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her host Jonathan Strickland, I'm an executive producer with iheart radio and held the tec Arria. It is time protect news for tuesday October thirty. First, twenty two
three happy halloween every body or a spooky, saw if you prefer,
Last week I mentioned, we would not have a news episode today because of smart talks with ibm, but the
nope was on me, turns
there was a schedule, a delay.
So now you get an episode for me. After all, so let's die
into these spooky world of tech. News- and you might hear me make some-
spooky, sounds throughout the show. I assure you, it's not that
How did it's just that? The kidney stone I'm dealing with still isn't done yet anyway, the back after twenty twenty
is hit me hard ya'll, but never mind that you're,
here to hear me grouse, moan about my health. You hear that
hear me grass moan about tat. Let's get to it burst up this week, you s, president Joe Biden issued an executive order that deals with the big topic in tech of twenty twenty three, that of art
sure intelligence and they had a particular focus on generative ay. I, which
just remind you
generative eight. I is one subset of the overall
blend of artificial intelligence and, if you're not
America, or maybe you are from america, but you ve never really looked into it and he don't know what an executive order is it
as one of the president's powers of office, the
It has the authority to issue directives without having to go through.
congress or any other branch of the government as well
those directives relate to how the federal government works. So the? U S, president, could issue
an executive order to manage federal resources, but the president could not
at issue and executive order to you now for south dakota to change its name to frank or whatever, because that's not the power of the federal government. This
executive order in particular creates requirements, mostly among federal agencies when it comes to entering into contracts. With a
I companies and ay I services, so the order restricts those contracts to companies that comply with reg
agents, and those regulations include things like testing require
that's where I models transparency when it comes to developing the tools and various
directions on what generative ay I is and is not allowed to do so. For example, if the
I a I can be convinced to design weapons, that's right out in a federal,
since he is not allowed to enter into a contract with a company that does that.
So these requirements don't hit, the air companies directly right
their hitting the federal agencies. But if you assume that those companies want to do business with the federal government which
a very lucrative business to get into it thus creates
sensitive for
Hey. I companies to comply with the rules
Now there are some aspects to the executive order that more directly target a. I companies, for example, should accompany engage in trading a I systems that could potentially create a threat to national secure
Well, those companies are gonna need to send a little heads up to the federal government first, which is not a bad idea, though I would submit that. Sometimes we don't realize something is a threat until you know it's threatened us or worse
The order also recommends, but does not necessarily require the journal.
Of a I companies use a label or a watermark for all.
I created material, whether that's audio video or images, or whatever the order
the places the onus of creating more structure.
Regulations on very
other agencies within the: u s, government and speaking of regulations.
A couple of a luminous luminaries have recently spoken out against regulations, businesses
their reports that yon laocoon, one of the leading researchers in artificial intelligence has argued
the various doomsday scenarios being bandied about regarding a I aren't, really realistic. Rather, he says
Spreading these stories is a tactic. That's used by
a few large companies that are working in a I today and you might say: well
why would they do that? Why would they say a eyes?
central threat to humanity's existence. Well these same,
companies are actually taking a very active role to work with governments around the world to develop a
regulations, not because the cup
but he is actually believe these regulations are going to prevent harm. Instead, there trying to
create regulations that will allow
big established companies to be insulated again
smaller start ups, because
smaller start ups are gonna, find it hard
or maybe even impossible to work within the framework of regulations. So, according to look
This is a way to stifle competition and innovation. Sam outline, the ceo.
of open a. I comes to mind when you hear about this argument will put this way because all men has taken an active role.
To work with governments in the? U s, and the uk and elsewhere in an effort to frame
regulations rowdy. I now take the others
All men would argue that his goal is to serve rules that make sense and that will protect people against bad a I design and bad a I implementations,
but critics likely couldn't say this is really more of a self serving motivation and it prompts all
to work so closely with governments in an effort to suppress potential competitors and give open. I an unfair market,
vantage he's, not by the way, the only eight I bigwig to suggest that this is a thing Andrew eng who founded
brain and who teaches at stanford university and in fact, taught SAM all
has also argued that the poor
four regulations, particularly the push from large a company's suggests
it's more of a move to squash competition and innovation than to actually create a safe environment.
