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the there and welcome to text off. I'm your host Jonathan Strickland, I'm an executive producer with heart radio and how the tec area I I'm having a rough recovery day still getting recovered. I'm no longer testing has different open but there's been some lingering symptoms and some days are better than others. This is now one of the better days, but it is a thursday which means it's a tech news day. So we're going to cover the tech news for october twelfth twenty twenty three and like tuesdays news episode, we're gonna start off with bunch of twitter, slash ex news so first up, I mention that a lot of people from media outlets, too government agencies to watchdog groups, have been drawn. In criticism at expertly proliferation of misinformation and disinformation, specifically in the wake. of the ongoing war in Israel. It did not take

long at all for bad. The information to flood the platform after hamas launched attacks within Israel and that bad, The information included everything from photos and footage of past conflicts being passed off as if they were from the most recent circumstances? to some accounts claiming that footage that was taken from modern video games actually represented, circumstances in either israel or Gaza. One critic who raised turns about the poor. Form in general. terry Breton, our breton. policies for my pronunciation, but I did but a brutal by the european union. Commissioner, who said that x was a place for people to quote disseminate illegal content and disinformation, and quote that could mean that x be found guilty of violating the use digital services act or d say so. The de essay went into effect,

earlier this year back in august It covers a lot of ground when it comes to a platforms responsibilities. The dsl expect, that large platforms, ones like acts, slashed, twitter or facebook, or even platforms like google and amazon, have to take an active role in content moderation. Unlike the united states, which has section to thirty use the usa holds these platforms at least somewhat accountable for the material that users post to those platforms and the dsl, gives the EU government the authority to fine companies that fail to comply with the law they can get hit, with a really have to penalty up to six percent of their global turnover, which, for the purposes of this, episode, will just kind of reference as revenue, there's a slight distinction there, but you'll get the idea so loud.

Dear twitters global revenue was around four point: four billion dollars. So the deal They essentially says they could take six per cent of that. They could fine twitter, six percent of that for failing to comply with the deal That would be around two hundred fifty million dollars. That's not the a small, fine plus if the you find out that a platform continues to fall short of the d requirements. The who has the authority to suspect That platforms operations within the european union, which course- would also mean the loss of more revenue, if you can't operate in a major part of the world, they are missing out on a tremendous amount of revenue, excess, ceo, Linda daiquiri, now has posted that twitter has removed. Hundreds of accounts affiliated with Hamas and or labelled. Quoting quote unquote. Tens of thousands of pieces of key

tat. She also said that twitter, slash acts has not received any information from euro pole about it, you'll content on the platform she sang will were being accused of something, but no one has actually come to us. With these concerns, as the first we are hearing about assent, the company, is relying on the quota cut community, which essentially means volunteers who are flagging posts that might viola the usa or ex his own policies, but then ex kind, has to rely on volunteers, because elon musk, effectively gutted the content, moderation team by late of most of them in the wake of his acquisition. The fetters anti discrimination agency or EF. I D, a fatah is leaving This german anti racism group explained the decision to bounce off the platform, the

claim that incidents of hate speech have quote increased particularly end quote Ever since elon musk took control of twitter, father said that cases anti trans and homophobic content and racism. Image aunties met, ism and other examples of eight or speech are all. On the rise and that Ultimately, this forced the leader I thought I had to ask the question. It makes sense to stay on acts, is it providing more of a benefit than a cost and clear the the indecision was that it just wasn't worth sticking around, or his father's statement puts. It quote in opinion x is no longer an acceptable environment. End quote now have said this before but in years past twitter, which, by the way it's, always been a deeply flawed platform. It's not like elon musk took it over and then it went

from being a shining beacon to the absolute worst. It huh the problems well before elon musk entered into the picture assist those problems have magnified. Arguably, since musk took over any way back in the day, if you, well, twitter, was put to effective use by various activists and humanitarian groups and news outlets. It was seen as a very useful tool and worth the invite. It's of time it takes to create and cultivate, maintain a twitter account, but must capricious leadership and the some changes, these bade two eggs have convinced a lot of those entities, just a pull up stakes and leave ex behind their saying. It no longer makes sense to stay there and now where actually starting to see what effect this has had on the organizations that decided to to leave. So, let's take npr national public radio, for example, so in April

