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Awful AI – a curated list of the current scary usages of AI

Awful AI is a curated list to track current scary usages of AI – hoping to raise awareness to its misuses in society

Artificial intelligence in its current state is unfair, easily susceptible to attacks and notoriously difficult to control. Nevertheless, more and more concerning the uses of AI technology are appearing in the wild. This list aims to track all of them. We hope that Awful AI can be a platform to spur discussion for the development of possible contestational technology (to fight back!).

It’s great that someone is working on raising awareness!

WordPress Configuration Cheat Sheet

“WordPress Configuration Cheat Sheet” is a collection of about 10 tips for a more secure WordPress configuration file. Obviously, not all of them can always be applied, but it’s a good idea to review your own settings once in a while and to disable unnecessary bits.

HTTP/3 via QUIC

As we are still trying to get the grip with HTTP/2, the world is moving on. Here’s the blog post with some initial details on HTTP/3 and QUIC. Turns out, we moving away from TCP to UDP with encryption.

Here are more details from the CloudFlare blog post.

Let the fear, uncertainty, and doubt begin!

The Illustrated TLS Connection

“The Illustrated TLS Connection” is an interactive guide to the TLS connection, explaining every byte with code, comments, annotations, and more. If you ever wanted to know the details of how this works, I can’t think of a better resource to direct you to. And if you find any issues or can suggest a better explanation, there’s a GitHub repository for you to contribute.

The Land Where PHP Uses eval()

“The Land Where PHP Uses eval()” is an interesting post powered by the study of 2,000 Open Source PHP projects. It details a number of scenarios where developers have used the eval() function and suggests the better ways for most of these. Despite of how dangerous and inefficient the eval() is in PHP, there are still good reasons to use it in some cases. Read the full post to see which are those.