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      ‘It’s very easy to steal someone’s voice’: how AI is affecting video game actors

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 10:02

    The increased use of AI to replicate the voice and movements of actors has benefits but some are concerned over how and when it might be used and who might be left short-changed

    When she discovered her voice had been uploaded to multiple websites without her consent, the actor Cissy Jones told them to take it down immediately. Some complied. “Others who have more money in their banks basically sent me the email equivalent of a digital middle finger and said: don’t care,” Jones recalls by phone.

    “That was the genesis for me to start talking to friends of mine about: listen, how do we do this the right way? How do we understand that the genie is out of the bottle and find a way to be a part of the conversation or we will get systematically annihilated? I know that sounds dramatic but, given how easy it is to steal a person’s voice, it’s not far off the mark .

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      Western governments struggle to coordinate response to Chinese hacking

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 04:30

    Experts say UK-imposed sanctions will make no difference when hacking is part of ecosystem of dealing with Beijing

    With the announcement that the UK government would be imposing sanctions on two individuals and one entity accused of targeting – without success – UK parliamentarians in cyber-attacks in 2021 , the phrase “tip of the iceberg” comes to mind. But that would underestimate the iceberg.

    James Cleverly, the home secretary, said the sanctions were a sign that “targeting our elected representatives and electoral processes will never go unchallenged”.

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      ‘He knew it was wrong’: Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison over FTX fraud

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 18:38

    Judge orders disgraced crypto mogul to forfeit $11bn in assets and says he showed no remorse for his crimes

    Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced cryptocurrency mogul who perpetrated one of the largest financial frauds in history, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $11bn in assets. His lawyer reiterated a pledge to appeal the sentence the same day.

    The judge, Lewis Kaplan, issued the penalty in a Manhattan courtroom on Thursday. Bankman-Fried, the former chief executive of the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was convicted of fraud and conspiracy to launder money late last year.

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      Independent to take control of BuzzFeed and HuffPost in UK and Ireland

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 16:17

    Media companies to combine publishing and advertising platforms to target gen Z and millennials

    The Independent will take control of BuzzFeed and HuffPost in the UK and Ireland with the intention to create “Britain’s biggest publisher network for Gen Z and millennial audiences”, the publishers have said.

    The two media companies will combine their publishing, data and advertising platforms “to allow commercial partners to seamlessly buy across their sites”.

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      Sam Bankman-Fried is going to prison. The crypto industry isn’t any better for it

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 16:00

    There have been no changes since the ex-mogul’s conviction as lawmakers fail to pass regulations to protect the public

    There is a palpable feeling of relief in the cryptocurrency industry. Evangelists are preaching the good news that the industry has been purged of the Sam Bankman-Frieds, the Alex Mashinskys , the Do Kwons and the Changpeng Zhaos of the world. They proclaim that crypto can finally ascend from its purgatorial, “wild west” days to become a respectable sector of the financial world blessed by regulators and speculators alike.

    That exultant attitude has contributed to surging cryptocurrency prices, which surpassed previous all-time highs in the weeks leading up to Bankman-Fried’s sentencing of 25 years in prison on Thursday.

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      Sam Bankman-Fried to be sentenced for multibillion-dollar crypto fraud – live

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 12:10

    Former CEO of now bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange faces more than 100 years in prison if given maximum penalty

    In mid-March, federal prosecutors requested that judge Lewis Kaplan sentence Bankman-Fried to at least four decades in prison. The maximum penalty he could face would amount to more than 100 years.

    “His life in recent years has been one of unmatched greed and hubris; of ambition and rationalization; and courting risk and gambling repeatedly with other people’s money,” the US attorneys in Manhattan wrote. “And even now Bankman-Fried refuses to admit what he did was wrong.”

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      Sellafield nuclear waste dump to be prosecuted for alleged IT security offences

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 11:05


    Charges relate to four-year period between 2019 and early 2023, and follows Guardian investigation

    The Sellafield nuclear waste dump is to be prosecuted for alleged information technology security offences, the industry watchdog has said.

    The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) said on Thursday that it had notified the state-owned Cumbrian nuclear company that it would be prosecuted under industry security regulations.

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      Literary Theory for Robots by Dennis Yi Tenen review – the deep roots of AI

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 10:00 · 1 minute

    A secret history of machine intelligence, from 14th century horoscopes to 1930s ‘plot genies’ for coming up with storylines

    Hark. The end is nigh. “In the industrial age, automation came for the shoemaker and the factory-line worker,” writes Dennis Yi Tenen near the start of Literary Theory for Robots. “Today, it has come for the writer, the professor, the physician, the programmer and the attorney.” Like the end-of-the-planet movies that pelted the multiplexes at the turn of the millennium, newspapers and – increasingly – bookshops are awash with economists, futurologists and social semioticians talking up, down and about artificial intelligence. Even Henry Kissinger, in The Age of AI (2021), spoke of “epoch-making transformations” and an imminent “revolution in human affairs”.

    Tenen, a tenured professor of English at New York’s Columbia University, isn’t nearly as apocalyptic as he initially makes out. His is an oddly titled book – do robots need literary theory? Are we the robots? – that has little in common with the techno-theory of writers such as Friedrich Kittler , Donna Haraway and N Katherine Hayles. For the most part, it’s a call for rhetorical de-escalation. Relax, he says, machines and literature go back a long way; his goal is to reconstruct “the modern chatbot from parts found on the workbench of history” using “strings of anecdote and light philosophical commentary”.

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      ‘Rental places will surge back’: readers on the fight to preserve physical media

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 08:05


    Readers share their thoughts on maintaining the world of DVDs and Blu-rays after a feature looking exploring the phenomenon

    At home we have been getting into the habit, when we identify (a knack in itself!) a show or movie we are confident we will want to re-watch, of ordering an inexpensive DVD copy.

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