of this year in b are made the decision to leave acts, This is right around the time that mosque actually renamed twitter to axe and up to be clear. Npr made this decision for the official, in pr accounts. Are they did? mandate advert everybody who works for india are by they decided they were going to stop their accounts on twitter or acts. The platform at that time had appended a label to npr and the label. Was u s side, affiliated media now twitters. Oh, definition for state of fear? he hated media was quote: let's, where the state exercises control over editorial content through find it resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and or control over production and distribution. End quote so clearly.

that definition is meant to designate media outlets that are serving as a mouthpiece for a government. So the on tat produced by those types of outlets, are tends to be heavily biased in favour of which our government is in charge of that's pretty clear right, sir, the designation that you might give to a media outlets in places like russia or china, where you have a rotarian leaders who back down on any voices that oppose the state. Now Yard does receive money directly from the: u s federal government, but it makes up less than one percent of its budget, and it is clear that the government doesn't have any influence on the content that india produces. So the the crux of what makes a media outlets a state affiliated media outlets. Wasn't there

That's what twitter was labeling and pr so in br decide that's it. We don't have to deal with this were gone, and that leaves it was clear that moscow, an axe to grind against in pr. Six months later now there were in present day leadership and be our has circulated a memo to the company staff. in that memo the leader addressed the impact that the organisation has seen since leaving acts and it's not that much So, according to niemann reports, the and be our memo says, the traffic to NPR has dropped by only a single percentage point as result of leaving twitter slash acts in there are also pointed out that even before all this kerfuffle traffic from twitter. Mounted to less than two percent of all of it, be ours traffic and that explain EL, the organization found. The decision to leave twitter, do not be difficult at all,

The message is one that acts definitely does not want to hear that staying on twitter just isn't worth, effort than negligible amount of traffic and pr got from twitter was not The frustration of operating on twitter as a at other. Media outlets may also re evaluate their position on the platform, particularly as it. those with more allegations of hosting disinformation and illegal content. Well, obviously, it's not going to be the same for everybody right. Some media outlets may say well yeah, but we have a a more significant percentage of our traffic coming from twitter. That's going to be much harder decision to leave? In fact, I would be surprised for media outlets chose to leave in the wake of a revelation that that twitter, one providing a significant percentage of traffic to the the media outlets bite. those that are in a position similar to npr. I would not be so as to see more of those outlets follow suit? Ok, we're going

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it turns out using artificial intelligence like like using it in incorporating it into your work. Tends to be really expensive because a erica There's a lot of computational resources in order to work, and that goes up and down the computational resources, gamut from processing power to computer memory, to things like storage, Not every developer has easy access to all of those things. It's entirely possible to come up with a potentially brilliant idea on how to incorporate ere I into an app but now be able to afford the costs of bringing that the life so open. I plans to offer options that can mitigate some of those costs like offering Marie storage, for example, which is a huge cost apparently for developers were working in the field of a I says,

this part of open, a eyes strategy. The company also plans to unveil some computer vision tools which could make it passed. four developers to create applications that include some element of image analysis in them: yachts, pretty easy for humans to describe stuff, that's included. Cited image, attends a pretty heavy left for a computer computer vision tools, simplify thus and gives developers access to capabilities that, otherwise they likely wouldn't be able to create, on their own account Various news outlets become he's going to roll out these features around november. Sixth, that's during the company's first ever developer conference, which has taken place in San Francisco, California, november. Sixth, and this matters to you and me because it lightly means we're going to be seeing a rush of new. applications that incorporate a I at least to see. extent. in the not too distant future, so like it or not,

