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At 404 Media, Matthew Gault was first to spot a press release from the UK's National Drought Group offering a list of things we can do to save water. The meetin| net.wars
A couple of weeks ago, the Greenwich Skeptics in the Pub played host to Sophie Nightingale, who studies the psychology of AI deepfakes. The particular project she spoke about was an experiment in whether people can be trained to be better at distinguishing them from real images. In Nightingale’s experiments, she carefully matched groups of … Continue reading "Passing the Uncanny Valley" The post Passing the Uncanny Valley appeared first on net.wars.| net.wars
So, the US has claimed victory against the UK. Regular readers may recall that in February the UK’s Home Office secretly asked Apple to put a backdoor in the Advanced Data Protection encryption it offers as a feature for iCloud users. In March, Apple challenged the order. The US objected to the requirement that the … Continue reading "Email to Ofgem" The post Email to Ofgem appeared first on net.wars.| net.wars
At 404 Media, Matthew Gault was first to spot a press release from the UK's National Drought Group offering a list of things we can do to save water. The meetin| net.wars
For decades, technologists imagined teaching machines. Instead, although edtech is indeed permeating classrooms, human teachers have remained in demand. And then came generative AI… At Rest of World, Laura Rodríguez Salamanca explores AI’s impact in rural Colombia classrooms since Meta added AI bots to WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook and made copying and pasting answers frictionless. … Continue reading "Machine learning" The post Machine learning appeared first on net.wars.| net.wars
In 2008, when the recording industry was successfully lobbying for an extension to the term of copyright to 95 years, I wrote about a spectacular unfairness tha| net.wars
So many ironies, so little time. According to the Financial Times (and syndicated at Ars Technica), the US government, which itself has traditionally demanded law enforcement access to encrypted messages and data, is pushing the UK to drop its demand that Apple weaken its encryption. Normally, you want to say, Look here, countries are entitled … Continue reading "Magic math balls" The post Magic math balls appeared first on net.wars.| net.wars
I've been online for nearly 34 years, and I'm thinking of becoming a child. Or at least, a child to big user-to-user social media services, which next week will| net.wars
It took me six hours of listening to people with differing points of view discuss AI and copyright at a workshop, organized by the Sussex Centre for Law and Technology at the Sussex Humanities Lab (SHL), to come up with a question that seemed to me significant: what is all this talk about who “wins … Continue reading "Conundrum" The post Conundrum appeared first on net.wars.| net.wars
“The colors came back,” a friend said. He was talking about the change after he had cataract surgery. My clinician, a retired surgeon, said something similar, that patients come in and exclaim: “I can’t believe how blue the sky is!” I didn’t have that. Cataracts develop slowly, so many don’t perceive how bad their vision … Continue reading "Second sight" The post Second sight appeared first on net.wars.| net.wars
This is chiefly aimed at anyone who saw me at the Old Songs Folk Festival this past weekend. (If you missed it, better luck next year!) The folk page on my website is here. There is a link on it to my page on open guitar tunings, which I intend to update with the extra … Continue reading ""| net.wars
There appears to be media consensus: "Bluesky is dead." At The Commentary, James Meigs calls Bluesky "an expression of the left's growing hypersensitivity to| net.wars
A sheriff's office in Texas searched a giant nationwide database of license plate numbers captured by automatic cameras to look for a woman they suspected of se| net.wars
On May 19, a group of technologists, researchers, economists, and scientists published an open letter calling on British prime minister Keir Starmer to prioriti| net.wars
This week, the clock started ticking on the UK's Online Safety Act. Ofcom, the regulator charged with enforcing it, published its codes of practice and guidance| net.wars
The themes at this week's Scrambling for Safety, hosted by the Foundation for Information Policy Research, are topical but not new since the original 1997 event| net.wars
The inxodus onto Bluesky noted here last week continues apace: the site's added a million users a day for more than a week, gradually slowing down from 12 new u| net.wars
If you were to judge just by behavior, you would have to conclude that the entertainment industry's rights holders are desperate to promote piracy. The latest| net.wars
It seems no manufacturer will be satisfied until they have turned everything they make into an ongoing revenue stream. Once, it was enough to sell widgets. Then| net.wars
