René Mayrhofer @rene_mobile@mastodon.technology

RT @matthew_d_green
So I wrote this previous thread in a hurry and didn’t take time to spell out what it means, and what the background is. So let me try again. https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1423071186616000513

RT @matthew_d_green
These images are from an investigation using much simpler hash function than the new one Apple’s developing. They show how machine learning can be used to find such collisions. https://towardsdatascience.com/black-box-attacks-on-perceptual-image-hashes-with-gans-cc1be11f277

RT @matthew_d_green
But even if you believe Apple won’t allow these tools to be misused 🤞there’s still a lot to be concerned about. These systems rely on a database of “problematic media hashes” that you, as a consumer, can’t review.

RT @matthew_d_green
I’ve had independent confirmation from multiple people that Apple is releasing a client-side tool for CSAM scanning tomorrow. This is a really bad idea.

RT @jeffvanderstoep
This is a great write-up of yet-another security vulnerability in the kernel’s eBPF verifier. I’d like to describe why this (NIST rated) high-severity kernel vulnerability receives Android’s lowest severity rating of “Negligible Security Impact”.

1/9 https://twitter.com/chompie1337/status/1420800888273244162

RT @MishaalRahman
The Car Connectivity Consortium's website for digital key pairing is now live (it was a parked domain until now): https://digitalkeypairing.org/

Google Play Services connects here to pair your phone with your car for unlocking. This feature requires Android 12: https://www.xda-developers.com/android-12-car-unlock-key/

RT @DaveKSecure
Pixel 6 w/ Tensor - awesome security HW innovation w/ Titan and biometrics, and there's SO much more...coming soon https://twitter.com/sundarpichai/status/1422228336533676035

RT @GretaThunberg
Wildfires, floods, droughts, heatwaves and other (un)natural disasters rage all over the world.
Many now ask "What will it take for people in power to act?".

Well, it will many things, but above all it will take: massive pressure from media and massive pressure from the public.

RT @sundarpichai
So excited to share our new custom Google Tensor chip, which has been 4 yrs in the making (📎 for scale)! Tensor builds off of our 2 decades of computing experience and it’s our biggest innovation in Pixel to date. Will be on Pixel 6 + Pixel 6 Pro in fall. https://blog.google/products/pixel/google-tensor-debuts-new-pixel-6-fall/

RT @random_walker
Can machine learning outperform baseline logistic regression for predicting complex social phenomena? Many prominent papers have claimed highly accurate civil war prediction. In a systematic review, @sayashk and I find these claims invalid due to errors. https://reproducible.cs.princeton.edu/

RT @joshspero
“some AIs were found to be picking up on the text font that certain hospitals used to label the scans. As a result, fonts from hospitals with more serious caseloads became predictors of covid risk” 😬 https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/07/30/1030329/machine-learning-ai-failed-covid-hospital-diagnosis-pandemic/

RT @RadioFreeTom
“Remote work empowers those who produce and disempowers those who have succeeded by being excellent diplomats and poor workers.” - @edzitron
I have been banging this gong at my office for years, much to the annoyance of my “I was at my desk“ colleagues.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/07/work-from-home-benefits/619597/

RT @theintercept
The Intercept's security team looks at the different ways Pegasus can potentially infect phones — its various “agent installation vectors,” in the brochure’s own vernacular — and how to defend against each one. https://interc.pt/2WwvTav

RT @claucece
For anyone that missed it, the anonymous credentials meeting 2 colocated with @PET_Symposium is recorded here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQG0Ky9wPso with the presentations of @TjerandSilde @alxdavids, Nirvan Tyagi. Slides will be posted over: https://sofiaceli.com/Anonymous-Credentials-Meeting/

RT @epicenter_works
Österreich soll „Europas Hub der Pharma & Medizintechnikforschung & -Kommerzialisierung“ werden 🙄. Unsere sensibelsten Gesundheitsdaten aus ELGA möchte Ministerin Schramböck nicht nur der Wissenschaft, sondern auch der Wirtschaft zugänglich machen. https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000128521604/elga-daten-fuer-die-wirtschaft-neues-projekt-lotet-moeglichkeiten-aus /1