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Disney’s deepfakes are getting closer to a big-screen debut

The Verge

As an example, Disney’s researchers note that the maximum-resolution videos they could create from popular open-source deepfake model DeepFakeLab were just 256 x 256 pixels in size. By comparison, their model can produce video with a 1024 x 1024 resolution — a sizable increase. Image: Disney Research.

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If your AI model is going to sell, it has to be safe

Vox

A playbook for best practices Tech companies developing LLMs and other forms of cutting-edge, impactful AI should learn from this comparison. If this means less open source, then no. These two labs have also been safe and cautious with the development and deployment of Claude and Sparrow , their respective LLMs.

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Oracle and Google’s Supreme Court showdown was a battle of metaphors

The Verge

Constructing metaphors for Java’s API let justices interrogate whether the code was a basic tool that Google was using because it was the most efficient option, or whether it was a creative original work that Google was unfairly exploiting to avoid doing its own work. “The A recurring comparison to keyboards was more sympathetic to Google.

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Technology Short Take 131

Scott Lowe

This recent Ars Technica article points out that a feature in Chromium—the open source project leveraged by Chrome and Edge, among others—is having a significant impact on root DNS traffic. The article doesn’t go deep on any of them, but does provide some useful information and comparison of the various mechanisms.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

How could open source software be vulnerable for so long? In a moment I’ll tell you about a flaw discovered only through fuzz testing in a very old open source product. used vulnerabilities in sendmail and the fingerd protocol to construct unintentionally what would become the first internet worm.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

How could open source software be vulnerable for so long? In a moment I’ll tell you about a flaw discovered only through fuzz testing in a very old open source product. used vulnerabilities in sendmail and the fingerd protocol to construct unintentionally what would become the first internet worm.

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How Much Testing Is Enough? Understanding Test Results With bncov And Coverage Analysis

ForAllSecure

” Whether you’re writing unit tests for your programs or finding bugs in closed-source third-party software, knowing what code you have and have not covered is an important piece of information. As a demonstration, let’s walk through an open source project that has built-in test resources.