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@mikarv

@mikarv
55 posts
2024-07-19
which crisis PR firm did you hire?
2024-07-19 View on X
@george_kurtz

CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz says “the issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed”, and CrowdStrike is working with its impacted customers

CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted. This is not a security...

which crisis PR firm did you hire?
2024-07-19 View on X
The Verge

BSODs hit thousands of Windows PCs due to “a defect” in an update from CrowdStrike, taking banks, airlines, and more businesses offline; Microsoft is aware

Thousands of Windows machines are experiencing a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue at boot today, impacting banks …

2024-05-20
UK gov: Britain is a leader in AI tech companies Also UK gov: there are so few AI companies in Britain we have to give out a £1m tender for 3 months work entirely uncontested to Faculty https://www.politico.eu/...
2024-05-20 View on X
Politico

A look at UK-based Faculty, which has been awarded UK government contracts for AI safety work without competition, raising questions about its political links

2024-05-19
UK gov: Britain is a leader in AI tech companies Also UK gov: there are so few AI companies in Britain we have to give out a £1m tender for 3 months work entirely uncontested to Faculty https://www.politico.eu/...
2024-05-19 View on X
Politico

A look at UK-based Faculty, which has been awarded UK government contracts for AI safety work without competition, raising questions about its political links

LONDON — Early 2000s, University College London: Four bright young things meet and bond over their shared love of physics and neuroscience.

2024-04-12
Google: we have used AI to discover 2.2 million new crystals, 384K are stable. Chemists, actually examining results: we have yet to find any strikingly novel compounds in the [..] listings. (most could not exist or are so trivially different chemists wouldn't consider them new)
2024-04-12 View on X
404 Media

Researchers say they haven't found “strikingly novel compounds” after analyzing a subset of the 2.2M new crystals DeepMind claimed its AI tool GNoME discovered

In November, Google's AI outfit DeepMind published a press release titled “Millions of new materials discovered with deep learning.”

2024-03-20
Techcrunch article combining two of my recent obsessions, model marketplaces ( https://osf.io/...) and AI essay mills (https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/ ...)
2024-03-20 View on X
TechCrunch

A review of OpenAI's GPT Store finds many GPTs offer bizarre services, potentially infringe on copyright laws, impersonate people, jailbreak ChatGPT, and more

When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced GPTs, custom chatbots powered by OpenAI's generative AI models, onstage at the company's …

2023-11-17
~1/10 of the entire cost of the nonprofit private messenger Signal ($6m a year of ~$50m a year by 2025) are given straight to telecoms companies for SMS registration services. These telcos hike the prices of SMS as they know firms using them for registration will have to pay.
2023-11-17 View on X
Wired

In a first, the Signal Foundation publishes Signal's operating costs: ~$40M in 2023, projected to hit $50M by 2025, with $14M for infrastructure costs in 2023

2023-10-06
cloud services are commonly misunderstood as just allowing remote access to computing resources over a network, but in practice are all about large firms shaping and homogenising what ‘tasks’ are in organisations to sell their computation at int'l scale with low marginal cost.
2023-10-06 View on X
The Verge

The CMA opens an investigation into the supply of public cloud infrastructure services in the UK with the deadline of April 4, 2025, following Ofcom's referral

Following its probe into the UK cloud services market, Ofcom has referred the matter to the CMA …

2023-09-17
Interesting that TikTok also commissioned a report and submitted it in defence of the transparency of privacy settings to children, written by @alicetiara Alice Marwick, but its conclusion was rejected by the Irish DPC.
2023-09-17 View on X
TechCrunch

Ireland's DPC fines TikTok €345M after finding the company in breach of GDPR in relation to its handling of children's data and gives three months to comply

most stuff gets fixed with a tap on the shoulder, but the unlawfulness still needs addressing. [image] Caroline Greer / @carolinegreer : The 🇮🇪 DPC decision published today in rela...

2023-09-16
Interesting that TikTok also commissioned a report and submitted it in defence of the transparency of privacy settings to children, written by @alicetiara Alice Marwick, but its conclusion was rejected by the Irish DPC.
2023-09-16 View on X
TechCrunch

Ireland's DPC fines TikTok €345M after finding the company in breach of GDPR in relation to its handling of children's data and gives three months to comply

It's been a long time coming but TikTok has finally been found in breach of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation …

2023-09-15
Interesting that TikTok also commissioned a report and submitted it in defence of the transparency of privacy settings to children, written by @alicetiara Alice Marwick, but its conclusion was rejected by the Irish DPC.
2023-09-15 View on X
TechCrunch

Ireland's DPC fines TikTok €345M after finding it in breach of GDPR in relation to how it handles children's data and gives the company three months to comply

It's been a long time coming but TikTok has finally been found in breach of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation …

2023-04-01
Italian DPA issues a immediate, temporary limitation on OpenAI processing personal data in Italy as part of #ChatGPT, on the basis of - no legal basis - lack of accuracy - no age verification of users - no filters for under 13s https://www.garanteprivacy.it/ ... #GDPR #GarantePrivacy #GPDP
2023-04-01 View on X
Politico

Italy's privacy regulator temporarily bans ChatGPT and probes OpenAI, claiming the company has no legal basis for “mass collection and storage of personal data”

The Privacy Layer for ChatGPT  —  Safely leverage ChatGPT for your business without compromising privacy. John Hendel / Politico : 5 questions for Brenda Darden Wilkerson Adaeze Uc...