Being told by natural view that he believes regulations are important, he's not saying don't have regulations at all,
but are you saying that bad regulations are worse
then no regulations at all. So it goes
Bad regulations at the bottom, nowhere
patients and then good regulations
if things are left to the companies that are going to be
regulated. Then we should expect nothing less than rules that are going to benefit them to the detriment of everyone else, whether that's a competitor or a consumer which kind of makes sense to me and in the war between artists and a I a u S. District judge named
william Orrick has dismissed most of a lawsuit that three artists brought against.
companies mid journey, deviant art and stability. I, in fact, out of those three
only the part of the lawsuit directly involving stability, I is still alive and the court system, the judge,
that the accusations, as laid out in the lawsuit were quote defective in numerous respects. End quote regarding mid journey
in art, and so those elements are now essentially dead in the water until they
let's get reasserted in a updated filing. So at this
of this whole legal mass is a concern among artists that generative ay. I companies are making broad and unrestricted use of artist works without the artist permit,
or compensation and that as well
all these generative ay. I models are able to lift elements of artists, style
an essentially the hiv
compete against the very artists whose work the mob.
it was used to train on in the first place
for why stability
hey. I is still
makes here
it has to do with how mid journey deviant art have used stupid
the eyes, generative tool called stable, diffusion and
budgets, says: well, the artists were unable to really show that those companies were
yo using this knowingly in an effort to harm.
The sore overdoing it in a way that where they were disregarding the harm being done to artists and that
will. You just falls to state stability I, which created the tool in the first place, the artist accusations showed that
least according to a search tool meant to match artists against works that
a models have supposedly used during training the stability
I tool had made unauthorized use of art to train up, stood stable diffusion, so
out of the three artists. Only one of them is still part of this lawsuit dealer to dropped out because they
on actually obtain a copyright for their works, so
Brazil legal protection to be violated in the first place, but one of the three dead
she stolen the mix so she's
my name is popped up in the search engine showing that this
model used my work to train itself now that in itself is not definitive proof right,
because she shows up on the search engine,
but the judge ruled that it was sufficient to allow the case to continue through to the discovery phase, and I should add this is not the only
ace brought against stability I and how it trains stable defeat,
getty images sued the company, both in the uk and the united states, arguing that
stability. I used stock images from gettys enormous database to train its model and that the company quote removed or altered in quote, get
Is copyright management information in the process? Just yesterday,
of these I ll eagle team as they like
the judge, to throw out the uk case. I have not heard how that has passed out.
But also these cases have been going on for a while. While this is an update, they date back.
to early twenty twenty three and even late twenty twenty two. So it's like this just now,
out of nowhere. This is an ongoing battle in legal systems around the world. Justice moves ever swiftly
ok, we ve got more stories to cover
and they don't even have to do with artificial intelligence. So we're going to take a quick break and when we come back I'll talk about some more tech news, I I I I I I I I I
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clear back now, I'm dog talking about a I at least for the moment, which reads
it's time to talk about, backs the plot,
formerly known as twitter, only
story thou, so I just get through it and the big
is this week, is that acts is going to offer restricted stock units? Are our s use to its employees now keep a mind x is a private company. At the moment there is no publicly traded stock market that its on. So you can't look to see. What's
x or trading at right now, it's privately held so in order to be able to issue restricted stock units to employees. First, the company S.
determine how much it's actually worth and
It gets a little more lucy goosey than you would find with a publicly traded company like with a publicly trade company
You take the number of shares that exist in that company and you multiply that by the price per share, and you get a rough estimation of the valuation of that company. So acts had to go through a different process, but in internal doc
whence it had listed its valuation at around nineteen billion dollars now keep in mind when eel
I must agree to purchase twitter,
He did so at a share price that would be set at fifty four dollars: twenty cents per share, which meant that at the time of purchase, twitter would be worth forty four billion dollars. So he spent forty four billion, and now the platform has a current valuation of nineteen billion dollars. That's a fifty six percent drop in valuation over the course of a year
now keep in mind. That's just one assessment. Other assessments are actually different. For example, fidelity figured that the drop it
closer to sixty five percent of value. Yells nine met when I
read about this: I didn't see that there was a bright side but tat crime
is amanda, silber, ling points
sometimes a lower valuation.
Necessarily a bad thing for the company or its employees, because the employer
you stand to gain those stocks or stock options, and it could mean that they can get
a lot more of them as part of their compensation package. This can also become a very powerful tool to recruit new talent into the company and as long as the company does better answer to improve and value, employees will see
a huge gain as a result of having those stocks, assuming that they execute their stock options. Obviously
still needs to regain a lot of lost ground right of fifty six percent.
