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War / Graphic footageThis is hard to watch, but you can (and should) stream "20 Days in Mariupol" in full on YouTube. Ukrainian AP journalist Mstyslav Chernov captured some of the most powerful footage...
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This LAION-5B CSAM issue is going to be a huge, ugly mess to resolve. Tons of models were trained on this, an unknown number of researchers have downloaded the dataset and images from the dataset and...
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I suppose this was inevitable, but a tool like this in the wrong hands could wreak havoc on privacy.Authors: "To our knowledge, this is the first state-of-the-art image geolocalization paper in the...
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For all of you looking for a robust email newsletter / publishing platform that is not Substack, you might want to check out Ghost. It is open source, employee owned and run by a non-profit foundation....
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Taking a moment to celebrate the wonderful illustrations from our stories at @themarkup . Gabe Hongsdusit does such a great job commissioning smart art (and often makes them himself). As a former...
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⚡️TOP SECRET END OF YEAR TRANSMISSION for the radio nerds ⚡️#hamradio#decodethis#martinm1#sstvhttps://youtu.be/9Pl5Np51aGM
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I have another story from my @Beautifulpublicdata newsletter in the latest print edition of MIT @techreview . It’s a tragic story of a billion dollar fusion machine that took a decade to build and was...
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OK I have been playing whack-a-mole with Nextdoor email notifications (I briefly used the site a long time ago, don't use it now). Each time I would get a stupid email and try to unsubscribe, it would...
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FTC bans Outlogic (X-Mode) from tracking (and selling) location data on medical visits. By...
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"Microsoft shares your data with 772 third parties." https://proton.me/blog/outlook-is-microsofts-new-data-collection-service
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We are sharing a privacy tip each day for our "Gentle January" at @themarkup. My contribution: Ditch Google Mapshttps://themarkup.org/gentle-january/2024/01/17/ditch-google-maps
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Oh god am I gonna have to build this DIY book scannerhttps://diybookscanner.org/archivist/index.html
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Well, ChatGPT did a fairly good job suggesting a directory structure that I might use to organize my personal files, but then it needlessly generated this insane image
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Back in 2021, @alng and I identified 47 companies buying, selling and trading location data, part of a multibillion dollar industry. Today nearly of quarter of them have faced Congressional scrutiny or...
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We have a contract! After two long years of negotiating, we have our first contract in place. There are lots of Markup alumni who helped get the ball rolling on this, so thank you to all of the past...
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