Jeremiah LeeI want to know the backstory of how long the hacker knew about this security vulnerability and their waiting for a moment of meaningful protest and civil disobedience
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Dan SugalskiThis is so dead on it’s funny and also scary.
Big tech has no idea what to do when it crests the S curve and everyone running big tech firms are so detached from reality that there’s no way they can actually deal with that, as it means confronting reality, which requires skills they don’t have.
The Subprime AI Crisis
None of what I write in this newsletter is about sowing doubt or "hating," but a sober evaluation of where we are today and where we may end up on the current path. I believe that the artificial intelligence boom — which would be better described as a generative AI boom
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James Smith 💾TIL: the super-religious SQLite "code of ethics" is quite something... https://sqlite.org/codeofethics.html
What happens if the proposed EU chat control regulation passes?
This series of news reports and press releases imagines the first year of cascading consequences.
It illustrates how the well-intentioned-but-flawed proposal will make detecting child abuse imagery more difficult while harming innocent people, national security, and the EU’s digital sovereignty.
Please share. The EU resumes discussions of the proposal today.
(~12 minute read time)
https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/after-chat-control/?ref=Mastodon
geekystevenHarris choosing Tim Walz as her running mate sets a dangerous precedent that Democrats might do cool shit that voters love
Mario GuzmánUgh... Why are companies so insistent on including AI junk in various types of apps? No one asked for this.
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/30/safari-ai-features-coming-in-ios-18/
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/30/safari-ai-features-coming-in-ios-18/
Kevin Fox
Julio MerinoAnd indeed the xz research is related. Look at the misc topics under https://gist.github.com/thesamesam/223949d5a074ebc3dce9ee78baad9e27?permalink_comment_id=5005917 , which I think is the source of the traffic I’m seeing.
Meredith WhittakerI'm sure a future where "workers push the buttons we give them, and only we know how they work" is good for incumbents and "button making companies."
But it's not something we should celebrate as progress!
Also v rich given Nvidia's success is in part attributable to having tons of low-level programmers mid-2000s--ppl who understand the mechanisms abstracted away for most--and were thus able to focus on creating the CUDA ecosystem way ahead of competitors. ANYWAY...
https://vulcanpost.com/853029/dont-learn-to-code-jensen-huang-on-career/
