Hackaday Podcast Episode 343: Double Component Abuse, a Tinkercad Twofer, and a Pair of Rants
This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up across the universe to bring you the latest news, mystery sound, and of course, a big bunch of hacks from the previous seven days or so.
On What’s That Sound, Kristina failed spectacularly. Will you fare better and perhaps win a Hackaday Podcast t-shirt? Mayhap you will.
After that, it’s on to the hacks and such, beginning with a really cool entry into the Component Abuse Challenge wherein a simple transmission line is used to multiply a voltage. We watch as a POV globe takes to the skies, once it has enough motors.
Then we discuss several awesome hacks such as an incredible desk that simulates beehive activity, a really great handheld PC build, and a Tinkercad twofer. Finally, we discuss the future of removable batteries, and the history of movable type.
Check out the links below if you want to follow along, and as always, tell us what you think about this episode in the comments!
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News:
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Interesting Hacks of the Week:
- 2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Boosting Voltage With Just A Wire
- 2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Conductive Filament Makes A Meltable Fuse
- POV Globe Takes To The Skies
- Classy Desk Simulates Beehive Activity
- What Happened To Running What You Wanted On Your Own Machine?
- Handheld PC Build Is Pleasantly Chunky
Quick Hacks:
- Elliot’s Picks:
- Open Source Hack Lets The Razer Nari Headset Work With Linux
- Making A Clock With A Retooled Unihiker K10
- Tinkercad In Color
- Tinkercad Continues To Grow Up
- Kristina’s Picks:
- Building A Minecraft Lantern For Halloween
- Kitchen Bench Splash Guard Powered By Arduino
- 2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Nail Your Next Decal
Can’t-Miss Articles:
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Microreattori e sicurezza nazionale. La scommessa del Pentagono
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Basi militari americane alimentati in territorio (continentale) statunitense da small modular reactors entro l’autunno del 2028. È l’obiettivo del Janus Program, iniziativa congiunta del Dipartimento della Guerra e del Dipartimento dell’Energia annunciata dal segretario dell’Esercito Daniel P.
La trappola del falso supporto tecnico: attenti, è phishing
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È stata rivelata una campagna di truffe online che sfrutta il logo Microsoft in uno schema di falso supporto tecnico. L’attacco non punta tanto sulla sofisticazione tecnica, quanto sulla capacità di sfruttare la fiducia e la paura per ottenere il controllo completo del dispositivo della
There is no evidence the Instagram and Facebook account, called Montcowatch, sells anything. Lawyers from the ACLU say the move is "wild outside the scope" of DHS' authority.
There is no evidence the Instagram and Facebook account, called Montcowatch, sells anything. Lawyers from the ACLU say the move is "wild outside the scope" of DHSx27; authority.#ICE #DHS
DHS Tries To Unmask Ice Spotting Instagram Account by Claiming It Imports Merchandise
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is trying to force Meta to unmask the identity of the people behind Facebook and Instagram accounts that post about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity, arrests, and sightings by claiming the owners of the account are in violation of a law about the “importation of merchandise.” Lawyers fighting the case say the move is “wildly outside the scope of statutory authority,” and say that DHS has not even indicated what merchandise the accounts, called Montcowatch, are supposedly importing.“There is no conceivable connection between the ‘MontCo Community Watch’ Facebook or Instagram accounts and the importation of any merchandise, nor is there any indicated on the face of the Summonses. DHS has no authority to issue these summonses,” lawyers with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) wrote in a court filing this month. There is no indication on either the Instagram or Facebook account that the accounts are selling any type of merchandise, according to 404 Media’s review of the accounts. “The Summonses include no substantiating allegations nor any mention of a specific crime or potential customs violation that might trigger an inquiry under the cited statute,” the lawyers add.
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Do you know anything else about this case or others like it? We would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message Joseph securely on Signal at joseph.404 or Jason at jason.404A judge temporarily blocked DHS from unmasking the owners last week.
“The court now orders Meta [...] not to produce any documents or information in response to the summonses at issue here without further order of the Court,” the judge wrote in a filing. The move to demand data from Meta about the identities of the accounts while citing a customs statute shows the lengths to which DHS is willing to go to attempt to shut down and identify people who are posting about ICE’s activities.
