Physical Aimbot Shoots For Success In Valorant
Modern competitive games have a great deal of anti-cheat software working to make sure you can’t hack the games to get a competitive advantage. [Kamal Carter] decided to work around this by building a physical aimbot for popular FPS Valorant.
The concept is straightforward enough. [Kamal] decided to hardmount an optical mouse to a frame, while moving a mousepad around beneath it with an off-the-shelf Cartesian CNC platform, but modified to be driven by DC motors for quick response. This gave him direct control over the cursor position which is largely undistinguishable from a human being moving the mouse. Clicking the mouse is achieved with a relay. As for detecting enemies and aiming at them, [Kamal] used an object detection system called YOLO. He manually trained the classifier to detect typical Valorant enemies and determine their position on the screen. The motors are then driven to guide the aim point towards the enemy, and the fire command is then given.
The system has some limitations—it’s really only capable of completing the shooting range challenges in Valorant. The vision model isn’t trained on the full range of player characters in Valorant, and it would prove difficult to use such a system in a competitive match. Still, it’s a neat way to demonstrate how games can be roboticized and beaten outside of just the software realm. Video after the break.
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Malware nascosto nelle immagini SVG nei siti per adulti: il nuovo schema per nascondere Trojan
Un nuovo schema per distribuire codice dannoso camuffato da immagini .svg è stato scoperto su decine di siti di contenuti per adulti stranieri. Come hanno scoperto gli esperti di Malwarebytes, gli aggressori incorporano codice JavaScript offuscato in tali file che, una volta cliccati, avviano una catena nascosta di script che termina con il download di Trojan.JS.Likejack.
Questo malware clicca silenziosamente sul pulsante “Mi piace” su un post predefinito di Facebook se la vittima ha un account aperto sul social network in quel momento. In questo modo, le pagine con contenuti espliciti ottengono maggiore visibilità e visibilità grazie ai browser compromessi.
SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) si differenzia dai consueti .jpg e .png in quanto memorizza i dati come testo XML. Questo consente di ridimensionare l’immagine senza perdere qualità, ma consente anche di incorporare HTML e JavaScript al suo interno. Questa funzionalità ha da tempo attirato gli aggressori, poiché apre la strada ad attacchi XSS , HTML injection e attacchi DoS. In questo caso, gli autori dei file dannosi hanno utilizzato una tecnica JSFuck modificata, che codifica JavaScript in un set di caratteri, rendendo difficile l’analisi.
Dopo la decodifica iniziale, lo script carica nuovi frammenti di codice, anch’essi nascosti all’analisi. La fase finale dell’attacco è l’interazione forzata con gli elementi di Facebook, che viola le regole della piattaforma. Facebook blocca tali account, ma gli autori dello schema tornano rapidamente con nuovi profili.
Tecniche simili sono già state osservate in precedenza. Nel 2023, gli hacker hanno utilizzato il tag .svg per sfruttare una vulnerabilità XSS nel client web Roundcube e, nel giugno 2025, i ricercatori hanno registrato attacchi di phishing con una falsa finestra di accesso Microsoft, aperta anch’essa da un file SVG.
Malwarebytes ora collega i casi identificati a decine di siti WordPress che distribuiscono contenuti dannosi in modo simile.
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La Cina punta sui robot umanoidi! Un pacchetto di misure in arrivo per 10.000 unità entro il 2027
Pechino ha annunciato un pacchetto di misure di supporto per i robot umanoidi alla World Robot Conference (WRC) 2025, con l’obiettivo di raggiungere una capacità produttiva annuale di 10.000 unità entro il 2027. La nuova politica comprende iniziative volte ad ampliare gli scenari reali da parte dei robot e ampi sussidi che copriranno l’intera catena del valore della produzione di robot umanoidi.
Nell’ambito dell’iniziativa, hanno fatto parlare il Robomall, descritto come un negozio di robot 4S, e il Robot Restaurant aperto a Pechino. I locali sono progettati per creare canali di vendita per i robot e, al contempo, offrire al pubblico l’opportunità di interagire con la tecnologia.
Morgan Stanley ha affermato in una nota: “Riteniamo che il continuo sostegno del governo sarà fondamentale per accelerare l’adozione in Cina e affermare la leadership della Cina nel settore dei robot intelligenti su scala globale”.
Le iniziative della capitale rappresentano un passo significativo negli sforzi della Cina per diventare leader mondiale nella tecnologia e nella produzione di robot umanoidi.
