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Two thoughts on the Future of AI Regulation, Part 1: The Secondhand Market and the H100
I used to work for a company called Sun Microsystems. We (“Sunnies”) loved the company, and still do so today – there are ex-employee forums on Facebook which still overflow with tales of company culture and innovation, filled with names that – some of which – are even more famous, today. Sun died in/around 2009,…
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I can call today a major success because…
… I found the missing part of the dinosaur puzzle.
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EU DMA Interoperability: Pundit Predictions | …courtesy of an epic article from WiReD
Interoperability (i14y) is a grift; my guesses: 1) EU privacy activists & legislators will rapidly sue Meta for not doing i14y correctly, i.e. not like they imagined (see below) 2) Several will call it monopolistic & exclusionary for Meta to push adoption of secure encryption via the Signal protocol 3) Zero of the top- or…
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BRILLIANT IDEA: let’s bring about the end of the internet by embedding locally-running LLMs into Web browsers!
I’m having {a, yet another} discussion about software regulation and how it’s an illiberal and misconceived approach to try regulating, export-controlling, or otherwise restricting access to expressive speech any kind of software, even if it is an ostensibly malicious tool, because the concept of dual use which applies to practically everything on the internet. This…
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Britain and France assemble diplomats for international agreement on spyware | I’ve got a bad feeling about this…
Whenever policy wonks get together in such circumstances they inevitably try banning software by the “shape” of it, rather than by the intent of the user. Doing so inevitably leads to stupidity and conflict and illiberal outcomes. https://therecord.media/britain-france-assemble-diplomats-international-agreement
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oss-security – Out-of-bounds read & write in the glibc’s qsort()
“HUGE SECURITY VULNERABILITY” “we have…” “MILLIONS OF PLATFORMS” “we…” “QMAGEDDON!!!1! DECADES OF CYBER RISK!” “we have not tried to find such a vulnerable program in the real world” “CHINA… OH, BUGGER” https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/30/7
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Brianna Ghey’s mother Esther calls for ban on social media apps for under-16s | ITV News
My god, the Conservative party right wing must be utterly drooling at the prospect of keeping teenagers entirely ignorant of political consciousness until they are 16+ https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2024-02-04/brianna-gheys-mum-calls-for-ban-on-social-media-apps-for-under-16s
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The @torproject have launched an unofficial fork of the Enterprise Onion Toolkit… and I’m broadly okay with that, mostly…
Back in 2015 I instigated and led the team which built the Facebook Onionsite, and helped formalise the availability of .onion TLS/HTTPS certificates. I left Facebook in 2016 and after some amusing banter at CCC that year, I got more and more into the idea of an “generic onionising proxy” based around ideas I’d seen…
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Who is Dusty Deevers? Lawmaker Wants to Make Viewing Porn a Crime | Rolling Stone
I fear that the word is theocracy? https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/dusty-deevers-lawmaker-jail-people-watching-porn-1234959499/
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From Vexing Uncertainty to Intellectual Humility | …an amazing snapshot of schizophrenia
https://academic.oup.com/schizophreniabulletin/advance-article/doi/10.1093/schbul/sbad173/7517011