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  • Wired: China’s Surveillance State Is Selling Citizen Data as a Side Hustle

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/chineses-surveillance-state-is-selling-citizens-data-as-a-side-hustle/ Source: Wired Title: China’s Surveillance State Is Selling Citizen Data as a Side Hustle Feedly Summary: Chinese black market operators are openly recruiting government agency insiders, paying them for access to surveillance data and then reselling it online—no questions asked. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the alarming phenomenon…

  • The Register: Now Online Safety Act is law, UK has ‘priorities’ – but still won’t explain ‘spy clause’

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/21/online_safety_act/ Source: The Register Title: Now Online Safety Act is law, UK has ‘priorities’ – but still won’t explain ‘spy clause’ Feedly Summary: Draft doc struggles to describe how theoretically encryption-busting powers might be used The UK government has set out plans detailing how it will use the new law it has created…

  • The Register: AI hiring bias? Men with Anglo-Saxon names score lower in tech interviews

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/21/ai_hiring_test_bias/ Source: The Register Title: AI hiring bias? Men with Anglo-Saxon names score lower in tech interviews Feedly Summary: Study suggests hiding every Tom, Dick, and Harry’s personal info from HR bots In mock interviews for software engineering jobs, recent AI models that evaluated responses rated men less favorably – particularly those with…

  • Hacker News: Why one would use Qubes OS? (2023)

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    Source URL: https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-06-17-qubes-os-why.html Source: Hacker News Title: Why one would use Qubes OS? (2023) Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** Qubes OS offers a unique take on security and privacy through a compartmentalization paradigm that leverages virtualization. Its design allows users to create isolated environments (qubes) for different tasks, enhancing security by…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: A warning about tiktoken, BPE, and OpenAI models

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/21/a-warning-about-tiktoken/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: A warning about tiktoken, BPE, and OpenAI models Feedly Summary: A warning about tiktoken, BPE, and OpenAI models Tom MacWright warns that OpenAI’s tiktoken Python library has a surprising performance profile: it’s superlinear with the length of input, meaning someone could potentially denial-of-service you by sending you…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: TextSynth Server

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/21/textsynth-server/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: TextSynth Server Feedly Summary: TextSynth Server I’d missed this: Fabrice Bellard (yes, that Fabrice Bellard) has a project called TextSynth Server which he describes like this: ts_server is a web server proposing a REST API to large language models. They can be used for example for text…

  • Slashdot: Inside the Booming ‘AI Pimping’ Industry

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/11/21/0117253/inside-the-booming-ai-pimping-industry?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Inside the Booming ‘AI Pimping’ Industry Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the rise of AI-generated influencers on Instagram, highlighting how these accounts are negatively impacting real content creators by monetizing stolen videos and images. This trend demonstrates a shift in social media dynamics,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Steven Johnson

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/21/steven-johnson/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Steven Johnson Feedly Summary: When we started working on what became NotebookLM in the summer of 2022, we could fit about 1,500 words in the context window. Now we can fit up to 1.5 million words. (And using various other tricks, effectively fit 25 million words.)…

  • The Register: Five Scattered Spider suspects indicted for phishing spree and crypto heists

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/21/scattered_spider_suspects/ Source: The Register Title: Five Scattered Spider suspects indicted for phishing spree and crypto heists Feedly Summary: DoJ also shutters allleged crimeware and credit card mart PopeyeTools The US Department of Justice has issued an indictment that names five people accused of stealing millions in cryptocurrency – and we are told they…

  • OpenAI : Building smarter maps with GPT-4o vision fine-tuning

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    Source URL: https://openai.com/index/grab Source: OpenAI Title: Building smarter maps with GPT-4o vision fine-tuning Feedly Summary: Building smarter maps with GPT-4o vision fine-tuning AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the integration and enhancement of mapping systems through the use of GPT-4 technology, particularly focusing on fine-tuning its vision capabilities. This is especially relevant…