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“Because of the general election the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill passed by the Commons has fallen in the Lords”
A tiny fraction of good news but I am confident that a subsequent Labour government will attempt to revive it, because this is a Home Office goal not a government one. Vigilance is the eternal price, etc.
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The PGPi scanning project
A reminder for those who sit on the fence regarding whether “code is speech” — global access to strong cryptography would not be where it is today without a 1997 project to publish — as a book — the entire source code of PGP 5.0i in an OCR-friendly format, in such a way as to…
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OpenDyslexic
This seems like a nice thing: OpenDyslexic is a typeface designed against some common symptoms of dyslexia. If you like the way you are able to read this page, and others, then this typeface is for you! OpenDyslexic is free to use: The newest version of OpenDyslexic now uses the SIL-OFL license, giving you freedom…
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Just shipped: Bluesky Direct Messages! | …regrettably not end to end encrypted
Alas… https://bsky.social/about/blog/05-22-2024-direct-messages
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How the new Microsoft Recall feature fundamentally undermines Windows security | Kevin Beaumont
More opinion on the fragile proposition that is Microsoft Recall; as previously I do NOT believe it is inherently a disastrous idea, however I am confident that ripping into it at speed is not conducive to considered development and deployment — including how it may be co-opted by the state or illiberal activists. https://doublepulsar.com/how-the-new-microsoft-recall-feature-fundamentally-undermines-windows-security-aa072829f218
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China’s latest answer to OpenAI is ‘Chat Xi PT’
…but can it write code in Python? > China’s latest answer to OpenAI is ‘Chat Xi PT’Internet regulator uses Chinese leader’s political philosophy to help answer questions posed to latest large language model https://www.ft.com/content/43378c6e-664b-4885-a255-31325d632ee9
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Have we yet seen calls from NCMEC @MissingKids & the child safety lobby, for Copilot+ AI to assess your laptop screen for porn & report in real time any presence of apparent CSAM?
I’m thinking it’s inevitable that the “safety above all else” community will now suddenly switch from hating AI to embracing it: > New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC … Recall uses AI features “to take images of your active screen every few seconds.” https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/
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Public library to become adults-only due to new Idaho law
A microcosm of age verification: > Donnelly Public Library shared … that the change is due to the passage of HB710, legislation referred to as the “library porn” bill that enables anyone to sue the library if children are exposed to inappropriate or adult material. [It] says that due to its small size and the…
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Graham Smith @cyberleagle on the “Duty of Care”
> A misconceived model, the direct – and wholly predictable – result of which is the impenetrable 1,000+ page Ofcom consultations that civil society are now complaining about. What really did they expect?
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How I Made Google’s “Web” View My Default Search
tl;dr — “https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14” https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/
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naklecha / llama3-from-scratch: llama3 implementation one matrix multiplication at a time
At some point I am going to have to clone this and run it, aren’t I? > in this file, i implemented llama3 from scratch, one tensor and matrix multiplication at a time.also, im going to load tensors directly from the model file that meta provided for llama3, you need to download the weights before…