Le misure annunciate a Pechino segnano un’accelerazione strategica nella corsa alla leadership globale nel settore dei robot umanoidi. Con obiettivi produttivi ambiziosi, sussidi estesi e iniziative concrete, la capitale cinese sta creando un ecosistema in cui industria, ricerca e consumatori possono interagire in maniera diretta, riducendo la distanza tra sviluppo tecnologico e applicazione pratica.
Se queste politiche avranno successo, la Cina non solo potrà consolidare il proprio vantaggio competitivo, ma potrebbe anche ridefinire il panorama mondiale della robotica intelligente.
Il sostegno governativo, unito a un’adozione più rapida in scenari reali, potrebbe trasformare i robot umanoidi da curiosità tecnologiche a componenti centrali della vita quotidiana e dell’economia globale.
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Calipers: Do You Get What You Pay For?
Generally, you think that if you pay more for something, it must be better, right? But that’s not always true. Even if it is true at the lower end, sometimes premium brands are just barely better than the midrange. [Project Farm] looks at a bunch of different calipers — a constant fixture around the shop if you do any machining, 3D printing, or PCB layout. The price range spans from less than $10 for some Harbor Freight specials to brands like Mitutoyo, which cost well over $100. Where’s the sweet spot? See the video below to find out.
The first part of the video covers how much the units weigh, how smooth the action is, and how much force it takes to push it down. However, those are not what you probably care most about. The real questions are how accurate and repeatable they are.
If you just want a summary of the first part of the video, skip to the ten minute mark. The table there shows that the three instruments that have the most consistent force on the slide range in price from $27 to $72. The $454 pair (which, to be fair, included a micrometer) was number six by that measure. The smoothness factor, which is somewhat subjective, came in favor of the most expensive pair, but there was a $25 caliper that was nearly as good in the number two slot.
Using a calibration block and some special techniques, he attempts to see how accurate they all are. We wish he’d used millimeters instead of inches, but in the inch range, none of them are bad. Only one set had a real problem of not making consistent readings.
If you want to jump right to the tables again, jump to the 17:20 mark. With two exceptions, they were all mostly accurate and fell into three groups. We wondered if there are three different chipsets involved. The cheapest caliper in the first group cost $27 and was as good as the expensive Mitutoyo. The second group ranged from $18 to as much as $40 and were only 0.000675 inches (only 0.017145 mm) off from the higher group.
Which was the best? That table is at about the 18:00 minute mark. In all fairness, the best, by his estimation, did cost $144, so it was the second most expensive set in the review. But that’s still cheaper than the Mitutoyo, which placed third. The fourth-place set was good, too, and came in at $27. For a few bucks less, the sixth-place caliper was also good.
Do you know how to do all the measurements your calipers are capable of? Ever wonder what’s inside those things? We did too.
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Watertight and Wireless in One Go: The DIY Sea Scooter
![[Ben] at workbench with 3D-printed sea scooter](https://poliverso.org/photo/link/333125 "[Ben] at workbench with 3D-printed sea scooter")
To every gadget, tool, or toy, you can reasonably think: ‘Sure I could buy this… but can I make it myself?’ And that’s where [Ben] decided he could, and got to work. On a sea scooter, to be exact.
This sea scooter was to be a fully waterproof, hermetically sealed 3D-printed underwater personal propulsion device, with the extreme constraint that the entire hull and mechanical interfaces are printed in one go. No post-printing holes for shafts, connectors, or seals. It also meant [Ben] needed to embed all electronics, motor, magnetic gearbox, custom battery pack, wireless charging, and non-contact magnetic control system inside the print during the actual print process.
As [Ben] explains, both Bluetooth and WiFi ranges are laughable once underwater. He elegantly solves this with a reed-switch-based magnetic control system. The non-contact magnetic drive avoids shaft penetrations entirely. Power comes from a custom 8S LiFePO₄ pack, charged wirelessly through the hull. Lastly, everything’s wrapped in epoxy to make it as watertight as a real submarine.
The whole trick of ‘print-in-place’ is that [Ben] pauses the builder mid-print, and drops in each subsystem like a secret ingredient. Continuing, he tweaks the printer’s Z-offset, and onwards it goes. It’s tense, high-stakes work; a 14-hour print where one nozzle crash means binning hundreds of dollars’ worth of embedded components.
Still, [Ben] took the chance, and delivered a cool, fully packed and fully working sea scooter. Comment below to discuss the possibilities of building one yourself.