Montcowatch is, as the name implies, focused on ICE activity in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Its Instagram posts are usually titled “Montco ICE alert” and include details such as where suspected ICE agents and vehicles were spotted, where suspected agents made arrests, or information about people who were detained. “10/20/25 Eagleville,” one post starts. “Suspected dentention [sic] near Ollies on Ridge Pike sometime before 7:50 am. 3 Agents and 3 Vehicles were observed.”
The Instagram account has been posting since June, and also posts information about peoples’ legal rights to film law enforcement. It also tells people to not intervene or block ICE. None of the posts currently available on the Instagram account could reasonably be described as doxing or harassing ICE officials.
On September 11, DHS demanded Meta provide identifying details on the owners of the Montcowatch accounts, according to court records. That includes IP addresses used to access the account, phone numbers on file, and email addresses, the court records add. DHS cited a law “focused on customs investigations relating to merchandise,” according to a filing from the ACLU that pushed to have the demands thrown out.
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“The statute at issue here, 19 U.S.C. § 1509, confers limited authority to DHS in customs investigations to seek records related to the importation of merchandise, including the assessment of customs duties,” the ACLU wrote. “Identifying anonymous social media users critical of DHS is not a legitimate purpose, and it is not relevant to customs enforcement.” As the ACLU notes, a cursory look at the accounts shows they are “not engaged in commerce.” The court record points to an 2017 Office of the Inspector General report which says Customs and Border Protection (CBP) “regularly” tried much the same thing with its own legal demands, and specifically around the identity of an anonymous Twitter user.“Movant now files this urgent motion to protect their identity from being exposed to a government agency that is apparently targeting their ‘community watch’ Facebook and Instagram accounts for doing nothing more than exercising their rights to free speech and association,” those lawyers and others wrote last week.
“Movant’s social media pages lawfully criticize and publicize DHS and the government agents who Movant views as wreaking havoc in the Montgomery County community by shining a light on that conduct to raise community members’ awareness,” they added.
The judge has not yet ruled on the ACLU’s motion to quash the demands altogether. This is a temporary blockage while that case continues.
The Montocowatch case follows other instances in which DHS has tried to compel Meta to identify the owners of similar accounts. Last month a judge temporarily blocked a subpoena that was aiming to unmask Instagram accounts that named a Border Patrol agent, The Intercept reported.
Earlier this month Meta took down a Facebook page that published ICE sightings in Chicago. The move came in direct response to pressure from the Department of Justice.
Both Apple and Google have removed apps that people use to warn others about ICE sightings. Those removals also included an app called Eyes Up that was focused more on preserving videos of ICE abuses. Apple’s moves also came after direct pressure from the Department of Justice.
Montcowatch directed a request for comment to the ACLU of Pennsylvania, which did not immediately respond.
Courts Block Meta From Sharing Anti-ICE Activists’ Instagram Account Info With Feds
For now, Meta cannot disclose to federal investigators the identities of Instagram users who named and shamed a Border Patrol agent.Shawn Musgrave (The Intercept)
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Making WiFi Sound Like Dial-Up Internet
Dial-up modems had a distinctive sound when connecting, with the glittering, screeching song becoming a familiar melody to those jumping online in the early days of the Internet. Modern digital connections don’t really have an analog to this, by virtue of being entirely digital. And yet, [Nick Bild] decided to make WiFi audible in a pleasing tribute to the modems of yore.
The reason you could hear your dial-up modem is because it was actually communicating in audio over old-fashioned telephone lines. The initialization process happened at a low enough speed that you could hear individual sections of the handshake that sounded quite unique. Ultimately, though, once a connection was established at higher speed, particularly 33.6 k or 56 k, the sound of transmission became hard to discern from static.
