2025-07-24
Imagine if any other admin tried to pull this level of censorship. It will sadly have a massive effect on AIs' usefulness and truth relaying abilities & should scare the shit out of all of us, esp. people that work at AI labs. The odds that their work will fuel Orwell's fever dream just went up 200% [embedded post]
Deadline
At an All-In Podcast summit, President Trump said forcing AI firms to pay for each copyrighted work is “not doable”, calling for “common sense” AI and IP rules
Donald Trump said that AI companies can't be expected to pay for the use of copyrighted content in their systems …
Imagine if any other admin tried to pull this level of censorship. It will sadly have a massive effect on AIs' usefulness and truth relaying abilities & should scare the shit out of all of us, esp. people that work at AI labs. The odds that their work will fuel Orwell's fever dream just went up 200% [embedded post]
Financial Times
The Trump administration plans to vet AI models for “ideological bias” and limit government contracts to tech companies whose models offer “objective truth”
Federal government will only do business with tech companies whose models offer ‘objective truth’
2025-07-23
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned the financial industry of a “significant impending fraud crisis” because of AI voice print fraud. — Those bankers should have just been reading my blog back in, checks notes, *2021* — keydiscussions.com/2021/12/07/ d... finance.yahoo.com/news/openais...
CNN
In an interview at the Federal Reserve, Sam Altman warns of an impending “fraud crisis” because of how AI could enable bad actors to impersonate other people
New York CNN — — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the world may be on the precipice of a “fraud crisis” …
2022-09-17
@Techmeme @LawrenceAbrams This is a major deal if true —> not only have Uber's systems been compromised, but the company will remained compromised until it fixes all of their known vulnerabilities. In other words, the odds of hacker reentry are extremely high and will remain so for the foreseeable future
New York Times
Uber takes some internal systems offline to investigate a network breach; Yuga Labs' Sam Curry says it appears the hacker pretty much has “full access to Uber”
what you need to know Msmash / Slashdot : Uber Investigating Breach of Its Computer Systems Prajeet Nair / BankInfoSecurity.com : Uber Probes Breach After Hacker Boasts About Intru...
@Techmeme @LawrenceAbrams This is a major deal if true —> not only have Uber's systems been compromised, but the company will remained compromised until it fixes all of their known vulnerabilities. In other words, the odds of hacker reentry are extremely high and will remain so for the foreseeable future
The Verge
Uber says there is “no evidence” the hacker accessed sensitive user info, like trip histories, during the breach and that all its products are now “operational”
Uber says there is “no evidence” that any of its users' private information was compromised in a breach of its internal computer systems.
2022-09-10
@Techmeme @kenrickcai Given that startups like Helium raised at higher valuations this year (https://www.axios.com/...), a $1B valuation seems fair or even low for a company with this much traction
Forbes
Sources: Stability AI, the startup behind Stable Diffusion, is in talks to raise $100M; Coatue proposed a $500M valuation and Lightspeed offered a $1B valuation
With the image generator Stable Diffusion, you can conjure within seconds a potrait of Beyoncé as if painted by Vincent van Gogh … Tweets: @kenrickcai , @spencerdailey , @vatsofgoo...
2022-09-02
@Techmeme @katienotopoulos For anyone who doubted the 2015-era hype around smart assistants and if they would put a dent in the universe, you can now flush away your doubts once and for all
BuzzFeed News
Some musicians with songs about “poop” say Amazon Music has become their biggest source of revenue, likely due to kids yelling the word at Alexa-enabled devices
Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News :
2022-08-04
1/ this solana/USDC hack situation is nuts: it's a worst case scenario (thousands of wallets hacked for no apparent reason after 15+ hours) and... SOL is only down 4% over 24 hours. Markets are completely broken https://www.techmeme.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Decrypt
The Solana Foundation says exploited addresses were “created, imported, or used” in Slope mobile wallets and there's “no evidence” the protocol was compromised
Private keys may have been inadvertently compromised as a Solana mobile wallet is fingered for the major network attack.
1/ this solana/USDC hack situation is nuts: it's a worst case scenario (thousands of wallets hacked for no apparent reason after 15+ hours) and... SOL is only down 4% over 24 hours. Markets are completely broken https://www.techmeme.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Decrypt
An unknown attacker has been emptying Solana and USDC wallets; Solscan says over 15K wallets have been affected, draining $4.46M, primarily in SOL and USDC
At this point in the crypto deflation, an apparent attack … Aman Anand / Fossbytes : Solana Wallets Get Hacked, And The Company Loses Millions Rahul Nambiampurath / Ethereum World ...
