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Calif. lawsuit accuses Meta of sending nude video from AI glasses to workers An investigation by Swedish and Kenyan journalists prompted the lawsuit.

When you use Meta’s glasses, will anything you see — from documents you review to those super sexy hookups where you keep your stupid glasses on — potentially be reviewed by underpaid workers in Kenya?
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News outlets have to take note of this. A UN commission has found that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet all the legal qualifications of a genocide. This is now officially the Palestinian Genocide and any attempt to claim otherwise is genocide denial. Enough of the ‘Israel’s defending itself’ bollocks.

Ireland will remember what International Law is on or after 18th March.

There’s a lot of academic research now, and a few U.K. govt studies that show that all LLMs do is move the effort of a task to later in the process, but at a cost to cognition, skill development, and memory formation.

So it’s harder to edit the draft because you didn’t create it and think about it.

Information literacy and chatbots as search By Emily This post started off as a thread I wrote and posted across social media on Sunday evening. I'm reproducing the thread (lightly edited) first and...

4) I need some information and I wish to just pose my question to an all-knowing oracle.

DO NOT DO THIS. Chatbots, even if they could reliably return "the" correct answer, are not a good tech for information access.

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What about the cases where they seem useful? These seem to fall into a few categories:

1) I need to take a set of notes and turn it into a polished document, and I'm in a position to check that it says what I mean.

Ok fine but writing is thinking and you're letting that muscle atrophy.

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This is what I keep saying when people play the AI productivity card. A lot of productivity tech doesn't actually solve productivity problems, it enables or even exacerbates them.

Oracle to cut 'thousands' of jobs, reports Bloomberg Oracle will cut 'thousands' of jobs to funnel funds into its AI data centre expansion efforts. Filing shows layoffs will cost Oracle $1.6bn.

Oracle will cut “thousands” of jobs to funnel funds into its major AI data centre expansion efforts, reported Bloomberg. Last September, the company revealed plans for its largest-ever restructuring, set to cost up to $1.6bn.

And not always BigKaboom. Could be a thing done that makes Data Centre fall down go boom by attacking something small but important in a “creative” way.

If we reframe the goal as “critical infrastructure fall down hole” and are approach agnostic people can be very “creative”.

We are hiring a Head of Global Advocacy and Internet Policy at the Internet Society! This is a rare opportunity to join our team and shape the future of the Internet during one of its most challenging eras. 1/5

AG finds that a requirement for surveillance cameras monitoring areas where fishing boats handle/discard fish is a proportionate restriction of rights to privacy and data protection. Interesting discussion of standard of review, privacy issues in workplace, and safeguards (especially anonymisation).

This is a good analogy. Very useful in carefully controlled settings for specific usages, but unfortunately being widely inserted into everything and used without training or PPE and poisoning a lot of things and people and we’re going to pay a tonne of money to remove it safely in the future

Government told in advance Irish ferry passengers would have faces scanned arriving at Holyhead Minister for Justice says his department was advised in advance of facial recognition technology trial by UK immigration officers

“Irish citizens and residents are having their biometric data processed without them having done anything to raise suspicion ... simply for getting on a ferry.” - @olgacronin.bsky.social on live facial recognition scanning of thousands of travellers at Holyhead.

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Literally the first thing academics pointed out about LLMs YEARS AGO was that they would be used for catastrophic levels of fraud—how nice that now the AI bros are confirming what we all knew by running fraud experiments to tell cheats which LLM to use to cheat

I understand lack of bandwidth and it being a minor sideshow relative to the Gulf, but I do think it’s been surprisingly quickly glossed over that the current holder of the presidency of the EU council is under active drone threat. You might think that would be of interest to other small countries 🤔

In 50 years' time, the world will look back at this era and ask itself how administrators and politicians so badly failed to understand the internet and its intersection with society at large.

There's a chance, too, that the answers won't be available because of the stupidity of today.

They are just the Eldritch runes used to summon the Elder God Yogsothoth and bind him. Apparently he’s going to be Grand Master in the Dun Laoghaire parade.

Termonfeckin got Cthulhu himself. But their committee had their shit together with the invocations for a while now.

this is a must read 🔥🔥

ChatGPT Health 'under-triaged' half of medical emergencies in a new study Researchers tested different medical scenarios with the chatbot. In more than half of cases in which doctors would send patients to the ER, the chatbot said it was OK to delay care.

"Researchers tested different medical scenarios with the chatbot. In more than half of cases in which doctors would send patients to the ER, the chatbot said it was OK to delay care."

U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zone A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Putting the Nut in Crunchy Nut.

A warning on a web site that my international-format 'phone number "doesn't look like a mobile number!"

Pantomime voice: Oh yes it does!

Screen shot of my attempting to give my name to an insurance quotation site (aig.ie!), where it tells me that I haven't entered my full forename (I have entered "Éibhear", so I don't know how it knows) and that "numbers, Spaces or special characters [are not] allowed" in my Last name (which I provide as "Ó hAnluain" because it is, like, my last name).

Pantomime voice: Oh yes they are!

It occurs to me that if the government did force UK writers to hand over their work to the big AI companies, that would now among other things mean contributing to the development of US advanced weapon systems.

TikTok says it won't encrypt DMs claiming it puts users at risk TikTok tells the BBC it won't join rival platforms such as WhatsApp and Messenger in using end-to-end encryption.

According to the BBC E2EE is “controversial technology” - so protecting your user base is somehow “contravertial” ??? Weird times.

Article: TikTok won't protect DMs with controversial privacy tech, saying it would put users at risk www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I resemble that remark.

"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

Look, it goes without saying that all these people are dumber than rocks.

But issuing *exactly* the statement your opponent in a hot war would dream of seems a particular failure to understand how propaganda is meant to work.

When the mad king recruits with sycophancy as the only metric needed.

It would be ***extremely prudent*** to increase your OT threat posture as an organisation if you are in global or regional logistics, oil and gas, communication, agriculture, etc. Or critical infrastructure in any potentially involved nations.

1969: ARPANET was created to keep the network operational even if individual computers go down.

2025: AWS goes down and takes half the world's services with it.