December 22, 2022

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Oedipus, told with vegetables. NSFW.

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Cyrus, Goober Unicornsaw 🐀 @BigPapaFox2

Everybody. Thank Naruto the Macaque for helping set the precedent that copyrightable material requires 'human authorship'. This monkey may have single-handedly destroyed the AI art industry. 🐵🎉

dish @companiondish

today I woke up to the lovely news that an AI-generated comic lost its copyright protection because the USPTO determined that "copyrightable works require human authorship." great step in the right direction 👌 https://t.co/U1GGDwsPdC

dish @companiondish

today I woke up to the lovely news that an AI-generated comic lost its copyright protection because the USPTO determined that "copyrightable works require human authorship." great step in the right direction 👌

Lisette Titre-Montgomery (she/her) @zette16

@companiondish “But I’m an artist!!!!”

The article:

https://aibusiness.com/ml/ai-generated-comic-book-loses-copyright-protection

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Ivan Kwiatkowski @JusticeRage

Great @politico investigation on Alternativ, another shady private-intel IT company based in France: politico.eu/leaked-altrnat… The founder has deep political connections. The situation in Europe when it comes to cybermercenaries is shameful and unacceptable.

politico.euLeaked: The Altrnativ world of cybersurveillanceLeaked: The Altrnativ world of cybersurveillance About this series: As co-founder of the French search engine Qwant, Eric Leandri was heralded as a champion of digital privacy and an example of Eur…

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Ariel Jungheit @ArielJT

Here it is - Metador. A previously unknown fully-featured multicomponent backdoor framework dating back to April 2021. Kudos to the collab between @labscon_io @juanandres_gs and GReAT's @2igosha @craiu ! #labscon22

https://www.sentinelone.com/labs/the-mystery-of-metador-an-unattributed-threat-hiding-in-telcos-isps-and-universities/

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Nice thread

Costin Raiu @craiu

Here's my top 10 big "unattributed" #APT mysteries:

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Ciaran Martin @ciaranmartinoxf

Last month I had the privilege of being invited to Cardiff by @PrifWeinidog to give a lecture at the University on the future constitutional direction of the UK as part of a series he's organising I've published it here today 1/3

ciaranmartin.substack.comSome constitutional cogitations from CardiffThe aggressive Anglocentric British nationalism of the post-2016 period doesn’t work for the wider UK, especially Northern Ireland. I looked at why, and what might instead.

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd

Dear followers

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This guy is going to plead guilty, you’ll be shocked to learn…

Bloomberg @business

An Ohio man who posed in a tub full of cash is set to plead guilty after he was charged with stealing Bitcoin seized by the government

trib.alBloomberg - Are you a robot?

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ret @rad_milk

DATE: so tell me something about yourself ME: i am older than every dog

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Mateusz Fafinski @Calthalas

There is a great tradition in many German cities to have a full-size statue of Santa Claus in the city centre, preserving their character and heritage.

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SMBC on social media

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/artificial-incompetence

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Chris Krebs @C_C_Krebs

Cool, cool. Just the former National Sec Advisor pushing an Iranian info op to the former Acting Director for National Intelligence. Perfectly normal stuff. As I said at the time, I’d never use Calibri font in an official communication. I got standards after all.

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