over a decade.
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) is back online after nearly a decade of shutdown. But the new owners of the once-revered source of Apple news appear to have turned it into an AI-generated content farm. The site, which was shut down in 2015, began publishing “new” articles, many of which are almost identical to the published content. MacRumors and other publications last week. In addition to rudeness, the site also has an author page featuring the names of past writers and AI-generated photos.
Freshmen will only be able to call and text.
Eton College, the elite historic British boarding school with famous alumni Princes William and Harry, Ian Fleming and Tom Hiddleston, introduced a new mobile phone policy for first-year students starting in September. Those students will have to leave their smartphones at home and bring their SIM cards to school to replace an old Nokia cell phone with a simple dial pad that can only make phone calls and send text messages.
