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Russia’s army of online trolls seemed powerful after claims they may have helped Donald Trump win the presidency in 2016. But nearly eight years later, that troll army is struggling in the trenches of Russia’s war on Ukraine as it tries — and fails — to trick the world into buying the Kremlin’s talking points about the invasion. That’s the conclusion of a new report by Facebook parent company Meta released on Wednesday. The Meta researchers say that over the past few years, they’ve seen “a consistent decline in the…

ByteDance-owned social media platform TikTok said on Wednesday it will ramp up its fight against fake news and covert influence operations in the run-up to European Parliament elections in June with a local language app in all 27 countries.Tiktok said the individual local language "election centres" build on work it first started in 2021, which accelerated last year when Greece, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia and Spain went to the polls.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering…

'CyberGuy': The spy in the sky Kurt Knutsson introduces you to the Evolution Eagle, a stealthy and versatile drone that can fly like a real bird of prey and protect the sky from various threats. Imagine you are walking down the street, and looking up only to see a majestic eagle soaring in the sky. You admire its beauty and grace, although what if you are actually looking at a spy in disguise? That's right, the eagle you see may not actually be a real bird after all, but a stealthy bird drone that can perform covert…

Financial Times: An in-depth look at a covert Russian operation to get dual-use specialist microchips, which are protected by EU export controls, into the hands of the state — A rare look inside a covert Russian-led operation to get strategic technology protected by European export controls into the hands of the state Financial Times: An in-depth look at a covert Russian operation to get dual-use specialist microchips, which are protected by EU export controls, into the hands of the state …

Too Long; Didn't ReadUnlock the power of Kali Linux on Docker networks by adding a GUI back to the container. Level up information gathering with anonymized web scraping powered by Python, Selenium, and Tor Browser. In Part 2 of this series, everything in the containers will be put to the test. Too Long; Didn't ReadUnlock the power of Kali Linux on Docker networks by adding a GUI back to the container. Level up information gathering with anonymized web scraping powered by Python, Selenium, and Tor Browser. In Part 2 of…

The news: Meta is going all in on open-source AI. The company has unveiled LLaMA 2, its first large language model that’s available for anyone to use—for free. It’s also releasing a version of the AI model that people can build into ChatGPT-style chatbots. Why it matters: The idea is that by releasing the model into the wild and letting developers and companies tinker with it, Meta will learn important lessons about how to make its models safer, less biased, and more efficient.But… Many caveats still remain. Meta is not…

By Kat J. McAlpine, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences July 5, 2023Harvard researchers have developed techniques to control “points of darkness” in light using metasurfaces, opening up new possibilities in fields like remote sensing, precision measurement, and covert detection. The team created precise dark spots that can capture atoms or act as measurement points for imaging, and developed resilient “polarization singularities,” stable dark spots in polarized optical fields. This is a…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New research indicates the scale of online hate speech may be worse than previously feared due to the implicit ways that some content is phrased. The study, led by Dr. Vahid Parvaresh of Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), found that the majority of posts which meet the description of hateful content…

Friday afternoons growing up meant a trip to the video store. It was an utter thrill, like a little weekly Christmas, where my mom would turn my sister and me loose among the laminated, empty VHS boxes to pick out something to rent for the weekend. And as a rare treat, she would sometimes relent to our whining and let us take home the Holy Grail of rentals: a Sega console. A teenage Video Update employee would retrieve it for us and make sure that the controllers and cords were all accounted for in a massive,…

Many small camper vans are built to double as everyday three-row MPVs complete with seven or eight seats. Typically such camper vans require removing or installing seats and other equipment when switching between camping and daily driving modes. A new Toyota HiAce camper van from Japanese aftermarket parts and conversion shop UI Vehicle makes it even easier, switching modes in seconds without the need to remove or install a single piece of equipment. It's both a full-time camper van and a full-time passenger van, with…