Drop. Evaluation is not a great thing to communicate, help to the world
Doing that is gonna, create much greater
gains for the employees who exercise their stock options. However, so it could be a really good thing and europe
never say never. I'm not gonna say that access is just destined to be doomed
It has to prove it can reverse the trend it's been on over the last year. Now, personally,
that would be a whole lot easier if elon musk took a big ol step back from the driver's seat when sure he put in a different ceo, so technically, not the sea
yo the company any more, but the general impression I get in the tec world is that it's really still elon musk calling the shots over there and maybe that's unrealistic. Maybe that's not the case, but it certainly seems to be that at least from the outside- and I don't think that's been doing
the company any favours another long. Ongoing story around the world is held
various countries are beginning to treat apps and tech that is created. Other countries like china,
so in a recent example, the government of Canada decided yesterday to issue a ban on the messaging app. We
chat on all government issued mobile devices.
The canadian government also included a russian app in that ban as well
Really a russian sweet, the koslovski anti virus programs
thickly now. This is out of a concern that the governments of china and russia could potentially either direct
the or indirectly use those kinds of
to spy on canadian government officials and canadian systems
government did say that there were.
no evidence that any such thing has happened so far, so this would really be more of a proactive move as they see I owe for canada.
Has identified those two absence having unacceptable risks associated with them. China
The representatives condemned the move. They said that it is
really done more as a political gesture, without any real justifiable foundation and kaspersky responded with surprise and disappoint
in saying that the lack of evidence indicates that the ban is responds to a geopolitics.
perceived threat rather than a real one and claims no
from canada government ever reached out to disperse key to work things out before issuing the ban
now I will say that at least
kaspersky. It has a a a a
what shady reputation in the cyber security community, not that their tools don't work, but that
There is this beer
of a potential connection between casper risky and various russian intelligence agencies. Koslovski has been rather
Compliance with the russian government on several things that have led to people saying in maine.
Be a good idea to use casper ski products in things like government settings because of the potential that someone could use that for sir
airlines purposes it. Canada is not the only country to have concerns about this product, the? U s issued a similar ban back in two thousand, seventeen
germany's federal office for information security issued a strong recommendation to staff not to use casper ski antivirus products of concern, the regarding the company's potential connections to the russian government. So this is not an unpressed.
dented of that. Now, for those of you who, like those stories where the little guy stands up to the fat cat, I got one for you.
This case, the little guy is a sob
where firm in the u k called threads,
software limited and the fat cat is mehta, formerly known as facebook.
Any us. This all has to do with the name threads, which met it has used for its microblogging service in ITALY, the twitter slash ex killer platform that saw rapid adoption and then not long after that, rapid disengagement
or what I call oh, I forgot. I even installed that idas, this
where company sent a letter to matter and said that
we'll go to the courts and asked for in an injunction against matter if the company doesn't stop using the name threads now to be clear thread, sovereign limited or actually a precursor to that company called
davy, why limited applied for and received a trademark for thee, brandname threads more than a decade ago,
was well before mehta announced any intention of creating a microblogging competitor to twitter. Now that being said, this is not the first threads product from mecca
back in two thousand, I teen matter which at that time was still called facebook introduced a feature in instagram and it was called
adds, I'm not sure if the thread sup
the limited company actually pushed back against mehta. When that happened, that's important because
holding a trademark requires a company to defend that trademark
matter can showed that the thread
we're limited did not attempt to defend its trademark when met first introduced, the threads product in instagram in two thousand nineteen, then that can really weaken
the case. Against matter I don't know, maybe they did push back. I couldn't find information on that when I was reading up on the story by then some order
probably could have, but I was running out of time
also, there are a lot of other products out there that have the names
red or threads, and they have not really see
A lot of push back from this company from what I can tell, which is another potential strike against them.
All that being said met
supposedly dead, reach out to thread software unlimited in an attempt to purchase the domain threads dot app. But the company gave matter the cold
shoulder for every single request.
