Tag: law

Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/25/uk_police_lfr_tender/ Source: The Register Title: Smile! UK cops spend tens of millions on live facial recognition tech Feedly Summary: Labour government keen, though critics paint it as a severe threat to privacy UK government has launched a £20 million ($25 million) competition for tech companies to provide live facial recognition to a number…

The Register: China sends cloud powered by homebrew Loongson CPUs into space

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/24/asia_tech_news_in_brief/ Source: The Register Title: China sends cloud powered by homebrew Loongson CPUs into space Feedly Summary: Plus: Korea cracks down on Temu; US, Vietnam, sign infosec pact; India extends controversial hardware import law; and more Asia In Brief Chinese chip designer Loongson last Friday announced its processors are powering a cloud computing…

Hacker News: Judge Rules in Favor of School That Gave Student a Bad Grade for Using AI

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Source URL: https://gizmodo.com/judge-rules-in-favor-of-school-that-gave-student-a-bad-grade-for-using-ai-2000528368 Source: Hacker News Title: Judge Rules in Favor of School That Gave Student a Bad Grade for Using AI Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a legal case involving a student from Hingham, Massachusetts, who was disciplined for using generative AI to complete an assignment. The…

Hacker News: Volunteer DEF CON hackers dive into America’s leaky water infrastructure

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/24/water_defcon_hacker/ Source: Hacker News Title: Volunteer DEF CON hackers dive into America’s leaky water infrastructure Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the Franklin project, an initiative launched at DEF CON aimed at enhancing the cybersecurity of America’s critical water infrastructure through collaboration with hackers. This innovative approach…

Hacker News: Open source audio transcription model that obscures sensitive info in realtime

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Source URL: https://venturebeat.com/ai/aiola-unveils-open-source-ai-audio-transcription-model-that-obscures-sensitive-info-in-realtime/ Source: Hacker News Title: Open source audio transcription model that obscures sensitive info in realtime Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text details a new open-source AI model, Whisper-NER from Israeli startup aiOla, designed for audio transcription while enhancing privacy through named entity recognition (NER). This model integrates…

Hacker News: 32k context length text embedding models

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Source URL: https://blog.voyageai.com/2024/09/18/voyage-3/ Source: Hacker News Title: 32k context length text embedding models Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights the launch of the Voyage 3 series embedding models, which provide significant advancements in retrieval quality, latency, and cost-effectiveness compared to existing models like OpenAI’s. Specifically, the Voyage 3 models…

Wired: Andrew Tate’s ‘Educational Platform’ Was Hacked

Nov 23, 2024

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Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/andrew-tate-hack-undersea-cable-cut-iphone-graykey-salt-typhoon/ Source: Wired Title: Andrew Tate’s ‘Educational Platform’ Was Hacked Feedly Summary: Plus: The worst telecom hack in US history rolls on, iPhones are harder to break into, and more of the week’s top security news. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text details significant security and privacy concerns, including the tracking…

The Register: 1000s of Palo Alto Networks firewalls hijacked as miscreants exploit critical hole

Nov 22, 2024

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/22/palo_alto_firewalls_under_exploit/ Source: The Register Title: 1000s of Palo Alto Networks firewalls hijacked as miscreants exploit critical hole Feedly Summary: PAN-PAN! Intruders inject web shell backdoors, crypto-coin miners, more Thousands of Palo Alto Networks firewalls were compromised by attackers exploiting two recently patched security bugs. The intruders were able to deploy web-accessible backdoors to…

METR Blog – METR: Evaluating frontier AI R&D capabilities of language model agents against human experts

Nov 22, 2024

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