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this to 10 friends or you'll die 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 demonetize
previously acceptable content for unclear reasons and pissed everyone off
we can stay pissed we checked enough time has 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 seven seconds
are eligible for full monetization and videos with strong profanity in the
first seven seconds or repeated throughout the majority of the video
will be eligible for limited monetization rather than none get paid
for bring back their Jazz movies let's
go YouTube has also given examples
clarifying what it means by strong profanity like [ __ ] you you [ __ ]
[ __ ] all [ __ ] you in the [ __ ] [ __ ] 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
meta's large language model
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 guardrail set by the original creators and even create
their own versions of AI chat Bots I for one look forward to when 4chan creates
their own version of 2013's her it's getting NC-17 rating in theaters for
sure meta meanwhile has been filing
takedown requests after takedown requests and uh good luck with that
zucky ch they got chat Bots making 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 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 typically in order to infect a computer
at this level a hacker would have to already have access to the device and
gain system admin 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 Boya
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 UEFI system or any joke has been
made about Ebola previous time Y2K now
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gross chat CPT 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 it's Suite of
customer relations management apps for businesses never use that one what this
means is that marketing and customer support emails will have that chat GPT
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 given 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 Marine cameras in and around his home in
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 with an invasive warrant for the rest of his footage while ring claims to
carefully assess all legal requests and that they push back on overly broad
requests from law enforcement ring furnish all of the man's footage to the
police including from cameras inside his home in business where no crime was
alleged to have taken place the request was very well written can't say no
meaning that by the power of modern technology and lacks privacy protections
the police can demand to see you naked because your next door neighbor broke
the law and they're gonna like what they see sustainable smartphone maker
ferrofone 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 more
Fair phone users who want to take things even further can install a custom rom
like lineage Os or trade it in to ferrofone 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 soft software support for another four years
we don't deserve this company 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 going to notify you weird
reflection but I'm not going back users can pick and choose what 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
don't even want it my manscape subscription right 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 I mean ion describes itself as a mirror to Everyday
Romanians who by and large are giant terrifying silver monoliths that speak
through glowing tax hey no no stereotyping Tech 2 will return on
Friday so make sure your web proxy is set to open or your neural net might get
unhooked from the data stream and that would not be tubular
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