The ai revolution is going to intensify before much longer No, that's gonna have some hefty real world consequences and if we assume that every eye application is benign or This, let's say, that's even helpful. Let's be super optimistic. Let's say that the incorporation of a pie genuinely helpful. In all implementations there they'll be consequences. We will have to face even with like perfect a text reported on a research paper written by Alex debris titled The growing energy footprint of artificial intelligence and debris argues that, while much, research has been focused on how much energy a language large language models require during their training face. It's a lot like me. you are training a large language model? Your spinning, a great deal of money just on electricity took power that process

however less studied, but just as important, arguably as the amount of electricity needed during norm, operations like you, ve stopped training now you're, just deploying application, build on top of those large language models, the various saying: well, that's gonna stay! put a pretty hefty demand on ah electricity generation especially as more and more of these acts are deployed, are developed and deployed. So an analysis firm, semi analysis estimated that if Google were to incorporate a I into every single search which it can I do I want to be clear about that. It lacks the physical cape ability of powering that, but if Google where to try and do that,

we require electricity equivalent to somewhere in the neighbourhood of twenty nine point, two terawatt hours on an annual basis, which is much the same amount of electricity that ireland uses per year. So too how're. Eying l enhanced google searches you need. The same amount of electricity that ireland needs were a full year. That's credible. It also reminds me a lot of the currency mining, like we talked about how the process of mining. Crypto coins are particularly proof of work. Crypto coins requires a tonne electricity. Proof stake less, so still require, some proof a work requires ah that's the kind that like bitcoin uses, and we have our talked about how, in the past at least my not brains worthy crying. The power. need equivalent of what we see for some nations and in europe on an annual basis, pretty crazy

well same thing is true of asia, but, as I said, Google doesn't have it capability. This is more of a a theoretical kind of discussion. Google lacks the equipment that would be to be able to do this. In fact, the companies that make the equipment like make the price. sensors! There would power this kind of thing. They aren't producing chips at that scale like they could not produce enough, perhaps in the short term anyway, to power That's so. This is really again just a hypothetical situation, but the point is that aid is a power hungry technology. Now the sense of I'll Skynet taking over the world by the sense of a requires a ton of power too, for it to work. And had something that that people active rethink, d we need to really take into consideration, does It makes sense to a car, great ai into an application

knowing the energy demands of that particular application and if it makes sense than shore, but if it doesn't make sense that don't just throw it in there just to have a I, as part of your thou, proposition of your app because they goal because to yourself a lot more money due to the fact that there is so much electricity needed to power. The darn thing, ok moving on to some other news. Microsoft got some Add news in the mail last month, which we are oh learning about due to a filing with the securities and exchange commission, the united states internal revenue service, the dreaded I r s sent a It is to microsoft that the company had failed to pay a few bells. That was called a notice of proposed adjustment, which is now a fairly benign sounding term, but it had some massive consequences.

according to the irs microsoft owes twenty nine billion dollar twenty eight point, nine billion to be more specific, and that's it ACA taxes from the two thousand and four to two thousand and thirteen period as well as penalties associate with a failure to pay those back taxes over the years of my says the whole things a misunderstanding. In fact they say they outright disagree with e notices of proposed adjustment aid, no papa. so I guess there saying no power to nobody: going to pursue an appeals process with the I r s and if that doesn't go microsoft's way they plan on bringing the whole matter to court. I would be shocked if this doesn't ultimately go to At some point and yeah, it's gonna take a minute for all that to hash out will have to check back about on. I like five, there's or so. The state of you, Tom, has filed a lawsuit against tiktok

and the charges are probably pretty much what you would expect so, first and foremost you, as governor spencer Cox argues that tiktok harms children both by giving them hooked on the platform, so their spending the countless hours on it, and also by serving up harmful material, the lawsuit sites, research that links social media activity, like prolonged, active the social media, with mental health. However, I think it is very important to note the distinction between causation and correlation here so does staying on social media for a long time lead to poor mental health. Possibly but it's also possible that people who have poor mental health- tend to use social media for longer than other people do and that would mean that using social media alot doesn't necessarily lead to poor mental health. But per