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A ‘massive failure’ in Kansas: Two years since the Marion County Record raid
The police raid of the Marion County Record’s newsroom on Aug. 11, 2023, shocked the country but proved to be just one of a series of alarming attacks on local journalism that year. It was also a preview of how lawless and incompetent governments can use strained constructions of the law as pretext to retaliate against journalists they dislike, as we now see not only in small-town America but at the federal level. As the death of Record co-owner Joan Meyer the next day tragically proved, by the time justice takes its course — if it ever does — the damage has often already been done.
We asked investigative journalist Jessica McMaster to reflect on her award-winning coverage of the raid for KSHB-TV in Kansas City, Missouri. The interview is below. You can also read about or watch our discussion with Record publisher Eric Meyer earlier this year.
On a Friday afternoon in 2023, news broke of a police raid of the Marion County Record newsroom and its publisher Eric Meyer’s home. Did you realize right away that this needed to be not just a statewide story but a national one?
I realized right away this was a big story. Once the news broke that Joan Meyer died, I knew we had to go to Marion — the backlash was immediate and the responses were coming in from across the country.
Over the course of many months, it became clear that the raid wasn’t a random instance of police overresponding to a citizen complaint. Details began to emerge about local officials, including the police chief, Gideon Cody, and their conduct before, during, and after the raid — even before coming to Marion. Plenty of great local journalists did amazing work covering the story, but you seemed to get a large share of the big scoops. Without divulging any confidences, how were you able to pull it off, especially being based in Kansas City, not particularly close to Marion?
I worked a lot of hours. In the beginning, we stayed overnight in Marion. After that, it was a lot of driving back and forth, while taking calls from sources at all hours of the night. I’d been a journalist long enough to know that a story this big doesn’t die down for a few weeks. We made the commitment to drive the five-hour round trip daily. I didn’t always know what our angle would be, but I knew I’d find it.
“If journalists are not willing to report on the ongoing attacks against the free press, who will?”
Jessica McMaster
Talk about the level of transparency — or lack thereof — that you encountered from government officials, both in Marion and statewide, during your reporting on the raid. What were some of the challenges you needed to overcome, in terms of secrecy and accessing information that was of public interest?
Gideon Cody wasn’t talking. The county attorney wasn’t talking. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation was saying very little. Almost immediately, it had the appearance that everyone involved in this was covering their own tail — and of course they were. This was a huge mess. We leaned on the gift of open records laws to get most of our information. Getting emails and text messages helped piece the parts of the story together that those in power wanted to remain a secret. We knew they’d try and block us — we were prepared to fight back. There were times when we had to get our attorneys involved when information was being withheld. On a story like this, the details don’t reveal the truth all at once. It trickles out over time. It’s always fun to look back and see how it all comes together — one information request, or leak, at a time.
At Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), we were glued to your X feed for real-time updates. We probably weren’t the only ones. Can you talk about the challenge of breaking news on social media while also investigating the bigger stories?
This is one of my favorite parts about covering a big story — connecting with people in real time. I had people from other countries sending me emails and tweeting to me that they were following me for updates. I was not asked to use social media in real time by my employer — it’s just something I’d become accustomed to doing since early on in my career. With Marion, we were getting updates constantly — social media made it easy to get that information out quickly. I don’t see using social media as a challenge — I think it’s a tool to connect with our followers more authentically and bring them along on the journey with us. Of course, if I have to get my broadcast script in urgently, or I have to be on camera within the next few minutes, I’ll take a break from providing live updates and come back to it once I’m done.
Were there any stories you were able to break while covering the raid that you felt were particularly important to the public’s understanding of what went on?
We broke so many stories over the first couple of months. I remember driving to Marion during that first week of coverage. I didn’t know what the story would be on this particular day. It was our plan to find the story once we got there. About an hour into our trip, while driving past a cornfield, my cellphone rings and it’s the attorney for Marion County Record. He tips me off that the county attorney has revoked the search warrants. He gave me a two-minute head start before he planned to tell all the other reporters. This was arguably the biggest break in the case — it’s the first time officials publicly admitted the raids shouldn’t have happened. This squashed any doubts of wrongdoing on behalf of the newspaper — and people, especially in Marion — did have their doubts. So, of course, I’m scrambling to get this information out there. Minutes after I broke the news on X, the county attorney sent a press release to all newsrooms with his statement on revoking the warrants.
“It’s hard for a lot of us to grasp that so many people, in positions of power, failed in such spectacular fashion to do their jobs.”
