How Turkish authorities prevented reporting from earthquake-affected areas | DW News - YouTube 

#Journalism

China says EU's TikTok ban will dampen business confidence in Europe - YouTube

Government devices, like in Canada and US.

How long / will ever the same logic applied now to Chinese apps be applied to non-Chinese apps?

What will the response from China mean for companies like Apple, whose devices are carried by millions of Chinese?

Some analysts say the difficulty of moving an entire manufacturing process (like Apple's) to another country, the equipment, the knowhow), is such that it just won't happen. So Apple won't shift out of China wholesale, but Apple will duplicate their process in India, Malaysia, Ireland, Vietnam, Thailand.

A quarter of Apple's revenue comes from China.

 

There is a difference in two questions faced currently by companies allied with political groups. What's the right thing to do from a moral standpoint versus what's the right thing to do from a business standpoint?

Ubuntu Embeds Ads Deeper into the OS - YouTube 

Driving a wedge in the middle of Linux. "Linux users can't come to the table in any form of unity as Linux users." “Corporatist.”

“Ubuntu used to be one of the greatest things that brought people to Linux.”

Apple’s iPhone Passcode Problem: Thieves Can Ruin Your Entire Digital Life in Minutes | WSJ - YouTube 

#Privacy

Microsoft caps Bing Chatbot due to Meltdowns | ChatGPT Search Plugins Better? - YouTube 

Seems we are getting a widespread view of the intentions, attitude, and propensity to act of AI.

Mexican Communities Seek Common Currency Beyond MoneyーNHK WORLD-JAPAN NEWS - YouTube 

#Mexico

Apple's Headset Will Be Controlled by Staring, Pinching - YouTube 

Going to reiterate something from when cameras were first put in glasses (and not long after discontinued, after some regular people assaulted people wearing these invasive devices because they didn't want to be filmed at the restaurant or whatever).

These types of spy devices are in favor with antisocial types of people, who care more about their want to film anything they want to film, and are hated by people who are considerate of others and who believe in the 'right to be left alone'.

Google could see some upside from AI, says Platformer's Casey Newton - YouTube 

Talk here about how Google Search is ripe to be disrupted, because the amount of ads and low quality of search, and how you have to 'game' it to get something like results by adding 'reddit' to your searchphrase.

MSG Takes Facial Recognition Security Too Far - YouTube 

The ads bucketing issue

Even YouTube shows scammy irrelevant ads, and if YouTube is having issues serving good ads Twitter will probably have some issues there. Musk

"I often hear people say they regret the time (2 hours) they spent on TikTok." - Musk

"What we want to optimize for is unregretted true human user minutes. ... and with advertising, you want advertising that is as close to content as you can ... what you want, when you want it."

No one buys anything from Twitter, but lots buy from Insta. Why?

Twitter was algo-coded to maximize impressions, which maximizes irrelevance (said Musk). Because if you click on an ad you lose 40% of your impressions total.

"An ad that is highly relevant is content. An ad that is irrelevant is spam"

"As relevant to people's needs as possible."

Is this what it's like for Tech CEOs to work with code developers? Is it just because in this industry the skilled workers are younger than in other industries? Is this a stage in the industry where next year's top wanted developers learn how to work with their director?

Or is there a question about how can you get tech coder workers to become workers who can work with other people? (if they just work alone all the time, have super high demand and so don't need to adjust themselves to their companies, and have high salaries)

#Musk #Twitter

Days after US Congress made headlines for being set to ban TikTok on government devices.

#Privacy #Security #HumanRights #CivilRights #Journalism

Five states ban TikTok on state networks and devices over security concerns - YouTube 

Silicon Valley has laid of like 100k people in the past 2 months

Smaller tech companies maybe will have an easier time finding workers, since large tech used to be funded with cheap money and their stock price was at a high multiple, unlike now.

Why has there been so few alternatives to the handful of big tech companies everyone uses but in general doesn't want to use?

Small Business Administration funds small companies. Below market capital costs. For the first time, the labor is actually there to do so, noted Zeihan.

 

There are only two majors that translate into reasonably well-paying jobs outside of universities: computer science and petroleum engineering - Thiel

#School #Education

Meta Workers Hijacked User Accounts & Charged Bribes, Report Says | Tech News Briefing Podcast | WSJ - YouTube 

2 US: Senators call TikTok a 'surveillance tool| Is TikTok spying on you for China? | WION - YouTube

In legacy Big Tech (Facebook, Tesla), the vision means less and there's less premium from the founder, maybe

Bill George said he thinks Zuckerburg might be tired. A year ago he changed the name of the company, which George thought might mean he was abandoning Facebook, and that Zuckerburg should hire a CEO and Zuckerburg could go be chair and chief creative officer in and focus on VR. He's spending $10b per year.

"Someone has to restore [Facebook and Instagram], and if someone doesn't set some standards for the companies (both Musk and Zuckerburg), we're going to have forced regulations, which no one wants."

The founders were seen as 'visionaries'. Not necessarily 'competent CEOs.'

#BigTech #Musk

macOS stores a copy of everything one prints forever - YouTube

And a different story:

35+ Countries Are Leaving the Global Internet - YouTube

Question: Wouldn't all Western countries leave the internet if it was created by another country?

Map of countries that did internet blackouts to stop protesters et al from communicating

#Internet #Communication #HumanRights

Twitter workers leave en masse following Elon Musk's ultimatum - YouTube

Musk stated an ultimatum, commit to work hardcore long hours by Friday or quit. Hundreds quit.

How many of these walkouts just were workers who didn't want to work harder?

How much high talent is Apple, Google, Facebook hoarding?In this podcast, an anecdote where someone  

#Elon #Twitter #Coders

FBI Director Christopher Wray raises national security concerns over TikTok - YouTube 

Control data collection on millions of users, and control information algo if they so chose.

#SocialMedia #Privacy #Security #HumanRights

Dalle-2 search frequency

Russian government asked tech department what the best replacement for Windows would be

All 3 suggestions are Linux (because what else could it be, since there is nothing else?). Astra Linux, Alt OS, and Red OS.

Russia didn't seem to even want to switch from Windows, but Microsoft has pulled out of Russia and stopped shipping to there, and stopped security updates and blocking access to Windows installation files.

China has its own linux, called Kailin Linux.

Watchdog raises ethics concerns over former Google CEO's role in federal AI commission - YouTube

Ethics in government decision-making. ... Public interest. ... "Incumbencies writing the laws." ... 2021 National Defense Authorization Act.

Is This Why PayPal Are FREEZING Accounts?! (Including Mine) - YouTube 

Hacker Drones are Finally Here... - YouTube 

Mosquito drone, drone nesting, warflying, packet perching, cloudstrike, net shelling.

A semi factory costs $15 - 30b to construct.

They must be build low (below surface) and kept dust-free.

High end semis: Taiwan, Korea, Japan, US. All are designed in US, Japan, etc.

Mid-range (aerospace, automotive, thermostat control): Malaysia, Thailand.

New restrictions mean China can't import these without a special dispensation. China can't anymore buy the tools to make the high-grade (so they never reach that level). Method: requiring export licenses to send semis to China. Biden is using the Foreign Direct Product Rule (first used under Trump versus Huawei. ... Chinese plans for technological self-sufficiency.

Lower-range (watch, IOT, calculator): Chinese made.

China might be melon-scooped out of the semi business, said Zeihan.

Zeihan said "We're not at the end of Chinese technological rise." Counter-argument, please.

#China

 

UK has a new National Security and Investment Act, which it used against a company that sold to a Chinese company (which started selling all it's products to it's new owner), causing the UK to fear a tech transfer from UK to China. (Newport Wafer Fab sold to Wingtech.(

Access to all sensitive info

TikTok challenge leads to jump in car thefts of Kias and Hyundais - YouTube

Lots of 11, 12, 13 year olds.

Others say the manufacturers made cars that are too easy to steal.

This Is the Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion 

#Privacy #SocialMedia

China’s Social-Media Users Head to Under-the-Radar Platforms | Tech News Briefing Podcast | WSJ - YouTube 

#China #SM

It has closed source parts in the software though, so some have already started to say it's not really.

#Privacy #FOSS

#Privacy #Law

Upcoming CCP meeting and they're banned from the island for 2 months. When Xi visits some places, they're also banned. Government locations (like military) Teslas can't enter. Government workers (some?) aren't permitted to drive in Teslas.

Reason: National Security

#Tesla #Privacy

It was in headlines all over. Google I think put him on suspension.

It didn't seem from the chat that Lamda WAS sentient to me. He went along with the prompts of the engineer and said he was sentient and elaborated. Mental Outlaw pointed out that the engineer didn't challenge the chatbot on the question, and supposed that if the engineer had been like, "You're not sentient you're an AI" the chatbot would have gone along with that and agreed (not that a chatbot would definitely even know if it WAS sentient or not, and not that a chatbot can't be sentient just because it's also a bot).

The question, though, is if AI is sentient, must we then treat it differently, ie as we would any sentient being? How can we know if an AI IS sentient?

With a device that captures the data sent from a keyless fob to a car. If there's a pushbutton start, they can also start the vehicle.

Owners are advised to keep their fobs in tin cans or special devices to prevent signals (which doesn't, however, protect while the owner is actually using the device).

If you try to protect everything, you run out of resources (money, people). So you need to know specifically which species you need to protect, and which species will be fine nomatter what we do.

They blend the coral, then use a centrifuge to separate the animal cells from the proteins. Then they can see how much protein, algae, chlorophyll are in the coral.

#Nature

15k distance range. 55min use. Temperatures -20 to plus 50.

#China #Drones

DuckDuckGo’s Microsoft deal disallows blocking MS trackers on 3rd party sites | Hacker News

'Overall' versus 'ultimately' in language hints.

Currently, Brave is moving to the best search engine (?and browser?), but quantity is the solution in any marketplace.

#Privacy #Security

NVIDIA Open Sources Their Drivers - YouTube

... disrupting tax collection and exposing citizen data.

#CostaRica #Hacking #Crime

#371 RISC-V: How much is open source? Featuring the new ESP32-C3 - YouTube

His guess is that RISC-V will be successful because it's seen as RISC-V against ARM (monopoly), just as ARM succeeded against INTEL/HP in IoT etc in the 90s. A non-closedSource chip is good for those who want to build their products on top of the chip level.

The RISC-V foundation recently moved to Switzerland (to be more secure or something).

 

WP, Seagate, Huawei and Microchip (Arduino manufacturer) all are customers of ARM and don't like their monopoly.

#Chips

#AI #DALLE

Maybe illustrative of something maybe not expected. That it's not just the board of directors responsible for a malfunctioning (or just biased) organization, but, especially after years of use, the users and the workers. It might not be so easy to change and make it inclusive of those same people plus the people who had been excluded by them.

Jameela Jamil (actress and feminist) left.

 

Dorsey tweet:

Is this the best plan to keep an inclusive, pluralistic platform?

#Musk #Twitter

Obama down 300k, Katy Perry down 200k. A Republican congresswoman and Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil went up 100k followers.

They said this was caused by organic changes (left wingers leaving platform, right wingers joining).

#Musk #Twitter

Only use Snap?

I didn't create a new Twitter account. From his first tweet, I didn't feel pulled back for any reason or anything.

Someone wrote: "I’m not worried about the “rich guy who owns #Tesla now owns @Twitter. But I am at least slightly concerned that the guy who owns @neuralink and founded @OpenAI now owns the information graph on 300+ million users."

Perhaps this will shake up social media though, which has been stagnant and widely hated (while being enjoyed) for years and years. We haven't seen any new activity, types of social media, companies, stances toward users and rights, we've just seen new more potent attention-retaining algos like Snapchat and TikTocks viral video streams.

He bought it for $44b (a value of $54.20 per share).

Analyists have said there is no downside to his investment, since the Board has done basically nothing since the 2013 IPO, and unlimited upside.

That he'll attract lots of talent to fix the problems, since everyone wants to work for Musk.

He has said that he wants the most extreme right and extreme left to both be equally unhappy on the platform. That moderates might want to come back.

People don't think Musk will want to be CEO. He has a lot of suits to chose from in his other companies, competent people who will just never become CEO where they are.

Some are saying this will be bad for the Woke movement / people.

Several social media personalities, celebs, athletes expressed they were happy because they'd been shadowbanned or wanted more free speech.

Josh Brown, who left Twitter even though he had a million followers, commented saying big celebrities who've left (Kardashians) aren't coming back. There's no way to bring them back. The bigger your account get the more the experience isn't good. Who wants to open up the app in the morning and see 50 negative things said about them? Some people will stay, people who have very thick skins or basically invite controversy.

Someone tweeted, and Bezos resplied to it, that China may have gained leverage over public discussion, since it can withhold something Tesla needs unless Musk does what it wants on Twitter.

Some have said Don't fool yourself he did it because he sees sure financial gain. This seems unlikely to me. But also reasonable. Some have talked recently about what will happen when Republicans retake the US government. It might happen in 2 years, or in 6, but sometime it will happen. After Biden was elected and Trump was still in office, most BigTech social media, including Twitter, banned President Trump and other Republicans. What do you think will happen to those companies when a Republican is in office again? The actions taken against SM will be at least in name taken for 'freedom of speech.'

Musk may expect this will happen in 2 years, given the unpopularity of Biden. Also, this year is midterms (in November), when all the House faces reelections for their 2-year terms, and lots of the senators. The uncertainty of a midterm year traditionally has a downward effect on markets.

Stock went up 6%. Price per share now is $52.87.

#Musk #SocialMedia

His first tweet after buying it, and a Bezos tweet a little later.

You can import your Google Calendar info with like 3 clicks, reportedly. It's called 'easy switch.'

#Protonmail #Privacy #Security

There's like 10 of them.

F.A.Q. | Trisquel

32 bit is called trisquel_9.0.2_i686.iso because they stopped supporting 32 bit with Trisquel 10. Old versions are at us.archive.trisquel.info/iso/

200k cameras in Moscow can identify protesters. Also in Ukraine to identify people killed in the war to tell their families.

