There's a reason Jack Dorsey jumped ship a while ago and is now here.
This whole data collection garbage is a true nightmare. It's dystopia realized.
Do anyone seriously see Bluesky as a way to uphold free speech and escape corporate censorship?
I loathe X, but what's happening in Brazil goes so beyond ridiculous that makes one wonder about the future of democracy there.
Rest in peace, Anandtech. I'm really sad to see you go.
What a shit world when sites with actual quality content dies that way.
I don't have a X account a anymore, but this is bonkers. Brazil, what have you done?
If you're wondering why Nostr is important, just look at the crazy stuff going on in Brazil with X. #Nostr #FreedomOfSpeech
DeepMind workers urge Google to drop military contracts
Google DeepMind workers have signed a letter calling on the company to drop contracts with military organizations, according to a report by Time. The document was drafted on May 16 of this year. Around 200 people signed the document, which amounts to five percent of the total headcount of DeepMind.
For the uninitiated, DeepMind is one of Google’s AI divisions and the letter states that adopting military contracts runs afoul of the company’s own AI rules. The letter was sent out as internal concerns began circulating within the AI lab that the tech was allegedly being sold to military organizations via cloud contracts.
According to Time, Google’s contracts with the United States military and the Israeli military allow access to services via the cloud, and this reportedly includes AI technology developed by DeepMind. The letter doesn’t linger on any specific military organization, with workers emphasizing that it’s “not about the geopolitics of any particular conflict.”
Reporting since 2021 has slowly revealed the scope of tech supplied by Google (and Amazon) to the Israeli government via a partnership known as Project Nimbus. This is far from the first instance of Google employees openly protesting their work being used to support politically fraught military aims — the company fired dozens of staffers who spoke out against Project Nimbus earlier this year.
“Any involvement with military and weapon manufacturing impacts our position as leaders in ethical and responsible AI, and goes against our mission statement and stated AI principles,” the DeepMind letter says. It’s worth noting that Google’s slogan used to be “don’t be evil.”
The letter goes on to ask DeepMind’s leaders to deny military users access to its AI technology and to set up a new in-house governance body to prevent the tech from being used by future militaries. According to four unnamed employees, Google has yet to offer a tangible response to the letter. “We have received no meaningful response from leadership,” one said, “and we are growing increasingly frustrated.”
Google did respond to Time’s reporting, saying that it complies with its AI principles. The company says that the contract with the Israeli government “is not directed at highly sensitive, classified or military workloads relevant to weapons or intelligence services.” However, its partnership with the Israeli government has fallen under plenty of scrutiny in recent months.
Google purchased DeepMind back in 2014, but under the promise that its AI technology would never be used for military or surveillance purposes. For many years, DeepMind was allowed to operate with a good amount of independence from its parent company, but the burgeoning AI race looks to have changed that. The lab's leaders spent years seeking greater autonomy from Google, but were rebuffed in 2021.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/deepmind-workers-urge-google-to-drop-military-contracts-190544509.html?src=rss
Given to where Google is heading to, those who complain too loudly will get the boot.
Would be a trully wonderful discussion if someone asks him to PRECISELY define what he considers a "troll". I bet a zap that it will pretty quickly degenerate to weasel words and ambiguous definitions like "hate speak" and such.
This mentality of him is pure brain rot.
Gravatar is one of those ancient internet services that always makes me wonder that it is still working and kicking.
Sometimes I do believe it's broken by design.
The lack of even the slightest of thought on how banks do customer service and handles security must be on purpose, even if I fail what purpose that may be.
Is bluesky actually growing in active users?!
Last time a tried, 6 months ago, it had that feeling of dying product that I once had with Google Plus.
We need to talk about verified #flatpak apps, and its potential harm to #linux adoption.
What are your thoughts?
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/flatpak-verification-problem-mike-kelly-raauc/
This is genuinely worrying. I believe this is another case of corporate Linux shills using security as a excuse to further their takeover of the whole ecosystem.
Basically, instead of using ages old manual review of recipes to guarantee from where the source if being fetch to be build, with integrity assured with a simple hash check, that worked quite well for all major distro repositories... they want to create a public wall of shame to force developers to officially adopt Flatpak.
This is just as insidious as Canonical quietly replacing debian packages with snap ones.
At best, this is laziness speaking: they don't want to review build recipes, and instead, they believe in automatic trust of who can publish, giving up of actual manual review (a stupid and unsafe mindset to the boot). At worse, they want to make the process bureaucratic to gatekeep who can publish.
I just looooove to send gerber for manufacturing at Jlcpcb that quote has to be corrected (and more has to be paid).
Not their fault, but mine. I seriously need to learn their quote interface better.
Funny thing, I just fried two RP2040 yesterday in a attempt to build my own split mechanical keyboard (corne by foostan: https://github.com/foostan/crkbd/blob/main/docs/corne-cherry/v3/buildguide_en.md ).
In my defence, used pro micro rp2040 because it looked compatible enough with atmel based pro micro boards, and there's a firmware for rp2040 at QMK project.
nostr:npub1gfdrrw9629qxwvwaa3vwnvzhtaqu2c5m9wf6vcwjnmdnhs7hl4jsux7gg6 Man one if the worst feelings to go through multi phase interviews, doing and presenting a coding project, and then getting ghosted.
I flat out refuse code interviews.
Open Source AMD GPU Implementation of CUDA "ZLUDA" has been taken down
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ZLUDA-CUDA-Taken-Down
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ZLUDA-CUDA-Taken-Down
#amd #hardware #linux #programming #rustlang #unix
Took them long enough.
Now I wonder what kind of tactics NVidia will use to keep breaking compatibility.
Their algorithm is so used with passive users just being spoon fed recommended crap from "curated" and sponsored content, that when someone actually interact with their platforms as a normal human being, it believes that must be a bot.
Facebook profile pages these days are just a enormous graveyard.
We are indestructible. The Eternals only look upon mortals' squabbles with pity.