Month: 5 Tevet 5783 (December 2022)

Part one of a freewheeling interview with Andrew Sowards, a recently retired, longtime defense investigator who worked on death penalty cases

Ownership of AI-Generated Code Hotly Disputed by Rina Diane Caballar

A class-action lawsuit filed against GitHub Copilot, Microsoft, and OpenAI claims software piracy and violations of open-source licenses. The lawsuit states, among other complaints, that code generated by Copilot does not include any attribution of the code's original author.

If you’re like many people, the first time you’d ever heard the name Andrew Tate was through reading about climate activist Greta Thunberg’s brutal takedown on Twitter after the former lightweight world kickboxing champion decided rather unwisely to troll her. As it is Schadenfriday, I’ll review the hilariously ironic part of this first before getting into why this actually matters beyond the hellsite of Twitter.

I hate to write a piece just saying Someone Is Wrong On The Internet. But Reid Blackman’s The Signal App and the Danger of Privacy at All Costs (in the NYTimes, forsooth) is not just wrong but dangerously misleading. I haven’t seen a compact explainer on why, so here goes.