Jessica McMaster
What insights did you come away with about the state of press freedom in Kansas and in the United States?
This was a massive failure by several people within the justice system. I think that’s what’s so shocking about this entire thing — most of us assume a police chief would understand press freedom laws. If a police chief doesn’t, we’d assume a county attorney would. If a county attorney doesn’t, we’d assume a district judge would. If no one understands these laws — surely someone will look it up. The amount of layers Gideon Cody’s attack on the newspaper survived is astonishing. What did all these people, who are supposed to understand the law, think the response would be? I think it’s hard for a lot of us to grasp that so many people, in positions of power, failed in such spectacular fashion to do their jobs.
Do you think the raid had an ongoing chilling effect on journalism?
I think the chilling effect comes from a culmination of attacks that have been launched against the free press over the past several years. We’ve seen this play out in other instances, during protests for example, where police assault or arrest journalists for doing their jobs. I think Marion was another example of that.
Despite your award-winning work on the raid and all the other great work you’ve done, less than two years after the raid, your position at KSHB-TV, Kansas City’s NBC affiliate, was eliminated. What does that say about the state of the news industry and whether local investigative reporting is valued these days?
The company I worked for always valued investigative journalism — it’s why I stayed in my position for a decade. I think what we’re seeing is that many local newsrooms are becoming more and more risk averse. I personally felt this shift over the past few years. When newsrooms operate from a place of fear, it’s very difficult for reporters to do their job, especially investigative reporters who, by nature, do more high-risk, accountability-focused stories.
What’s next for you? I saw that your X post about the layoff said your time as an investigative journalist was coming to an end. Are you done with journalism or are you going to look for a way back in? And why?
I love journalism. I believe in its purpose. I believe in its power. We need solid journalists who aren’t afraid to hold the powerful accountable. That said, I don’t see myself stepping back into a newsroom. At least not anytime soon. I took the summer off to focus on my kids and reflect on what I want to do next, which has been such a gift. I plan to keep writing and creating content for something I believe in.
Journalists often feel like covering press freedom stories is difficult, because they’re making themselves the story or because their objectivity will be questioned, for example. What do you say to that, and what’s your advice to journalists and editors wondering whether it’s a good idea to report on press freedom violations?
Stick to the facts. That’s my advice. While I didn’t initially know why police raided the newspaper, I knew this was fundamentally wrong. I knew police should’ve served a subpoena, as opposed to busting down the doors. I knew the free press has protections, both locally and federally. All of that gave me grounds to cover this story. It can be uncomfortable reporting on something so closely tied to our personal lives — but if journalists are not willing to report on the ongoing attacks against the free press, who will?
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Arrestato in Colombia il narcotrafficante Federico Starnone, anche grazie alla rete anti-'Ndrangheta I-CAN di Interpol
Si tratta di un latitante 44enne, ricercato dalle autorità italiane per i reati di associazione a delinquere finalizzata al traffico internazionale di sostanze stupefacenti con le aggravanti connesse a due distinti tentativi di importazione di ingenti quantitativi di cocaina dal Sudamerica.
E' ritenuto legato alla 'Ndrangheta. E' stato catturato in un appartamento nel quartiere residenziale di Cali.
A carico di Starnone è stata già emessa una sentenza di condanna a 5 anni e mezzo per reati di droga. L'uomo è stato catturato dalla polizia colombiana mentre si trovava in un appartamento nel quartiere residenziale nel capoluogo del dipartimento Valle del Cauca.
Essenziale l'apporto del progetto INTERPOL Cooperation Against ‘Ndrangheta (I-CAN).
Si tratta di un'iniziativa lanciata dall'Italia e dall'INTERPOL nel gennaio 2020 per contrastare la minaccia globale rappresentata dalla ‘Ndrangheta, come noto un'organizzazione criminale transnazionale altamente organizzata e potente.
Finanziato dal Dipartimento della Pubblica Sicurezza italiano, il progetto mira a rafforzare la cooperazione internazionale tra forze di polizia sfruttando le capacità dell'INTERPOL di condividere intelligence, competenze e best practice, trasformando così le informazioni in arresti e smantellando le reti criminali.
Avviato a Reggio Calabria l'obiettivo principale del progetto è stato - da subito - quello di istituire un sistema globale di allerta precoce contro questo "nemico invisibile". I-CAN opera attraverso una rete di paesi pilota, che inizialmente includevano Australia, Argentina, Brasile, Canada, Colombia, Francia, Germania, Italia, Svizzera, Stati Uniti e Uruguay, che si è espanso a 13, tra cui Austria, Belgio e Spagna.
