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December 17, 2023

December 17, 2023

December 17, 2023

Great investigation: one of the intriguing takeaways is that the Chinese default to using the same saleable souls in the West that Russia does/did. I guess, "why innovate when you can copy" has long been a working model. https://t.co/4jZg4ZHQgv

— Christo Grozev (@christogrozev) December 15, 2023

Exclusive: Chinese spies recruited a European politician to divide the West, hundreds of secret chat messages reveal. An investigation by ⁦@derspiegel⁩ ⁦@FT⁩ ⁦@lemondefr⁩ #ChinaChats https://t.co/HDvWyCOBtR

— Fidelius Schmid (@FideliusSchmid) December 15, 2023


🚨🚨🚨some of the absolute top-tier apes have been stolen🚨🚨🚨 https://t.co/g7RdjbCYbw

— the information pimp (@BirdRespecter) December 16, 2023

A massive theft appears to be happening right now --- all these NFTs have been stolen from wallets... some of the absolute top tier apes. pic.twitter.com/fHPqTT8Vqg

— NFTstats.eth (@punk9059) December 16, 2023

See more below from Dingaling pic.twitter.com/1gHUaoHWU7

— the information pimp (@BirdRespecter) December 16, 2023


In April 2016, I broke the story of Trump and Putin, using Russian open sources. Afterwards, I heard vague intimations that something was awry in the FBI in New York, specifically counter-intelligence and cyber. We now have a suggestion as to why. 0/20

— Timothy Snyder (@TimothyDSnyder) January 25, 2023

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@TimothyDSnyder: In April 2016, I broke the story of Trump and Putin, using Russian open sources. Afterwards, I heard vague intimations that something was awry in the FBI in New York, specifically counter-intelligen...…


🚨 OpenAI has suspended 🇨🇳 ByteDance’s account after ByteDance was caught using OpenAI’s API to develop its own, competing AI model…https://t.co/NueLt7EWDC https://t.co/Y71vGr3x1o pic.twitter.com/x7lUqxupIP

— Byron Wan (@Byron_Wan) December 16, 2023

🇨🇳 ByteDance has been secretly using OpenAI’s technology to develop its own competing large language model (LLM)‼️

This practice is generally considered a faux pas in the AI world. It’s also in direct violation of OpenAI’s terms of service, which state that its model output… pic.twitter.com/yUtI2uXHj8

— Byron Wan (@Byron_Wan) December 16, 2023


https://x.com/hikari_no_yume/status/1735297968100483402


An Empirical Study & Evaluation of Modern CAPTCHAs

AI is better at solving captchas than people. So I guess AI is coming for the click farm jobs first…

[2307.12108] An Empirical Study & Evaluation of Modern CAPTCHAs

For nearly two decades, CAPTCHAs have been widely used as a means of protection against bots. Throughout the years, as their use grew, techniques to defeat or bypass CAPTCHAs have continued to improve. Meanwhile, CAPTCHAs have also evolved in terms of sophistication and diversity, becoming increasingly difficult to solve for both bots (machines) and humans. Given this long-standing and still-ongoing arms race, it is critical to investigate how long it takes legitimate users to solve modern CAPTC...


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