Modern communication methods like Ethernet, DSL, and WiFi all occur purely digitally — and in frequencies far above the audible range. Thus, you can’t really “listen” to a Wi-Fi signal any more than you can listen to the rays of light beaming out from the sun. However, [Nick] found an anachronistic way to make a sound out of WiFi signals that sounds vaguely reminiscent of old-school modems. He used a Raspberry Pi 3 equipped with a WiFi adapter, which sniffs network traffic, honing in on data going to one computer. The packet data is then sent to an Adafruit QT Py microcontroller, which uses the data to vary the amplitude of a sound wave that’s then fed to a speaker through a digital-to-analog converter. [Nick] notes this mostly just sounds like static, so he adds some adjustments to the amplitude and frequency to make it more reminiscent of old modem sounds, but it’s all still driven by the WiFi data itself.
It’s basically WiFi driven synthesis, rather than listening to WiFi itself, but it’s a fun reference to the past. We’ve talked a lot about dial-up of late; from the advanced technology that made 56 k possible, to the downfall of AOL’s long-lived service. Video after the break.
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Elektronische Patientenakte: Mit Sicherheitsrisiken und Nebenwirkungen
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Offener Brief: Bürgerrechtsorganisationen pochen auf Unabhängigkeit der irischen Datenschutzaufsicht
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Obesità, il presidente di Aifa Robert Nisticò a TPI: “La prevenzione è un dovere dello Stato”
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Presidente Nisticò, con l’approvazione della Legge Pella, l’Italia è il primo e unico Paese al mondo ad avere una norma per la prevenzione e la cura dell’obesità. Cosa comporta? «L’obesità è una vera e propria malattia, molto
Collins Aerospace: la voce di Everest su una tempesta perfetta. Ricostruiamo i fatti
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Si dice spesso che la verità sia la prima vittima in una guerra, e nel confuso panorama della cybersecurity questa massima risuona con sinistra frequenza. Quella che ha colpito Collins Aerospace a settembre del 2025 non è stato un semplice
Chi teme le indagini su Mattarella? Incendiata la sede di “42 Parallelo” a Roma
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Esiste un nesso tra la bomba fatta scoppiare davanti alla casa di Sigfrido Ranucci e il devastante incendio che ieri ha distrutto a Roma la
Il deputato di Forza Italia Roberto Pella a TPI: “La mia legge contro l’obesità? Pensa al domani”
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On. Pella, l’Italia è il primo Paese al mondo a riconoscere l’obesità come malattia, grazie alla legge recentemente approvata di cui Lei è il primo firmatario. «È un motivo di grande soddisfazione. Indubbiamente a ognuno di noi fa piacere
This Week in Security: Court Orders, GlassWorm, TARmageddon, and It was DNS
This week, a US federal court has ruled that NSO Group is no longer allowed to use Pegasus spyware against users of WhatsApp. And for their trouble, NSO was also fined $4 million. It’s unclear how much this ruling will actually change NSO’s behavior, as it intentionally stopped short of applying to foreign governments.
There may be an unexpected source of leverage the US courts can exert over NSO, with the news that American investors are acquiring the company. Among the requirements of the ruling is that NSO cannot reverse engineer WhatsApp code, cannot create new WhatsApp accounts, and must delete any existing WhatsApp code in their possession. Whether this actually happens remains to be seen.
Points On the Curve
Cryptography is hard. Your implementation can do everything right, and still have a weakness. This was demonstrated yet again in the Cloudflare CIRCL cryptography library. The issue here is a Diffie-Hellman scheme using the Curve4Q elliptic curve.
Quick review: Diffie-Hellman is a technique where Bob and Alice can exchange public keys, and each combine the received public key with their own private key, and arrive at a shared secret. This can be accomplished on an elliptic curve by choosing a scalar value as a private key, and multiplying a standard generator point by that scalar to derive a new point on the curve, which serves as the public key. After the public key points are exchanged, Alice and Bob each multiply the received public point by their own secret scalar. Just like simple multiplication, this function is commutative, and results in the same answer for both.
There is a catch that can cause problems. Not every value is a valid point on the curve, and doing calculations on these invalid points can lead to unusual results. The danger here isn’t remote code execution (RCE), but leaking information about the private key when doing an invalid calculation using these invalid points.