Il progetto facilita operazioni coordinate transfrontaliere, come dimostrato dall'operazione globale del 2020 che ha portato all'arresto di sei latitanti legati alla 'Ndrangheta in Albania, Argentina e Costa Rica, con conseguente sequestro di 400 kg di cocaina e smantellamento del clan Bellocco. Le operazioni successive hanno continuato a dare risultati, tra cui l'arresto nel 2023 di un latitante di 16 anni, Edgardo Greco, in Francia, con il supporto di I-CAN.
Il progetto si è evoluto oltre la sua fase iniziale, con iniziative in corso tra cui la Conferenza I-CAN del 2022 a Roma, che ha riunito le forze dell'ordine di 14 paesi per definire una strategia unitaria contro la 'Ndrangheta, oggi considerata un'entità criminale "silenziosa e pervasiva" che si infiltra nelle economie legittime attraverso la corruzione e il riciclaggio di denaro.
Il successo del progetto si basa su una combinazione di condivisione di intelligence, coordinamento internazionale e utilizzo di strumenti analitici avanzati per esplorare dati provenienti da diverse fonti, consentendo indagini transnazionali. Il suo quadro continua a sostenere gli sforzi in corso, tra cui il progetto I-FORCE, incentrato sulla cooperazione regionale nell'Europa orientale e sudorientale.
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Gematik: Für die elektronische Patientenakte kann man sich jetzt doch per Video identifizieren
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Anduril accelera nell’Indo-Pacifico. Nuovi accordi con Taiwan e Corea del Sud
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The human voiceover artists behind AI voices are grappling with the choice to embrace the gigs and earn a living, or pass on potentially life-changing opportunities from Big Tech.#AI #voiceovers
Voiceover Artists Weigh the 'Faustian Bargain' of Lending Their Talents to AI
Acting is an industry of feast and famine, where performers’ income can swing widely by role, by month, and by year. It’s a field where people often face the choice between passion, creativity, and taking a commercial gig for a check. As with so much else, this delicate personal calculation is now being disrupted by AI.Last month, online actors’ jobs boards were flooded with a very specific, very well-paid role. Nestled between student short film gigs and callouts for background dancers, was the ambiguously-named opportunity “Technology Company AI Project.” According to the job listing on cast and crew job board Mandy, it would pay up to $80,000, for only 19 total hours of work. This is unusually high for an industry where a national-level ad campaign for a big brand might pay $6,000.
The post was from voice acting talent agency Voice123, casting on behalf of a project by Microsoft. According to the listing, the company was looking for voice actors across 19 languages, with specific regional dialects and accents including “French from France native” and “Arabic as spoken by Palestinian/Israeli Arab communities.”
“I get instant notifications, and I was getting so many of them,” said Katie Clark Gray, a podcaster and voice actor. The rate stood out to her. “The jobs that I tend to see are, like, £250 [about $339 USD]... it was, like, a lot of posts. The money seemed like a lot.” She said that it’s rare to get that many notifications for a recognizable brand.
The role would include recording “conversations, character voices, and natural speech to help train AI systems,” Crispin Alfario, a recruiter for the role on the Voice123 platform, told 404 Media. Alfario could not comment further due to privacy terms, but said there was “a positive response during the castings for these projects.” Clark Gray said that advertised AI roles like this are increasing in scope and in scale, and that she now sees far fewer roles available for employee training video work or industrial roles like phone menu voices — the area she got her start in over a decade ago.
She sees accepting AI training voiceover roles as something of a Faustian bargain: They might seem like a lot of money, but they reduce the amount of work available in the future. “You're still taking away tomorrow's meal because they're offering you a little bit more,” she said. “Those 19 hours… will scale to hundreds and thousands of hours of AI output. They would otherwise have to pay for it.”
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I called Microsoft’s PR to ask if I could chat to someone involved in casting for the roles that Clark Gray had spotted, on the same day that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella published a note about the “recent job eliminations” of four percent of staff and pledged to “reimagine every layer of the tech stack for AI.” The next day, less than two weeks after Clark Gray spotted the Microsoft ads, the company announced a new virtual character for Copilot, the trial version of which is currently only available in English. After that announcement, a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed to me that the voiceover roles I asked about were for Copilot Voice, and that they will “continue to look for more talent as [they] expand these capabilities.” I hadn’t been sure that the audition posts were linked to Copilot, but the confirmation from Microsoft confirmed that the posts that Clark Gray had spotted had been in advance of the product announcement.
