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Child groups asked the FTC to investigate YouTube ad placements on kids’ videos.
Four nonprofit groups seeking to protect kids' privacy online asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate YouTube today, after back-to-back reports allegedly showed that YouTube is still targeting personalized ads on videos "made for kids."
Now it has become urgent that the FTC probe YouTube's data and advertising practices, the groups' letter said, and potentially intervene. Otherwise, it's possible that YouTube could continue to allegedly harvest data on millions of kids, seemingly in violation of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and the FTC Act.
The first report alleging YouTube's noncompliance with federal laws came last week from Adalytics and was quickly corroborated by research from Fairplay, one of the groups behind the FTC letter, The New York Times reported. Both groups ran ad campaigns to test if YouTube was really blocking all personalized ads from appearing in children's channels, as YouTube said it was. Both found that "Google and YouTube permit and report on behavioral ad targeting on 'made-for-kids' videos, even though neither should be possible under COPPA."
Child groups asked the FTC to investigate YouTube ad placements on kids’ videos.
Four nonprofit groups seeking to protect kids' privacy online asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate YouTube today, after back-to-back reports allegedly showed that YouTube is still targeting personalized ads on videos "made for kids."
Now it has become urgent that the FTC probe YouTube's data and advertising practices, the groups' letter said, and potentially intervene. Otherwise, it's possible that YouTube could continue to allegedly harvest data on millions of kids, seemingly in violation of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and the FTC Act.
The first report alleging YouTube's noncompliance with federal laws came last week from Adalytics and was quickly corroborated by research from Fairplay, one of the groups behind the FTC letter, The New York Times reported. Both groups ran ad campaigns to test if YouTube was really blocking all personalized ads from appearing in children's channels, as YouTube said it was. Both found that "Google and YouTube permit and report on behavioral ad targeting on 'made-for-kids' videos, even though neither should be possible under COPPA."
As promised, Geekom has launched one of the first mini PCs to feature a 4″ x 4″ motherboard and support for up to a 45-watt Intel Core i9 processor. The Geekom Mini IT13 is a 117 x 112 x 49.2mm (4.6″ x 4.4″ x 1.9″) deskto…
As promised, Geekom has launched one of the first mini PCs to feature a 4″ x 4″ motherboard and support for up to a 45-watt Intel Core i9 processor. The Geekom Mini IT13 is a 117 x 112 x 49.2mm (4.6″ x 4.4″ x 1.9″) desktop computer that’s up for pre-order from Geekom’s website for […]
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Developers can now bring their own data to customize GPT-3.5 Turbo outputs.
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On Tuesday, OpenAI announced fine-tuning for GPT-3.5 Turbo—the AI model that powers the free version of ChatGPT—through its API. It allows training the model with custom data, such as company documents or project documentation. OpenAI claims that a fine-tuned model can perform as well as GPT-4 with lower cost in certain scenarios.
In AI, fine-tuning refers to the process of taking a pretrained neural network (like GPT-3.5 Turbo) and further training it on a different dataset (like your custom data), which is typically smaller and possibly related to a specific task. This process builds off of knowledge the model gained during its initial training phase and refines it for a specific application.
So basically, fine-tuning teaches GPT-3.5 Turbo about custom content, such as project documentation or any other written reference. That can come in handy if you want to build an AI assistant based on GPT-3.5 that is intimately familiar with your product or service but lacks knowledge of it in its training data (which, as a reminder, was scraped off the web before September 2021).
Developers can now bring their own data to customize GPT-3.5 Turbo outputs.
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images)
On Tuesday, OpenAI announced fine-tuning for GPT-3.5 Turbo—the AI model that powers the free version of ChatGPT—through its API. It allows training the model with custom data, such as company documents or project documentation. OpenAI claims that a fine-tuned model can perform as well as GPT-4 with lower cost in certain scenarios.
In AI, fine-tuning refers to the process of taking a pretrained neural network (like GPT-3.5 Turbo) and further training it on a different dataset (like your custom data), which is typically smaller and possibly related to a specific task. This process builds off of knowledge the model gained during its initial training phase and refines it for a specific application.
So basically, fine-tuning teaches GPT-3.5 Turbo about custom content, such as project documentation or any other written reference. That can come in handy if you want to build an AI assistant based on GPT-3.5 that is intimately familiar with your product or service but lacks knowledge of it in its training data (which, as a reminder, was scraped off the web before September 2021).
After a decade in the market with nothing to show for it, here’s the latest plan.