It does, however, indicate the metal was aware that was going to use a brand name that was already in use, so it is a complicated thing and who knows which way the courts will go mean. A lot of
courts might already be ideas,
we're biased, maybe predisposed to laying judgments again
Matter because matter has not done itself any favours of the last decade it as it is
braided in a way that is almost dared governments and courts to take action against it, which could potentially spy
over indecisions we're all human beings, even judges and lawyers. So who knows but yeah? That's what's going on in that world in india,
Apple has sent an urgent alert to several politicians in the indian parliament. The alert warned the recipients that their respective iphones were potentially targeted by a state sponsored attack
like an attack with a high level sophistication and the high requirement for no reason.
horses, so something that would typically only happen from a hacker group that had the backing of some sort of government, some
and the world now, notably all the people who have come forward so far
saying that they received this alert belong to.
opposition party in india's parliament now apple
has not identified which state may be behind these attacks,
In fact, apple has also said: it's possible. The alerts could be a false alarm. They have not issue.
that many alerts around the world- and they said you know this
could be something where we we are being extra defensive, but there's no actual threat. There
at least a few of the people who received the message, suspect that India's conservative government is actually,
behind the operation that this is an effort to,
maintain and extend control of the nation in general and to suppress opposition politicians. I thought
on about how india's government takes a really aggressive stance with tech companies when it comes to things like allowing people to use various platforms, to criticise the government,
so the implication that opposition leaders could be the target of the actual indian government fits that narrative
but that doesn't necessarily mean it's true. It could be
but without evidence you can't really draw a conclusion, various
presented in view of the majority, have argued that those who are contacted our overreacting that their jumping to conclusions- that
cannot be supported by evidence and they're just reaching for reasons.
to be outraged at the government
So there are simply saying we're being unfair,
lee targeted by these criticisms.
I'm sure, more
all unfold, but they will be
Interesting to see how apple navigates this, because, obviously it's a pretty thorny political situation so we'll have to wait and see
Ok, I've got some more tech news items to cover before we conclude this episode, but first, let's take another quick break
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are you ready for some football, and by that I mean american football and and
oh, where you ready for it last sunday and if you were, did you find yours?
frustrated when using youtube in order to watch football. Let me back up a bit, so you tube, secured a contract,
to carry the nfl sunday ticket product that originally was with directv. Now it's an add on to the youtube tv service
Nfl sunday ticket gives subscribers the ability
tune into the various nfl games. The american football games of the national football league.
they are playing on any given sunday during football seas.
Regardless of where you happen to live. It is a very expensive adeline. It starts at
three hundred forty nine dollars per year and remember
football season doesn't go all year along. This is
So on top of the youtube tv subscription, which is more than seventy dollars per month, so
it starts to add a real quick. You sports fans have to pay a whole
a bunch of july to watch your stuff, I feel, like I shouldn't, complain about all the different streaming services I subscribe to at this point: the guy's yikes anyway for the first seven weeks of
this current season, Youtube's version of the nfl sunday ticket seem to be working just fine, but this past sunday, you
There's encountered issues with lag and buffering times,
and for some of the games. Those issues lasted well into the second half of the game.
Understandably, a lot of customers are upset me. If you're paying a premium price for a service, you expect premium,
quality in that service and yeah. We all understand the technical errors can happen and that systems can and do break down. That's just a fact of life, but when you're charging three hundred feet
the dollars a season just to be able to let people
see games on their television or a computer screen, not even go do again, but just see it at home. There
the certain expectation that the service is gonna work as advertised you do buzzard. A message indicates that,
somebody was aware of the problem and was working on it, but
as I was writing this episode of didn't have any further details about what actually caused the problem that might be public by the time you hear this, but I haven't seen it when I was actually putting the episode.
The game company will be solved is in
online service for ten of the company's titles that includes assassins, crete, to assassins, creed, brotherhood and assassins.
greed revelations, all three of which were very popular titles. This means
The online features for those and these seven other games that they announced are just now.
a work anymore,
Those services will no longer be active, and that includes
like online multiplayer. Obviously as well as you be soft connect rewards those
kind of like achievements on xbox or trophies on playstation steam also has achievements like this.