The CIRCL library had a couple instances where invalid points could be used. There’s a quirk of deserializing FourQ points, that the x value can be interpreted two ways, essentially a positive or negative x. The CIRCL logic attempts to deserialize an incoming point in one way, and if that point is not actually on the curve, the value is inverted (technically “conjugated”), and the new point is accepted without testing. There were a few other similar cases where points weren’t being validated. These flaws were reported to Cloudflare and fixed earlier this year.
GlassWorm
We recently covered Shai Hulud, an npm worm that actively uploaded itself into other npm libraries when it found valid credentials on compromised computers. It was something of a sea change in the world of library security. Now a month later, we have GlassWorm, a vscode extension worm.
GlassWorm combines several very sneaky techniques. When it injects code into an extension, that code is hidden with Unicode shenanigans, rendering in VSCode as blank lines. Once this malicious VSCode extension is loaded, it reaches out to some interesting Command and Control (C2) infrastructure: The Solana blockchain is used as a sort of bulletproof DNS, hosting a a C2 IP address. There’s a second, almost equally weird C2 mechanism: Hosting those IP addresses in entries on a public Google Calendar.
Once this malware is running, it harvests credentials, and if it gets a chance, injects itself in the code for other extensions and tries to publish. And it also turns the compromised machine into a “Zombi”, part of a botnet, but also working as a RAT (Remote Access Trojan). All told, it’s really nasty malware, and seems to indicate a shift towards these meta-worms that are intended to infiltrate Open Source software repositories.
Speaking of npm, GitHub has begun making security enhancements in response to the Shai Hulud worm. It looks like good changes, like the deprecation of classic access tokens, in favor of shorter lived, granular tokens. TOTP (Time based One Time Password) is going away as a second factor of authentication, in favor of passkeys and similar. And finally, npm is encouraging the use of doing away with long-lived access tokens altogether, and publishing strictly from CI/CD systems.
TARmageddon
We’ve cheered on the progress of the Rust language and its security wins, particularly in the realm of memory safety. But memory management is not the only cause of security issues. The async-tar rust package had a parsing bug that allowed a .tar file to smuggle additional contents that were not seen by the initial validation step.
That has all sorts of potential security ramifications, like smuggling malicious files, bypassing filters, and more. But what’s really interesting about this particular bug is that it’s been around since the first release of the package, and async-tar has been forked into many other published packeges, some of which are in use but no longer maintained. This has turned what should have been a simple fix into a mess, and the popular tokio-tar is still unfixed.
It Was DNS
You probably noticed that the Internet was sort of a dumpster fire on Monday — more than normal. Most of the world, it seems, runs on Amazon’s AWS, and when AWS goes down, it’s surprising what else fails. There were the normal sites and services down, like Reddit, Signal, Fortnight, and Prime Video. It was a bit of a surprise that some banks were down and flights delayed. And then there were IoT devices, like smart beds, litter boxes, and smart bulbs.
And the problem, naturally, was DNS. It’s always DNS. Specifically, Amazon has pinned the outage on “…a latent race condition in the DynamoDB DNS management system that resulted in an incorrect empty DNS record…”. This bad record brought down other services that relied on it, and it didn’t take long for the problem to spin out of control.
Bits and Bytes
There’s even more DNS, with [Dan Kaminsky]’s infamous cache poisoning making an unwelcome comeback. DNS has historically run over UDP, and the Kaminsky attack was based on the lack of authorization in DNS responses. The solution was to randomize the port a request was sent from, requiring the matching response be delivered to the same port number. What’s new here is that the Pseudo Random Number Generator (PRNG) in BIND has a weakness, that could have allowed predicting those values.
TP-Link’s Omada gateways had a pair of vulnerabilities that allowed for RCE. The more serious of the two didn’t require any authentication. Noword on whether this flaw was accessible from the WAN interface by default. Patched firmware is now available.
The better-auth library patched an issue early this month, that allowed the createApiKey endpoint to run without authRequired set true, simply by providing a valid user ID. This bug has been in the library ever since API keys were added to the project. The fix landed in 1.3.26.
