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Transcribing meeting recordings with OpenAI
Using a little bit of Python to transcribe a meeting recording with OpenAI #python #OpenAI
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Al Jazeera cameraman Fadi al-Wahidi has been injured by Israeli military gunfire in northern Gaza.

“Israeli forces shot at the Al Jazeera crew, and the network’s photographer, our beloved colleague Fadi al-Wahidi, was injured by a sniper’s bullet in the neck during our coverage,” Al Jazeera Arabic’s Anas al-Sharif said in a post on X.

@palestine
#Gaza
#journalists



Microsoft, $MSFT, won't impose a new return-to-office mandate unless management concludes that productivity has dropped, per BI.

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options



The bill finally comes due for Elon Musk

The Tesla CEO has long promised — and failed to deliver — a fully autonomous vehicle. With this week’s robotaxi reveal, his time is up.



Meet #ONLYOFFICE at Salon Solutions in France 🇫🇷

📆 October 9 – 10, 2024
📍 Paris, France
🌐 salons-solutions.com/

Salon Solutions is an annual event in Paris focused on enterprise solutions and digital transformation.

Visit booth G17, where our team will demonstrate our solutions and answer any questions.







Has anyone noticed how mean Cadbury has got lately? Chocolate is half the size, worse quality and somehow the same high price byteseu.com/481586/ #Éire #Ireland #PoblachtNaHÉireann #RepublicOfIreland



New from 404 Media: there are thousands of internal AI training sets and tools exposed to anyone on the open internet. Some belong to tech companies. No authentication, just visit IP and look. Can include raw training data, ability to use models

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ICO response to ORG complaint against Meta and AI – 25 September 2024




Of my 12 observations this year of conopid* flies – mostly parasites of adult wasps – from US, UK and Croatia, none have collected a single comment or endorsement of the genus or species.

inaturalist.org/observations?d…

Did I get them right? Hopefully. Am I an expert? No. Just wish there was a guide out there on these fascinating flies. How they ever evolved into being is a fascinating thought to entertain.

* Conopids are also known as thick-headed flies, beegrabbers and waspgrabbers. For their life history, see: Gibson's thesis (2011), titled "The evolutionary biology of Conopidae (Diptera): a life history, molecular, morphological, systematic, and taxonomic approach" repository.library.carleton.ca… which, among other details, has "the first ever key to world genera of Conopidae".

#iNaturalist #entomology #Conopidae #Diptera

in reply to Albert Cardona

I've got 2 obs of conopid flies this year: uk.inaturalist.org/observation…

Conopidae might make a good addition/extension to the "British Soldierflies and their Allies" book? nhbs.com/british-soldierflies-…

"allies" seems to be anything and everything in Brachycera?



in reply to Bread and Circuses

No good choice is easy. No easy choice is good. Some of us are still compelled to vote to stop much worse harm but dealing effectively with climate chaos, climate emergency, climate catastrophe, will require so very much work outside electoral politics.
in reply to Bread and Circuses

I’m kind of bemused by the number of people who seem to think the Oval Office does all the things. I’m annoyed by the people who know it doesn’t but still write about it as though it does.
Want change? It doesn’t come from the top down but rather from the bottom up.
I really wish pundits would spend half the time on congressional and state races as they do on the run for POTUS. Maybe cover campaigns in years not dividable by four .


Security and Privacy for Modern Networks: Strategies and Insights for Safeguarding Digital Infrastructures by Seshagirirao Lekkala & Priyanka Gurijala, 2024

This book reviews how to safeguard digital network infrastructures, emphasizing on the latest trends in #cybersecurity. It addresses the evolution of network systems, AI-driven threat detection, and defense mechanisms, while also preparing readers for future technological impacts on security.

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#books
#NetworkSecurity

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Who this book is for: IT professionals and network administrators, cybersecurity specialists and analysts, students and researchers in computer science or cybersecurity programs, corporate decision-makers and C-level executives responsible for overseeing their organizations' security posture. Also security architects and engineers designing secure network infrastructures, government and defense agency personnel tasked with protecting national and organizational cyber assets.
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Finally technology enthusiasts and hobbyists with a keen interest in cybersecurity trends and AI developments and professionals in regulatory and compliance roles requiring an understanding of cybersecurity challenges and solutions.

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The Tesla robotaxi sounds small.

Bloomberg reports that the soon-to-be-unveiled purpose-built driverless vehicle will have “two front seats and two doors that open upward like butterfly wings,” citing sources familiar. That would square with the concept art we saw in Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk biography. Tesla could also announce an autonomous van, and Full Self-Driving capabilities for its Semi trucks.

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"Inside the Pager Kill Program"

New details emerge of Israel’s elaborate plan to sabotage Hezbollah communications devices to kill or maim thousands of its operatives

The idea for the pager operation originated in 2022 and began falling into place more than a year before Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack that put the region on... Click link to read.

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Exactly six years ago this week, Susan Collins was impressed with the FBI's background check into Brett Kavanaugh. "It appears to be a very thorough investigation," the Republican said.

Yeah, about that... msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/m…

in reply to Steve Benen

This is Susan "Trump has learned his lesson" Collins we're talking about here, right?


Europe was a leader on saving nature. Now, its backsliding could threaten global progress - theguardian.com/environment/20… "Once a champion of initiatives to protect nature, the EU is now giving in to pressure from farmers and the far right" giving in to bullies is just pathetic
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Connected car failure puts kibosh on sale of 3,300 Fisker Oceans

Fisker waited until Friday evening to tell the buyer about the problem.

arstechnica.com/cars/2024/10/c…

in reply to Ars Technica

Connected cars is as if Mr. Levi would have his hands on your balls whenever you put the Levi`s on. And squeeze in all the wrong moments.


Peter Pappert: "Die Amerikaner stellten im Herbst 1944 in #Aachen fest, was sich später überall in den Besatzungszonen offenbarte: Die Besiegten und Befreiten sahen sich vor allem als Opfer des Krieges und kaum als Angehörige des Tätervolkes."

👉 aachener-zeitung.de/lokales/re… (+)

in reply to Michael Klarmann

"Etliche tausend Aachener wurden nach der Eroberung ihrer Stadt intensiv verhört – unter anderem von dem US-Historiker und gebürtigen Wiener Saul K. Padover, der Mitglied der Abteilung für Psychologische Kriegsführung beim US-Militär war.
Schwabe und Henke haben nach Archiv-Recherchen in Washington Berichte über verschiedene dieser Verhöre in mehreren Publikationen zusammengefasst.

Daraus ergibt sich „ein Bild hochgradiger politischer Unreife“ (Schwabe).

Demnach konnten sich manche Aachener gar nicht daran erinnern, noch zwölf Jahre zuvor an freien Wahlen teilgenommen zu haben.

Man sei immer unpolitisch und sowieso katholisch gewesen, habe keine Beziehung zur NSDAP.

Nur ein einziger habe sich als Nationalsozialist bekannt."

Mit dem US-Militär und Oppenhoff in die Aachener Nachkriegszeit | Aachener Zeitung

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