petri 2 years ago

”The Beijing institute developed the technique to crack an iPhone’s encrypted device log to identify the numbers and emails of senders who share AirDrop content” http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-09/china-says-cracked-apple-s-airdrop-to-identify-message-sources

petri 2 years ago

The EU version will be brief: ”Due to regulatory oversight, you are not allowed to chat while in a vehicle.” The rest of the world: "Here's an example of a simplified route but make your own for accurate driving experience."

TechCrunch

Volkswagen is bringing ChatGPT into its cars and SUVs | TechCrunch

Volkswagen, with help from with software partner Cerence, are bringing ChatGPT into vehicles in the second quarter of 2024.

petri 2 years ago

”A lightweight electric personal aircraft that doesn’t require a pilot’s license to fly… …more than 20 miles of range and a charge time of about 75 minutes from 20% to 100% battery using a 240V charger.”

TechCrunch

Pivotal kicks off US sales of its lightweight electric personal Helix aircraft | TechCrunch

Pivotal, the Palo Alto, California–based company backed by Larry Page, kicked off online sales Monday night at CES 2024 for Helix, a lightweight ...

petri 2 years ago

”Russia has increasingly deployed EW to push off-course Ukraine’s western-supplied, precision-guided munitions, such as Himars rockets and Excalibur artillery shells.”

Client Challenge

petri 2 years ago

”The Russian navy is the only navy that can’t manage to grow mostly because it keeps losing ships in combat… The Ukrainian navy, which has no large front-line ships, keeps sinking and blowing up Russian vessels.” https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/01/06/the-ukrainian-navy-blows-up-as-much-russian-naval-tonnage-as-russian-shipyards-manage-to-build/?sh=7c577f2b652d

petri 2 years ago

Audius

Audius — Free Music Streaming for Artists, Labels & Fans

Audius is a music streaming and sharing platform that puts power back into the hands of content creators.

removed repeatedly my podcast episode of Darude. It has no music, just my content. They did not inform me about it but the episode link tells that it was taken down by the copyright owner. They never responded to me. My guess is that they just remove everything that has a musician’s name on it proactively. View quoted note →

petri 2 years ago

What’s the proper term for being a hostage of a subpar product but cannot stop using it because of network effects (hard to message when others are not switching)? Wapp for iPad is so bad that that’s the view I’m staring at the most.

petri 2 years ago

”There are "tens of thousands" of outdated rockets of various types that Ukraine could fire from HIMARS waiting to be destroyed”

Newsweek

US ATACMS expiry date raises questions

Ukraine needs more M39 ATACMS to block Russian efforts to resupply troops in annexed southern Ukraine, said Daniel Rice, a former adviser to Kyiv's...

petri 2 years ago

”Poisoned data samples can manipulate models into learning, for example, that images of hats are cakes, and images of handbags are toasters…it requires tech companies to painstakingly find and delete each corrupted sample. ”

MIT Technology Review

This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI

The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models.

petri 2 years ago

”Fidelity has marked down its investment in X holdings — the parent company of X (formerly Twitter) owned by Elon Musk — by 71.5% from the original valuation of shares, according to a new disclosure.”

TechCrunch

Fidelity marks down X valuation by 71.5% | TechCrunch

Asset manager Fidelity has marked down its investment in Musk-owned X by 71.5% from the original valuation of shares.

petri 2 years ago

X is not a platform for content creators

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Bluesky content is now open and no logging in required

Bluesky

A New Look for Bluesky: The Social Butterfly - Bluesky

A new look for Bluesky — the social butterfly — and a public web interface.

petri 2 years ago

Are the new nostr users from yesterday technically eXes?

petri 2 years ago

”The assassination of the warlord was two months in the making and approved by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s oldest ally and confidant, an ex-spy named Nikolai Patrushev” https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/putin-patrushev-plan-prigozhin-assassination-428d5ed8

petri 2 years ago

”Information entropy…trends towards “compressing” or discarding information over time in the name of optimization. This could be why..we see so much symmetry in the natural world—these symmetric patterns are a way to minimize and optimize information.”

VICE

Mind-Blowing New Law of Physics Could Mean We Really Live in a Simulation, Physicist Proposes

“Being a simulation is a possible consequence (or conclusion)" of the proposed second law of infodynamics, physicist Melvin Vopson says.

petri 2 years ago

”We’d also need to replace American aid to Ukraine — €71.4bn in the war’s first 21 months, according to the Kiel Institute, or €40.8bn on an annualised basis. That’s €70 a year per European citizen of Nato. We could find that if we wanted.”

Client Challenge

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”$300 billion is a reasonable down payment on the reparations that Russia should pay to Ukraine. Russian money should rightly compensate Ukrainians for the harm that Russia has done, and help rebuild the Ukrainian infrastructure that Russia destroyed”

The Atlantic

Give Russia’s Frozen Assets to Ukraine Now

Putin should pay for the damage his invasion has caused, and the money is needed immediately.