“More and more I'm seeing AI disclaimers that, by auditioning for this, you agree to have your voice and likeness used and replicated. I hate that.”
Hunter Saling, an actor and comic based in LA, said he’s seeing more and more roles which have an AI component or require signing an AI waiver. He auditioned for a “Siri-type AI assistant,” in May. The role would have paid an amount of money where he “wouldn’t need a job” for a long time.“You'd be providing a whole bunch of stuff up front,” he said, “and then be paid as a performer, as a voiceover artist, to come back on a yearly basis to do more stuff.”
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I wondered if this was another situation where an audition was the first public hint of a product launch in the space, but Saling couldn’t tell me the company he’d auditioned for, due to confidentiality. I kept an eye out for new Siri-type AI agents that might be able to pay life-changing money and, while I was writing this story, on July 17, OpenAI launched their ChatGPT agent—a Siri-type AI assistant. OpenAI is also known to use Mercor, an AI-enabled recruitment platform, which was recently posting about voice casting for a “top AI Lab.”
The AI-assistant voice audition process was very different from usual, Saling said. He described the voice he did as “the performance of no performance;” a voice that was “not personality free, but, like, neutral, but friendly and helpful.” He describes the work he did on the audition as “not children's host, but also not robotic either… I read a story, some recipe directions, and some just general sentences.”
On August 7, OpenAI announced ChatGPT 5 which would have several new personalities, but the company said that those personalities would not apply to voice mode.
Being selected for this kind of windfall could alter the course of an actor’s life.
One part of the audition script stood out to Saling: He was asked to “affirm” someone. “That did start to send me on a bit of a mental spiral of, oh, my God, someone needs affirmation from their home assistant.”
Auditioning for this role also posed an ethical question. “I will say I was surprised in myself that I was OK doing this,” he said. “More and more I'm seeing AI disclaimers that, by auditioning for this, you agree to have your voice and likeness used and replicated. I hate that.”
The last couple of years have seen the entertainment industry in turmoil over the use of AI in screen and voiceover work. Both the four month SAG-AFTRA actor’s strike in 2023, as well as their almost year-long video games strike, which ended last month, focused on the use of AI. The agreements which ended the strikes describe different industry categories of AI use, differentiating between the kind of AI which digitally alters or replicates the work of a particular actor, and generative AI which is trained using actor’s work or creates a “synthetic performer.”
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Saling does agree with this technical difference, between delivering an artistic or creative performance that can be altered, perfected, or smoothed out later, and providing a voice to be re-created for industrial use, like in an AI assistant. Creating the neutral voice of an AI assistant, to be generatively replicated, is industrial, rather than artistic; “this is something that... it's not a performance, it's not a character. It's a tool,” he said.Clark Gray is not financially dependent on her voice acting career, and her calculus in auditioning is different. She didn’t submit for the Microsoft role, but “wouldn't fault anybody for going out for that job,” she said. “That’s a year’s salary for a lot of people.” But she also feels a difference in applying for creative voiceover roles vs industrial ones; “I think the cartoon voices are much more fun. I don't know anybody who doesn't,” she said. “You do bring a sort of artistic, like, extra sauce to it. Creating a character really does take something different than reading something in a neutral voice.”
Saling said that he thinks the adoption of AI taps into the entertainment industry’s commercially-driven but counterproductive desire to create mass appeal via synthetic perfection. “Sometimes I feel like Lear yelling at a storm on the fucking cliff,” he added — with a theatricality ChatGPT could only dream of.
Mercor, an AI recruiting startup founded by 21-year-olds, raises $100M at $2B valuation | TechCrunch
Mercor, the AI recruiting startup founded by three 21-year-old Thiel Fellows, has raised $100 million in a Series B round, the company confirmed toTage Kene-Okafor (TechCrunch)
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The U.S. Army Is Testing AI Controlled Ground Drones Near a Border with Russia
The U.S. Army tested a fully AI controlled ground vehicle in Vaziani, Georgia—about 100 miles from the Russian border—last month as part of a training exercise. In military-published footage, an all wheel, off-road vehicle about the size of a car called ULTRA navigated the European terrain with ease. The training exercise had the ULTRA resupplying soldiers, but both the military and the machine’s creator think it could do much more.
