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YouTube automated AI could create professional videos in any niche, from any blog post/article.

Eight unnamed individuals sued Google in San Francisco in July for supposedly misusing content posted to social media and information shared on Google platforms to train its systems.

The lawsuit is one of several recent complaints over tech companies' alleged misuse of content like books, visual art, source code and personal data without permission for AI training.

Google told the court on Monday that the use of public data is necessary to train systems like its chatbot Bard. It said the lawsuit would "take a sledgehammer not just to Google's services but to the very idea of generative AI."

Un regard critique sur les #reseauxsociaux est essentiel pour prendre du recul par rapport à notre utilisation quotidienne de la #technologie. Il est devenu courant de voir des adolescents marcher ou prendre le bus en étant constamment absorbés par leur #smartphone, sans même lever les yeux pour observer le monde qui les entoure. La #communication se fait souvent à travers des écouteurs, discutant de mentions "likes" sur leurs publications ou de choix vestimentaires.
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One is fatally hacked, the other shut down in international police dragnet.

Thiel began providing information as a "confidential human source," or CHS, to Johnathan Buma, a Los Angeles-based FBI agent who specializes in investigating political corruption and foreign-influence campaigns, a report says.

As a CHS, Thiel was assigned a code name and an internal serial number to track his reporting. The information he passed on about foreign contacts and Silicon Valley intrigue was reviewed and "validated," or cross-checked against other sources, by his case agents and their colleagues.

Thiel did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Thiel is a citizen of Germany, the United States, and New Zealand; as of last year, he was reportedly in the process of acquiring yet another passport, from Malta. In 2016, he donated $1.25 million to Trump's campaign and endorsed him from the stage at the Republican National Convention. After Trump won, Thiel served on his transition team.

Scientists used six to 10 seconds of people’s voice, along with basic health data, including age, sex, height, and weight, to create an AI model.

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Clearly only a tech demo at this stage - but pretty interesting. Probably needs to be put on a delicates wash :)

The new trial, beginning in New Zealand and Philippines, is to combat bots and spammers, says X.

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Exchanges holding more than $5 million in aggregate, or more than $1500 for any individual, will have to obtain an Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL), which are granted by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. The government will also introduce additional obligations for exchanges on top of the AFSL regime, including requiring standard form contracts, and introducing standards for custody software and holding and transacting tokens.

The e-Safety Commission fined X, formerly Twitter, saying it failed to respond to questions including how long it took to respond to reports of child abuse material on the platform and the methods it used to detect it.

Though the fine of $386,000 is small compared to the $44 billion Musk paid for the website in October 2022, it is a reputational hit for a company that has seen a continuous revenue decline as advertisers cut spending on a platform that has stopped most content moderation and reinstated thousands of banned accounts.

Microsoft has completed its acquisition of video game-maker Activision Blizzard for $69 billion, closing one of the most expensive tech acquisitions in history that could have repercussions across the video game industry.

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Mastodon audiences will be able to interact with blog posts.

Google, Amazon and Cloudflare say they weathered the largest-known denial of service attack and are sounding the alarm over a new technique they warn could easily cause widespread disruption.

Bedtime stories by Amazon's Alexa: In the wake of ChatGPT and Bard, Amazon plans to equip its Alexa Echo Device with its in-house developed LLM and incorporate a feature that turns an Amazon Echo smart speaker into a storytelling companion, and enabling preschool children were able to use a device powered by large language models (LLMs) to ask for things.

Youtube let the other shoe drop in their end-stage enshittification this week. Last month, they required you to turn on Youtube History to view the feed of youtube videos recommendations. That seems reasonable, so I did it. But I delete my history every 1 week instead of every 3 months. So they don't get much from my choices. It still did a pretty good job of showing me stuff I was interested in watching.

Then on Oct 1, they threw up a "You're using an Ad Blocker" overlay on videos. I'd use my trusty Overlay Remover plugin to remove the annoying javascript graphic and watch what I wanted. I didn't have to click the X to dismiss the obnoxious page.

Last week, they started placing a timer with the X so you had to wait 5 seconds for the X to appear so you could dismiss blocking graphic.

Today, there was a new graphic. It allowed you to view three videos before you had to turn off your Ad Blocker. I viewed a video 3 times just to see what happens.

Now all I see is this page.

Google has out and out made it a violation of their ToS to have an ad blocker to view Youtube. Or you can pay them $$$.

I ban such sites from my systems by replacing their DNS name in my hosts file routed to 127.0.0.1 which means I can't view the site. I have quite a few banned sites now.

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Here is the study (pdf, 16 pages): https://www.usenix.org/system/files/usenixsecurity23-ceccio.pdf

TLDR:

• Spy devices are available, effective, easy to find and affordable. Using simple searches on popular retailers in the US (the researchers studied Amazon, eBay, Best Buy, Walmart and Home Depot, all of which are located in the U.S., though some with a global presence), retailers often guide searching for such products through query completion, for example “catch a cheater” query is completed on Amazon with “catch a cheater spy devices car.” Many of the almost 3,000 devices can be purchased for under $50.

• Almost all of the devices are capable of Intimate Partner Surveillance (IPS). Generally, an abuser and a survivor of IPS are either living together or living apart. When the abuser and survivor are living together, the abuser has access to the survivor’s physical surroundings and belongings. Therefore, the abuser can even use devices that require regular retrieval, such as devices that rely on rechargeable bat- teries or devices that record exclusively to an SD card. These devices are much harder to detect compared to devices relying on wireless communication. When the abuser and survivor are living apart, the abuser can still continue conducting IPS using devices that use WiFi or 4G.

• Current detection tools are not up to the task of detecting the spy devices available to abusers. Devices that don’t use WiFi, such as LTE GPS trackers or cameras that only use local storage, cannot be detected and localized with any current technique. Finally, WiFi devices that are not streaming are also difficult to localize with current technologies.

• The spy devices can be categorized into four groups based on the communication technology they rely on for data transmission: WiFi, BLE, LTE, and no transmission / local storage. Detection solutions are therefore required for all of these categories, as all four types of devices have the potential to be used for IPS.

• The researchers encourage the research community to expand upon existing detection techniques while ensuring these techniques are usable for average people, and they suggest that online retailers and lawmakers should put rules in place that curtail the sale of devices intended to enable IPS to protect vulnerable populations.