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YouTube has announced a change to their advertiser friendly guidelines,

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which is a fix to a previously announced change to their advertiser friendly guidelines,

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which retroactively demonetized previously acceptable content for unclear reasons and

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pissed everyone off. We can say pissed, we checked.

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Enough time is elapsed. YouTube appears to have taken the blowback seriously and the new guidelines address

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several key concerns expressed by creators. That's us.

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Restrictions on profanity have been softened, so now videos containing moderate profanity,

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like the kind I use, or occasional strong profanity, like the kind I use,

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after the first 7 seconds are eligible for full monetization,

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and videos with strong profanity in the first 7 seconds or repeated throughout the majority

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of the video will be eligible for limited monetization rather than none.

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YouTube has also given examples clarifying what it means by strong profanity,

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like f**k you, you f**king f**ks, I'll f**k you in the f**king f**k, this is awesome.

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That definitely would not be okay. This is a family show.

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Videos demonetized after November's changes will apparently be re-reviewed in the coming weeks.

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Whoa, language. Meta's large language model, Lelema, has leaked barely a week after its announcement.

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The proprietary model was shared on 4chan, a well-known bastion of responsible human beings,

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like going straight from the warm environment of the womb to an underground dogfighting ring,

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in internet terms of course. The back ends of these kinds of models have not previously been available to the general public,

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in part due to a fear of misuse. It's unclear as of yet what the implications of this kind of leak are,

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beyond that this will allow individuals to experiment with them, possibly changing or removing the guardrails set by their original creators,

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and even create their own versions of AI chatbots.

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I, for one, look forward to when 4chan creates their own version of 2013's Her.

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It's getting an NC17 rating in theaters for sure.

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Meta, meanwhile, has been filing takedown requests after takedown requests,

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and uh, good luck with that, Zucky.

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They got chatbots makin' takedown requests. Researchers have found the first malware that can hijack a fully-updated computer's

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boot system even when secure boot is running. They've dubbed it Black Lotus.

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More like secure loafer. But instead of giving you three mana, it hacks the UAFI,

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or United Extensible Firmware Interface, the firmware that boots essentially all modern computers.

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It's the first thing that runs on startup, meaning it affects everything that follows,

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and not to belabor the point, but what follows is literally everything.

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It? Does it follow? Typically, in order to infect a computer at this level,

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a hacker would have to already have access to the device and gain system-added privileges,

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which is a pretty high bar, even though I don't lock my doors.

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It's a bit like Ebola. It's hard to get, but once it's inside you, oh boy.

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Are you in for a bad time? Even so, this is the first time in 12 years

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that any malware has been able to exploit a fully-patched UAFI system,

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or any joke has been made about Ebola. The previous time? Y2K.

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If the name QuinkBits is a bit confusing, trust me,

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they're exactly what they sound like. Gross!

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ChatGPT is everywhere, including your Slack channel, where you will soon be able to use AI-enabled tools

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to research topics and draft replies to your co-workers

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who you don't want to talk to. Microsoft will likewise be adding a suite of AI features

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called Copilot to Dynamic 365,

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its suite of customer relations management apps for businesses.

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Never used that one. What this means is that marketing and customer support emails

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will have that ChatGPT gloss, and with any luck,

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you'll never have to talk to another person ever again. Have your robot call my robot.

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I got a great robot guy. I'll be in bed. You know how Ring was giving the cops doorbell camera footage

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without user permission? Well, they're not sorry, and they're still doing it,

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particularly to an Ohio businessman with 21 Ring cameras

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in and around his home and business. When police were investigating his neighbor,

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he voluntarily gave them footage of the outside of his property

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during the time period they requested. The police then served, not him,

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but Ring with an invasive warrant for the rest of his footage.

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While Ring claims to carefully assess all legal requests

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and that they pushed back on overly broad requests from law enforcement, Ring furnished all of the man's footage

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to the police, including from cameras inside his home and business, where no crime was alleged to have taken place.

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The request was very well written. I can't say no. Meaning that by the power of modern technology

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and lax privacy protections, the police can demand to see you naked

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because your next door neighbor broke the law, and they're going to like what they see.

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Sustainable smartphone maker Fairphone has announced that the Fairphone 2

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will not receive any more security or feature updates after this month,

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enraging anyone who may have forgotten that the phone launched way back in 2015

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with a promise of three to five years of software support.

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Do the math. It's more than five years. Fairphone users who want to take things even further

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can install a custom ROM like Lineage OS or trade it in to Fairphone for a 50 euro,

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whatever that is, voucher on Fairphone's e-store, whatever that is,

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or I suppose they could buy the 2021 Fairphone 4,

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which will have software support for another four years.

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We don't deserve this company. You're so good to us. Ah, but it's not an iPhone.

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Google is expanding VPN access and rolling out a dark web monitoring feature

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for Google One subscribers, including members of their basic plan.

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The dark web report features will scan the dark web for users' sensitive personal information,

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like their name, address, email, phone number, and social security number,

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notifying them if anything is found, they're gonna notify you.

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Weird reflection, but I'm not going back. Users can pick and choose one information

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they'd like Google One to monitor for and can stop monitoring at any time.

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No word on if it will message you when your doorbell sends naked pictures of you

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to the police or your neighbor. I got nothing to hide. Take a good look.

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I send them pics they don't even want it. My man scapes subscription round now.

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You're in for a treat. The Romanian government has unveiled a new honorary AI advisor called...

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Is that capital I? Ion? Lawn. Lawn, lowercase l.

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Ion, an AI tool designed to sort through ideas and complaints that citizens submit

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through a government website, social media, or physical terminals

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locked in Romanian schools and subways. Subway like the train, not the restaurant.

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The Romanian government, which is not yet AI, does not want to hear about how the sandwich artist

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put barbecue sauce on your tuna sub without asking or too much red onions every time.

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Lawn, Ion, describes itself as a mirror to everyday Romanians who, by and large,

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are giant, terrifying, silver monoliths that speak through glowing text.

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Hey, no stereotyping. TechTube will return on Friday,

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so make sure your web proxy is set to open or your neural net might get unhooked from the data stream.

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And that would not be tubular. No way, man. Wow.