And for bonus points, go check out the ZDI post on Pwn2Own Ireland, that just wrapped. There were lots of IoT hacks, including at least one instance of Doom running on a printer. Summoning Team took the Master of Pwn award, nearly doubling the points earned by second place. Congrats!
DSA: EU-Kommission bemängelt Verstöße bei Instagram, Facebook und TikTok
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Tg del 24 ottobre 2025
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Crosetto: “Italia pronta a difendersi”. Vertice dei volenterosi, dubbi sugli asset russi: “Ritorsioni da Mosca”
[quote]ROMA – Di fronte “alla follia dilagante” nel mondo, l’Italia deve essere pronta a difendersi. È questo il messaggio d’allarme che il ministro della Difesa Guido Crosetto ha lanciato ieri…
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Onu, il monito di Mattarella: “Impegno Italia alle Nazioni Unite è asse per politica estera”
Mattarella per gli 80 anni dell’ONU: "Il ruolo è cruciale per la pace, la cooperazione e la solidarietà internazionale"
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Omicidio Piersanti Mattarella, arrestato per depistaggio l’ex prefetto Piritore
[quote]PALERMO – Un tassello amaro si aggiunge al mosaico sulla verità riguardante l’omicidio di Piersanti Mattarella, fratello dell’attuale Presidente della Repubblica Sergio Mattarella. La Direzione Investigativa Antimafia ha notificato gli…
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Gdf, nel 2025 sequestrati 527 milioni di prodotti falsi. Oltre 3 mila denunce: il bilancio
[quote]Quasi 9 mila interventi e circa 527 milioni di prodotti contraffati sequestrati nei primi nove mesi del 2025. Sono questi i dati emersi dal rapporto della Gdf
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Omicidio Piersanti Mattarella, arrestato per depistaggio l’ex prefetto Piritore
[quote]PALERMO – Un tassello amaro si aggiunge al mosaico sulla verità riguardante l’omicidio di Piersanti Mattarella, fratello dell’attuale Presidente della Repubblica Sergio Mattarella. La Direzione Investigativa Antimafia ha notificato gli…
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Trump contro Putin, è la guerra del petrolio. Lo zar minaccia: “Se Kiev usa i Tomahawk, reagiremo”
[quote]ROMA – È scontro totale tra il presidente degli Stati Uniti e l’omologo russo Vladimir Putin, dopo l’annuncio delle sanzioni Usa contro i giganti energetici di Mosca: Rosneft e Lukoil. …
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Traffico illegale di gas fluorurati ad effetto serra stoppato in Spagna
Sono state le informazioni fornite dall'Ufficio europeo per la lotta antifrode (#OLAF) a consentire il sequestro di 12.000 kg di gas fluorurati illegali nel sud-est della Spagna. Le autorità spagnole hanno confiscato un camion con bombole, del valore di circa 413.000 euro, nella provincia spagnola di Alicante. L'OLAF ha monitorato da vicino il traffico internazionale di gas fluorurati ad effetto serra verso l'UE da paesi terzi.
L'intelligence condivisa con il Servizio di Sorveglianza Doganale dell'Agenzia delle Entrate spagnola (AEAT) e le sue unità operative di Catalogna, Valencia e Alicante ha evidenziato un movimento sospetto di gas fluorurati diretti in Africa.
Le autorità spagnole sono riuscite a intercettare il camion contenente i gas fluorurati in un magazzino di Alicante, dove venivano scaricate bombole di gas refrigerante con l'obiettivo di immagazzinarle e successivamente distribuirle utilizzando furgoni a noleggio più piccoli.
Gas fluorurati e preoccupazioni ambientali
I gas fluorurati sono soggetti a quote rigorose e a una riduzione graduale ai sensi delle normative ambientali dell’UE a causa del loro impatto significativo sul riscaldamento globale. La spedizione sequestrata proveniva da paesi extra-UE e l’OLAF, in collaborazione con le autorità nazionali, sta lavorando per interrompere le reti illegali che trafficano questi potenti gas serra in Europa.
