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Musk’s Takeover Of The Government’s Computer Systems Needs To Be Understood As A Cyberattack, Or Worse | Techdirt
This is the correct take from Mike; I wonder if the UK government – and UK industrial regulation – will permit themselves to consider it this way? The nation’s infrastructure has just been attacked by the prototypical example of a rogue actor, acting lawlessly, with openly declared hostile intent aiming to disrupt the operation of
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Surely we should be calling this “The Spook-Hawley AI Censorship Act”?
I hate it when I’m right; back in 2023 I wrote: (3) If the Government is encouraged to suppress general access to code, it will attempt to do so; and then the suppressions will fail several years, perhaps a few decades, later. …comparing this to the old ITAR regime; see also my more recent blogpost
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Asking Elon Musk’s own Grok AI about US Trade Tariffs, and, well…
Inspired by a post on Twitter comes this from Grok; I feel it’s understating the impact but broadly in the right direction. Presumably Donald is focused on the last-paragraph opportunity to cut some short-term deals by squandering long-term political capital. Would it be a good idea for the USA to impose sweeping 25% trade tariffs
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Former UN Rapporteur David Kaye: “for anyone who ever argued for key escrows, i offer you the example of the muskovites rampaging through USG systems” | Ofcom, please take note…
…but of course I’m certain that it could never happen here. <cough>Reform Party</cough>
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Fully documented source code for Elite on the 6502 | … I spent days, weeks playing this
Fully documented source code for Elite on the BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, Commodore 64, Apple II and NES https://elite.bbcelite.com/ Via: https://www.threads.net/@yannlecun/post/DFiQfC2TrxP
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AI “Safety” researchers finally have to face the question of whether they want LLMs to be *good* at state censorship, or to be *bad* at state censorship?
Do you want a fast, free Chinese LLM to be good at blocking user prompts & output? Do you want such blocking to be global or to differ depending on the user’s suspected nationality? Do you actually want it to be good at censorship? Cisco and the University of Pennsylvania tested DeepSeek R1 with 50
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If you are a fan of classic COSMOS with Carl Sagan, you will probably love the UK’s Open University S354 “UNDERSTANDING SPACE & TIME”
When I was a young nerdling I would get up early Saturday to switch on the TV, and of the three, later four TV channels that we had the one I would go to for early entertainment at 6:30 a.m. was BBC 2 Open University. And this is what I would watch, religiously: https://archive.org/details/OUBBCS354Ep1Of17BeforeEinsteinUnderstandingSpaceTime/OU+BBC+S354+Ep+01+of+17+Before+Einstein+(Understanding+Space+%26+Time).mp4
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General Michael Hayden: “The NSA Cryptologic Museum are Censoring Women” | …this is an abomination
You HAVE to look at this picture; given that Hayden is ex-DIRNSA, I believe him. Quote: “Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.”
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Don’t use an LLM to generate a random number or to generate passwords
Just click to read the enormity of 4 pages of biased overthinking that it ploughs into “choose a random number between 1 and 100”
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“[Tony Blair] believes the public will gladly sacrifice privacy for efficiency” | …whose, precisely?
Silkie Carlo: “This whole interview reads like an insane, anti-human sales pitch from a washed up warlord-turned-AI salesman who randomly generates buzzwords to shill for whichever monster pays him the most on the day…”
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“Running DeepSeek on a small PC is the new ‘Running DOOM on a calculator’”
Very true. It’s going to be interesting watching the world adapt to this. No, not a distill, but a 2bit quantized version of the actual 671B model (102XXS), about 200GB large, running on a 14900K with 96GB DDR5 6800 and a single 3090 24GB (with 5 layers offloaded), and for the rest running off of
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Desire Paths, Paths of Desire, a comic by @instachaaz on Instagram | …this is subtle and I love it
It also is commentary on people, regulation and power: