🤖 We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting

Plus: Twitter Whistleblowing Report Actually Seems To Confirm Twitter's Legal Argument, The Privacy Flaw Threatening US Democracy, and more…

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We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting. For the past few days, I've been playing around with DALL-E 2, an app developed by the San Francisco company OpenAI that turns text descriptions into hyper-realistic images. OpenAI invited me to test DALL-E 2 (the name is a play on Pixar's WALL-E… (Kevin Roose / The New York Times)

Kevin Roose @kevinroose

I spent the past few weeks playing around with DALL-E 2, the AI image generator. It's incredible, and it inspired this column about a wave of AI progress that I think we should all be paying much closer attention to.

nytimes.comWe Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is GettingWe’re in a golden age of progress in artificial intelligence. It’s time to start taking its potential and risks seriously.

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Twitter Whistleblowing Report Actually Seems To Confirm Twitter's Legal Argument, While Pretending To Support Musk's. We already wrote a long story looking at many of the eye-opening claims from Peiter “Mudge” Zatko in his whistleblower report regarding Twitter's security operations, and the possibility that the company both has shit security… (Mike Masnick / Techdirt)

Mike Masnick @mmasnick

Okay, I have now written many, many, many words explaining why Mudge's whistleblower filing actually confirms Twitter's legal arguments, while *pretending* to support Musk's.

techdirt.comTwitter Whistleblowing Report Actually Seems To Confirm Twitter’s Legal Argument, While Pretending To Support Musk’sWe already wrote a long story looking at many of the eye-opening claims from Peiter “Mudge” Zatko in his whistleblower report regarding Twitter’s security operations, and the poss…

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The Privacy Flaw Threatening US Democracy. Talk of creeping authoritarianism in the United States seems to be everywhere—in the news, in books, and in conversations among neighbors around the country. The January 6 insurrection and the events that followed have Americans increasingly… (Thor Benson / WIRED)

Thor Benson @thor_benson

We often talk about the rise of authoritarianism, but we're not doing enough to prepare for an authoritarian president I wrote about this for @WIRED

wired.comThe Privacy Flaw Threatening US DemocracyWithout robust federal protections, the country’s widespread mass surveillance systems could be used against citizens like never before.

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Plex breach exposes usernames, emails, and encrypted passwords. Streaming media platform Plex sent out an email to its customers earlier today notifying them of a security breach that may have compromised account information, including usernames, email addresses and passwords. Although there is no sign that the… (Jess Weatherbed / The Verge)

The Verge @verge

Plex breach exposes usernames, emails, and encrypted passwords theverge.com/2022/8/24/2331…

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Amazon is shutting down its telehealth service, Amazon Care. Amazon is shuttering its telehealth service, known as Amazon Care, according to an internal memo on Wednesday. Amazon Care launched in 2019 as a pilot program for employees in and around the company's Seattle headquarters. Amazon is shutting down… (Annie Palmer / CNBC)

Annie Palmer @annierpalmer

goodbye Amazon Care, we hardly knew ye

cnbc.comAmazon is shutting down its telehealth service, Amazon CareAmazon Care launched in 2019 as a pilot program for employees in and around the company’s Seattle headquarters.

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