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Attached: 1 image https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FQSFnZpsqw Absolutely insane story of a Ukranian girl getting her face cloned & deepfaked into dozens of pro-Russian digital influencers on…
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危險的外國人？日本警方被指執法存在「種族定性」
三名出生於國外的日本居民起訴當局，稱經常因種族樣貌遭遇警方隨機攔截和搜查。隨著老齡化加劇，移民增多，日本傳統的單一族群社會長期存在的結構性歧視日益引發關注。 Noriko Hayashi for The New York Times 勞拉·永井站在她家附近的車站月台上，上月攝於東京。她曾多次被日本警察在街頭攔下。
First known photos of 'lost bird' captured by scientists
The first-ever photograph of the Yellow-crested Helmetshrike, or Prionops alberti, was taken during a recent expedition led by scientists at The University of Texas at El Paso. Credit: Matt Brady,…
Here Come the AI Worms
As generative AI systems like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini become more advanced, they are increasingly being put to work. Startups and tech companies are building AI agents and ecosystems on…
Generative AI's environmental costs are soaring – and mostly secret
ReferencesLi, P., Yang, J., Islam, M. A. & Ren, S. Preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03271 (2023). Wu, C.-J. et al. Preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.00364 (2021). Luccioni, A. S.,…
A 'great flood' of AI noise is coming for the internet and it's swallowing Twitter first
One morning in January this year, marine scientist Terry Hughes opened X (formerly Twitter) and searched for tweets about the Great Barrier Reef. "I keep an eye on what's being tweeted about the reef…
A WordPress ‘Firehose’ Allows AI Companies to Buy Access to a Million Posts a Day
Subscribe Join the newsletter to get the latest updates. Update: After this article was published, Automattic told 404 Media that it is "deprecating" the Firehose: "SocialGist is rolling off as a…
New software for radio stations creates fake listener calls using artificial intelligence
(Stock image)The next time you listen to a radio call-in show, “Dave on Line 4” might actually be a robot. This week, audio imaging provider Benztown debuted a new product that allows radio stations…
Hugging Face, the GitHub of AI, hosted code that backdoored user devices
Getty Images Code uploaded to AI developer platform Hugging Face covertly installed backdoors and other types of malware on end-user machines, researchers from security firm JFrog said Thursday in a…
How I turned my open-source project into a business
When I started writing and publishing open-source software about 15 years ago, I was pretty radical about it. I only used permissive licenses like MIT or BSD, as all I cared about was reach. Using a…
Is Tableau Dead?
Is Tableau Dead?No... and Yes. The momentum and community around Tableau has been lost. But current and projected future revenue growth is solid. It's not the company that it used to be, but it'll be…
A former Gizmodo writer changed his name to ‘Slackbot’ and stayed undetected for months
Hiding on Slack isn’t all that hard, apparently; you just have to pretend you’re a bot. That’s what IT Brew’s Tom McKay did when he left Gizmodo in 2022, and he went undetected by the site’s…
