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This is absolutely nuts. If it’s been trained on a person’s voice, it can even identify them if they were speaking in a room, near a camera, at the time the photo was taken.

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COVID infections are spiking again, and hard. The U.S. is rapidly approaching the third highest peak during the entire pandemic.

This is serious. Please be cautious, it’s getting bad out there again.

The reactive backlash to the new Tumblr dash—which is clearly easier to parse for new users who haven’t been here for a decade and don’t have PhDs in Tumblr—has serious Facebook boomer “harrumph harrumph they moved buttons around I hate it because it’s different!” vibes.

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“Issue #134 calls the idea “absolutely unethical and against the open web.” Issue #113 say they “can’t believe this is even proposed.“ Issue #127 adds: "Have you ever stopped to consider that you’re the bad guys?” Another user posted a screed entirely in hexadecimal that, when translated, starts with “Death to Fascists” and wishes explosive diarrhea on everyone involved. So reception so far has been… mixed.”

Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web | Ars Technica

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