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Readable and informative AI safety guide

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If the ideas seem kind of fuzzy, Nicky Case and Hack Club are collaborating on a guide for how these things work and the issues that we should address as AI-based things grow more common. Tags: AI , ethics , Hack Club , Nicky Case You might’ve heard a little something about AI these past few months. It has comics.

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DNA face to facial recognition in attempt to find suspect

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Found in a trove of hacked police records published by the transparency collective Distributed Denial of Secrets, it appears to be the first known instance of a police department attempting to use facial recognition on a face algorithmically generated from crime-scene DNA. What’s the confidence interval equivalent for a face?

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Mapping the boundaries of history

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Point in History, by Hans Hack, presents a map of what boundaries used to be. Tags: boundaries , Hans Hack , history. Click anywhere to see the history. For example, select the United States, and you see the country’s past boundaries, but then it keeps going back in time to BC years of hunter gatherers.

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Dolphin hack: What can you do with a Flipper Zero

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Flipper Zero, also so-called the Dolphin hack device, revolutionizes the way we perceive portable, multi-functional devices, specifically designed to interact with access control systems. Why is Flipper Zero called the Dolphin hack device? Reverse engineering With the Dolphin hack device in hand, one can demystify the tech labyrinth.

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AI and the American smile

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Davies who explained that this influencer photo hack would be “Guaranteed to make you look pleasant no matter what you’re thinking […] it’s an automatic smile.” Tags: AI , bias , images , midjourney The article quoted former U.S. ambassador Joseph E. Davies served as ambassador under Franklin D. Roosevelt to the U.S.S.R.

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Scraping public data ruled legal

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For TechCrunch, Zack Whittaker reporting : In its second ruling on Monday, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed its original decision and found that scraping data that is publicly accessible on the internet is not a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, or CFAA, which governs what constitutes computer hacking under U.S.

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23andMe DNA test price hit all-time low after the breach

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23andMe points the finger not at a conventional hack but at hackers exploiting vulnerabilities stemming from compromised passwords traced back to other breaches. 23andMe was quick to clarify that this wasn’t your run-of-the-mill hack. Despite the flashy title, the brunt of those affected were everyday users.

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