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“Suffice it to say that everyone in possession of a copy of the LAION-5B images has hundreds if not thousands of instances of CSAM” | …so that’s 0.0001% of the content, then
So David Thiel at Stanford has posted a much-reported paper/story which tells us that the dataset which drives Stable Diffusion and a bunch of other AI systems, has scraped: hundreds if not thousands of instances of CSAM (and a much larger number of instances of NCII more broadly) https://www.threads.net/@elegant_wallaby/post/C1FMSFnsVpO …and it struck me to ask…
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The rise and fall of Usenet: How the original social media platform came to be | ZDNET
https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-rise-and-fall-of-usenet-how-the-original-social-media-platform-came-to-be/
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The Chevrolet of Watsonville story is basically how hackers* of the mid 1980s *felt* when they got into a Unix machine as “guest” and found /usr/games to be intact
https://stoney.monster/@stoneymonster/111592567052438463 * script kiddies had not yet been invented
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Internet Architecture Board hits out at client-side scanning | The Register
https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/19/iab_ietf_oppose_clientside_scanning/
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The UX of delivering parcels | wonderful posting on where user interface meets service reputation, with a twist of Weetabix
https://builtformars.com/case-studies/ux-of-parcels
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I wish that I could be as optimistic as @ciaranmartinoxf regarding the eventual wisdom of the British state regarding end-to-end encryption, but I cannot…
There will have to be at least 2x changes of Government before what Ciaran is asking for below, can happen; the first will be an ouster of the Tories which is necessary because they are fuelling the Home Office mindset (NB: not the other way around) that “The Tech Companies Must Be Brought To Heel”…
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Halley’s Comet reaches Perihelion, is on its way back | props to @JohnSimpsonNews
I saw the comet in 1986 – my first year of studying Astronomy at UCL – and although it wasn’t an a visual feast, it was amazing to be even passively observing something so rare and with such a tail and tale of historical importance. It would be nice to see it again, but I,…
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT | Report: 2.6B records compromised by data breaches, underscoring need for E2EE | Apple (yes, *that* one) posts report/PDF underscoring existential need for end-to-end encryption in future of Cloud data
https://www.apple.com/uk/newsroom/2023/12/report-2-point-6-billion-records-compromised-by-data-breaches-in-past-two-years/ https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/The-Continued-Threat-to-Personal-Data-Key-Factors-Behind-the-2023-Increase.pdf [PDF]