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Today we talk about Stack Overflow's announcement of adding AI capabilities to the service network - while in the middle of a moderator strike. Read more about this on @VentureBeat here: https://venturebeat.com/ai/stack-overflow-jumps-into-the-generative-ai-world-with-overflow-ai/

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Today we talk about the hasty rebrand of Twitter to "X", which... well, it could have gone better. One article on the topic we look at is from @TheDailyBeast here: https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-twitter-rebrand-as-x-gets-site-blocked-under-indonesia-porn-laws

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This edition of the AI News Roundup is a bit late - but belatedly, today we bring you news from the rapidly changing world of AI that you probably missed. Including: https://twitter.com/fablesimulation/status/1681352904152850437, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/19/business/google-artificial-intelligence-news-articles.html, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66267961, https://www.wired.com/story/metas-open-source-llama-upsets-the-ai-horse-race/, https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2023/07/26/ai-act-power-open-source-guiding-regulations/, https://fortune.com/2023/07/26/women-will-be-more-likely-to-be-forced-to-switch-occupations-than-men-because-of-a-i-wave/

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Today we talk about a case of William Weber, a sysadmin who was arrested for running a Tor exit node, on charges of supporting the distribution of child p*rn.

Read more about it here: https://lowendbox.com/blog/man-found-guilty-of-child-porn-because-he-ran-a-tor-exit-node-the-story-of-william-weber/

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Today we talk about an article in @Forbes about an AI monitoring vehicles, being used across state lines with impunity by local law enforcement. Welcome to the future. Check it out here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2023/07/17/license-plate-reader-ai-criminal/

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Yeah OK so we kind of messed this story up first time round. But eventually we do get to talking about the confusing situation of the .ml top level domain (for Malia) which is often confused with the .mil TLD - and that's bad, because .mil is used for official US military organisations like https://army.mil and https://navy.mil.

See if you can read the article from @TheVerge better than we did: https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/17/23797379/mali-ml-typo-us-military-emails-leak

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Today we talk about an article by @TechCrunch about a decision from the The Norwegian Data Protection Authority to ban Meta from allowing targeted ads in the country, or face fines of up to 1M NOK (about $100,000) per day. This is significant because Norway isn't subject to GDPR regulations - so it's another country coming to the conclusion that targeted ads are bad.

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Today we talk about an article that's been doing the rounds that shows some stats on how Twitter's infosec community has died off. Check it out on @cyentia here: https://www.cyentia.com/the-death-of-infosec-twitter/

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Today we talk about the AI stories from the week that you might have missed. Including a classic @BuzzFeed listicle on What an AI thinks Europeans think of each US state: https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/european-ai-american-list; What Europeans the news that @meta have released Llama v2 under an "open" data license: https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1681333345085542404; some details from @SlashNext about WormGPT, a tool being used by online criminals to create phishing emails: https://slashnext.com/blog/wormgpt-the-generative-ai-tool-cybercriminals-are-using-to-launch-business-email-compromise-attacks/; Elon Musk's launch of xAI, a new AI company that's going to go super well we imagine: https://archive.is/egAOv; and a claim by @StabilityAI's cofounder that he was swindled out of his shares for a mere $100 right before a massive funding round;

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Today we talk about a pretty meta (not Meta) subject: why the news is always so awful. And not awful as in negative, but awful as terribly reported. Hype articles like this nonsense for example, which should probably never have been written, let alone published: https://aibusiness.com/nlp/chatgpt-faces-first-ever-user-decline-a-hiccup-or-new-trend-

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