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YouTube has quietly added the ability to request a takedown of AI generated or
other synthetic content that looks or even sounds like you which means I can
finally do something about this video you're in big trouble wise guy
this differs from YouTube's approach to deep fakes which accounts as misleading
information and can be reported by anybody requesting takedowns of
synthetic impersonation can only be done by the affected individual or their
Guardian is subject to a number of criteria and isn't guaranteed to result
in an actual takedown just like all those times I attacked my older brother
after learning about the leg sweep success rate zero I'm bigger than my
older brother one thing that will factor into YouTube's decision is whether the
creator has marked their video as containing AI generated content
something it started requiring creators and advertisers to do last year in
another surprisingly useful new feature the platform has begun a broader roll
out of an AI powered erase song feature
previously available in beta that will allow creators to remove songs from a
video that has a copyright claim on it while keeping other audio like dialogue
or sound effects intact this will let YouTube partners keep the video up and
continue making ad Revenue if you're not in the partner program and your video
has over 100,000 views according to YouTube support page you may not be able
to save changes they'll let you try though you know it's fun for YouTube to
play with you regular people as the
generative AI hype bubble continues to stretch more scrutiny is being leveled
at prominent AI companies this week developer Pedro Jose Pereira discovered
that the macOS chat GPT app stored all
of its conversations in plain text in an easily accessible location this snapped
open AI out of staring at the window dreaming about omniscient AI wuss long
enough to spit out an update that encrypted the conversations but then the
New York Times reported on an undisclosed breach from April 20123 in
which a hacker stole sensitive info from open ai's internal employee Forum
because like why worry about cyber security when AI is going to add us all
to the world coin blockchain in a couple years concern is also growing about
about the web scrapers used to gather AI training data which have been worming
their way around existing tools meant to block them Cloud flare just released a
new free oneclick tool that promises to block all AI Bots and glaze a tool that
poisons artists images so they can't be properly trained on by AI models is
exploding in popularity yep the arms race is on in a blog post detailing the
most scraped websites of 2024 data scraping company smart proxy advertises
Advanced apis to scrape data even from
the most protected online targets AKA
real human beings trying to bring something other than cursed AI slop into
our world that's actually our painting now
fun fact in an ironic twist a new research paper detailing the Myriad ways
in which generative AI tools have only just begun to quote distort Collective
understanding of sociopolitical reality or scientific ensus was written by
researchers at Google who just want to find the guy responsible for all this
look we're all trying to find the guy who did this and give him a spank it
Apple has approved the epic game store as an alternative app Marketplace on iOS
and iPad OS in the EU after epic games
complained both on Twitter and directly to the European commission about Apple
rejecting their submission twice these
two companies man they're like kids in a preschool Tim trying to build his
perfect iPhone out of wooden blocks and Tim Sweeney always crashes in like
teacher teacher I want to put my blocks there build your own iPhone you culous
rodent Apple was rejecting epic submissions over some of their buttons
looking too similar to Apple's buttons which is an actual restriction as listed
in an apple document entitled alternative terms addendum for apps in
the EU alternative app marketplaces and their apps must not infringe Apple's
intellectual property or appear confusingly similar to the app store or
an Apple product service interface computer software application or
advertising theme yet Apple eventually
gave in making me wonder how many other roadblocks I could make Disappear by
snitching to Europe sure you can write me a speeding ticket officer but Europe
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twio the parent company of two Factor authentication app ay has confirmed that
they suffered a data breach following the leak of 33 million phone numbers
twio states that it hasn't found evidence that the hackers were able to
access its systems or any sensitive information like Colonel Sanders 11
secret herbs and spices or how Lee Harvey Oswald faked the moonlanding info
they have apparently don't think you're safe though because Cyber News
researchers have also discovered an unrelated compilation of nearly 10
billion unique passwords leaked on a popular hacking Forum by a user called
Obamacare why would the Affordable Care Act do such a thing thanks Obama
ransomware group brain Cipher has apologized to the citizens of Indonesia
after hacking the country's temporary National Data Center and encrypting
several thousand terabytes of information after the attack massively
disrupted Public Services it was discovered that the affected government
agencies didn't have mandatory backup policies nevertheless the government
didn't pay the $8 million Ransom brain Cipher was asking for so the group
released the encryption key of their own accord though they did ask the citizens
for donations they can't afford to hack for free I mean in this economy Toyota
is on an audacious mission to normalize hydrogen powered machines that don't
blow up including this the world's first
Hydrogen powerered Stone oven and a hydrogen powerered barbecue made in
collaboration with Japanese appliance company renai I don't know if this guy
is smiling because the oven's so great at cooking pizza or if that's just what
he does when he's anxiously thinking about causing another Hindenburg Italian
style does car making expertise apply to
hydrogen Stone ovens Toyota asks I certainly hope so this isn't even
Toyota's first go at merging cars and pizza they put a pizza oven in a Tundra
pickup truck in 2018 and in the back of a Lexus GX earlier this year and why
stop there I say we put this new oven in a blimp we've learned so much since then
it turns out that F1 cars have IP addresses and you can use that IP to
make their engines explode xf1 Senior
Systems engineer and apparent Twitter Enthusiast Dan engine mode 11 explained
that the danger of remote engine explosion apparently isn't from external
malifa but from the internal Electronics team itself Dan didn't say explicitly
but he strongly implies that one team
accidentally flashed the electronic control unit the thing that controls the
electrical systems in the car while the vehicle was running causing some amount
of KaBoom yet not a single action movie
I can think of not a single one has blown up a car by hacking it and Amazon
has decided to discontinue its Astro for business security robot to instead focus
on home robotics products such as its
Astro household robot very different
that's where the money is everyone is buying robots for their homes these days
any businesses that purch purchased the security robot will receive a refund
plus a $300 credit to their Amazon accounts to help support a replacement
solution because the best security guards prefer to be paid in Amazon gift
cards you'd think customers could just convert the business Astro into a home
version but no he's seen too much he got
kicked by one too many hoodlums trying to break into the warehouse but between
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