> “I’d love to take those next steps and see if our trash pandas in our backyard are really friendlier than those out in the countryside,” she says.
Would they have to measure "biological" friendliness, comparing lab raised countryside-descended and city-descended raccoons? Domesticated animals can be very unfriendly. Feral cats for example.
Honestly, measuring the distance to which a single raccoon approaches is a pretty good proxy. City birds are self-domesticating right now; wrens willing to be on the same table as a human get more fries to eat. (And I've actually used this metric on them: the same one or two reliably get closer than the others.)
It's inaccurate to say that dutched cocoa is less flavorful. Chocolate flavor is composed of multiple notes / experiences. Dutched cocoa has less acidic or fruity notes, but more dark rich, fudgy notes. Different, not less flavorful.
Is there any way to sign an image/photo with the exact time/location it was taken in a way that can't be forged?
Time + location are measurements that can be fooled.
Timestamp is already there. Geo-location will be added at a later date. Some devices already add that information but the app doesn't use it. It will be added eventually though.
The timestamp is based on the device. However, some of the security data comes from the Witness validation server and others from the platform (Google Play Integrity/Apple App Attest). Altering the date/time on the device would conflict with that information, and possibly fail the device validation. One of the key criteria for using the app is it will only run on a device that passes validation from the platform. So rooted devices can't run the app, as they can't pass validation.
Chip stacking today is limited by thermal management. Can't stack multiple high TDP (e.g. logic) chips together, can only do one + low power chips (e.g. memory). Wonder if this is something DARPA is trying to solve here.
No idea, but just to speculate—the court’s goal isn’t actually to scare OpenAI’s users or harm their business, right? It is to collect evidence. Maybe they just figured they don’t need to dip into that pool to get enough evidence.
Who knows, it's probably the judge's twisted idea of "that'd be too far", as if cancelling basic privacy expectations of all users everywhere wouldn't be.
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