Mentre l’UE applica norme sempre più rigorose sull’uso e l’importazione di gas fluorurati, il mercato nero di questi gas si è ampliato. Dispositivi come condizionatori d’aria e sistemi di refrigerazione industriale, che si basano sui gas fluorurati, stanno alimentando questo commercio illegale. L'OLAF resta in prima linea negli sforzi volti a proteggere l'integrità ambientale dell'UE reprimendo il traffico illegale di gas fluorurati.
La missione dell'OLAF è individuare, indagare e fermare gli illeciti relativi ai fondi dell'UE.
Nella sua funzione investigativa indipendente, l'OLAF può indagare su questioni relative a frode, corruzione e irregolarità che ledono gli interessi finanziari dell'UE riguardanti: \
• tutta la spesa dell'UE: le principali categorie di spesa sono i Fondi strutturali, la politica agricola e i fondi per lo sviluppo rurale, la spesa diretta e gli aiuti esterni; \
• alcuni settori delle entrate dell'UE, principalmente i dazi doganali; \
• sospetti di cattiva condotta grave da parte del personale dell'UE e dei membri delle istituzioni dell'UE.
Una volta che l'OLAF ha completato l'indagine, spetta alle competenti autorità nazionali e dell'UE esaminare e decidere il seguito dato alle raccomandazioni dell'OLAF.
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“Lasciatemi morire ridendo” – Proiezione e dibattito a Vicenza con Diego Silvestri
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In collaborazione con la Cellula Coscioni Vicenza-Padova, Mescalito Film presenta “Lasciatemi morire ridendo”, il documentario di Massimiliano Fumagalli che racconta la storia di Stefano Gheller, giovane veneto che ha chiesto di poter accedere all’aiuto medico alla morte volontaria in Italia.
Dopo la proiezione è previsto un dibattito pubblico con la partecipazione di Diego Silvestri, in rappresentanza dell’Associazione Luca Coscioni, per approfondire i temi legati al diritto al fine vita e all’autodeterminazione.
Un appuntamento di sensibilizzazione e confronto sui diritti ancora negati e sulle battaglie civili per la libertà di scelta.
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Niente carne, niente ossa, solo codice! Il primo presentatore AI arriva da Channel 4
Lunedì 20 ottobre, Channel 4 ha trasmesso un documentario completo condotto da un presentatore televisivo creativo integralmente dall’intelligenza artificiale.
“Non sono reale. Per la prima volta in una trasmissione televisiva britannica, sono in realtà un presentatore AI. Alcuni di voi avranno già capito”, rivela il presentatore alla fine dello show.
Il conduttore AI di Channel 4 è stato prodotto da un’agenzia di marketing AI che ha utilizzato degli spunti per creare un essere umano digitale.
Il documentario Will AI Take My Job? ha analizzato proprio se l’intelligenza artificiale potrebbe superare i professionisti in settori quali la medicina, il diritto e la fotografia di moda.
L’intelligenza artificiale è ovunque, dai feed dei social media ai programmi televisivi e sempre più spesso anche nell’intrattenimento video in streaming.
Ad esempio, nella sua lettera trimestrale agli azionisti, Netflix ha sottolineato la “significativa opportunità” che vede nell’utilizzo dell’intelligenza artificiale generativa.
Il colosso dello streaming ha fornito alcuni esempi di cui è orgoglioso, come il ringiovanimento dei personaggi nella scena iniziale del flashback di Happy Gilmore 2 e il lavoro di pre-produzione per esplorare idee per il guardaroba e la scenografia di Billionaire’s Bunker. L’azienda vuole anche utilizzare l’intelligenza artificiale per testare nuovi formati pubblicitari.
“Stiamo fornendo ai creatori un’ampia gamma di strumenti GenAI per aiutarli a realizzare le loro visioni e offrire titoli ancora più incisivi per i propri abbonati“, ha affermato Netflix nella lettera.
Netflix ha anche annunciato che sta testando una versione beta di un ‘”esperienza di ricerca conversazionale” che ti consentirà di usare il linguaggio naturale per esplorare il suo catalogo di film e programmi TV che potrebbero interessarti.