2023-03-31
Italian DPA issues a immediate, temporary limitation on OpenAI processing personal data in Italy as part of #ChatGPT, on the basis of - no legal basis - lack of accuracy - no age verification of users - no filters for under 13s https://www.garanteprivacy.it/ ... #GDPR #GarantePrivacy #GPDP
2023-03-31 View on X
Politico

Italy's privacy regulator temporarily bans ChatGPT and will probe OpenAI, claiming the company lacks a basis for “mass collection and storage of personal data”

The Italian privacy regulator Friday ordered a ban on ChatGPT over alleged privacy violations.

2023-03-07
The Irish DPC used to publish in its annual reports it's ongoing list of cross border statutory inquiries (eg 2020 report). They vanish in the 2021, and today's 2022 report. Why? Pressure from the investigates firms? Wanting to avoid that so many have been open for five (1/2)
2023-03-07 View on X
Silicon Republic

A report by Ireland's DPC: 17 large inquiries concluded in 2022, resulting in €1B+ fines; 10K+ cases concluded in 2022, including 246 cross-border complaints

Vish Gain / Silicon Republic :

2023-02-21
intervention. UK users will no longer be able to complain to the Irish DPC, and can only rely on the ICO, which in turn may struggle to enforce penalties against the US entity (as opposed to an Irish tax vehicle) https://www.bloomberg.com/... (2/2)
2023-02-21 View on X
Bloomberg

Meta plans to update its TOS for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp users in the UK and begin moving those users from its Irish subsidiary onto US agreements

Meta Platforms Inc. will begin moving its UK users away from the company's Irish subsidiary and onto US agreements in a move the social-media giant flagged post-Brexit.

#Meta ships UK users out of EU #GDPR protection. Likely triggered by risk of stop processing orders over #Schrems II and targeted ads, which then wouldn't apply to the UK, and a desire to keep transferring UK data to the US without the risk of CJEU involvement or (1/2)
2023-02-21 View on X
Bloomberg

Meta plans to update its TOS for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp users in the UK and begin moving those users from its Irish subsidiary onto US agreements

Meta Platforms Inc. will begin moving its UK users away from the company's Irish subsidiary and onto US agreements in a move the social-media giant flagged post-Brexit.

2022-10-25
Apple inadvertently keeping the dream of the open web alive by forcing companies there to escape the sheer greed in their app ecosystem. https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-25 View on X
MacRumors

Apple's new App Store guidelines say that social networking apps that sell “boosts” for posts must use in-app purchases for the transactions

With the release of iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16.1, Apple is updating the App Store review guidelines that are provided to developers who create apps for iPhones and iPads.

2022-10-16
The Wire now running a v interesting rebuttal to Meta's claim that incredibly damning internal emails were fake, with evidence that the email is in use, DKIM headers valid, and more. Suggests FB v successful in sowing doubt and limiting the story's impact. https://thewire.in/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-16 View on X
The Wire

In response to Meta's rebuttal of its XCheck report, The Wire shares a video of a source using a subdomain, DKIM signatures, and more, but experts are skeptical

& many mainstream foreign journalists also questioned The Wire's work. Now, @thewire_in says it's verified the email via- its DKIM signature. https://thewire.in/... Matthew Green /...

2022-09-30
Devestating scoop from Olivia as she blazes back to the UK tech beat. Palantir also sought to go via @techUK, a lobby group long trying to be the face of tech ethics with the UK Government, to stop gov building their own data linkage tech, and instead become reliant on Foundry. https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-30 View on X
Bloomberg

Internal Palantir documents detail a plan to deepen its ties to the UK's NHS by buying up smaller rivals, helping avoid scrutiny and increase health data

Palantir Technologies had a secret plan to deepen its relationship with the UK's National Health Service without public scrutiny. Tweets: @oliviasolon , @parismarx , @xtophercook ,...

2022-09-05
Subsidising content moderation w/ advertising is a failed model, even more so given concentration in the absurd, illegal adtech market. It breaks new/small innovative platforms & breaks small/poor nations, languages & communities. Accepting eg Meta's dominance is not a solution. https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-05 View on X
Washington Post

Peiter Zatko's allegations offer details on Twitter's misinformation policies and failures, including accepting a QAnon proponent into its Birdwatch program

A document from whistleblower Peiter Zatko that details the company's failings in policing misinformation shows what happens when a business model fails Tweets: @markseibel , @bald...