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- www.bbc.com Mark Zuckerberg: Threads users down by more than a half
The rival to Twitter saw explosive growth but users have since drifted away, Meta boss acknowledges.
- edsource.org California moves to silence Stanford researchers who got state data to study education issues
At issue is whether researchers can analyze nonpublic California student data and also testify against the state in related and even unrelated cases.
- www.technologyreview.com Cryptography may offer a solution to the massive AI-labeling problem
An internet protocol called C2PA adds a “nutrition label” to images, video, and audio.
- arstechnica.com Did Facebook fuel political polarization during the 2020 election? It’s complicated.
There's strong ideological segregation, but proposed interventions didn't change attitudes.
- torrentfreak.com Sci-Hub's Alexandra Elbakyan Receives EFF Award for Providing Access to Scientific Knowledge * TorrentFreak
The EFF will award Alexandra Elbakyan, founder of 'pirate' library Sci-Hub, for her efforts to provide access to scientific knowledge.
- www.engadget.com Tor’s shadowy reputation will only end if we all use it | Engadget
The Onion Router, now called Tor, is a privacy-focused web browser run by a nonprofit group.
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The Cryptographer Who Ensures We Can Trust Our Computers
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- www.lesswrong.com Neuronpedia - AI Safety Game — LessWrong
Neuronpedia is an AI safety game that documents and explains each neuron in modern AI models. It aims to be the Wikipedia for neurons, where the cont…
- www.eff.org The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide
The U.K. Parliament is pushing ahead with a sprawling internet regulation bill that will, among other things, undermine the privacy of people around the world. The Online Safety Bill, now at the final stage before passage in the House of Lords, gives the British government the ability to force...
- www.technologyreview.com This new tool could protect your pictures from AI manipulation
PhotoGuard, created by researchers at MIT, alters photos in ways that are imperceptible to us but stops AI systems from tinkering with them.
- easydns.com UK Version of "Online Harms Bill" wants to prefilter content without due process
The UK's Online Harms bill seeks to regulate content before it ever gets uploaded.
- www.sematic.dev Tuning and Testing Llama 2, FLAN-T5, and GPT-J with LoRA, Sematic, and Gradio
Fine-tune FLAN-T5 and GPT-J with Sematic and serve them with Gradio. Read our in-depth article.
- www.theguardian.com UFO hearings: whistleblower David Grusch says ‘non-human biologics’ found at alleged crash sites – as it happened
Former intelligence official says information came from multiple colleagues but couldn’t ‘go into specifics’ at Congressional hearing into cover-up claims
- torrentfreak.com Quad9 Blocks Pirate Site Globally After Sony Demanded €10,000 Fine * TorrentFreak
Following another setback in its legal dispute with Sony Music, Quad9 has decided to block pirate site Canna worldwide.
- danielmiessler.com Using Reflections to Compress LLM Context Data
One way to turn gigabytes of data into a few Kilobytes of LLM context
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Apple already shipped attestation on the web(DRM), and we barely noticed
httptoolkit.com Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticedThere's been a lot of concern recently about the Web Environment Integrity proposal, developed by a selection of authors from Google, and…
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Autoenshittification - How the computer killed capitalism.
Forget F1: the only car race that matters now is the race to turn your car into a digital extraction machine, a high-speed inkjet printer on wheels, stealing your private data as it picks your pocket.
The car manufacturers got so desperate for chips that they started buying up washing machines for the microchips in them, extracting the chips and discarding the washing machines like some absurdo-dystopian cyberpunk walnut-shelling machine:
- www.eff.org FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users
We’re in an exciting time for users who want to take back control from major platforms like Twitter and Facebook. However, this new environment comes with challenges and risks for user privacy, so we need to get it right and make sure networks like the Fediverse and Bluesky are mindful of past...
- matt-rickard.com Black Swan Theory
Black swan theory is an idea proposed by Nassim Nicolas Taleb that refers to unlikely, unpredictable events that have massive impact and are often incorrectly rationalized in hindsight. Black Swan events have the following three attributes: * Outlier — an event that is extremely rare and lies out...
- stackdiary.com Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible
In recent news, Google has put forth a proposal known as the "Web Environment Integrity Explainer", authored by four of its engineers. On the surface, it
- thehackernews.com Rust-based Realst Infostealer Targeting Apple macOS Users' Cryptocurrency Wallets
A new malware family called Realst is targeting Apple macOS systems, including macOS 14 Sonoma! Written in Rust programming language.
- github.com GitHub - expo/expo: An open-source platform for making universal native apps with React. Expo runs on Android, iOS, and the web.
An open-source platform for making universal native apps with React. Expo runs on Android, iOS, and the web. - GitHub - expo/expo: An open-source platform for making universal native apps with Reac...
- bitfieldconsulting.com Best Go books for 2023 — Bitfield Consulting
What are the best Go books for 2023? Read my (relatively) unbiased recommendations for the Go books you should absolutely buy and read right now, whether you’re a beginner or expert Gopher.
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Bookwyrm - Decentralized network to discover and track your book read
joinbookwyrm.com Join BookwyrmBookWyrm is a decentralized social network for tracking your reading, talking about books, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next.
BookWyrm is a social network for tracking your reading, talking about books, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next. Federation allows BookWyrm users to join small, trusted communities that can connect with one another, and with other ActivityPub services like Mastodon and Pleroma.
- www.theguardian.com ‘No way out’: how video games use tricks from gambling to attract big spenders
Controversy over tactics used by some firms to target players who are on track to spend high sums
- arstechnica.com Attackers find new ways to deliver DDoSes with “alarming” sophistication
Once crude and unsophisticated, DDoSes are now on par with those by nation-states.
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Why Privacy Matters. Even if you don't have something to hide.
technomagnus.vercel.app Why privacy mattersLet us explore why privacy matters and its significance in our lives.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/1263021
> Fundamental questions arise on whether we truly require privacy. One might question the necessity of privacy, thinking, “Why would someone like me need to hide something? Am I a criminal or a celebrity?”. However, there are genuine reasons why anyone should be entitled to confidentiality, regardless of their status. Privacy is a fundamental right and a matter of personal liberty. As privacy activists assert, it’s about ”liberty versus control”. Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy.
- bytewax.io Data Parallel, Task Parallel, and Agent Actor Architectures – bytewax
Exploring the Landscapes of Data Processing Architectures: Mechanisms, Advantages, Disadvantages, and Best Use Cases.