📰 News

🤖 “A convincing AI-made video that tells on itself”

Several leaders in AI have created what they call the first "transparent deepfake," a video that uses an emerging standard to label itself as synthetically created, showing the urgent need for a system of content verification in the age of deepfakes, even as labeling only helps if legitimately captured videos are transparently labeled.

🚀 NASA: Uranus has “never looked better” in Webb Telescope image

NASA's Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of Uranus, featuring the planet's 13 nested rings and subtle new features of the polar cap, which will help solve the mystery of why this polar cap appears in the direct sunlight of summer but vanishes in the fall.

📹 Tesla employees reportedly passed around personal videos from owners’ cars

Tesla employees are reported to have shared and viewed personal videos from owners' cars, including graphic crashes, road rage incidents, and embarrassing footage, which were recorded on cameras mounted on Tesla vehicles to enable self-driving features.

🔌 Twitter cuts off Substack embeds and starts suspending bots

Twitter has unexpectedly restricted access to embedding tweets in Substack posts, causing problems for writers who want to discuss Twitter in their newsletters, while various companies have been notifying users that they have to cut out or paywall certain features that interacted with Twitter, and many people who have run bots on the platform have been posting about how they can no longer post like they used to.

📴 The Impossibility of Logging Off

The logout button has become practically defunct as consumers have prioritized access to content over logging out, and the design of interfaces reflects a profit-bearing incentive to keep users logged in, according to freelance UI designer Jesse Showalter.

🍪 Inside Google's Plan to Kill the Cookie

Next year, Google plans to replace third-party cookies with its set of proposed changes for Chrome and Android called "Privacy Sandbox" but it faces opposition from those worried that it will cut off critical data to their businesses, that it allows Google to spy on users in a different way, and that it could solidify a digital advertising monopoly, with a $500bn industry hanging in the balance.

📷 Meta Releases New AI-Based Photo Segmentation Tool to Everybody

Meta has developed an AI model called the Segment Anything Model (SAM) that can identify individual objects in images and videos, even those not encountered during training, in order to democratize the process of image segmentation and foster further research into computer vision.

🚀 A New Zealand company has started flying a rocket-powered spaceplane

Dawn Aerospace, a New Zealand-based space company, has completed three test flights of its rocket-powered spaceplane, the Mk-II Aurora, which the company hopes will eventually reach an altitude of 100km and offer a platform for research in the atmosphere, specifically in the suborbital market.

🇮 India to require Facebook and Twitter rely on gov’t fact checking

India has amended its IT law, prohibiting social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter from publishing or hosting false or misleading information about any government business and requiring them to rely on the government's fact-check unit, potentially infringing on freedom of speech and expression rights, while also cracking down on online games that offer betting services.

🤥 ChatGPT is making up fake Guardian articles. Here’s how we’re responding

The Guardian is responding to the risks inherent in generative AI technology, which can make up fake articles and sources, by creating a working group and engineering team to learn about the technology, listen to academics and practitioners, and explore how the technology can be applied to journalism in a safe and responsible way.

👨 Australian mayor prepares world’s first defamation lawsuit over ChatGPT content

A regional Australian mayor, Brian Hood, may sue OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, over false claims made by the automated language product that he had served time in prison for bribery, which would be the first defamation lawsuit against the automated text service.

🎸 Pink Floyd inspired research into medieval monks and volcanology

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📉 That slowdown you’re feeling, by the numbers

New data from PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association reveals that venture capital firms are raising and deploying a lot less money than in recent years, with overall deal counts in the US falling by more than 25% between Q1 2021 and Q1 2022, and late-stage deal values falling for the seventh straight quarter to $11.6bn.

🤖 President Biden delivers remarks on “risks of artificial intelligence”

President Biden addressed concerns about the potential risks of artificial intelligence (AI) on society, highlighting the need to address potential risks to society, economy, and national security, and called on tech companies to ensure their products are safe for public use.

💰 Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI

AI research startup Anthropic plans to raise up to $5 billion over the next two years to take on OpenAI and enter over a dozen major industries, according to company documents obtained by TechCrunch, with the aim of building a more powerful AI "frontier model" called "Claude-Next" which will require a billion dollars in spending over the next 18 months.

🤖 Can AI commit libel? We’re about to find out

Legal challenges arise as AI's tendency to invent news articles and events comes up against defamation laws, with upcoming cases determining whether or not AI, such as the model Chat GPT, can commit libel.

💰 Bitcoin white paper is hidden away in macOS’s system folder for some reason

Every modern copy of macOS contains a hidden copy of Satoshi Nakamoto's original Bitcoin whitepaper accessible through an easy Terminal command.

💡📚 Articles

💳 Technical Credit. The Other Side of the Technical Debt Coin. (6 min read)

Unleashing the Power of Technical Credit: The Other Side of the Technical Debt Coin

🚫 How to Avoid React Context Trap (7 min read)

Avoid the Context Trap: Best Practices for Designing React Contexts, and how Redux Can Help

🔒 Event-Driven serverless architecture to automatically remediate security findings (6 min read)

Automate Your AWS Security Framework: Capture, Detect, and Remediate in One Place

💾 Is Disaster Recovery Worth It In Serverless Applications? (7 min read)

Are You Ready for Disaster? Understanding the Difference between Disaster Recovery and High Availability in Serverless Applications

🔺 Hexagonal Architecture using Golang (10 min read)

Building Scalable Applications with Hexagonal Architecture and Golang – An Overview

🎨 Design Patterns Series — Decorator Design Pattern (5 min read)

Unleashing the Power of Decorator Design Pattern: A Comprehensive Guide with Real-World Examples

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