A.I. Has a Measurement Problem nytimes.com/2024/04/15/tec…

How to Stop Your Data From Being Used to Train AI wired.com/story/how-to-s…

I’m not kidding. The bill actually does that. If you have any doubts, read this post by a FISA Court amicus, who took the unusual step of going public to voice his concerns. Too bad members of the House didn’t listen. 7/14 zwillgen.com/law-enforcemen…

That’s bad enough. But the House also voted for the amendment many of us have been calling “Patriot Act 2.0.” This will force ordinary American businesses that provide wifi to their customers to give the NSA access to their wifi equipment to conduct 702 surveillance. 6/14

I’m sad—and frankly baffled—to report that the House voted today to reward the government’s widespread abuses of Section 702 by massively expanding the government’s powers to conduct warrantless surveillance. 1/14

NEW: Change Healthcare ransomware hackers already received a $22 million payment. Now a second group is demanding money, and has sent WIRED samples of what they claim is the company's stolen data. wired.trib.al/IrBhVDI

Space Ken.

Ahhhhhh! Yes! This is the best news.

If you haven’t read this book, I highly recommend.

Twitter.

X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in users' posts, breaking legit URLs mashable.com/article/twitte…

As we noted in our earlier thread, RISAA—the FISA Section 702 “compromise” bill, does not meaningfully reform the authority. Even worse, HPSCI wants to expand Section 702 surveillance in some deeply troubling ways. (1/x)
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If you are using LLMs for summarizing long docs, you really should read this paper

Over 50% of book summaries (incl by Claude Opus and GPT-4) were identified as containing factual errors and errors of omission

Lesson: don't blindly assume AI summarization tools work. Test them.

Sometimes I wonder if this insane coincidence is further evidence that we are in a simulation.

The FTC selected winners from its Voice Cloning Challenge to promote the development of ideas to protect consumers from the misuse of AI-enabled voice cloning for fraud and other harms: bit.ly/3VLq5GH /1

Oops I did it again 🤭

#TotalSolarEclipse

Even Call of Duty is celebrating the eclipse.

This is the vulnerability that started the discussion of open source risk to commercial software. It eventually led to SBOMs and more vendor transparency.

Eclipse day!