2022-04-07
@Techmeme @thedextriarchy this super impressive, as it can fit formats well too https://twitter.com/.... it's fun to play with and think of the possibilities. makes you wonder about IP infringement/attribution issues, nonetheless it will be hugely disruptive to graphic designers and game assets creators
The Verge
OpenAI releases DALL-E 2, a higher-resolution and lower-latency version of its text-to-image generation program with new capabilities, to researchers in preview
Researchers can sign up to preview it — Artificial intelligence research group OpenAI has created a new version of DALL-E, its text-to-image generation program.
2022-03-13
shame on Apple and Google for sticking around in this country after being treated this way. How did they think this would end? Where is the line drawn on being complicit with authoritarians?This isn't “following the law”. Utter despair in tech's role in society today and tomorrow https://twitter.com/...
Washington Post
Sources: Apple and Google removed Kremlin critic Navalny's app in September after FSB agents came to top executives' homes and threatened to take them to prison
Russian agents came to the home of Google's top executive in Moscow to deliver a frightening ultimatum last September …
2022-02-10
You know what the real power move would be? Pre-announce an open 3rd-party app store for iOS in anticipation of rules being changed by regulators (anywhere in the world) https://twitter.com/...
Washington Post
In a bid to appease lawmakers and regulators, Microsoft outlines 11 app store principles, including equal treatment and allowing third-party payment processing
Microsoft hints it will open up Xbox store, changing its entire business model The Economic Times : Microsoft unveils new app store guidelines as it woos regulators on deal Financi...
2021-11-10
@Techmeme @jaypeters ahh, I forgot how much i missed Nuzzel, so nice to have it back. It's a “top” list that's 100x more relevant to you than “What's happening"/Trending, and can be thought of as sort of a super-evolved RSS reader. Ad-free articles — also very much appreciated. Easily worth $3 to me
The Verge
Twitter Blue rolls out to the US for $2.99/month with Scroll's ad-free articles across 300+ pubs, an undo button, Nuzzel-like “top articles” roundup, and more
2021-11-04
stop it Paypal, you're drunk. (How does a service that deals with money not think it's a terrible idea to let users log in with just SMS?) https://twitter.com/...
VICE
A look at the booming market for bots that steal 2FA codes, often using SMS services like Twilio, to break into Coinbase, Amazon, PayPal, and bank accounts
2021-10-19
i hide my menu bar for maximum space, and you can't do that here without eating into your main apps' vertical space. the notch also reminds people of iphone features, and makes a touch screen an even more obvious omission, as well as Face ID. https://twitter.com/...
CNBC
MacBook Pro updates show Apple listened to pro users, who never warmed to the Touch Bar or lack of ports
- Apple's new MacBook Pro models, announced on Monday, conspicuously lack many of the least popular features from the 2016 design. — They include ports for connecting cameras and ...
2021-08-31
3 hours, aka: just long enough for kids to know what they're missing https://twitter.com/...
Bloomberg
State media says China is restricting online gaming for minors to three hours most weeks of the year, from 8pm to 9pm on Fridays, weekends, and public holidays
- The country is imposing its strictest limits yet on play time — Beijing is waging a campaign to groom productive youths
2021-07-21
@Techmeme 1/2) his claim that the list has “nothing” to do with us is almost certainly false. There is near certainty that there is overlap with people on that list and people that got Pegasus spyware. What does seem probable is that the list is not completely overlapping with NSO targets.
CTech
NSO CEO claims leaked list of 50K+ phone numbers potentially targeted with NSO spyware has “nothing to do with us” and had first heard about the list last month
@Techmeme 1/2) his claim that the list has “nothing” to do with us is almost certainly false. There is near certainty that there is overlap with people on that list and people that got Pegasus spyware. What does seem probable is that the list is not completely overlapping with NSO targets.
Washington Post
Phone numbers belonging to ten prime ministers, three presidents, and a king were among the list of 50K potential NSO targets, leaked to Amnesty International
Spies for centuries have trained their sights on those who shape destinies of nations: presidents, prime ministers, kings.
@Techmeme 3/bonus) Regarding the “list”: Amnesty said 34 iPhones were forensically checked. 23 successfully had malware (specifically Pegasus) installed on them. the other 11 saw attempts at malware infection. That's a 100% hit rate on their sampling of the “list”. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Washington Post
Phone numbers belonging to ten prime ministers, three presidents, and a king were among the list of 50K potential NSO targets, leaked to Amnesty International
Spies for centuries have trained their sights on those who shape destinies of nations: presidents, prime ministers, kings.
@Techmeme 3/bonus) Regarding the “list”: Amnesty said 34 iPhones were forensically checked. 23 successfully had malware (specifically Pegasus) installed on them. the other 11 saw attempts at malware infection. That's a 100% hit rate on their sampling of the “list”. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
CTech