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27 Sep

X suspends journalist Ken Klippenstein after he published J.D. Vance dossier

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X suspended journalist Ken Klippenstein’s account earlier this afternoon. X’s Safety account says they issued the temporary suspension “for violating our rules on posting unredacted private personal information, specifically Sen. [J.D.] Vance’s physical address and the majority of his social security number.”Several news outlets that received the vetting dossier of the Republican vice presidential candidate leaked by hackers chose not to publish the sensitive document since it contained personal information. Klippenstein felt the dossier was newsworthy and decided to publish it on Substack and his social media channels and one of them took down his account.Engadget has viewed the dossier and…

25 Sep

Trae Stephens Has Built AI Weapons and Worked for Donald Trump. As He Sees It, Jesus Would Approve

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When I wrote about Anduril in 2018, the company explicitly said it wouldn’t build lethal weapons. Now you are building fighter planes, underwater drones, and other deadly weapons of war. Why did you make that pivot?We responded to what we saw, not only inside our military but also across the world. We want to be aligned with delivering the best capabilities in the most ethical way possible. The alternative is that someone’s going to do that anyway, and we believe that we can do that best.Were there soul-searching discussions before you crossed that line?There’s constant internal discussion about what to…

23 Sep

A Mysterious School for the Network State Crowd Is Now in Session

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Last month, venture capitalist Balaji Srinivasan announced the Network School, a three-month learning retreat marketed to people interested in “network nations,” a kind of utopia for the anarchocapitalist set. The inaugural class is 150 people. It starts today.Details about the school have been shrouded in secrecy, even for the applicants. Aspiring Network School participants put down deposits of up to $2,000 without even knowing the Network School’s location. Srinivasan has still not disclosed it publicly, although social media posts and WIRED reporting indicate that it’s Forest City, Malaysia.The Network School is one of the most ambitious projects yet for people…

18 Sep

Microsoft says Russian troll farms are targeting the Harris-Walz campaign

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Kremlin-affiliated Russian troll farms are running disinformation campaigns that aim to interfere with this year's US presidential elections, and according to Microsoft, they're focusing their efforts on discrediting Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. The company has published a new report detailing the movements of two troll farms being monitored by the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center.These Kremlin-backed actors apparently struggled to find the right approach shortly after President Biden stepped down as a candidate, but in late August and early September, one of them started circulating inauthentic videos that managed to generate millions of views. One video depicted a supposed attack…

17 Sep

TikTok Gets Tough Questions From Court in Fight Against US Ban

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TikTok faces an uphill battle to avoid a US ban if its Chinese owner doesn’t sell the wildly popular social media app, judging from a grilling by an appellate court panel.A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit signaled skepticism of TikTok’s argument Monday that the law signed by President Joe Biden banning the video-sharing app would violate the company’s free speech rights. The US government argued that national security concerns about TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company, ByteDance Ltd., manipulating the content American audiences see justified the law. Source link lol

12 Sep

Yes, You Can Now Bet on Elections in the US

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A federal judge has cleared the way for betting on election results in the US for the first time in the modern era, overturning a prohibition imposed on gambling companies by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, a financial regulator.In November, the CFTC was sued in the District of Columbia by New York-based Kalshi, which operates a predictions market that allows users to bet on the outcome of various events, from the volume of recorded bird flu cases to the number of cars produced by Tesla. Kalshi filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn a CFTC decision preventing it from offering bets…

12 Sep

After Shark Tank, Mark Cuban Just Wants to Break Shit—Especially the Prescription Drug Industry

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What do you mean by that?Because your insurance company, whoever it may be, uses a PBM, a pharmacy benefit manager. The PBM has negotiated with a pharmacy what the reimbursement rate is. Except they basically said, “Here’s what we’re going to reimburse you.” [His Apple Watch buzzes.]You can go ahead and check that.It’s my son. [Speaking into watch.] We’ll do a late lunch. Don’t worry about it. Go ahead and have fun. [Back to the interview.] He’s playing basketball.Nice.So, with the PBMs, there’s no negotiation. Particularly for the small independent pharmacies, they take it or leave it. And: “Oh, by…

11 Sep

The ‘audio earrings’ Kamala Harris didn’t wear during the debate barely even exist

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With even Fox News and senior Republican figures admitting that Vice President Kamala Harris won Tuesday night’s presidential debate, some supporters of former president Donald Trump are desperately seeking crumbs of comfort. Cue the predictable conspiracy theories.A frequent refrain that has emerged from conservatives (but curiously, not Democrats) over the last decade or so is that their guy's opponent was wearing an earpiece during debates. These baseless accusations were slung at President Joe Biden in 2020, at Hillary Clinton in 2016 and at Barack Obama in 2012. The theory was debunked on each occasion.In Harris’ case, conspiracy theorists have claimed…

10 Sep

Why Is AI So Bad at Generating Images of Kamala Harris?

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When Elon Musk shared an image showing Kamala Harris dressed as a “communist dictator” on X last week, it was quite obviously a fake, seeing as Harris is neither a communist nor, to the best of our knowledge, a Soviet cosplayer. And, as many observers noted, the woman in the photo, presumably generated by X’s Grok tool, had only a passing resemblance to the vice president.“AI still is unable to accurately depict Kamala Harris,” one X user wrote. “Looks like they’re posting some random Latina woman.”“Grok put old Eva Longoria in a snazzy outfit and called it a day,” another…

06 Sep

Could AI and Deepfakes Sway the US Election?

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Leah Feiger: All right, that's a good one. Thank you, Tori. Will, what do you have for us?Will Knight: Wow, I don't know if I can really compete with RFK, but as a good CIA operative, I'm going to promote something from the weirder corners of AI, AI and philosophy, I guess. So there's this thing called Roko's basilisk. So the basilisk is a mythological creature serpent that if you looked in its eyes, it could kill you. And so there was this thought experiment someone posted on an AI forum saying that superintelligence in the future would be incentivized…