Month: August 2023

Gesetzentwurf beschlossen: Digitale Patientenakte und E-Rezept sollen schneller kommen

Gesundheitsminister Lauterbach will eine “Aufholjagd” bei der digitalen Gesundheitsversorgung starten. Bei der Patientenakte gilt dann ein Opt-out. (Bundesregierung, Datenschutz)

Gesundheitsminister Lauterbach will eine "Aufholjagd" bei der digitalen Gesundheitsversorgung starten. Bei der Patientenakte gilt dann ein Opt-out. (Bundesregierung, Datenschutz)

Researcher builds anti-Russia AI disinformation machine for $400

AI makes it cheap and easy to create propaganda at scale.

Illustration of AI

Enlarge (credit: James Marshall; Getty Images)

In May, Sputnik International, a state-owned Russian media outlet, posted a series of tweets lambasting US foreign policy and attacking the Biden administration. Each prompted a curt but well-crafted rebuttal from an account called CounterCloud, sometimes including a link to a relevant news or opinion article. It generated similar responses to tweets by the Russian embassy and Chinese news outlets criticizing the US.

Russian criticism of the US is far from unusual, but CounterCloud’s material pushing back was: The tweets, the articles, and even the journalists and news sites were crafted entirely by artificial intelligence algorithms, according to the person behind the project, who goes by the name Nea Paw and says it is designed to highlight the danger of mass-produced AI disinformation. Paw did not post the CounterCloud tweets and articles publicly but provided them to WIRED and also produced a video outlining the project.

Paw claims to be a cybersecurity professional who prefers anonymity because some people may believe the project to be irresponsible. The CounterCloud campaign pushing back on Russian messaging was created using OpenAI’s text generation technology, like that behind ChatGPT, and other easily accessible AI tools for generating photographs and illustrations, Paw says, for a total cost of about $400.

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P870: Sifive stellt neuen RISC-V-Hochleistungskern vor

Offiziell gibt es den P870 noch nicht, Sifive hat aber bereits über den neuen RISC-V-Kern gesprochen. Auch eine Variante für die Automobilindustrie wird es geben. Ein Bericht von Johannes Hiltscher (RISCV, Prozessor)

Offiziell gibt es den P870 noch nicht, Sifive hat aber bereits über den neuen RISC-V-Kern gesprochen. Auch eine Variante für die Automobilindustrie wird es geben. Ein Bericht von Johannes Hiltscher (RISCV, Prozessor)

Luffy’s boundless optimism lights up One Piece final trailer

“Isn’t there something you want more than anything else in this world?”

Inaki Godoy stars as Monkey D. Luffy in One Piece, the Netflix live-action adaptation of the popular Japanese manga and anime franchise.

We're eagerly counting down to the premiere of Netflix's live-action series adaptation of One Piece on Friday, a hugely popular manga and anime series created by Eiichiro Oda. And Netflix has given us one last trailer in anticipation of that release.

When the first trailer debuted at San Diego Comic-Con last month, I noted that Netflix has had a mixed track record when it comes to making live-action adaptations of popular manga and anime. But that trailer and this new one make me optimistic that One Piece will succeed where, say, Fullmetal Alchemist failed. Early reactions seem to bear that out, with praise for the camerawork, the VFX, Oda's respect for the source material, and the sheer scale of the series. Even if you don't want to believe in One Piece, Luffy's boundless optimism might just win you over.

As previously reported, the original One Piece manga debuted in 1997, following the adventures of one Monkey D. Luffy, who heads a motley crew called the Straw Hat Pirates. There's swordsman Roronoa Zoro, thief and navigator Nami, sniper and compulsive liar Usopp, and a cook named Sanji. They're searching for the legendary One Piece, a mythical treasure that would make anyone who possesses it King of the Pirates. Monkey wants to be the Pirate King, but so do a host of other pirates with their own ships and crews. As with the manga, so with the live-action series. Per the official premise:

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