Enlarge / This is Apple’s Vision Pro headset. It looks a bit like a particularly bulky pair of ski goggles, with the materials and design language of Apple’s AirPods Max headphones. (credit: Samuel Axon)
Poor Google. The company is about to get lapped in the AR/VR space by Apple's Vision Pro headset, despite dabbling in the AR/VR/XR space for over a decade now. A new report from Business Insider details how Google has fallen so far behind, telling the familiar modern-Google story of a rudderless company with constantly changing priorities and absentee leadership. The BI report describes employees who were "frustrated" at Google's own lack of progress when the Vision Pro was unveiled and provides a glimpse of what Google's current (again, constantly changing) plans for an AR product are.
Google's wheel-spinning in AR and VR is up there with instant messaging and payment platforms as some of the worst-run projects at the company. Hardware projects Google Glass, Cardboard, Daydream, Tango, and Iris have all come and gone. Software projects like ARCore, a VR UI for Android, the painting app Tilt Brush, and several AR Google Maps features are all dead or haven't gotten much traction. Acquisitions of companies North and Raxium haven't produced any results. Google's 12,000 layoffs this year have cut into some of these projects, and AR leadership has been rocky, too, with Google Head of AR/VR Clay Bavor leaving Google in February. A few months later, Google AR OS Senior Director of Engineering Mark Lucovsky quit the company due to "the recent changes in AR leadership and Google’s unstable commitment and vision," and apparently this was part of a larger talent exodus.
The BI report details how Google's latest dead project, Iris, "was beset by a constantly shifting strategy and lack of focus from senior leadership." After "conversations with seven current and former employees close to Google's AR efforts," Business Insider quotes a few of those anonymous employees, with one saying, "Every six months there was a major pivot in the program." At one point Google was working on a pair of custom silicon chips for the glasses' display and compute power and then gave up on the idea of custom chips. That work was apparently near completion, with one person saying, "I think it's weird when you convince yourselves you need to build custom silicon, and then you go and do that—and then flush it down the toilet."
Better cutscenes and resolutions, but all of the same Star Wars-but-Doom-iness
Enlarge / A sideways grip on a rifle-style blaster is unlikely to provide higher accuracy, but it does, in fact, make you feel like a badass rebel. (credit: Nightdive Studios/LucasArts)
A wealth of first-person shooters from the period's golden era have seen remasters lately. Now comes one of the true greats: Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster.
Nightdive Studios, which has been showing everybody how to do justice to classic shooter upgrades recently with its remasters of Quake II and System Shock, is using that same KEX Engine to give just enough modernization, but not too much, to the LucasArts title that was even better than its Doom-but-it's-Star-Wars promise.
In the notes and footage of its reveal trailer, Nightdive promises 4K/120 fps gameplay, modern gamepad support, trophies and achievements, remastered cutscenes, and, of course, blasting Stormtroopers that have markedly better aim on a monitor than they do on film. The remaster is "coming soon" to PS4/5, Xbox One/X/S, Nintendo Switch, and Steam on PC, with "a release date announcement later this year."
Vulnerability allows hackers to execute malicious code when targets open malicious ZIP files.
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A newly discovered zeroday in the widely used WinRAR file-compression program has been under exploit for four months by unknown attackers who are using it to install malware when targets open booby-trapped JPGs and other innocuous inside file archives.
The vulnerability, residing in the way WinRAR processes the ZIP file format, has been under active exploit since April in securities trading forums, researchers from security firm Group IB reported Wednesday. The attackers have been using the vulnerability to remotely execute code that installs malware from families including DarkMe, GuLoader, and Remcos RAT.
From there, the criminals withdraw money from broker accounts. The total amount of financial losses and total number of victims infected is unknown, although Group-IB said it has tracked at least 130 individuals known to have been compromised. WinRAR developers fixed the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-38831, earlier this month.
Spanish football league LaLiga and and Telefónica-owned Movistar Plus+ have the authority to instruct local ISPs to block sites that allow people to view live matches for free, although which ones isn’t always clear. A blocklist published by a local media outlet recently suggests that, in addition to targeting streaming platforms, the companies are also trying to disrupt millions of torrents.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
ISP blocking injunctions that aim to prevent regular internet users from accessing pirate sites are heavily utilized by the largest media companies.
Early targets included pirate sites offering movie and TV shows but today the emphasis is on preventing access to live TV streams, sports broadcasts in particular. Since live streams are more challenging to block than static websites, courts appear keen to give rightsholders additional flexibility and in many cases, subject them to limited oversight.
Hoping to restrict access to sites and services offering pirated live TV streams, Spanish top-tier football league LaLiga and Telefónica-owned Movistar Plus+ previously obtained permission from the courts to implement ISP blocking. In 2022, Telefónica persuaded a judge to compel ISPs to block IPTV streaming servers within three hours of notification.
