The article makes it clear that the Chinese botnet is targeting Microsoft azure accounts, usually for large organizations involved with governments, infrastructure, legal professionals, science and technology.

It also states that the attacks can be disinfected by regularly restarting your router, but that this doesn’t prevent reinfection later.

The US intelligence services also says you should regularly restart your phone.

This is Microsoft’s posting about it which other news sources are quoting from: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/10/31/chinese-threat-actor-storm-0940-uses-credentials-from-password-spray-attacks-from-a-covert-network/

It has a recommendations section which suggests “credential hygiene” and strong passwords help.

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No it’s a huge one, because it’s the most likely application of AI, AI site moderation will be the start of AI digital policing a field which risks growing larger and larger until it manifests as actual legal policing.

The part where they were saying they don’t like the current AIs they know about. Showing disapproval of the trend.

Try Venice Ai, free to use, won’t try to censor your topics. Still just a chat bot though (although I think it does image generation too).

I think less restrictive AI that are free, like Venice AI (you can ask it pretty much anything and it will not stop you) will be around for longer than ones that went with restrictive subscription models, and that eventually those other ones will become niche.

New technology always propagates further the freer it is to use and experiment with, and ChatGPT and OpenAI are quite restrictive and money hungry.

Do we know how human brains reason? Not really… Do we have an abundance of long chains of reasoning we can use as training data?

…no.

So we don’t have the training data to get language models to talk through their reasoning then, especially not in novel or personable ways.

But also - even if we did, that wouldn’t produce ‘thought’ any more than a book about thought can produce thought.

Thinking is relational. It requires an internal self awareness. We can’t discuss that in text so much that a book is suddenly conscious.

This is the idea that"Sentience can’t come from semantics"… More is needed than that.

It’s time to take CEO’s money away!

The problem is you have to know the approximate timeframe of your last visit - eg. If it was in the past week it may not be searchable in other categories such as *more than 3 months ago".

… likewise, if you can still find it by going to a currently open tab and hitting"back" enough times, it may not have been addded to history yet.

Firefox’s history is a little idiosyncratic. One of the less polished parts of the browser.

I downloaded Librewolf today - the privacy oriented fork of Firefox!

Good to see there are browser variants that aren’t just Chrome.

nah, they just told him who had hits out on him, and that he’d be fed to the wolves if he didn’t help.

The protective punishment of the state is probably a lot lighter than the street justice of global networks of criminal gangs.

He’s Mr. Burns but less lovable and entertaining.

Amazon has a healthcare company now too…

…and they own twitch.

Good, it’s the only reliable sign of intelligent self-awareness there is, to the point that all children progress through it, starting out as bad liars, and getting better at it.

LLMs however might just be stupid, or stocasticaly incorrect.

As long as they’re not hallucinating, which anyone (including conspiracy theorists) can ask them to do. They they turn into conspiracy confirming machines.

Just to clarify, the majority of active pedophiles are opportunistic, they go after those they have access to.

This is why every industry that has greater access to children, also has an greater number of pedophile scandals… It’s a problem, and yeah, giving someone direct access via a computer to a child’s digital life is a form of access that might be used opportunistically by such people.

“AI” or Large Language Models, are designed by definition to give averaged answers. So they’re not just averaging on the text you give them, they’re averaging it with all general text of the training model, to create a probabilistically average result based on all of it.

There’s no way around this, because it’s simply how such systems work. It’s their lifeblood to produce a “best guess” across large amounts of training data …which is done by averaging out all that language. A large amount of language… Hence the name.

Automate terra forming against climate change. I want big machines and swarms of drones doing 24/7 regreening and planting forests in the desert.

This will bring new meaning to the idea of a burner bag.

Also, from a national security perspective we need to make sure this isn’t a slow attack to make westerners more vulnerable than other places that aren’t liberal democracies.