What's the background here? Currently, in order to enable push notifications on the dominant mobile operating systems (iOS and Android) those building and maintaining apps like Signal need to use services offered by Apple and Google. 3/
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Mass Surveillance Through Connected Devices: Privacy Under Threat
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UGH. Please read, share, call. Fighting for privacy can be wearying, feel defeating, but we need to fight this latest attempted mass surveillance ratchet turn, working to make all of our devices, and the infra they rely on, into snitches. This is not a world we can accept.
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NVIDIA AI transforms retail at NRF2024 conference
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Connect with @NVIDIA at #NRF2024—on the show floor and at our Big Ideas speaking sessions—to see how #AI is transforming #retail. https://
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Pika 1.0 Text-to-Video Tool Now Available for Waitlist Users
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We’re beginning to let people in off the waitlist, and want to welcome our first Pika 1.0 users!
— Pika (@pika_labs) 11 décembre 2023
Here’s how to start creating with text-to-video.
Sign up at https://t.co/nqzjGy82Lx pic.twitter.com/GXVx9WhM2iWe’re beginning to let people in off the waitlist, and want to welcome our first Pika 1.0 users! Here’s how to start creating with text-to-video. Sign up at http://
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Signal Advances Privacy Standards Open Source Messaging
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Ofc, yes, Signal offers much more privacy & serious people who value confidentiality use Signal bc we protect metadata + aren't attached to a surveillance corp + are FOSS + audited… That's true AND we must celebrate all (rare) privacy wins and those who made them happen! 6/
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LLMs Graph Reasoning: Optimal Encoder Selection at NeurIPS
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Graphs are invaluable for representing & analyzing complex relationships. Drop by the #NeurIPS2023 Google booth at 4pm today to hear @phanein
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Self-Promotion Isn’t Arrogance: Why Work Must Be Visible
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Hot take: "Let your work speak for itself" is actually NOT a sign of "humility"; at best it's a sign of naiveté, and at worst it's actually a form of arrogance.
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Meta surveillance enables criminalization of healthcare seekers
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And corp (+ gov) surveillance is playing a troubling role in enabling such. To take one example., Meta turned over FB messages bet. Jessica Burgess & her daughter. These were used to criminalize them for seeking banned healthcare. They're now sentenced to 2 years in prison. 4/
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End-to-End Encryption: Privacy Protection Against Corporate Surveillance
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E2ee provides vital protection. While no corp OR gov should have access to the vast surveillance data typical of tech cos, for now we can celebrate wins like this, which offer the safety of privacy in a world where daily activities and solidarities increasingly put us at risk. 5/
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Meta Launches End-to-End Encryption Using Signal Protocol
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Thrilled to see Meta officially launching e2ee for 1:1 chats in FB + Insta, and using the Signal protocol to do it! Congratulations to all involved! This is a significant achievement and a rare win for privacy, (from a very unlikely place, I know!) 1/