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Halvar Flake

@halvarflake
17 posts
2025-09-10
I have often stated that well-implemented memory tagging will be a game changer for memory corruptions. And it seems that with the next iPhone it's finally here: https://security.apple.com/...
2025-09-10 View on X
The Verge

Apple says the iPhone 17 and iPhone Air have Memory Integrity Enforcement, “industry-first, always-on memory safety protection”, like Microsoft and Google offer

Memory Integrity Enforcement is always-on safety protection designed to make life harder for spyware developers.

2025-03-28
The Ghibli stuff shows again: The music industry is much stronger at enforcing their copyrights than the image industry.
2025-03-28 View on X
Reservoir Samples

OpenAI's model behavior lead says OpenAI is “shifting from blanket refusals in sensitive areas to a more precise approach focused on preventing real-world harm”

Navigating responsibility and user freedom, and how that influenced setting the Day 1 policy for 4o image generation in ChatGPT X: @altryne , @nexuist , @sterlingcrispin , @borismp...

The Ghibli stuff shows again: The music industry is much stronger at enforcing their copyrights than the image industry.
2025-03-28 View on X
TechCrunch

After OpenAI released ChatGPT's new image generator, social media has been flooded with AI memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, highlighting copyright concerns

here's 7 incredible examples of what it can do Kirk / Geek News Central Podcast : ChatGPT's New Image Model Sparks Additional Copyright Controversies #1810 Spencer Neale / The Amer...

2025-03-27
The Ghibli stuff shows again: The music industry is much stronger at enforcing their copyrights than the image industry.
2025-03-27 View on X
TechCrunch

After OpenAI released ChatGPT's new image generator, social media has been flooded with AI memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, highlighting copyright concerns

It's only been a day since ChatGPT's new AI image generator went live, and social media feeds are already flooded with AI-generated memes …

2025-03-18
If you care about EU industrial policy and sovereign cloud computing, this article is a must-read:  —  berthub.eu/articles/pos...
2025-03-18 View on X
Bert Hubert's writings

A look at Europe's options and potential issues to get a “European Cloud”, which is likely to be more difficult to build than the €15B Galileo satellite system

berthub.eu/articles/pos... Rop Gonggrijp / @rop.gonggri.jp : I'm posting what I see so (maybe) I don't go nuts.  —  Meanwhile Bert Hubert (@berthub.eu) is doing the actual brainwor...

2024-12-26
Ok, reading semianalysis.com/2024/12/22/ m... it seems that *most* of AMDs problems could indeed be remedied by having a team of 4-10 very strong engineers focus on always keeping default PyTorch fast on AMD hardware, with nightly regression tests.
2024-12-26 View on X
SemiAnalysis

Benchmarking AMD's MI300X and Nvidia's H100 and H200; in theory, AMD's GPU has advantages in specs and total cost of ownership, but software bugs hold it back

This NVidia monopoly on #ai hardware is not good for anybody. … X: Nicholas Wilt / @cudahandbook : NVIDIA to churn the hardware instruction set with abandon, sometimes even committ...

2024-12-25
Ok, reading semianalysis.com/2024/12/22/ m... it seems that *most* of AMDs problems could indeed be remedied by having a team of 4-10 very strong engineers focus on always keeping default PyTorch fast on AMD hardware, with nightly regression tests.
2024-12-25 View on X
SemiAnalysis

Benchmarking AMD's MI300X and Nvidia's H100 and H200; in theory, AMD's GPU has advantages in specs and Total Cost of Ownership, but software bugs hold it back

Intro  —  SemiAnalysis has been on a five-month long quest to settle the reality of MI300X.  In theory, the MI300X …

2024-12-02
Pat Gelsinger retires. https://www.msn.com/... Personally, I am not optimistic about Intel without Pat at the helm.
2024-12-02 View on X
TechCrunch

Intel says CEO Pat Gelsinger retired and left its board on December 1, and names CFO David Zinsner and Client Computing Group GM Michelle Holthaus as co-CEOs

Intel has announced that CEO Pat Gelsinger has retired, effective December 1, and stepped down from the company's board of directors.