sport. Mental health makes him boring. I need to use social media, its lord, our people who commit violence, mayo, who play a lot of violent video games, but that not necessarily mean that playing violent video games makes you violent there again there to be a correlation, but no causation there. We, we don't know is my point, I think making legislation on something where there's not a clear causal link is problematic. You're not likely to actually addressed whatever underlining issue is at stake, but anyway alex horrific of Tik tok contested the charges brought against the they platform by the state of utah. This he said that tiktok quote, has industry leading safeguards for young people, including an automatic sixty minutes time limit for users under eighteen and parental controls. Fourteen accounts input, so

he saying we already have protections at blois. These are here to prevent young people from being harmed by talk according to eighty news. The lawsuit also brings up a concern that we have seen many many times from lawmakers here in the united states. That is wrong they did to the relationship between tik tok, the american company and bite dance, tiktok, chinese parent company, arguing that maybe there are deeper there than what tik tok claims this dying, we ve seen again and again so now big surprise here, but wool keep an eye on where this lawsuit goes and how it unfolds in the future. No one more than when I tell before we get into another quick break. It has been a hot minute since I've talked about f tax. The don't currency exchange that famously went up in flames almost a year ago next month. Be a year since empty acts went under,

the excess cofounder. Sam beg been freed. A s b. F is in court to face charges that he committed several fraud related crimes in his room, as ceo of empty acts. Yesterday Caroline ellison, the former ceo of elevator research, which was in basically connected to empty acts, testify that empty engaged in some pretty darn shifty behaviour, including an attempt to bribe chinese official so, as elsewhere tells the story chinese Priorities rose empty excess funds on the ok acts and huge by exchanges, so apparently someone at elevator research, which by the way was an investment company that specialised in the crypto market and had- cofounded by sbf. Apparently this person, unnamed person ended up doing business with some someone else.

suspected of money laundering the chinese authorities down around a billion dollars worth of empty ex assets, and this prompted votes if the x to try and come up with various strategies on how to free up that money. They always which is locked away. and it sounds like first, they started off with some fairly reasonable and Importantly, legal options but only those denied any results, so The leaders, including s bf himself, began to consider alternatives, and, while it not necessarily approve them initially further down the line they did and that ultimately resulted in offering a one hundred and fifty million dollar bribe to a chinese official too, it's the wheels and get that money unlocked. Not only do the company apparently actually do this. It also listed the expenditure in its state of Allah, meda documentation. Now he didn't

so far as to label it bribery costs that might have been a red flag instead, there was filed under notable slash, idiosyncratic, paean l, stuff and and here's wild daniel the bribery thing isn't even one of the legal charges brought against S behalf right. That's even a material component of this trial, the story really just comes part of establishing sb ups character and leadership, decisions and willingness to engage in illicit activities Allison for her own part, has pledged due to several fraud charges already, so things looking so grateful sb us at the moment. Ok, we're gonna take another quick break. When we come back, I've got you know, I got a quite a few more news stories, so stick around we'll be right back. I I I I I I I I

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bob in a transaction until it's right at the moment, a purchase, so the customer might get a price quote on a product or service and we'll start the whole process of purchasing at our agreeing to it and right when they're getting at that last moment to complete a transaction, a bunch of weird fees pop up- and cost increases sometimes significantly so this happens in lots of different kinds of transactions. Personally, I see it most whenever I use a ticket broker to purchase a seat for an event, weather show or a concert whatever. It may be. Sometimes the fees in them being as much as the cost of the ticket itself. So it doubles the amount I would have to spend if a one to our no see thumper soares perform. Strutton live says prior bad example, because thump authoress tends to play small to medium, then use those are less dependent on ticket brokers, but you get what I'm saying I also find it and other places like vacation,

those rights or air b has been brought, and as a possible perpetrator. of these kinds of junk fees or car rentals. Could be like that too, where you'll see one price quoted as you log into a car rental company, but as you go, through it suddenly balloons as you get further into process, not all carrillo companies, are like that by the way I have there are a few have two already posed what the full price be on that initial screen and I think that's admirable because not every one of them does that allow them starts off with it, relax our wow. It's like eighty bucks for the full weak, that's not bad, then click Would you like our weight? It's actually like two hundred seventy dollars for the full week once you at all these fees, We have to see what force, but he's to include any additional fees within the eu ties prices themselves. They could no longer hide it until the end and they have to accept

