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Link blogging :: newsfeeds.net

Stood up newsfeeds.net for links - A clean, concise, curated source for links. Find it at newsfeeds.net

October 18, 2025

Mediaeater Digest August

Linkblog — Early September 2025 AI, Tech & Misuse Anthropic: Detecting and Countering Misuse (Aug 2025) DeepMind SynthID ch.at – lightweight LLM chat service...

September 2, 2025

Mediaeater Digest July 24.2025

Regulation by Deal Comes to Higher Edhttps://balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regulation-by-deal-comes-to-higher-ed.html Czech president signs law criminalising...

July 24, 2025

Mediaeater Digest

Fictional K-pop bands beat BTS and Blackpink in US chartshttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyl1zyv1y2o AI Company Anthropic Defends Against (Some) Copyright...

July 7, 2025

Mediaeater Digest

AI Changes Everythinghttps://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/6/4/changes/ My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nutshttps://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/ Broadcast...

June 8, 2025

Mediaeater Digest Vol 31, No 119

Slate Auto https://www.slate.auto/ Project Kuiper https://www.aboutamazon.com/what-we-do/devices-services/project-kuiper LLMs and World Models, Part 2 Evidence...

April 29, 2025

Securing Agentic AI Systems

As agentic AI systems become more prevalent and powerful, the need for robust security frameworks is critical. Autonomous systems require specialized...

April 27, 2025

Mediaeater Digest

Tips and tricks that have proven effective for using Claude Code https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/claude-code-best-practices Anthropic's educational...

April 24, 2025

Mediaeater Digest Monday 4.21

The Effect of Deactivating Facebook and Instagram on Users’ Emotional State https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w33697/w33697.pdf OpenAI Is A...

April 21, 2025

Mediaeater Digest Weekend Edition

Deafening Silence From The Cybersecurity Industry https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonybradley/2025/04/16/deafening-silence-from-the-cybersecurity-industry/ Where...

April 19, 2025

Mediaeater Digest - Weekend Edition

How TikTok’s Parent, ByteDance, Became an A.I. Powerhouse ByteDance uses its 1 billion users' data to fuel its AI growth, after investing $11B in 2024....

April 12, 2025

Mediaeater Digest April 5th, 2025

DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data https://www.wired.com/story/doge-hackathon-irs-data-palantir/ AI giants reject...

April 5, 2025

Mediaeater Digest Weekend Edition.

An interactive demo for developers to try the new text-to-speech model in the OpenAI API. https://www.openai.fm/ Introducing next-generation audio models in...

March 22, 2025

Mediaeater Digest Vol 31, No. 76

The emergent agentic marketplace has many facets, most interesting to me right now is. ... Agent Intent and Inference. Agent Intent and Inference refers to the...

March 17, 2025

Mediaeater Digest

AI-generated recordings in music streaming services Sony Music says over 75,000 items removed in battle against AI deepfakes. Hundreds of your Warner Bros DVDs...

March 11, 2025

Untitled Post

List of Consumer Reporting Companies related reading. Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads Links to archived versions of every...

February 4, 2025

Mediaeater Digest

Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 2: Copyrightability Report. (AI in the mix) On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?...

January 30, 2025

Multi-Modal Models

Multi Model Models. from https://huggingface.co/collections/merve/mit-talk-31-10-papers-671f6a16e156f77739820c89 (MIT Talk 31/10 Papers) NVLM: Describes images...

October 28, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol 30, No. 227

Inside the "3 Billion People" National Public Data Breach (troy hunt) Script-kidding the Bitcoin blockchain (ccc.de) CONCORD vs.ANTHROPIC PBC, Defendant (pdf)...

August 14, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol. 30, No. 223

How Mastercard sells its ‘gold mine’ of transaction data (reddit) AI Comes for Music (dancohen) How to Know If You're Living in a Doom Loop (honest-broker) I...

August 10, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol 30, No. 219

Neuralink second implant patient working well (twitter) DARPA semanticforensics.com DEF CON 32 Home Page Drake 100gigs.org (music 2024) Amazon Topics...

August 6, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No. 215

Google - How we're addressing explicit fake content in Search Stability AI - Introducing Stable Fast 3D: Meta - Second Quarter 2024 Results Follow Up Call Suno...

August 2, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No. 211

Microsoft technical breakdown of CrowdStrike incident (msft) Web-check: All-in-one OSINT tool for analysing any website (github) Kamala-holding-vinyls (glitch)...

July 29, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No. 209

Copyright Traps for LLMs (github) AI start-up Anthropic accused of ‘egregious’ data scraping (ft) Media Bias Detector (mediabiasdector) Opt out of x...

July 27, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No. 207

CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent Apple Maps on the web launches in beta The moral bankruptcy of Marc Andreessen and...

July 25, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No.206

Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2024 Results (abc.xyz) Meta just released Llama 3.1 405B (zuck interview) Open Source AI Is the Path Forward (meta) WWDC 2024...

July 24, 2024

A Weekend of Letting Go

This weekend marked two significant firsts in my life, both involving parting with cherished possessions. Photograph Sale I sold a photograph that had adorned...

