cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions
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cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions
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Julian Assange: Wikileaks founder in last-ditch bid to avoid US extradition (www.bbc.com)
Sarah Silverman and other authors are suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement, alleging that they're training their LLMs on books via Library Genesis and Z-Library (www.thedailybeast.com)
Trolley Problem Solution (lemmy.ml)
very upsetting (lemmy.ml)
captiona screenshot of the text: > Tech companies argued in comments on the website that the way their models ingested creative content was innovative and legal. The venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which has several investments in A.I. start-ups, warned in its comments that any slowdown for A.I. companies in consuming...
They have played us for absolute fools (lemmy.ml)
that ain't legal either (lemmy.ml)
transcriptScreenshot of github showing part of the commit message of this commit with this text: Remove the backdoor found in 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 (CVE-2024-3094). While the backdoor was inactive (and thus harmless) without inserting a small trigger code into the build system when the source package was created, it’s good to...
“It’s a Silent Fire”: Decaying Digital Movie and TV Show Files Are a Hollywood Crisis (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
The U.S. bans most common form of asbestos, after decades of pushback from industry (www.npr.org)
Teen GTA VI hacker sentenced to life in a secure hospital (www.theverge.com)
I prefer to be the one who writes code (fed.dyne.org)
cross-posted from: fed.dyne.org/post/43780
Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits (www.nola.com)
A rough translation of the principle of Ubuntu is "humanity towards others". Another translation could be: "the belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity". (lemmy.ml)
First screenshot is from here....
at the trilogue meeting, secretly negotiating legislation to reduce web browser security (lemmy.ml)
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PSA: a recently-fixed image parsing vulnerability in Chrome (and things that use Chrome, such as Electron apps) is being actively exploited in the wild. install your updates! (nvd.nist.gov)
Chrome was updated September 11...
Engineers at MIT and in China develop desalination system which could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water (news.mit.edu)
It looks like the paper is paywalled and not yet on scihub but i did find 38 pages of supplemental information with more details than the article.
Nepal tells Everest tourists to take their shit with them (www.cnn.com)
Bluesky update: Toward Federation and an Open Network (blueskyweb.xyz)
I’m not trying to destroy art, says man planning to do just that if Assange dies in jail (www.theguardian.com)
Ukraine to celebrate Christmas on 25 December for first time (news.sky.com)
Philosophy Cop (existentialcomics.com)
existentialcomics.com/comic/513
A helpful graphic about writing alt text (lemmy.ml)
image descriptionAn infographic titled “How To Write Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including “identify who”, “expression”, “description”, “colour”, and “interesting features”. The finished description reads “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa....
the two genders (of the late 20th century) (computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)
Design Lead (lemmy.ml)
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