By Peter Hoskins & Fan Wang BBC News Earlier this week Elon Musk rebranded Twitter to X – another step in his plan to emulate Chinese mega app WeChat. Mr Musk has long said that he wants to transform his social media firm, which he bought last year for $44bn (£34.4bn), into a much larger […]
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By CHRISTINE FERNANDO Updated 6:08 AM CEST, July 29, 2023 CHICAGO (AP) — Leading up to the 2020 election, Facebook ads targeting Latino and Asian American voters described Joe Biden as a communist. A local station claimed a Black Lives Matter co-founder practiced witchcraft. Doctored images showed dogs urinating on Donald Trump campaign posters. None of […]
Google is warning users not to fully trust Bard for reliability. The urgent advice is to reference and validate the answers Bard gives with the Google search engine. Users have found that Bard may give wrong answers or even totally makes up the answers. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66303877 Google what our chatbot tells you… says Google Tom Singleton, […]
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In preparation of the upcoming OSINT Pathfinder XLVI training programme the new training support stuff has arrived! Designed by colleague Marjon van Dijk, we now have the pleasure of offering our students the OSINT carrying bag with the OSINT Intelligence Cycle printed on them! We also have the preprint booklets, pencils and a drinking can […]
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is a integrated, collaborative methodology to retrieve a balanced, representative and validated set of the best possible information from open sources to – after careful scrutinization and analysis – produce actionable intelligence. Intelligence that can be used to support decision makers in managing change. OSINT is used in preparation of peace-keeping […]
Mother ‘used deepfake to frame cheerleading rivals’ – www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56404038 A mother allegedly used explicit deepfake photos and videos to try to get her teenage daughter’s cheerleading rivals kicked off the team. […]
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I saw this on the BBC and thought you should see it: The disinformation tactics used by China – www.bbc.co.uk/news/56364952 * Disclaimer * The BBC is not responsible for the content of this email, and anything written in this email does not necessarily reflect the BBC’s views or opinions. Please note that neither the email […]
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