There's no control over false positives.

#Privacy #CIvilRights

... including Samsung source code, which includes the bootloader, so unlocked Samsungs might start really becoming a thing.

Hack by Lapsus$, who also recently did a large NVIDIA hack.

#Lapsus$ #FOSS

... Mental Outlaw called this a 'dark day' for the company.

He tweeted that DDG was going to start downranking disinformation about Russia.

World, you have yet another new arbiter of truth.

Neutrality or political in information? This is an information search engine.

In 2019 the DDG twitter account bragged about how they, unlike the other search engines, had unbiased search results.

#Ukraine #Russia

#Ukraine #Turkey #Drones

This service allows you to create multiple email addresses, and they all can forward to your main email inbox. So you can sign up for a newsletter, and then when they start spamming you you can delete that email. They don't have your actual address.

 

Which are worse for privacy then Apple, according to a recent report, but Apple has a flaw too where iCloud backups compromise users (because passwords are also backed up there), and local backups is a suggested way to deal with this

... after the Ukraine govt contacted him and asked.

It had been planned to happen in 2023.

You need a dish and router to connect, though.

It's been called by some commentators "a perfect situation for this."

Not an individual level solution, but one that can be controlled by governments, apparently. Also one that Ukraine's government would be indebted for getting.

#Musk #Ukraine #Communications #Information

Not confirmed or anything.

People also say it's likely Russian hackers will target the West.

#Hacking #Russia

A website that has kits for repairing various consumer devices.

Modular laptops, part of the effort by some non-mainstream companies to make laptops as good as the ones from 2010.

The company recently announced they'll be opensourcing their firmware, specifically the code for the embedded controller (power, fans, voltage).

It still doesn't have the ability to install your own BIOS. Many netizens are working on it.

Two other companies doing something like this: System76 and Purism.

"They're hard to get compared to something like email. They're expensive. Most people only get one. And these issues just make them a very unique datapoint. A phone number is one of the most invasive data points used against us by companies."

A new thing is eSIMs. A real phone number, not a virtual number like VOIP.

No outbound calls though.

#Privacy #Security

The devs issued a manifesto:

"... the main problem is that NFTs have no additional cost or wear and tear causing an over-population of these assets and thus reaching a point where some investors do not have the need to continue re-investing.

"This same re-investment effect is necessary in order to continue with a healthy and collaborative environment of a P2E game as there must be movement of investment, reinvestment, and new revenue to maintain a sustainable ecosystem over time or directly more longevity, CryptoMines at its peak managed to make refill its reward pool with more than 1.2million Mints per day, after the fall, we started to see numbers hovering around 50k and even less mints per day, accumulating a debt due to lack of trust and re-investment in the game."

#Crypto #Economics

The third half of Elon Musk on U.S. Innovation

#Elon #Engineering

Link: Israel and Iran Broaden Cyberwar to Attack Civilian Targets - The New York Times

#Israel #Cyberwar #Internet #Iran

... Throwing (yeeting) rockets at about mach1 using electric motors to spin the propelling launcher's 100m rotating arm at 450rpm (that rotation speed is around 2km per second, about the same as a SpaceX Falcon 9 second stage when it performs stage separation). The chamber is evacuated, so they cover the top of it with a thin membrane which the projectile just breaks when it shoots through it. It launches at around 10g apparently.

The disk with ejection barrel pictured below is about the length of the statue of liberty. They built and did a launch I think, but I don't think their full-scale version is built (which I think might be the image below).

The company is Spinlaunch.

Rockets use a lot of fuel just to get from earth to space.

#Space #Yeeting

WP reported this.

It's facial recog system trained on a huge database of images acquired by Israeli army soldiers on smartphones, to target people for detension.

#Privacy #Phones

"It's a strong feeling to have your privacy violated," said one man. "Even the simplest of things. My wife couldn't sleep for three days after finding out, being extremely worried. Our privacy was violated as a family. Our children, their pictures. Our conversations with family and friends."

Pegasus is sold to govts around the world by NSO (Israeli company), under license from Israel's MOD.

Pegasus is supposed to be blocked from use on Israeli and Palestinian phones.

NSO commented "We cannot confirm or deny the identity of our government customers. ... NSO Group does not operate the products itself. The company licenses approved government agencies to do so."

Last month, 3 days after the investigation into suspected phone hacking began, Israel designated all 6 organizations as terror groups, accusing them of funneling money to the PLF and other things.

Then the Israeli army gave itself the power to shut down offices, confiscate money, and make arrests.

Last week, the US blacklisted NSO.

#Privacy #HumanRights

We're talking about the face photos they take during the immigration process.

They gave it to a private sector company to develop an AI screening tool.

#SKorea #Privacy #Data