You know, we don't have to do this. Give you the tech news.
You know, like we're choosing to do this. I could stop any time.
Shut up, you're not my dad. 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.
Oh, 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 rollout 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 waifus long enough to spit out an update that encrypted the conversations.
But then the New York Times reported on an undisclosed breach from April, 2023,
in which a hacker stole sensitive info from open AI's internal employee forum,
because like why worry about cybersecurity when AI is gonna add us all to the world coin blockchain
in a couple years. Concern is also growing about the web scrapers
used to gather AI training data, which have been worming their way
around existing tools meant to block them. Cloudflare just released a new free one-click 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 consensus,
was written by researchers at Google who just wanna find the guy responsible for all this.
Look, we're all trying to find the guy who did this and give him a spanket.
Apple has approved the Epic Games Store as an alternative app marketplace on iOS and iPadOS
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 Cook's trying to build his perfect iPhone out of wooden blocks and Tim Sweeney always crashes in
like, teacher, teacher, I wanna put my blocks there.
Build your own iPhone, you quarrelless 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 is gonna hear about this
and Europe is not gonna be happy. So I'm gonna do the quick bits now.
Is that, I want to do them.
Twilio, the parent company of two-factor authentication app, Authy, has confirmed
that they suffered a data breach following the leak of 33 million phone numbers.
Twilio 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 moon landing.
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 BrainCypher 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 BrainCypher 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-powered
stone oven and a hydrogen-powered barbecue
made in collaboration with Japanese appliance company, Rinnai.
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 manufacturers, 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 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 you and me, you should come back on Monday for more tech news.
I mean, it's educational. And well, I'd just like to keep sharing tech news.
So please support my passion. Okay, thanks, someone else wrote that.
But it's true.