Another one that belongs on this list: AI-generated photos in housing listings. You can no longer tell what the property actually looks like, and the images conveniently erase the problem spots you'd only catch in person. False advertising is getting completely out of hand.
Some context for people who haven’t followed the full loop: Shazeer was a long-time Google researcher, joined Google in 2000, and was one of the co-authors of “Attention Is All You Need.”
He left Google in 2021 to co-found Character.AI. In 2024, Google brought him and some Character.AI researchers back via a licensing/talent deal with Character.AI (reportedly around $2.7B). He was then made a Gemini co-lead.
Congratulations on the release to the DeepSeek team. An interesting note on the use of CSA and HCA: CSA provides higher-resolution, query-selected memory over 4-token compressed blocks, while HCA provides very low-resolution dense global memory over 128-token blocks. That could be a plausible reason to interleave them: CSA alone risks missing information if the indexer fails, while HCA alone is too lossy for precise retrieval. Still reading through the release, as usual, always appreciate the attention to detail in the technical papers.
Naturally, we'll need to tokenize the risk tranche, leverage a decentralized finance protocol to auto-balance the portfolio, and have an AI-powered DAO govern the arbitrage, ensuring our digital assets stay liquid.
Interestingly, FTX made a $500 million USD investment in Anthropic; supposedly, this was made while Anthropic was valued at $4.6 billion (unconfirmed). Now, Anthropic is nearing $30 billion.
Anyone know the latest on this? Is FTX going to sell that stake off to pay back the debts?
Often times, some take the extra step of utilizing services such as rdp.sh or any other "instantly" deployable VM in the cloud (these are services that take monero/cryptos btw), sort of like a bastion host. Once connected to that instance, they would then deploy their mullvad that was bought via amazon to add yet another layer of obfuscation.
Home ISP ---> (optional VPN to connect to rdp.sh deployed VM in the cloud) ----> Mullvad VPN on the bastion host
This is of course, not viable for the long term and very cumbersome to deal with if you're doing this on the daily. Unless you are under threat of a nation-state threat actor... you'll be fine.
I have been (and still am) a long term supporter and subscriber of Mullvad services. I don't forsee that changing.
One concern though, is the blanket blockade of their IP addresses accross multiple services; I'm not talking about the avalanche of captcha's one must deal with, but for example: I wasn't even able to update a fresh install of ubuntu via sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade... it refused to connect to mullvad IPs.
I've been running into this problem more and more, first it was linux distro issues, then, my gaming client, and perhaps the worst, Github itself.
I'm not sure what the solution is here, since Mullvad provides unparalleled respect of privacy; but the IP's they use are almost always associated with the highest levels of fraud.
Perhaps, this is the price I am willing to pay for privacy done right. Props to Mullvad, for being the best in that regard.
I am able to route traffic on my mobile device through my home network via the use of their "exit node" option. It allows one of my home devices to act as an exit node for my entire personal tailscale network.
This serves multiple benefits: the main one being that I receive pi-hole filtered ad-free traffic on my mobile device via a Wireguard VPN with my home IP 24/7/365
> WGU is regionally accredited, not nationally, and it's a non-profit. So it cannot be compared to University of Phoenix, ITT Tech, DeVry, etc.
Just want to point out for those that may not know, 85% of universities in the U.S. are regionally accredited [1]. Regional accreditation, which WGU has, is the most prestigious and widely-recognized [1]. Some folks may mistake that nationally is "better", but, as you'll see from the link below, that simply is not the case.