Odd Stuff (Part 1)

Viewer discretion is advised here because it contains some very steamy footage…

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I mean check out that rig - two NVMe 1TB SSDs, RTX GPU, Ryzen 9… all in a glass sided chassis.

Oh and there’s some handsome dude putting it all together. :smirk:

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Southern Man don’t need them around…

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My life as a criminal cookie clearer: Register vulture writes Chrome extension, realizes it probably breaks US law

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UK intel committee on Russia: Social media firms should remove state disinformation. What was that, MI5? ████████?

An influential UK Parliamentary committee has called on social media companies to remove covert hostile state material and said the government must “name and shame” those that fail to act. It also said that there was a “complicated wiring diagram of responsibilities amongst ministers” who might have to act in the event of a major state cyber attack.

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May as well go for the whole ensemble.

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The new season of Black Mirror seems a bit derivative.

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Network and Max Headroom predicted all this decades ago

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Cash from Satan?

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That’s one slippery cowboy! Burt was a fun guy.

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Cat needs a home…

After banning Chinese comms bogeyman, UK asks: Huawei in this mess? It was a failure of capitalism, MPs told

Following the ban of the firm’s gear in the nation’s 5G deployment, the government is doing some soul-searching to find out how it became so dependent on one particular vendor.

One cause, MPs were told at a meeting of the House of Commons’ Science and Technology Committee, was a “failure of capitalism”.

“Free markets essentially failed the US, Canada, and the UK in creating this gap,” said Amy Karam, fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute.

Mexican cave relics suggest humans were populating the Americas up to 17,000 years earlier than thought

Excavations in Chiquihuite Cave in northern Mexico by Professor Ciprian Ardelean of Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas and colleagues show evidence of humans on the land from at least around 26,500 years ago.

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Twitter has decided to crack down on QAnon, the bizarre conspiracy theory that suggests US president Donald Trump is working to expose a cabal of deep-state Satanist paedophiles that secretly runs the world.

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That’s sure to piss off the “Clovis first” cultists.

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Sick of AI engines scraping your pics for facial recognition? Here’s a way to Fawkes them right up

Researchers at the University of Chicago’s Sand Lab have developed a technique for tweaking photos of people so that they sabotage facial-recognition systems.

The project, named Fawkes in reference to the mask in the V for Vendetta graphic novel and film depicting 16th century failed assassin Guy Fawkes, is described in a paper scheduled for presentation in August at the USENIX Security Symposium 2020.

Fawkes consists of software that runs an algorithm designed to “cloak” photos so they mistrain facial recognition systems, rendering them ineffective at identifying the depicted person. These “cloaks,” which AI researchers refer to as perturbations, are claimed to be robust enough to survive subsequent blurring and image compression.

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Good news! If it’s square, it’s Ritter Sport. That is a legit claim.

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