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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1269396/faa-says-boeing-can-resume-self-certifying-its-jets-as-airworthy

Background:
This air cleaner is a homemade system that is useful for lowering the levels of respiratory aerosol particles

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1269053/mixfont-creator-develops-anti-ai-decoy-font-to-mask-text-using-optical-illusion

A brief recap: a few weeks ago I’d taken the $155,000 Range Rover I was testing out to run some errands with my wife in Plymouth, Minnesota. I was backing out of a parking space in front of my local Kohl’s when four cop cars came screaming up and “initiated a box and pin on the vehicle,” as the police report says. Hands on their guns, the officers ordered us out of the vehicle, patted us down, and eventually told us the Range Rover’s license plate—New Jersey 34 10 DTM—was stolen, they suspected the vehicle itself was stolen too, and they’d used Flock cameras to track me down over the last two days.

The scenario involving my wife and I is just one of many like it. Thomas noted that the system is 99% accurate today, but it’s performing 20 billion reads a month. That 1% error rate, of which I was a part of in June, makes for two hundred million misreads a month.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1268605/how-cops-use-flock-to-track-people-not-cars

Cops have used Flock's FreeForm search feature to look for people with tattoos and wearing specific sport shirts, and searches sometimes include the target's race, according to data reviewed

Kimi K3 still trails Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI’s GPT 5.6 Sol on overall performance, the company said on Friday, but consistently outperformed other tested models.

The model beat Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5 — models that sit just behind Anthropic and OpenAI’s leading-edge systems — on benchmarks including coding and general agents, according to Moonshot.

It’s China’s largest AI model so far, with 2.8 trillion parameters, referring to the size of its neural network.

Risk is rising as big tech companies like Oracle — the ultimate financial source of the Ellison media empire — need to turn to the bond market for staggering sums to finance data centers.

Finding them on my phone, however, is another matter

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1267759/when-algorithms-go-to-war

The rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and other digital technologies into warfare is creating new risks for civilians. It’s raising urgent questions like who can be held accountable?, is there any proper form of human control?, and does it comply with international law? Tech companies play an increasingly influential role in military operations and are at the same time close to political power. This is a dangerous development. States can, and must, act as soon as possible to ensure a future where decisions over life and death are not made by algorithms.

I think this article and headline does a poor job of explaining the wider context around this one.

It is likely to be aimed at financial traders who want to see market-moving news fast. Trump’s social media posts often cause sudden swings in global markets, especially when he writes about trade and tariffs.

For firms, a delay of even seconds can be costly. Until now, banks and traders had to monitor the app manually. The new system will send posts directly to paying clients.

The code also suggested that Suno was using proxies to scrape songs from YouTube through a company called Bright Data, which sells scraping tools, infrastructure, and data services. Additional code shows that with the help of an online tool called PodcastIndex, Suno identified 420,000 different podcasts that had at least five, 30-minute episodes and sought to download roughly 1 million hours of podcasts

The hacker, ellie.191, told 404 Media they breached the company by hacking an individual employee using the Shai-Hulud worm, a supply chain attack that allowed hackers to harvest GitHub and cloud service credentials. They said they also accessed Suno’s customer list, which included customers’ emails and/or phone numbers and Stripe payment details, depending on what they used to login. The hacker provided a sample of some of the customers, some of whom confirmed to 404 Media they had used their phone number to sign up for Suno and said they were never notified of a breach.

Last month, The Atlantic reported on several music databases that are widely used in AI training, consisting of millions of tracks: “Three of the datasets I found are distributed as a list of links to songs on YouTube or Spotify. AI developers download the actual audio using tools that automate the job, some of which allow developers to bypass logins, advertisements, and mechanisms that might earn money or subscribers for creators. Such tools violate the terms of service of these platforms.

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