L’azienda ha continuato a fare il tifo durante la conference call sui risultati finanziari con gli analisti. “Siamo fiduciosi che l’intelligenza artificiale aiuterà noi e i nostri partner creativi a raccontare storie meglio, più velocemente e in modi nuovi: ci siamo tutti”, ha dichiarato il CEO di Netflix, Ted Sarandos, a CNBC.
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Sarandos ha aggiunto che l’intelligenza artificiale può migliorare la produzione di contenuti, ma “non può automaticamente trasformarti in un bravo narratore se non lo sei”.
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Robot Phone Home…Or Else
We would have enjoyed [Harishankar’s] tear down of a robot vacuum cleaner, even if it didn’t have a savage twist at the end. Turns out, the company deliberately bricked his smart vacuum.
Like many of us, [Harishankar] is suspicious of devices beaming data back to their makers. He noted a new vacuum cleaner was pinging a few IP address, including one that was spitting out logging or telemetry data frequently. Of course, he had the ability to block the IP address which he did. End of story, right?
No. After a few days of working perfectly, the robot wouldn’t turn on. He returned it under warranty, but the company declared it worked fine. They returned it and, indeed, it was working. A few days later, it quit again. This started a cycle of returning the device where it would work, it would come home and work for a few days, then quit again.
You can probably guess where this is going, but to be fair, we gave you a big hint. The fact that it would work for days after blocking the IP address wouldn’t seem like a smoking gun in real time.
Essentially, he wrote his own software to read all the sensors and drive all the motors using his own computers, bypassing the onboard CPU. But he found one thing interesting. The Android Debug Bridge was wide open on the Linux computer. Sort of.
The problem was, you could only get in a few seconds after booting up. After that, it would disconnect. A little more poking fixed that. The software stack was impressive, using Google Cartographer to map the house, for example.
But what wasn’t impressive was the reason for the repeated failures. A deliberate command was sent to kill the robot when it quit phoning home with telemetry. Of course, at the service center, it was able to report and so it worked fine.
The hardware and the software are impressive. The enforcement of unnecessary data collection is not. It does, however, make us want to buy one of these just for the development platform. [Harishankar] has already done the work to make it useful.
It isn’t just vacuums. Android phones spew a notorious amount of data. Even your smart matress — yes, there are smart matresses — can get into the act.
La DC Comics prende posizione: “nessuna intelligenza artificiale generativa”
DC Comics ha definitivamente affermato la sua posizione sull’intelligenza artificiale generativa: nessun coinvolgimento delle macchine nella narrazione o nelle illustrazioni.
Questo annuncio è stato fatto dal presidente dell’azienda Jim Lee durante un discorso al New York Comic Con. Ha affermato che, finché la leadership rimarrà la stessa, l’attenzione sarà rivolta esclusivamente alla creatività umana. Ha sottolineato che gli appassionati di fumetti apprezzano in particolar modo la sincerità e riconoscono intuitivamente la falsità.
L’azienda richiede da tempo che tutte le immagini siano disegnate a mano da artisti, ma in passato sono state segnalate accuse di utilizzo della modellazione generativa su alcune copertine alternative.
Questi casi hanno scatenato una furiosa reazione da parte della comunità, preoccupata che l’automazione potesse sostituire il lavoro di scrittori e illustratori. In risposta, DC ha rimosso le copertine controverse e, secondo gli osservatori, ha inasprito le restrizioni per prevenire incidenti simili in futuro.
I rappresentanti dell’editoria hanno anche sottolineato che la creazione dei personaggi è più di un semplice processo tecnico. Lee ha osservato che la fan fiction e la fan fiction rimangono parte della cultura, ma la vera forza di eroi come Superman risiede nel loro posto nell’universo DC consolidato, con la sua mitologia e la sua continuity.
Questo, secondo il CEO dell’azienda, è ciò che rende i personaggi riconoscibili nel corso dei decenni e consente loro di rimanere rilevanti anche in futuro.
In un mondo in cui gli algoritmi stanno sempre più prendendo il sopravvento sul ruolo dei creatori, la posizione della DC Comics è un promemoria: l’arte è viva finché c’è respiro umano in essa.
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