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Media is flooded with complaints about AIs being trained on images or text & roughly reproducing them; meanwhile in the (human) music industry for the past 100 years…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound-alike A sound-alike is a recording intended to imitate the sound of a popular record, the style of a popular recording artist, or a current musical trend; the term also refers to the artists who perform on such recordings. In the voice-over world, it may also refer to those who recreate the voice and vocal mannerisms of a given celebrity’s
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Ofcom apologises for ‘ill-judged’ porn joke job ad | BBC News
Honestly, this would make me inclined to apply: “Always wanted to work in porn but don’t have the feet for an OnlyFans? Now is your chance”, joked the LinkedIn post by a senior staff member at the media regulator. Colour me unsurprised that it was baroness Kidron who lost her sense of humour: Leading children’s
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Zuck: “It’s sad that I basically have to tell our teams to launch our new AI advances everywhere except the EU at this point”
Douglas Adams wrote about the human tendency to introduce processes that make people feel empowered when in fact all they are is a kind of placebo, e.g. to help politicians cope with their overall powerlessness by actively making the lives of others less rich, protecting them from novelty and innovation: Nick Clegg: We welcome the
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That feeling when you finally give up on trying to find the book that you probably lent out to somebody, and go buy a second-hand replacement on eBay; this is mildly sweetened by the observation that…
…I’m trying to replace my beloved copy of “Gödel, Escher, Bach” and eBay is suggesting the “AA Trucker’s Atlas of Britain” as being “inspired by your recent views” I deeply, deeply hope that there is a subculture of British truckers who are into algorithms & the development of consciousness.
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US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency strongly endorses use of robust, unsurveilled End-to-End Encrypted Messenger software; it would be bizarre for #Ofcom to oppose this
Note that client side “your message has been scanned for abusive content” scanning extends far beyond the warned-of metadata collection into content surveillance, thereby breaking end to end security: https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/guidance-mobile-communications-best-practices.pdf
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Presumably Lorna Woods & @WillPerrin are delighted at saving British children from the “harms” of lycra-clad cyclists
Heaven forbid that our children seriously get into cycling as a hobby: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/12/17/hundreds-of-websites-to-shut-down-under-chilling-internet Archived at: https://archive.ph/94rzg
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Ofcom publishes “illegal harms” codes and guidance; follow @cyberleagle for analysis of how Ofcom imagines that privacy & technology work, how people can have “too much” privacy
Remember kids: it’s ok to surveil all the people if less than 1% of them might be really bad people.
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Tony Blair calls for roll out of digital ID | “…put all your eggs in one basket, it makes it easier to lose them all and for the government to surveil you…”
Imagine that all your health information was in one place: easy, with your permission, for anyone anywhere in the health service to see. That your passport, driving licence, anything you need to prove your identity, were in one simple digital wallet, unique to you. That you could purchase and pay for any goods or services
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Google says its breakthrough Willow quantum chip can’t break modern cryptography | The Verge
Quelle surprise: https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/12/24319879/google-willow-cant-break-rsa-cryptography
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If you’re interested in tech policy or security & looking for Christmas read, I recommend “A History of the World in 6 Glasses” by @tomstandage
I don’t get much time to read nowadays so I do a lot of audiobooks, and after his Victorian Internet – itself a transformative read – I attacked Tom’s history of the world through drinks: Beer, Wine Spirits, Coffee, Tea & Coca-Cola… and Water makes 7 – and the found the whole content, if not
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Dual_EC_DRBG with Justin Schuh & @matthew_d_green | …listening to Matt not trying to be rude, but achieving it, makes a worthwhile morning podcast
Put me on #TeamMatt (~31m00s) Source: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2024/12/07/dual-ec-drbg/