Beloved Local Newspapers Fired Staffers, Then Started Running AI Slop
31 Jul

Beloved Local Newspapers Fired Staffers, Then Started Running AI Slop

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"We weren't happy about it at all, and we were absolutely not involved in putting it up."Porn ParadeDeath with dignity? Not in this AI age.In the latest horrifying turn in the slow-bleed demise of journalism, Wired reports that several beloved alt-weeklies, including LA Weekly and The Village Voice, have suddenly started running a deluge of suspiciously similar listicles recommending porn models.The listicles are almost certainly generated by AI, and to make matters worse, are being presented to readers as real editorial content.At the New York-based Village Voice — which, with its ceasing of publication in 2017 but subsequent revival in…
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Cribl Peers Into the Data Currents. Here’s What It Found
31 Jul

Cribl Peers Into the Data Currents. Here’s What It Found

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(Image source: Cribl) IT observability firm Cribl today took the wraps off “Navigating the data current,” a new report that digs into details of its customers’ data operations from IT and security perspectives. Among the noteworthy trends highlighted by Cribl are the growth of data sources, the popularity of specific cloud destinations, and what’s going on with the SIEM market. Before we get into the report, it’s important to be aware of Cribl’s position in the IT observability market. The company, which was founded six years ago, serves as a sort of independent broker for fast-moving observability data, including event…
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Trump kicked off his NABJ appearance in a combative mood. It only got worse from there.
31 Jul

Trump kicked off his NABJ appearance in a combative mood. It only got worse from there.

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Most people expected fireworks when it was announced that former President Donald Trump would appear at this year's National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago.And that's exactly what happened almost immediately after Trump walked onto the stage, as the former president complained about the tone of the first few questions that he was asked and accused Vice President Kamala Harris of downplaying her Indian heritage."I didn't know she was Black until a number of years ago, when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black," the former president said of Harris."Is she Indian…
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Ingest data from SQL Server, Salesforce, and Workday with LakeFlow Connect
31 Jul

Ingest data from SQL Server, Salesforce, and Workday with LakeFlow Connect

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We’re excited to announce the Public Preview of LakeFlow Connect for SQL Server, Salesforce, and Workday. These ingestion connectors enable simple and efficient ingestion from databases and enterprise apps—powered by incremental data processing and smart optimizations under the hood. LakeFlow Connect is also native to the Data Intelligence Platform, so it offers both serverless compute and Unity Catalog governance. Ultimately, this means organizations can spend less time moving their data and more time getting value from it.More broadly, this is a key step towards realizing the future of data engineering on Databricks with LakeFlow: the unified solution for ingestion, transformation…
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Senators introduce bill to protect individuals against AI-generated deepfakes
31 Jul

Senators introduce bill to protect individuals against AI-generated deepfakes

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Today, a group of senators introduced the , a law that would make it illegal to create digital recreations of a person's voice or likeness without that individual's consent. It's a bipartisan effort from Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), fully titled the Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe Act of 2024.If it passes, the NO FAKES Act would create an option for people to seek damages when their voice, face or body are recreated by AI. Both individuals and companies would be held liable for producing, hosting or sharing…
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Meta’s AI Says Trump Wasn’t Shot
31 Jul

Meta’s AI Says Trump Wasn’t Shot

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Facebook owner Meta had some very awkward questions to answer after its AI assistant denied that former president Donald Trump had been shot, even though he absolutely was indeed wounded by a gunman earlier this month — bizarre, conspiracy-laden claims that highlight the technology's glaring shortcomings, even with the resources of one of the world's most powerful tech companies behind it.It's especially striking, considering that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg called Trump's immediate reaction to being shot "badass" and inspiring, contradicting his company's lying chatbot.In a blog post on Tuesday, Meta's global head of policy Joel Kaplan squarely placed the blame…
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Supervised Learning based Method for Condition Monitoring of Overhead Line Insulators using Leakage Current Measurement
31 Jul

Supervised Learning based Method for Condition Monitoring of Overhead Line Insulators using Leakage Current Measurement

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arXiv:2407.20288v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As a new practical and economical solution to the aging problem of overhead line (OHL) assets, the technical policies of most power grid companies in the world experienced a gradual transition from scheduled preventive maintenance to a risk-based approach in asset management. Even though the accumulation of contamination is predictable within a certain degree, there are currently no effective ways to identify the risk of the insulator flashover in order to plan its replacement. This paper presents a novel machine learning (ML) based method for estimating the flashover probability of the cup-and-pin glass insulator string.…
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