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So, Alec, what do *you* believe is happening with Pavel Durov and Telegram Messenger and the French Government?
People are asking me this, and everyone else has taken their shot by now (with varying amounts of value) so here’s mine: Personally I view Pavel Durov as existing only one or two rungs down from Elon Musk on the ladder of self-serving product misrepresentation and personal self-mythologising, and it seems to have finally caught-up…
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LIDL becoming a cloud infrastructure and cybersecurity provider
Back in my datacentre-architecture days we had a running joke about using the “hot aisle” (aggregated partially-enclosed vented heat from the servers) to broil chickens hanging from a motorised tractor feed. Just seems apt to mention that right now.
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Regulating platform risk and design: ChatGPT says the quiet part out loud | MUST READ from @daphnehk
These are the answers that humans may well arrive at—whether or not they ask an AI what to do—in parsing confusing legal obligations. They are answers we can find in sloppy secondary materials purporting to explain the laws, and in news coverage that uncritically repeat politicians’ exaggerated claims about their legal authority. ChatGPT’s answers may…
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The AI photo editing era is here | The Verge
AI PHOTO MANIPULATION SHOULD BE REGULATED AND RESTRICTED TO GOVERNMENT-LICENSED, CERTIFIED PHOTOSHOP ENGINEERS. Not. Ignore the fearmongering. https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/19/24221884/google-photos-magic-editor-ai-reimagine
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The Oldest World Map in the World
fun: via: https://kottke.org/24/08/the-oldest-world-map-in-the-world
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“Spoiler: it is likely @X will be blocked soon in Brazil” | Thread by @1lucabelli
I wonder if it will be greeted by Civil Society as wise avoidance of control, or terrible avoidance of responsibility? Wait. It’s Musk. Who am I kidding? In case you have heard that @X has closed its office in Brazil, that Brazilian Supreme Court ( @STF_oficial ) ordered to imprison one of Twitter’s executives and…
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Postbox closed because ‘snails eating mail’ | BBC News
A whole new meaning for ‘snailmail’ Links to: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2nlym5y2jo
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Italian Ministry of Justice defines Rickrolling as a cybercrime, provides definition
Yes, really: https://www.giustizia.it/giustizia/en/mg_2_5_12_1.wp?contentId=GLM1144706#
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“How Find My Device protects your data” | Google turns Android devices into Airtag equivalents, I’m waiting for screams from privacy & safety activists
The announcements have gone out, and people – including me – are finding out about the new Google “Find My Device” network. I think this is a good idea but I’m absolutely sure that people are going to throw rocks at it (a) because “Google” & (b) because civil society have equally spent the last…
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With @realDonaldTrump reposting fake images of @taylorSwift13 endorsement we should see restructuring of the AI debate: “who cares if it’s AI, look at the impact”
Personally I think that Taylor, if she’s going to endorse anyone at all, should leave it until early November for maximal impact; and in the meantime she should use some new Tennessee laws to sue anyone who spreads such fake endorsement, not to mention spark some “state regulation of speech” first-amendment lawsuits against the Tennessee…