@TechDesk@flipboard.social avatar TechDesk , to random

If you’re thinking of downloading images from the internet to use for your desktop background, think again. Artificial-intelligence agents — touted as AI's next wave — could be vulnerable to malicious code hidden in innocent-looking images on your computer screen. @LiveScience has more:

https://flip.it/kH8zs4

@appassionato@mastodon.social avatar appassionato , to bookstodon group

Virus Hunters by Amy Cherrix, 2024

A propulsive nonfiction look at the elite squads of scientists, doctors, and infectious disease experts who guard the boundary between public health and pandemics and how they gather data via boots on the ground "shoe-leather epidemiology" in order to save lives.

bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group




@thejapantimes@mastodon.social avatar thejapantimes , to random

Artificial intelligence could make it easier and cheaper to create highly lethal biological weapons, potentially costing under $100,000 to develop a pathogen capable of killing millions. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2024/08/04/world/ai-viruses-kill-humanity/

@KeithDJohnson@sfba.social avatar KeithDJohnson , to random

Not but fuck it. I choose not to be dominated by day-, time- or subject-themed programming.😉

Fiery, fierce, and informed, as an EarthMomma ought to be.
@LaNaehForaday

Also fiery & informed, with extra & funny shit.
https://sfba.social/@wonkette_bot

(I seem to be in a fiery mood. Weird friends would say that's because I have "5 planets in fire signs" or some such baloney. I think the times require fervent actors & those are the people I'm drawn to.)
@punklawyer In the midst of actual fiery landscapes.

Another lawyer & prosecutor (thx 4 yr svc) @tristansnell

@Daojoan The DAO Joan Index, vigilant observer of tech + humans + economics

@HamonWry Powerful brevity, deep caring & funny (they go together). Like @AmishSuperModel

@augieray Deep focus on , , & attentive summarizing of our crazy culture.

@gerrymcgovern Ferociously exposes the deadly energy wastes of civilization.

I am grateful for many others. More on them, another time. 💚