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The Pentagon has invested in drones and AI for decades, long claiming that both are the future of war. The appearance of the ULTRA signals a time when AI controlled robots will populate the battlefields of the near future.“ULTRA was built to be modular and mission-adaptable from the start,” Chris Merz, an employee of Overland AI, the company behind ULTRA said according to an Army press release. “We are actively developing variants that support casualty evacuation, counter-unmanned aircraft systems, and terrain shaping operations.”
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ULTRA runs on Overland AI’s proprietary OverDrive software, a system that’s designed to give AI full control over ground vehicles on the battlefield. Overland AI did not return 404 Media’s request for comment, but its website claims it can retrofit OverDrive onto traditional vehicles and its YouTube page has a video claiming to show the AI piloting a Ripsaw M5 tank.
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Overland AI is a Seattle based company that started in 2022. It’s gained a lot of buzz in the last few years as a pioneer of AI software meant to control unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs). Jon Fink, Overland AI’s CTO, explained how its software worked during a presentation at a defense tech showcase earlier this year.During the demo, Fink showed footage of a field test where an ATV navigated hazardous terrain with minimal input from a human. Fink said the company’s OverDrive software is “purpose built for the warfighter. It’s built in order to enable the operator so it can remotely task a system so it can autonomously move through an environment without reliance on detailed maps or communication back with that operator.”
The big challenge of AI systems like this is that they need to be able to navigate the terrain on their own without looking at a map. GPS is often jammed or unavailable on the battlefield. So a robot will need to use cameras and other sensors to make decisions about how to move through a warzone in real time. In the video, the operator drops a few waypoints on a map of the area and clicks a button to launch the ATV. “Note while we’re specifying all these tasks, I’m not like zooming in, looking very close at detailed information that I might have from a satellite, because I can’t necessarily trust that,” Fink said. Satellite imagery can become outdated quickly on a chaotic battlefield.“I’m really giving the system just a coarse idea of what I need it to do to accomplish my mission.”
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The U.S. Army’s test last month has been a long time coming. “This isn’t new,” Samuel Bendett, a drone expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told 404 Media. “This has been in development for many, many years […] this is at least a decade’s worth of research, development, testing, and evaluation of different levels of autonomy with different technologies.”Russia, China, and the United States are all working on AI controlled ground vehicles. Drones require an operator which means a human being needs to maintain contact with a device over vast distances. That’s easier to do when the machine is a robot flying through the sky, but ground vehicles have to contend with signal-blocking debris and are easier targets for ground troops.
“Communication between the UGV operator and the operator can be jammed if it’s radio, the communication can be severed if it’s done via cable, communication may be endangered if it’s an aerial drone that’s trying to provide signal strength and overwatch capabilities,” Bendett said. “Operators have to be in relative proximity to their UGVs, and that, of course, somewhat negates the point of using UGVs instead of people. If people are close to their UGV, they can be discovered and killed.”
AI answers a lot of these problems. If an operator can give a set of simple instructions to a machine and let it operate independently, then it need not be in constant contact. In his presentation earlier this year, Fink noted that the AI controlled ATV adjusted its speed as it navigated terrain, all on its own. “We haven’t set any sort of speed limits or specifications to the system when we tasked it, we basically just told it: ‘Go to these general locations’ and it’s taking care of all of the decisions as it needs to,” he said.
There are major concerns about warfighter machines making decisions by themselves. UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for a ban on autonomous weapon systems, calling them “morally repugnant.” In Gaza, Israel is using AI models from OpenAI and Microsoft to make targeting decisions and Israeli intelligence officers have told reporters that information provided by the AIs were treated “as if it were a human decision.”
Right now, Overland AI’s OverDrive AI stack is just for helping a ground vehicle navigate, and Bendett said it’s ahead of the pack. “The Holy Grail of autonomy is translating that intuitive human experience into a UGV that will be able to navigate, on its own, through rough terrain, mixed terrain, uncertain terrain, which is what we’re seeing with Overland UGVs,” he said.
What could this thing be used for? “The number one goal for these kinds of UGVs is logistics and supplies,” Bendett said. “Medical evacuation is becoming a growing concern and UGVs are also used for that.”
It, of course, won’t stop there. “UGVs used in combat can be mounted with all manners of weapons,” Bendett said.
The U.S. Army did not respond to 404 Media’s request for comment.
‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local Call reveal.Amjad Iraqi (+972 Magazine)
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Adam entrò in ufficio, appese il soprabito e si accostò al mobile bar per un drink.
