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  • Hacker News: AI Will Write Complex Laws

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    Source URL: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/ai-will-write-complex-laws Source: Hacker News Title: AI Will Write Complex Laws Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in legislative processes, highlighting its potential to draft laws and its implications for the balance of power between legislative and executive branches. As legislators…

  • Hacker News: Federal Court (Finally) Rules Backdoor Searches of Data Unconstitutional

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    Source URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/victory-federal-court-finally-rules-backdoor-searches-702-data-unconstitutional Source: Hacker News Title: Federal Court (Finally) Rules Backdoor Searches of Data Unconstitutional Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The federal district court’s recent ruling concerning the necessity of warrants for backdoor searches of databases containing Americans’ private communications marks a significant step toward civil liberties protection under the…

  • The Register: Analysts say real datacenter emissions are a dirty secret

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/22/datacenter_emissions_not_accurate/ Source: The Register Title: Analysts say real datacenter emissions are a dirty secret Feedly Summary: Amazon doesn’t break out figures, but then again neither do Microsoft nor Google As more businesses shift an ever greater number of workloads to the cloud, hyperscalers aren’t doing enough to help CIOs or tech buyers, who…

  • Schneier on Security: AI Will Write Complex Laws

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/01/ai-will-write-complex-laws.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: AI Will Write Complex Laws Feedly Summary: Artificial intelligence (AI) is writing law today. This has required no changes in legislative procedure or the rules of legislative bodies—all it takes is one legislator, or legislative assistant, to use generative AI in the process of drafting a bill.…

  • Slashdot: Scale AI CEO To Trump: ‘America Must Win the AI War’

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/01/21/1715259/scale-ai-ceo-to-trump-america-must-win-the-ai-war Source: Slashdot Title: Scale AI CEO To Trump: ‘America Must Win the AI War’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, is advocating for a stronger U.S. commitment to artificial intelligence through a full-page ad in The Washington Post to the new president. His five-point…

  • Hacker News: Zuckerberg appeared to know Llama trained on Libgen

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    Source URL: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/ai-meta-pirated-library-zuckerberg-1235235394/ Source: Hacker News Title: Zuckerberg appeared to know Llama trained on Libgen Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The unsealed internal communications at Meta reveal its questionable practices in using pirated text from Library Genesis for training its AI model, Llama. This raises significant legal concerns about copyright infringement…

  • The Register: FCC to telcos: Did you know you must by law secure your networks from foreign spies?

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/17/fcc_telcos_calea/ Source: The Register Title: FCC to telcos: Did you know you must by law secure your networks from foreign spies? Feedly Summary: Plus: Uncle Sam is cross with this one Chinese biz over Salt Typhoon mega-snooping Decades-old legislation requiring American telcos to lock down their systems to prevent foreign snoops from intercepting…

  • The Register: Medusa ransomware group claims attack on UK’s Gateshead Council

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/17/gateshead_council_cybersecurity_incident/ Source: The Register Title: Medusa ransomware group claims attack on UK’s Gateshead Council Feedly Summary: Pastes allegedly stolen documents on leak site with £600K demand Another year and yet another UK local authority has been pwned by a ransomware crew. This time it’s Gateshead Council in North East England at the hands…

  • The Register: GM parks claims that driver location data was shared to insurers, pushed up premiums

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/17/gm_settles_ftc_charges/ Source: The Register Title: GM parks claims that driver location data was shared to insurers, pushed up premiums Feedly Summary: We’ll defo ask for permission next time, automaker tells FTC General Motors on Thursday said that it has reached a settlement with the FTC “to address privacy concerns about our now-discontinued Smart…

  • Slashdot: UK Plans To Ban Public Sector Organizations From Paying Ransomware Hackers

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/01/14/160241/uk-plans-to-ban-public-sector-organizations-from-paying-ransomware-hackers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: UK Plans To Ban Public Sector Organizations From Paying Ransomware Hackers Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The U.K. government is considering a targeted ban on ransomware payments for public sector entities in response to rising cyberattacks. This proposal aims to disrupt the financial incentives that fuel…