July 22, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No. 203

Gutenberg’s message to the AI era (Brookings) A second effect of AI is its expansion of already existent digital era abuses, such as privacy, competition,...

July 21, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No.199

Privacy OpSec Company squanders 3.6 billion people's locations in Germany Data traders are spreading the locations of people in Germany – sometimes even for...

July 17, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No.195

Today: HOPE Schedule and streams Hackers on Planet Earth NYC HOPE Deep Fakes HOPE in memoriam (hard to look at that line up of hacker brothers gone, grateful...

July 13, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No.185 (video editing tools)

AI, Synthetic Data & Media Transcript: Robo DJ — YouTube invests in AI-generated music (ft) "So YouTube is trying to make it bigger and make it a proper...

July 3, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No.181

The AI we could have had (ft) But the rebels at the lab thought this kind of automation was the antithesis of true responsiveness. They saw human relations,...

June 29, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol 30, No. 173

Seeing Like A Network- Dark Forests, Dense Networks ( strangeloopcanon.com ) culture is composed of the communication patterns, behaviours, and symbols that...

June 21, 2024

This Weeks Model

Audioseal (meta) Cutting-edge audio manipulation toolkit. Florence (msft) Microsoft's advanced conversational AI. Open-Sora v1.2 (github) Community-driven...

June 19, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol 30, No. 68

NYT workplace advice columnist brings it - Goodbye Work Friends….”Still, in my heart of hearts, I always wanted to tell you to quit your job. Negotiate for the...

June 16, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No. 163

States Take Up A.I. Regulation Amid Federal Standstill (nyt) State lawmakers across the country have proposed nearly 400 new laws on A.I. in recent months,...

June 11, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No. 159

YouTube Copyright Transparency Report (youtube) paid out over $70 billion to creators, artists, and media companies in recent years, and it boasts over 100...

June 7, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No. 151

Announcing Showrunner (The Simulation) We believe the future is a mix of game & movie. Simulations powering 1000s of Truman Shows populated by interactive AI...

May 31, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol. 30, No. 149

Taxonomy of Human Rights Risks - Connected to Generative AI this document explores human rights risks stemming from the development, deployment, and use of...

May 28, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol 30, No. 144

Meta AI chief says large language models will not reach human intelligence. (FT) At an event in London on Tuesday, DeepMind’s chief Sir Demis Hassabis said...

May 23, 2024

MED Vol.30, No. 139

Songs I listened to compiling this: Quarters of Change - Turn It Away (youtube) Rosie Tucker - All My Exes Live In Vortexes (youtube) Remi Wolf - Cinderella...

May 18, 2024

MED Vol.30, No.132

Random notes... Music is always first, always. Surviving the first wave of digital disruption on the first beachfront gave me the tools needed to understand...

May 11, 2024

MED Vol.30, No.121

News Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says (arstech) Will An AI Movie Win An Oscar Within Seven Years? (forbes) Industry Google...

April 30, 2024

MED Vol.30, No.117

Survey reveals translators and illustrators losing work to AI (societyofauthors) FCC Restores Net Neutrality (fcc) Start Your Own ISP (startyourownisp) A look...

April 26, 2024

MED Vol. 30, No. 116

Personal Explorations in Distributed Cognition with Foundation Models (medium) Meta Platforms, Inc. (META) First Quarter 2024 Results Conference Call...

April 25, 2024

MED Vol. 30, No. 110

We announce the successful editing of DNA in human cells with gene editors (x post) Generative A.I. Arrives in the Gene Editing World of CRISPR (nyt)...

April 23, 2024

MED Vol.30, No.109

Llama 3 The Life and Death of Hollywood High-speed trader Jane Street raked in $4.4bn at start of 2024 LF AI & Data Foundation Launches Open Platform for...

April 18, 2024

MED Vol.30, No.101

Coachella Streams (youtube) MusicGen Web (huggingface) Infinity AI. (huggingface) Adobe Is Buying Videos for $3 Per Minute to Build AI Model (bloomberg) Report...

April 11, 2024

Draft: Data Privacy Legislation - Deep Dive

House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Chair Maria Cantwell...

April 8, 2024

MED Vol.30, No.87

FACT SHEET: OMB Policy to Advance Governance, Innovation, and Risk Management in Federal Agencies’ Use of Artificial Intelligence (whitehouse.gov) Artificial...

March 28, 2024

MED Vol. 30, No. 83

Info How Big Tech is winning the AI talent war (FT) Elon Musk’s X Needs Creators, but They Don’t Need (WSJ) Gov. Lee Signs ELVIS Act Into Law (tn.gov) HB2091...

March 23, 2024

Compensation - The Line of Actual Control

The EU just passed a major AI law, China's taking one stance on AI-generated art, and Japan's trying to protect creators. Lawsuits abound! Here a quick round...

March 16, 2024

MED Vol.30, No.75

Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies (NYT) LexisNexis, which generates consumer risk profiles for the insurers, knew...

March 15, 2024

MED Vol.30, No.73

Artificial Intelligence Act: MEPs adopt landmark law (europa.eu) Commission presents new initiatives for digital infrastructures of tomorrow (europa.eu) Music...

