A group published a Hugging Face project that let anyone generate videos using OpenAI's Sora, protesting what it calls the company's duplicity and “art washing”
non-beta testers could try it for three hours Suhasini Srinivasaragavan / Silicon Republic : OpenAI's Sora reportedly leaked by protesting artists Stefanie Schappert / Cybernews.com : Creative artists...
Constellation Energy plans to invest $1.6B to revive the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania and sell all the output to Microsoft for data centers
Nuke Will Be Restarted To Power Microsoft Data Center Spencer Kimball / CNBC : Constellation Energy to restart Three Mile Island nuclear plant, sell the power to Microsoft for AI Lawrence Bonk / Engad...
An analysis of OpenAI's GPT Store finds 100+ custom GPTs that appear to violate OpenAI's policies regarding sexual content, legal and medical advice, and more
Todd Feathers / Gizmodo :
An analysis of 36GB of US school network logs for January 2022 to August 2023 finds widespread internet censoring filters, such as for health and sexuality info
A WIRED investigation into internet censorship in US schools found widespread use of filters to censor health, identity, and other crucial information. X: @meghann , @katiedrumm , @cendemtech , @toddf...
Some US unemployment applicants say facial recognition models used by ID verification service ID.me are failing to identify them, locking them out of benefits
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A look at the fight over using differential privacy techniques in the US Census, which anonymizes datasets but some argue lowers the quality of the datasets
Todd Feathers / The Markup : Tweets: @juliaangwin and @toddfeathers Tweets: Julia Angwin / @juliaangwin : No one covers differential privacy like we do @themarkup! @ToddFeathers reports on the Census...
A look at surveillance apps Shadowtrack and SmartLink, which are used by states and ICE as parole apps replacing GPS ankle bracelets
Todd Feathers / The Guardian : Tweets: @migradetention and @hypervisible Tweets: @migradetention : “It is not a substitute for detention, but allows ICE to exercise increased supervision over a porti...
Some schools and organizations are abandoning exam monitoring software made by Proctorio amid a barrage of complaints from students over privacy
Todd Feathers / VICE : Tweets: @motherboard , @fightfortheftr , @eff , @zenalbatross , and @hypervisible Tweets: @motherboard : Proctorio has cashed in on remote learning since the start of the pande...
Docs: SpaceX, others are lobbying FCC to deny Amazon's waiver request for spectrum access for its satellite internet project after Amazon missed 2016 deadline
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A look at the problems caused by spyware on student devices, marketed as a way to prevent shootings, without any independent research to support the claims
Todd Feathers / VICE : Tweets: @josephfcox , @inhabitglobal , @zenalbatross , and @vice Tweets: Joseph Cox / @josephfcox : We tested out some software used to monitor kids laptops at school and... it...