what those fees are actually for like? Why does that fee exist? What is that feed going to like convenient speeds? Driving? That's cause, I'm wondering who the hell convenient for cause. It's not me, anyway, Those are supposed to indicate which, if any fees could be refundable, so all of this has to be done if empty see, dobbs these rules, I'm sure the companies are not eager to comply with any rule like this. If it is, in fact, a d did, but as a consumer, I am personally fully in favour of making companies be more transparent when it comes to costs. Customers Now, on a related note, the? U s federal Communications, commission or f c c has transparency, rules that are going to impact the major internet service providers in the united states, starting on or in april of twenty twenty, four, so

starting then providers will have to include a broadband consumer label, and this label will break down the provider. Services as to include the service. Features it. Limitations, any restrictions that are in place, as well as the price for the search so that means label should show customer stuff like what brow Ben speed is able in their area how much the introductory rate for enrolling in that service worthy, actual rates once you're done with the introductory period, many data allowances or data caps. If you prefer on that service it would need to have all of that listed out, plus any other fees that would come into place and that in theory should make it easier for customers to do some comparison, shopping. However, I should also add that, for a lot of folks of united states comparison shopping is, as moreover, dream

then a reality. It's a luxury for a lot of people because allow a locations including where I live there, not much choice like technically. I have to provide There is in my area that provide for actual bra Ben speed service, and only one of them. I can't, provide service at greater than fifty megabits per second, the other one, think max's outright at twenty five, which I think is even I think that is the threshold for broadband, so not like. I even have a different. should that go with it If I wanted to at least not one, that would work for what I do for a living Oh, that's kind of a bummer, but at least I would have a better understanding of what I'm spending my money. not one of those fees are going to end, also things like how much will it cost to terminate the service early? Maybe suddenly I get a different opportunity. To use a different ideas: p, the hum what it costs related to.

cancel my agreement with my current provider and, as you might say, The broadband companies are pushed hard against this move. They ve that would be too difficult to implement and then they just gives the fcc more ammunition right, because, if listing out, all your fees is something that you say is too complicated. There is definitely a lack of transparency going on among other issues, so I dont think it is a argument that does the a ban service much favour next up yeah story about ebay and a potential to billion with a b dollar fine for the company. So what Ebay, do that would warrant such a hefty far well, it all has to do with the facilitation of sales, a prize that violate. environmental laws in the united states, namely defeat devices. get a gadgets that when you install it in a diesel powered vehicle,

does the driver, the ability to court unquote role, cola, So you ve ever seen a car or a truck blast a huge cloud of, black exhaust, all at one burst. that is rolling cole. I heard about Then I heard about that practice until just one day. Someone did it to me I had been walking back from our office back when it was at pot city, market It was three my walk and it was a hot day. I was taken ill or break and ass we'll sit down on a bench, a big old, pickup truck drove past me, and then belched out a ton of black smoke rolling coal, the thing. These devices violate the cleaner act and, if priorities, finer retailers selling them they can fly in that retailer, five thousand five hundred eighty dollars per sale. So it's a cumulative

and the epa has set its sights on Ebay. Now, Ebay has said, the lawsuit is quite a good entirely. Unprecedented, though, might be true, it might be entirely unprecedented but that doesn't mean that unwarranted. It also Does it mean that the epa want continue to do that sort of thing with other companies, but Ebay also claims it has actively removed listings for such a legal devices for years and that as a ban on those kind of devices, those are not allowed to be sold on Ebay according to you, representatives so we'll have to see where this goes from here and whether or not it actually is going to trial and whether ebay actually has the receipts to show that it has. Cracked on this practice or, if, as the epa alive, is Ebay has allowed for the sale of these devices

