A 25-year-old man in Ontario, Canada has been arrested for allegedly stealing data from and extorting more than 160 companies that used the cloud data service Snowflake.
On October 30, Canadian authorities arrested Alexander Moucka, a.k.a. Connor Riley Moucka of Kitchener, Ontario, on a provisional arrest warrant from the United States. Bloomberg first reported Moucka’s alleged ties to the Snowflake hacks on Monday.
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In a statement on Moucka’s arrest, Mandiant said UNC5537 aka Alexander ‘Connor’ Moucka has proven to be one of the most consequential threat actors of 2024.
Too bad we can't send him to a Russian prison, nyet?
On Saturday, an Associated Press investigation revealed that OpenAI's Whisper transcription tool creates fabricated text in medical and business settings despite warnings against such use. The AP interviewed more than 12 software engineers, developers, and researchers who found the model regularly invents text that speakers never said, a phenomenon often called a "confabulation" or "hallucination" in the AI field.
Upon its release in 2022, OpenAI claimed that Whisper approached "human level robustness" in audio transcription accuracy. However, a University of Michigan researcher told the AP that Whisper created false text in 80 percent of public meeting transcripts examined. Another developer, unnamed in the AP report, claimed to have found invented content in almost all of his 26,000 test transcriptions.
Of course, they use it because it's cheaper than paying a human transcriber. So riddle me this, Healthcare Administrator: what do you call yet another AI that lies all the time? A day that ends in "-day".
While the vast majority of people over 50 look for health information on the internet, a new poll shows 74% would have very little or no trust in such information if it were generated by artificial intelligence.
Meanwhile, 20% of older adults have little or no confidence that they could spot misinformation about a health topic if they came across it.
That percentage was even higher among older adults who say their mental health, physical health or memory is fair or poor, and among those who report having a disability that limits their activities. In other words, those who might need trustworthy health information the most were more likely to say they had little or no confidence they could spot false information.
People are smart enough to catch a whiff of marketing Bravo Sierra.
From now on I will start asking all of my healthcare providers if they do transcription, and if so whether they use AI for the transcription. If they do I will demand to review the transcript. If they won't, I'll get a different provider.
A journalist with the London Telegraph has been visited unannounced at her home by police in the UK who told her they are investigating a “non-crime hate incident” over a tweet she posted a year ago.
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Allison Pearson relates what happened on Sunday in an article, noting that police will not tell her which post is the subject of the investigation, nor will they tell her who her accuser is or what they feel offended about.
Well okay, then.But the UK Plods seems to have forgotten the old saying to not mess with someone who buys ink by the barrel:
Way to shine a spotlight on your policy, dumbasses. Streisand Effect much?
I've been a bit startled by the unhinged reaction by so many Democrats to Trump's rather resounding victory. Probably I shouldn't be - after all the lesson of Facebook (and most social media) proves the old adage that it's better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than it is to open it and remove all doubt.
Sure, I've been wrong all the time in the past (click on the tag for polls - often wrong but at least I showed my work). But when things didn't go my way it was a shrug and get on to what's next. That's not what we see at all.
Sure, the Democrats never really talked much about issues that most people care about - are you better off than you were four years ago, that sort of thing. Instead, for the last four years it's been OrangeManBad, and nothing but OrangeManBad. Now they are standing amidst the destruction of their hopes as the Great Orange Whale swims off to the White House.
Maybe it's time to reread that novel, and an exercise in understanding the broken political philosophy of the Democrats. But then again, I don't think that *I* need to reread it.
They do.
Absurdum est ut alios regat, qui seipsum regere nescit.
It is absurd that a man should rule over others, who cannot rule himself.
It's the soldier, not the reporter who has given us Freedom of the Press. It's the soldier, not the poet, who has given us Freedom of Speech. It's the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the Freedom to Demonstrate. It's the soldier, not the lawyer, who has given us the Right to a Fair Trial. It's the soldier who salutes the flag, serves under the flag and whose coffin is draped by the flag, Who gives the protestor the right he abuses to burn the flag.