2024-06-23
People that ignore robots.txt automatically waive their side of all other agreements, such as ToS or licensing terms.
2024-06-23 View on X
Fast Company

In response to plagiarism allegations, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says the company “is not ignoring” robots.txt, but does rely on third-party web crawlers

* what we do is highly technical, you don't understand  —  * it wasn't us it was a third party service/contractor/vendor  —  https://www.fastcompany.com/ ... @bsmall2@mstdn.jp : Au...

2023-12-04
https://www.wired.com/... No conflict of interest at all, from a person that made his fortune by no conflicts of interest ;)
2023-12-04 View on X
Wired

Documents: OpenAI signed a letter of intent in 2019 to spend $51M on brain-inspired chips developed by startup Rain AI, in which Sam Altman had invested $1M+

Paresh Dave / Wired :

2023-10-04
This is a pretty disingenious proposal. Meta has pretty good data about the average revenue per european user from Ad clicks, and $10 a month it isn't. If Meta was serious, the monthly price would be closer to the expected revenue per user using Ads. https://www.wsj.com/...
2023-10-04 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: in September, Meta pitched EU regulators a plan to charge Facebook and Instagram users a subscription to avoid ads, starting at ~€10/month for desktop

European users would have option to pay fee or agree to personalized ads, according to company's pitch to regulators

2022-12-05
ChatGPT has been trained on lots of high-quality human-curated Stackoverflow data, and now ... https://meta.stackoverflow.com/ ...
2022-12-05 View on X
The Verge

Stack Overflow temporarily bans users from sharing responses generated by ChatGPT, pending a final ruling; the site's mods say most ChatGPT answers are wrong

Stack Overflow, the go-to question-and-answer site for coders and programmers, has temporarily banned users from sharing responses generated by AI chatbot ChatGPT.

Feedback effects: Google initially relied on the (human-curated) link structure of the internet to derive “importance” signals from the internet graph. As people started using Google instead of links, Google accidentally destroyed the fabric that provided the value.
2022-12-05 View on X
The Verge

Stack Overflow temporarily bans users from sharing responses generated by ChatGPT, pending a final ruling; the site's mods say most ChatGPT answers are wrong

Stack Overflow, the go-to question-and-answer site for coders and programmers, has temporarily banned users from sharing responses generated by AI chatbot ChatGPT.

2022-10-06
Why Big Tech shreds millions of storage devices it could reuse - https://www.ft.com/... via @FT — a good article about a situation where infosec panic leads to poor environmental decisions
2022-10-06 View on X
Financial Times

An investigation shows Amazon, Microsoft, and others destroy millions of data storage devices each year, creating huge waste when software wiping methods exist

Companies like Amazon and Microsoft routinely destroy used hard drives in the name of data security — but industry insiders say there is a better option Tweets: @halvarflake , @fin...

2021-11-24
This is an interesting point that I had not pondered in-depth before: Discoverability in FB changes the risk calculous for messaging. https://twitter.com/...
2021-11-24 View on X
@elegant_wallaby

[Thread] A former Facebook employee says Meta announced an “absurdly accelerated timeline” for e2ee messaging to preempt antitrust action and generate good PR

David Thiel / @elegant_wallaby :

2021-11-01
You can't build a greenfield cloud. None of the existing clouds are greenfields. They are all outgrowth of ridiculously profitable and cash-flow-rich businesses. Building a cloud is likely the single most capital-intensive business you can be in. https://twitter.com/...
2021-11-01 View on X
Politico

Industry and government officials say Gaia-X, a project to reduce the EU's cloud dependency on US tech giants, is clogged by infighting and bloated bureaucracy

2020-09-21
I am looking forward to the postmortem on this :-) https://twitter.com/...
2020-09-21 View on X
Mashable

Twitter says it will investigate after users find its preview of a photo, with a Black person and a white person, more frequently displayed the white person

The first look a Twitter user gets at a tweet might be an unintentionally racially biased one.  —  Twitter said Sunday …