fortunately, this is not a case where the online component means the games become totally unplayable. As far as I can tell, gamers should still be able to run these games on. You know the hardware that can run them. Cars
older games, and still be able to play the single player experience. They just won't be able to access those online features, but this is
the big reasons. I personally do not like game companies tying their single player games to some sort of online service usual
It's an online service that meant to verify
the gamers using a legitimate copy of the game and not a pirated copy, and that's because, if a
but he d commissions the online component. Then the game can become unplayable, even if you stop equipment that could technically run the game. So I hate when gay
companies tie their titles to some online service that doesn't really add to the game itself. It all
exists to verify the the copy of the game because of that sort
goes off line and they don't offer some sort of patch. Then the game you purchased is just it's just dead code anyway. Can a sad to see that
support go away. It does make sense like there is a limited amount of resources that a company has to put towards supporting games and
does. It really make sense to just continually support online components in perpetuity
to a diminishing audience right, but that doesn't make good business, and so I get it from that
active? You may remember that a few weeks back, I
about how nasa had retrieve the capsule
from the outside rex mission. That's the mission that visited an asteroid called been you and the spacecraft,
ended up collecting soil and rock samples from Ben. You
and swung by earth
jettison this capsule, the capsule landed here on earth and NASA retreated. That's good news.
But there is also some bad news.
the bad news is so far
scientists have been able to open the capsule they have collected
more than seventy grams worth of dust and rocks from the outside of the container, but because
dost in those rocks were on the outside of the container. That means that they have had contact with, and thus contamination from are dirty dirty earth dirt. So you can't really make specific scientific conclusions about stuff from outer space
ass. If it's already been contaminated here on earth, you dont know what elements were just present in the space stuff verses. What was transferred through that car
tat. So the real treasure is inside the capsule, where those
Temples have not been contaminated by earth, so
the goal is to preserve that status and rich
three, the samples than run tests, and in that way you can. You can at least be
Pretty sure that the concur.
Since you draw, are our firm that their well grounded, because they,
if you were to say fide organic material inside the dust iraq's then you could say well
We took all the controls necessary to prevent contamination from earth. We found the stuff here, that's really interesting
and it raises a lot more questions.
You can't really do that if you are not able to maintain their integrity. Unfortunately, too, of the fast nerves on this capsule there more than thirty fosters until
all, but two of them are firmly shut and cannot be removed with the tools that nasa had previously approved for they retrieval operation. So
that means that we have to wait while researchers work on the problem and figure out an alternative to accessing the material inside the capsule one that will mainly
in that integrity, it doesn't mean that they won't come up with it. In fact, I'm sure they will come up with it, but they will delay things a little bit because they have to,
It sure that there still keeping things as as secure as they possibly can so
we do still expect to get into that capsule and to eventually be able to check out those space rocks,
it's just that and take a little bit longer to come up with a way to do it that keeps them preserved properly. Now,
that's it for the stories, but I do have one press release and one article to recommend for your for further reading today.
So on the press, release side, the? U s!
securities exchange commission stated that it has filed fraud, charges against the company solar winds, as well as the companies chief information security officer. Now you might remember that solar winds is the key,
but he that was behind the orion software that thousands of
large companies, government agencies use and that hackers were able to come.
compromise, the array and software and through updates there were pushed
felt by solar wins itself. They were so
is the currently able to infect target computer systems, thousands of them. It was
of the largest known cyber security breaches of all time and it.
Raised awareness of a type of malware strategy called a supply chain attack anyway,
Fraud charges are complicated and I'm sure will necessitate like a full episodes on the topic to give a full update. But
For the time being, I recommend y'all read up on that press release. You could find it at se. Si dot g o v then look for the the press. Release about solar winds, as for an article recommendation, Lindsay clark of the register has a piece
old tech, brows still cling to sexist stereotypes, forgetting female pioneers who coded their path. Now I cannot say that the story surprises me,
makes me sad. I wish I could say it surprised me. It still made me sad, but I wasn't surprised and that was really set,
It's a reminder that the tech industry in general and really the whole tech bro culture in particular, is
often an unwelcome or downright hostile environment, for women
really for anyone who doesn't identify as male, and it reminds us that we wouldn't be where we are today in the tec. World without contributions of people who do not identify
male of of women and of non binary people who have made incredible contributions to tack. Some other
greatest innovators attack who to built the foundations of computer science where women their grace hopper and aid.
Then further back a lovelace were goodness sakes, people who were
true visionaries when it comes to technology and
Yet we still have this environment that denigrate women and
mrs there, their contributions and achievements is unfortunate and said,
again, not surprising by do recommend. Reading that article again, that's in the register. Tech boroughs still cling to sexist stereotypes. You check that out.
That's it for today. I wish you all a happy halloween. I hope you are you encounter endless, treats and very few tricks.
And I hope you are also all doing well I'll talk to you again releases
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