March 14, 2024

MED Vol 30 No. 71

A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments (deepmind) Bad Bunny Lawsuit (axios) Pain and Suffering (NVDA corp culture) H.R. 7521 TikTok Bill...

March 12, 2024

MED Vol.30, No.63

Rethinking Privacy in the AI Era: Policy Provocations for a Data-Centric World. (HAI/Stanford) Open Sora plan (Github) The App Store, Spotify, and Europe’s...

March 4, 2024

MED Vol.30, No. 55

Superstars or Black Holes: Are Tech Clusters Causing Stagnation? What 2026 looks like (from 6th Aug., 2021) How artists are fighting generative AI Will AI...

February 24, 2024

Media Authenticity: Photography Secure Capture Technology, Synthetic Media Watermarking

A quick roundup of authentication and watermarking initiatives. The quest for the real image: Leica camera sales are up 10x over the last decade...

January 2, 2024

Arts: Felix Morello Circles

[gallery ids="7331,7332,7333"] Felix Morello circles You find them around the Village if you are lucky, in Washington Square Park for a few ephemeral days,...

October 30, 2023

AI Training data and video conference software

"Just a heads up, Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out. (Technically, you can delete your data later, but the training has been...

August 7, 2023

Links from early surf set

Hugging Face's website that allows users to explore Llama v2, a large language model, with TGI (Transformers for Interactive Generation) demos. Try running it...

July 20, 2023

META’s take on Twitter

META’s take on Twitter Meta has a long history of mimicking products and product features of competitors. Most if not all of the efforts have been met with...

July 5, 2023

Links July 4th

Links from today... Voice actors are discovering that decades-old contracts have given companies the right to use their voices to train AI models that compete...

July 4, 2023

The week in AI

To say the pace of this sector is moving fast is an understatement : Links to key advances, moves and developments. Microsoft has integrated AI-powered...

July 2, 2023

Browsing Shift

There are volumes to be written on the shift in browsing and publishers new challenges around IP - but this is not that. A fastshort observation about the...

April 8, 2023

Artists + AI

Cindy Sherman training an AI and using it to generate work. Comments from peers in both approval and speaking about experimenting themselves.

December 17, 2022

Watch this...

“Elon Musk, interviewed by Sarah Lacy, “A Fireside Chat with Elon Musk,” Santa Monica, CA, July 12, 2012,...

December 17, 2022

Frames of Reference....(recursive)

I know its candy– these exchanges...are some-thing. A response after it banged out an outline for me. (below) The last part about understanding thoughts over...

December 16, 2022

The Generative Al Application Landscape

The Generative Al Application Landscape Link to full res image The Generative Al Application Landscape revised from sequoia capital. Which areas are the...

November 21, 2022

Cold Sunday in November 2022

Random notes and links ...and why I have been thinking a wiki or a Digital Garden might be useful Paul Graham "A person I have known for more than ten years,...

November 20, 2022

AGI Frames of References

IDEA - REF FRAMES - AGI WHAT: The impunity to look at a specific subject instance or occurrence that takes place and be able to understand it over time and...

November 16, 2022

XR data flows + Privacy

FPF infographic visualizing how XR data flows work by exploring several use cases that XR technologies may support. The infographic highlights the kinds of...

October 31, 2022

A new generation of music videos

Presenting "Robo Portraits", a collection of text-prompted music video shorts made with #stablediffussion & #mubert. 9 videos, each following the exact same...

October 9, 2022

Links and reports of note

Todays reports and news of note. Authoritative 150 page report by Tech Inquiry on government purchasing of Amazon/Google/Microsoft cloud services with a focus...

September 19, 2022

The week in links

In no particular order - links from this week The [Peak] Attention Economy Optimizely’s Founder Wants to Augment Your Memories Can Anyone Moderate Podcasts?...

February 13, 2021

This weeks links

Cryptomedia, NFTs, and the Next Internet Related: Niftygateway, MakersPlace The new reading stack Same Energy Google has a VPN service Spy museum in NYC...

February 7, 2021

Surf Report

Weekend reading / viewing Essay: The meme economy Or, a personal journey through 21st-century capitalism. Read: The Pandemic Has Erased Entire Categories of...

January 30, 2021

In the papers Vol 1. 2021

A roundup of papers of note from the last few weeks. Taming Transformers for High-Resolution Image Synthesis A Survey on Neural Network Interpretability A...

January 9, 2021

Privacy Digest

EU plans sweeping regulation of facial recognition [FT] The aim would be to limit “the indiscriminate use of facial recognition technology’’ by companies and...

August 23, 2019

The Abstracted Absent Arbiter or The New Other

MEDIAEATER DIGEST TUE 25th, DEC, MMXVIII MERRY CHRISTMAS DISPUTE THE TEXT, SAPERE AUDE The Abstracted Absent Arbiter or The New Other The absent arbiter and...

December 25, 2018

Medieater Digest 071218

MEDIAEATER DIGEST 12TH JULY 2018 Live today... 10 AM Eastern Full House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 11:25 a.m. Eastern. Nominations for the...

July 12, 2018