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YouTube has announced a change to their advertiser friendly guidelines,
which is a fix to a previously announced change to their advertiser friendly guidelines,
which retroactively demonetized previously acceptable content for unclear reasons and
pissed everyone off. We can say pissed, we checked.
Enough time is elapsed. YouTube appears to have taken the blowback seriously and the new guidelines address
several key concerns expressed by creators. That's us.
Restrictions on profanity have been softened, so now videos containing moderate profanity,
like the kind I use, or occasional strong profanity, like the kind I use,
after the first 7 seconds are eligible for full monetization,
and videos with strong profanity in the first 7 seconds or repeated throughout the majority
of the video will be eligible for limited monetization rather than none.
YouTube has also given examples clarifying what it means by strong profanity,
like f**k you, you f**king f**ks, I'll f**k you in the f**king f**k, this is awesome.
That definitely would not be okay. This is a family show.
Videos demonetized after November's changes will apparently be re-reviewed in the coming weeks.
Whoa, language. Meta's large language model, Lelema, has leaked barely a week after its announcement.
The proprietary model was shared on 4chan, a well-known bastion of responsible human beings,
like going straight from the warm environment of the womb to an underground dogfighting ring,
in internet terms of course. The back ends of these kinds of models have not previously been available to the general public,
in part due to a fear of misuse. It's unclear as of yet what the implications of this kind of leak are,
beyond that this will allow individuals to experiment with them, possibly changing or removing the guardrails set by their original creators,
and even create their own versions of AI chatbots.
I, for one, look forward to when 4chan creates their own version of 2013's Her.
It's getting an NC17 rating in theaters for sure.
Meta, meanwhile, has been filing takedown requests after takedown requests,
and uh, good luck with that, Zucky.
They got chatbots makin' takedown requests. Researchers have found the first malware that can hijack a fully-updated computer's
boot system even when secure boot is running. They've dubbed it Black Lotus.
More like secure loafer. But instead of giving you three mana, it hacks the UAFI,
or United Extensible Firmware Interface, the firmware that boots essentially all modern computers.
It's the first thing that runs on startup, meaning it affects everything that follows,
and not to belabor the point, but what follows is literally everything.
It? Does it follow? Typically, in order to infect a computer at this level,
a hacker would have to already have access to the device and gain system-added privileges,
which is a pretty high bar, even though I don't lock my doors.
It's a bit like Ebola. It's hard to get, but once it's inside you, oh boy.
Are you in for a bad time? Even so, this is the first time in 12 years
that any malware has been able to exploit a fully-patched UAFI system,
or any joke has been made about Ebola. The previous time? Y2K.
If the name QuinkBits is a bit confusing, trust me,
they're exactly what they sound like. Gross!
ChatGPT is everywhere, including your Slack channel, where you will soon be able to use AI-enabled tools
to research topics and draft replies to your co-workers
who you don't want to talk to. Microsoft will likewise be adding a suite of AI features
called Copilot to Dynamic 365,
its suite of customer relations management apps for businesses.
Never used that one. What this means is that marketing and customer support emails
will have that ChatGPT gloss, and with any luck,
you'll never have to talk to another person ever again. Have your robot call my robot.
I got a great robot guy. I'll be in bed. You know how Ring was giving the cops doorbell camera footage
without user permission? Well, they're not sorry, and they're still doing it,
particularly to an Ohio businessman with 21 Ring cameras
in and around his home and business. When police were investigating his neighbor,
he voluntarily gave them footage of the outside of his property
during the time period they requested. The police then served, not him,
but Ring with an invasive warrant for the rest of his footage.
While Ring claims to carefully assess all legal requests
and that they pushed back on overly broad requests from law enforcement, Ring furnished all of the man's footage
to the police, including from cameras inside his home and business, where no crime was alleged to have taken place.
The request was very well written. I can't say no. Meaning that by the power of modern technology
and lax privacy protections, the police can demand to see you naked
because your next door neighbor broke the law, and they're going to like what they see.
Sustainable smartphone maker Fairphone has announced that the Fairphone 2
will not receive any more security or feature updates after this month,
enraging anyone who may have forgotten that the phone launched way back in 2015
with a promise of three to five years of software support.
Do the math. It's more than five years. Fairphone users who want to take things even further
can install a custom ROM like Lineage OS or trade it in to Fairphone for a 50 euro,
whatever that is, voucher on Fairphone's e-store, whatever that is,
or I suppose they could buy the 2021 Fairphone 4,
which will have software support for another four years.
We don't deserve this company. You're so good to us. Ah, but it's not an iPhone.
Google is expanding VPN access and rolling out a dark web monitoring feature
for Google One subscribers, including members of their basic plan.
The dark web report features will scan the dark web for users' sensitive personal information,
like their name, address, email, phone number, and social security number,
notifying them if anything is found, they're gonna notify you.
Weird reflection, but I'm not going back. Users can pick and choose one information
they'd like Google One to monitor for and can stop monitoring at any time.
No word on if it will message you when your doorbell sends naked pictures of you
to the police or your neighbor. I got nothing to hide. Take a good look.
I send them pics they don't even want it. My man scapes subscription round now.
You're in for a treat. The Romanian government has unveiled a new honorary AI advisor called...
Is that capital I? Ion? Lawn. Lawn, lowercase l.
Ion, an AI tool designed to sort through ideas and complaints that citizens submit
through a government website, social media, or physical terminals
locked in Romanian schools and subways. Subway like the train, not the restaurant.
The Romanian government, which is not yet AI, does not want to hear about how the sandwich artist
put barbecue sauce on your tuna sub without asking or too much red onions every time.
Lawn, Ion, describes itself as a mirror to everyday Romanians who, by and large,
are giant, terrifying, silver monoliths that speak through glowing text.
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And that would not be tubular. No way, man. Wow.