The advances in text-to-video models are staggering. With several elections coming up this year and next, it gives a glimpse of the implications for media and social media and how easy it could be to produce very real looking fake news to influence political discussions.
The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) informs about a wave of DDoS attacks against websites of mainly airports as well as from the financial sector and the government, which happened last week. Post of BSI on LinkedIn
First highspeed train (ICE = Intercity Express) on the new track between Stuttgart and Ulm. Erster ICE auf der Neubaustrecke Wendlingen–Ulm
A Military-Type Explosive Sent Via USB Drive (gbhackers.com) ⚡ So far, USB-Killer devices were used by attackers (or pentesters) to disable or destroy devices with USB interfaces by discharging a high power electrical shock into the data lines of the USB port. ❗ If you find a USB stick somewhere: Do not plug it into…
📸 How good are you at recognising AI-generated people? ❓ Would you be sceptical if the person tried to connect with you on LinkedIn, for example? You can test yourself on these two sites: 🌐 Which Face Is Real?🌐 thispersondoesnotexist.com
Are the bad guys using AI? They might! AI tools like ChatGPT or DALL-E-2 are currently widely tested out on the internet – both for the good as well as for the bad. From my point of view, we are at the very beginning of an interesting development, which will unfold over the next couple…