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This YouTube video about the Cashier Girl Meme is interesting in the context of AI systems that generate images of people and can communicate with people, hotter than any real[...]
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This YouTube video about the Cashier Girl Meme is interesting in the context of AI systems that generate images of people and can communicate with people, hotter than any real[...]
Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders wrote a disturbing and informative article about the use of AI by the US government [1]. Bruce Schneier wrote an interesting blog post about[...]
This is amusing, a flaw in the crypto-currency Zcash allowed generating Zcash from nothing and there’s no way to know if anyone did that [1]. Cory Doctorow wrote an insightful[...]
Ron Garrett wrote an interesting blog post about the mathematical possibility of abiogenesis [1]. Cory Doctorow wrote an interesting blog post about the way the current antics of right wing[...]
Charles Stross wrote an interesting blog post about the apparent desire of super rich people to kill the poor, it seems that the people in power want to make all[...]
Krebs has an interesting article about the Kimwolf botnet which uses residential proxy relay services [1]. cory Doctorow wrote an insightful blog post about code being a liability not an[...]
Charles Stross has a good theory of why “AI” is being pushed on corporations, really we need to just replace CEOs with LLMs [1]. This disturbing and amusing article describes[...]
Russ Allbery wrote an interesting review of Politics on the Edge, by Rory Stewart who sems like one of the few conservative politicians I could respect and possibly even like[...]
Informative video about the way corporations charge different rates based on location and even type of device used on the web site [1]. This should be illegal everywhere! Bruce Schneier[...]
Werdahias wrote an informative blog post about Dark Mode for QT programs on non-QT environments (mostly GNOME based), we need more blog posts about this sort of thing [1]. Astral[...]