As reported this week by local tech news site Bandaancha, until now the sites and services to be blocked by ISPs had not been publicly disclosed. After the site obtained and then published a list of almost 80 domains subject to blocking, at least in part that’s no longer the case.
Where they remain live, the majority of the domains on the list either directly relate to illegal IPTV services (streaming or sales portals), or are clearly web-based illegal streaming websites. However, a significant number of domains are categorized as ‘torrent’ and due to their very nature, are rarely linked to live sports stream piracy, one significant exception aside.
The first domain in the torrent category is acestream.org, the home of the Ace Stream streaming client. The inclusion of this domain on Spain’s block list has been known for some time and is considered controversial. The domain offers no copyrighted content and while some users of the Ace Stream client use the software for infringing purposes, Ace Stream’s developers insist that their software is content neutral and entirely legal.
Also on the list is www.futbolgratis.workers.dev, a URL that acknowledges Telefónica blocking before redirecting to another domain. Since its stated purpose is to offer Ace Stream links that in turn link to illegal live streams, justification for blocking is much more obvious than for acestream.org.
Who’s actually responsible for the error isn’t clear but 6explodie.org should not be on a piracy blocklist or reported as being on one; the domain doesn’t exist and has never been registered. The most likely explanation is that the domain intended for blocking is explodie.org but that opens up an even bigger can of worms.
Explodie.org is operated by developer Jacob Taylor who, among other things, is an advocate of net neutrality. Taylor operates a public BitTorrent tracker (OpenTracker) that anyone is free to use and, more importantly, also responds to DMCA takedown notices.
There are strong indications that explodie.org is indeed being blocked across Spain. It’s a measure usually reserved for the most egregious piracy platforms but in this case, Taylor’s entire personal website (which is clearly not a pirate site) appears to have been censored regardless.
Other currently active public BitTorrent trackers on the list include open.acgtracker.com, open.stealth.si and internetwarriors.net, but the grounds for their inclusion are unclear.
These sites offer no content indexes, i.e. people can’t browse around looking for something suitable to download. Indeed, it’s not even possible to download a .torrent file from any of these services, let alone any actual content. These trackers merely coordinate connections of torrent transfers from third-party sources.
Such wholesale blocking of services that have entirely legal uses raises questions of what amounts to a proportionate response under EU law, or whether those in control of blocking are even encouraged to consider those concepts anymore.
Finally, it should be pointed out that by their very nature, the majority of the domains on the list are prime candidates for blocking. Some appear to have gone offline or moved to other domains, but many make their purposes quite clear.
Overall, instances of questionable or even wrongful blocking seem low, but that’s obviously going to be the case when transparency is virtually nil.
The list of domains as reported by Bandaancha.eu:
6irmz.top
chiletv.xyz
dropfile.com
e7b8bcf34bb8735ca0da79183299.lig4retnec.co
emyb.in
firetvset.net
fjernsynet.xyz
fre7.flycany.me
full003tv.xyz
gioggg.net
golatin.online
huang6nis.xyz
iptvsharks.com
magadam1.xyz
mega1005002877313670.xyz
nitroty.us
pelisyseriespty.xyz
santmarcta.life
somosvip.xyz
suptv-nord.com
tecnoiptv.es
theredball.ddnsgeek.com
xenty.club
iptvforall.app
tvpremiumhd.tv
bobres.co
iptvwink.com
jokeriptv.net
getsportztv.com
onetvservices.com
1stream.top
3papahd3.icu
bdnewsch.com
cricfree.live
cricfree.top
dreko11.net
en5.sportplus.live
freelive365.nl
hd.crichd.cx
hockeyweb.live
izlemac16.xyz
jokersecretpage.xyz
m.rojadirecta.fun
motornews.live
p2pstreams.live
pepperlive.info
socolive.pro
sportinglive.co
sportsnest.co
stakes100.xyz
techoreels.com
tezgoal.com
vipboxs.com
weakstreams.com
www.cyfostreams.com
www.hdmatch.xyz
ovostreams.com
www.rojadirectatenvivo.com
www.sportnews.to
zdsports.org
acestream.org
arenavision.site
www.futbolgratis.workers.dev
6explodie.org
open.acgtracker.com
open.stealth.si
share.camoe.cn
thetracker.org
t.nya.atracker.com
tracker.coppersurfer.tk
tracker-electro-torrent.pl
internetwarriors.net
tracker.tfile.co
tracker.tfile.me
tracker.tiny-vps.com
tracker.toment.eu.org
tracker.tvunderground.org.ru
tracker.vanitycore.co
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
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