«Non dovresti bere nelle tue condizioni» disse una voce calda alle sue spalle.
Si voltò di scatto: c’era una ragazza bionda in un elegante tubino bianco sul divano. Sorrideva.
«Come sei entrata? Chi sei?»
«È inutile agitarsi, vado dove voglio e di nomi ne ho tanti. Sono qui per un affare.»
Lui tirò fuori il cellulare e chiamò la sicurezza, il telefono rimase muto.
«Dovresti ascoltarmi» commentò la donna.
Adam fece per andare verso la porta ma si bloccò, non c’era nessuna porta. Lei si alzò, aveva un corpo da mozzare il fiato.
«Chi diavolo sei?» chiese confuso.
Lei rise divertita: «L’hai detto. Mettiti comodo e ascolta la mia proposta.» Lo spinse sulla vicina poltrona.
«Tu sei ricco Adam, uno dei più ricchi del mondo, eppure non ti servirà, tra poco morrai e perderai ogni cosa.»
«Lo so questo, è il nostro destino.»
«Non proprio. Dovrai morire, lo ammetto, ma in quanto al denaro, ti offro la possibilità di portarne parte con te nell’aldilà.»
Adam rise forte: «Vorrai dire all’inferno!»
«Ah, l’inferno, sei così sicuro di meritarlo?»
«Ci puoi giurare» rispose ridendo «quello mi tocca di sicuro.»
La donna sorrise: «Inferno, paradiso, sono solo parole, il luogo dove finirai non è troppo diverso da questo: meglio essere ricchi che altrimenti.» Sollevò la gonna e si sedette sulla scrivania. «La mia offerta è questa: lascerai la somma che vorrai a una fondazione che io ti indicherò, in questo mondo, e noi te ne faremo avere un decimo nell’aldilà.»
«E tu credi che io abbocchi a un’imbroglio del genere? Proprio io?»
Lei gli mise in mano un biglietto. «I dati per la donazione, pensaci, non tutti hanno questa possibilità.» Lui abbassò lo sguardo per leggerlo, quando lo rialzò la donna non c’era più.
«Cavolo…» mormorò, ma andò a riporlo nel soprabito. Quando si voltò in mezzo alla stanza c’era un’altra donna, bruna, sui quaranta, con un tailleur scuro molto elegante e sobrio.
«Non ti fidare di quella, ti frega» disse la nuova arrivata.
Adam si guardò intorno, forse era il cancro a causargli quelle allucinazioni. Gli restava poco.
«Certo che non mi fido, non si portano soldi all’inferno.»
«Bravo!» esclamò lei soddisfatta. «Devi farle con la gente giusta queste cose. Se ti affidi a noi, non solo garantiamo un trasferimento di denaro doppio, ma assicuriamo anche il passaggio in paradiso.»
«Cosa?»
«Ma certo! Perché con la donazione giusta, con un gesto di generosità vera, noi possiamo assicurarti il perdono.»
«Il perdono?»
«Assicurato!»
Adam sentiva la testa pulsare, non stava affatto bene.
«Questo non è corretto» il grido veniva dalle sue spalle, si girò, era di nuovo la bionda. Furiosa.
«Gli affari sono affari» ribatté la bruna.
Le due si presero per i capelli.
Adam quasi sorrise vedendole avvinghiate, non era più sicuro di quale delle due fosse il demone e quale l’angelo.
Non ha importanza, in ogni caso è troppo tardi – pensò, con un filo di rimpianto, mentre spirava.
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Qualcuno ha visto il PD?
Quel partito ha la caratteristica di riuscire a sparire completamente dalla scena per mesi, per anni, tra un'elezione (persa) e l'altra.
O governa, e sappiamo come, o sparisce completamente dalla circolazione.
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Beh immagino che chi non ha votato PD si stia godendo i nipotini del duce esattamente come chi ha votato il PD si sarà goduto il suo supporto agli stupratori della guardia costiera libica, il suo jobs act, la sua delegittimazione delle ONG che salvano vite in mare, ecc.
Però quelli del PD in effetti alla manifestazione del 25 aprile partecipano convintamente, cantano "bella ciao" quindi posso capire che qualcuno li consideri migliori di quegli altri.
Comunque la mia domanda era: ma questi "migliori" dove sono finiti? Che fanno? Stanno aspettando le prossime elezioni per tornare a riproporsi come quelli che vanno votati perché gli altri sono peggiori?