Shared Links (weekly) April 21, 2024
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Linked – Facebook seeks patent on tech that turns on your smartphone microphone
Doesn’t sound creepy at all, does it? “The application, first reported by Metro, was published on June 14 and lays out how Facebook might remotely turn on your phone’s mic to start recording. Essentially, Facebook would embed high-pitched audio signals in “broadcast content” (think TV ads) that would be inaudible to humans. But whereas our…
Linked: Fake audio like email phishing is ‘threat waiting to happen’
So now we need to be wary of phone calls too? Well, yeah. ““It’s on the rise, and something to watch out for,” says Vijay Balasubramaniyan, the CEO of Pindrop, a company that offers biometric authentication for enterprise. Balasubramaniyan demonstrated during a security conference how easy it is to take audio from the internet and use…
Linked – IBM’s machine argues, pretty convincingly, with humans
Lawyers, take note – “While the humans had better delivery, the group agreed, the machine offered greater substance in its arguments. That, IBM said, spoke to the heart of its goal: augmenting human beings to make decisions quickly and with more data than ever before.” In front of a jury, the human lawyer has the…
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