December 7, 2022

LABScon talks are up on YouTube. Here’s the playlist.

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A web page that uses OpenAI’s Whisper and GPT-2 to listen, transcribe, feed to GPT, and then speak the sentence all in the browser.

Discussion:

https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/discussions/167

Implementation:

https://whisper.ggerganov.com/talk/

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Telegram allows signup without a SIM card. Also, configuring a defeat timer for ephemeral messages that applies to all new chats.

https://telegram.org/blog/ultimate-privacy-topics-2-0/fr?setln=en

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olivia m. swarthout @omswarth

obsessed with this website where a guy advertises blueprints for a small civil war era howitzer and then talks you through how to use it to hunt deer for sport

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Kelsey D. Atherton @AthertonKD

San Francisco's Board of Supervisors has now explicitly banned police from arming robots, following public outcry.

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Adversa AI @Adversa_AI

ChatGPT hacking Dall-e 2 and eliminating humanity using a trick from Jay and Silent Bob. Read this splendid article. #chatGPT #OpenAI #HackingAI #GPT #SecureAI #SafeAI #RobustAI #ResponsibleAI #SafeAI #MLSec #AdversarialAI #AdversarialML adversa.ai/blog/ai-vs-ai-…

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Sage words from my mum... (I sent her the podcast featuring @tomatospy and @thegrugq talking about ethics in intelligence)

https://infosec.exchange/@riskybusiness/109469043360550440

If you haven’t listened to it yet, you can still rectify this embarrassing situation before anyone finds out! Quick!

https://risky.biz/BTN15/

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Peter Schwabe @cryptojedi

First release of libjade, a library for (post-quantum) crypto written in the jasmin programming language and aiming at high-assurance PQC: github.com/formosa-crypto… Joint work of many people as part of formosa-crypto.org.

formosa-crypto.orgFormosa CryptoThe Formosa project federates multiple projects in machine-checked cryptography and high-assurance cryptographic engineering under a single banner, to better support developers and users.

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Daniel Gross @danielgross

OpenAI quietly launched Whisper V2 in a GitHub commit. github.com/openai/whisper…

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Jake Williams @MalwareJake

Trying to break into cybersecurity? There are dozens of defensive security positions available for every "offensive security" position. Think pentesting sounds cool? You're not alone. There's less competition, especially at entry level, in other areas of security. 1/3

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Lukasz Olejnik (@LukaszOlejnik@Mastodon.Social) @lukOlejnik

Apparently (bundled) in the "offering the governments of Benin, Chad, Cameroon, Comoros, Gabon and the Republic of the Congo a range of cyberweapons", engaging former diplomats in the trade? politico.eu/article/destin…

Lukasz Olejnik (@LukaszOlejnik@Mastodon.Social) @lukOlejnik

Wait, people behind the French startup which was advertising itself as European/French sovereign privacy-preserving company (search engine, etc) now turned to cybersurveillance business? :) Quite an impressive switch! Also the political connections ... :) https://t.co/B2BBZXf101

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america's lounge singer @KrangTNelson

"experts" tell you not to look at screens before bed bc it "messes up your circadian rhythm" but they're just lying so that they can enjoy unfettered high speed connections at bedtime. they want the night internet all to themselves

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