Google announced it stopped a distributed, denial of service attack or de dos- that was the largest ever on record in fact acquainted Google this, TAT was seven and a half times larger than the previous record holder, and the attack was, lasting targets with three hundred ninety eight million requests per second, so Just in case you don't know what a denial of service attack is its basically a tactic. meant to overwhelm a target server a web server, so in its most basic form, a denial of service attack will see. Attackers send out requests to target the target is compelled to respond to the region, because that's how the internet works, so by sending millions or even hundreds of millions or even billions, of requests to a target that We can get locked up trying Respond to all these

Yes, it can even shut down. As a result of this, stripping, the denial of service attack is the same thing. The attacks are distributed across a network of attackers is not just one. Source of attack and that makes it much more effective means of attacking a target, because, if the we're coming from one source the target, identify that source and then block traffic coming. From that source and then protect itself if it's distributed across lots of different machines. it can be more challenging to actually protect yourself against that kind of attack. Google says detected, the attack had been launched, mitigation efforts and that incur reaching out to peers and stuff to patch of vulnerability in the http slash to protocol stack. the attackers were leveraging this vulnerability and its present in some, but not all servers. So sir administrators have been informed, they should check to see if there

means are vulnerable, and if those machines are vulnerable to be on the lookout for security patch from whatever vendor that machine in order to close off this route of attack and fight For some sky is falling news, the? U S, federal aviation authority or of a has a warning about all those satellites that were put up in orbit. So I too, earlier this week about how companies like space x and amazon are launching thou friends of satellites com installations of satellites up into orbit, though, the warning that, If a is giving us is the old saying what goes up must come down even if it happens to be in lower earth orbit. So we have a deal An analysis and estimates that, up to twenty, eight thousand then pieces of satellite could fall to earth each year. are based upon how much stuff we're pulling up there and that these

could potentially represent an actual threat to people and property. Sir, the eight estimates that the chair and so being hurt or or worse from a piece falling satellite equipment could be point. Six per a year, and that means that could possibly happen. Every two years or so. Just when you look at the big picture of statistics, and, if that's not scary enough, the of eight also indicated that falling satellite pieces could potentially be a threat to aircraft in mid flight, though this represents an even smaller likelihood. The earth. I indicated that regulation could limit, some of this risk so some regulations were put in place that would strict. How many satellites companies combined orbit or how they operate the satellites. Maybe that would end up helping this, but the affair also stressed it only has authority to do that kind of thing. Here. The united states,

there are other nations that are launching satellites into orbit. and so there is potentially a need for some sort of international body that could set global regulations on satellite the launch of that kind of thing and end the proliferation of space debris is by the way says that the aids analysis is flawed and that this company's satellite, Their starling satellites are farm. likely to burn up on entry because are not terribly begs are like this is a moot point because of our satellites are falling there I'm gonna, make it to the ground. They will burn up before they reach that that far, and so there would be nothing significant landing on earth afterward they also raised some other objections so, an interesting scary, My guess is that there's the truth is somewhere in the middle. Here I do, that the odds of being struck by space debris are pretty darn low if you're not in space

probably somewhere along the same lines as getting struck by lightning AL, Oh obviously, you can help us are you getting hit by lightning by not being out and about weathers alighting storm fella harder? predict win, a piece of satellites gonna come plummeting down, so I get it there. a scary now before I go, I do have an article to recommend this article as titled How I reduces the world to stereotypes was written by victoria turk and it was published in rest of world dot org to turkey's mainly talking about generative ay. I I now text to image systems tender. actuate and amplify biases and stereotypes. So the article follows an experiment in which a team at rest of world used the text to image, generative ay, I tool mid journey. Produce pictures associate with specific places or types of people

then allies as images and looked for the inclusion of elements that reinforce biases and stereotypes, so era men that article again, it's titled, how I reduces the world to stereotypes by victoria turk at rest of world dot, org that's it for me today. I hope You are all well stay say, felt there take care of yourself. Physically and mentally. It is a really tough time right now and I'll talk to you again really sick. the tech is I heart radio production for more pod from my heart radio visit the I heart radio, app apple podcasts wherever you listen to your favorite jobs,. the way we get our news changes, but for one one hundred eighty years, the economist has remained the global trusted source and

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