ReHacked vol. 301: How Did the Tradition of New Year's Resolutions Begin, Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles and more
How Did the Tradition of New Year's Resolutions Begin? | The Old Farmer's Almanac #productivity #history
10 Tips for Making Resolutions
- Avoid wording your resolution negatively, such as “quitting” or “stopping” a behavior. For example, say, “I want my nails to grow” instead of “I want to stop biting my nails.” Take a photo of your nails every day and log your progress.
- Set aside time on your calendar to pause and reflect. Love coffee? Sit down during coffee mornings with a journal or notebook and write out your status.
- Keep it simple. Settle on one or two goals. Not a big list.
- Pick a goal you think will make you feel better.
- Define a goal that is specific and measurable. Saying, “I want to be more helpful to others” is vague. But saying, “I am going to help the needy by signing up for the church’s food pantry each month” is specific. Keep track of your progress in a notebook or journal.
- When you think about what you wish to achieve, consider what obstacles could get in your way and see how to remove those barriers.
- Define a goal that is time-bound and realistic.
- Create an incentive. For example, if you want to stop using your phone at dinner, put it in a basket nearby.
- Change up your routine. For example, if you aren’t brushing your teeth long enough, perhaps come up with another task to do while you brush your teeth—such as wiping down the bathroom mirror!
- If you slip up, don’t worry about it. But if you slip again, reconsider your plan.
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Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles | Technology | The Guardian #ai #socialnetworks
Meta is deleting Facebook and Instagram profiles of AI characters the company created over a year ago after users rediscovered some of the profiles and engaged them in conversations, screenshots of which went viral.
The company had first introduced these AI-powered profiles in September 2023 but killed off most of them by summer 2024. However, a few characters remained and garnered new interest after the Meta executive Connor Hayes told the Financial Times late last week that the company had plans to roll out more AI character profiles.
Quinn pioneered a “right-to-be-forgotten” experiment in 2018, motivated by the many inquiries he would receive from subjects describing the harms of past crime coverage and pleading for deletion. “People would say: ‘Your story is wrecking my life. I made a mistake, but … I’ve changed my life.’”
It was long considered taboo in media to retract or alter old stories, particularly when there are no concerns about accuracy. But Quinn said he felt an ethical obligation to rethink those norms. “I couldn’t take it any more … I just got tired of telling people no and standing on tradition instead of being thoughtful.”
The Begining of the End for ANT+ Wireless | DC Rainmaker #technology
First off, no, your ANT+ devices aren’t going to stop working. In fact, companies are not only supporting them going forward, but will continue to make ANT+ devices for some time to come. Instead, ANT+ (or more technically, Garmin), has announced a policy change that effectively and officially ceases the development of new ANT+ standards. Though practically speaking, that mostly happened long ago.
The core reason for this change is the European Union’s Radio Equipment Directive (simply called EU RED), which will ultimately take full effect next summer (it’s currently in a transitional phase). That directive covers a flotilla of different areas, but one of the most applicable pieces is that it requires authentication and encryption for wireless communications of personal information. Or, at the very least, it requires manufacturers to make you aware when data is being transmitted without such protections.
The biggest cybersecurity and cyberattack stories of 2024 #security
2024 was a big year for cybersecurity, with significant cyberattacks, data breaches, new threat groups emerging, and, of course, zero-day vulnerabilities.
Some stories, though, were more impactful or popular with our 31 million readers than others.
Below are fourteen of what BleepingComputer believes are the most impactful cybersecurity stories of 2024, with a summary of each.
An ocean-engineering project will build an undersea habitat - IEEE Spectrum #architecture #engineering #futurism
The future of human habitation in the sea is taking shape in an abandoned quarry on the border of Wales and England. There, the ocean-exploration organization Deep has embarked on a multiyear quest to enable scientists to live on the seafloor at depths up to 200 meters for weeks, months, and possibly even years.
“Aquarius Reef Base in St. Croix was the last installed habitat back in 1987, and there hasn’t been much ground broken in about 40 years,” says Kirk Krack, human diver performance lead at Deep. “We’re trying to bring ocean science and engineering into the 21st century.”
Major new footprint discoveries on Britain’s ‘dinosaur highway’ | University of Oxford #nature
In a stunning find, researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham have uncovered a huge expanse of quarry floor filled with hundreds of different dinosaur footprints, creating multiple enormous trackways. Dating back to the Middle Jurassic Period (around 166 million years ago), the trackways form part of a huge ‘dinosaur highway’ and include footprints from the 9 metre ferocious predator Megalosaurus, and herbivorous dinosaurs up to twice that size.
uBO Quick Filters list being stolen by team behind Honey browser extension (Pie Adblock extension) : uBlockOrigin #copyrights #security
Orbit by Mozilla #software #ai
How extreme car dependency is driving Americans to unhappiness | US news | The Guardian #society #psychology
The United States, with its enormous highways, sprawling suburbs and neglected public transport systems, is one of the most car-dependent countries in the world. But this arrangement of obligatory driving is making many Americans actively unhappy, new research has found.
The car is firmly entrenched as the default, and often only, mode of transport for the vast majority of Americans, with more than nine in 10 households having at least one vehicle and 87% of people using their cars daily. Last year, a record 290m vehicles were operated on US streets and highways.
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