See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

KREUZADER

progress shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future

cyberpunk 2020

nmpositive

hideo kojima cyberpunk

China flight systems jammed by pig farm’s African swine fever defences
A Chinese pig farm’s attempt to ward off drones – said to be spreading African swine fever – jammed the navigation systems of a number of planes flying overhead.
The farm, in... — China flight systems jammed by pig farm’s African swine fever defences
*A Chinese pig farm’s attempt to ward off drones – said to be spreading African swine fever – jammed the navigation systems of a number of planes flying overhead.*
The farm, in northeastern China, was ordered last month to turn in an unauthorised anti-drone device installed to prevent criminal gangs dropping items infected with the disease, according to online news portal Thepaper.cn.
The device came to light after a series of flights to and from Harbin airport complained about losing GPS signals while flying over Zhaozhou county in Heilongjiang in late October. In some cases, the ADS-B tracking technology – which determines an aircraft’s position via satellite navigation – failed.

Source: scmp.com

cyberpunk

The not-so-simple science of social media ‘bots’
So, let’s get some definitions out of the way. In phraseology perhaps more fitting for a sci-fi fantasy blockbuster, automation expert Stefano Cresci talks in terms of bots, trolls and cyborgs. Bots... — The not-so-simple science of social media ‘bots’
So, let’s get some definitions out of the way. In phraseology perhaps more fitting for a sci-fi fantasy blockbuster, automation expert Stefano Cresci talks in terms of bots, trolls and cyborgs. Bots are fully-automated accounts running purely on code, whereas trolls are accounts run by people who often hide their real identity and motives to stir up discord or division. And cyborgs?
“[They] are hybrid accounts that feature some level of automation but also there’s the intervention of humans,” explained Cresci, a researcher at the Institute of Informatics and Telematics at the Italian National Research Council in Pisa. Where bots are pretty cheap to run, cyborgs and troll accounts “require much more effort and I think much more money because you have to pay humans for operating the accounts.”
The delineation should be simple but, as the technology and strategy behind automated and co-ordinated information campaigns has evolved, it has become harder to tell the difference between the three.

Source: firstdraftnews.org

internet cyberpunk

Massive Hack Strikes Offshore Cayman National Bank and Trust
Isle of Man, UK – A blast of sunshine has hit a secretive banking network used by global ultra-wealthy figures following a massive hack by “Phineas Fisher“, a notorious self-described... — Massive Hack Strikes Offshore Cayman National Bank and Trust
Isle of Man, UK – A blast of sunshine has hit a secretive banking network used by global ultra-wealthy figures following a massive hack by “Phineas Fisher“, a notorious self-described “hacktivist”, of Cayman National Bank and Trust, which serves nearly 1,500 accounts in Isle of Man. Transparency collective Distributed Denial of Secrets has began publishing copies of the bank’s servers, a cache of documents as well as communications among bankers and others. Journalists around the world have been investigating the data for months and have begun publishing the first of their stories.
Following the hack, a manifesto was uploaded to the Internet addressing the motivation for hacking financial services companies. Unicorn Riot has embeded the manifesto below which includes previously unpublished code which the author claims was used to break into “Hacking Team” an Italian surveillance company. Hacking Team was an elite corporation that specialized in developing malware until Phineas Fisher hacked them and published their code online. The malware developed by Hacking Team was often used to attack journalists and activists on behalf of repressive governments .

Source: unicornriot.ninja

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sporequeen

lizardywizard

But now I’m wondering how all these facial recognition algorithms we’re coming up with now are going to take to the Bright New Transhumanist Future

Like, okay, we know Google can recognise dogs. But what about stranger things? Is anyone training these things on lizards?

Imagine basilisks specifically designed to crash these algorithms: abstract-blocks-of-black-and-white-for-heads that, like the QR codes of old, carry a hidden message in their patterning, only it’s a payload, a virus that shreds the system of anyone who tries to capture it on camera, the natural evolution of anti-face-detection camouflage. Imagine things that don’t even have faces, that don’t have an equivalent and easily-cataloguable part; people who deliberately wear mass-produced, identical android bodies, the Guy Fawkes masks of the future.