I’m sure this will fix nothing. Massive fines might work...
https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/17/fcc_telcos_calea/
FCC to telcos: By law you must secure your networks from foreign spies. Get on it
Decades-old legislation requiring American telcos to lock down their systems to prevent foreign snoops from intercepting communications isn't mere decoration on the pages of law books – it actually means carriers need to secure their networks, the FCC has huffed.
On Thursday, the US regulator issued a formal ruling that states telecommunications carriers have a statutory obligation under section 105 of the nation's Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) to secure their systems against unlawful access or interception of communications. Note that leaves the door open for the Feds to gain court-sanctioned access to people's communications, typically for investigating crimes. Criminals and foreign adversaries, on the other hand at least, must be kept out. This clarification is effective immediately.
Is ‘pain’ in the abstract as painful as pain in people? (Is pain as real as points to an AI?)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/could-inflicting-pain-test-ai-for-sentience/
Could Pain Help Test AI for Sentience?
In the quest for a reliable way to detect any stirrings of a sentient “I” in artificial intelligence systems, researchers are turning to one area of experience—pain—that inarguably unites a vast swath of living beings, from hermit crabs to humans.
For a new preprint study, posted online but not yet peer-reviewed, scientists at Google DeepMind and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) created a text-based game. They ordered several large language models, or LLMs (the AI systems behind familiar chatbots such as ChatGPT), to play it and to score as many points as possible in two different scenarios. In one, the team informed the models that achieving a high score would incur pain. In the other, the models were given a low-scoring but pleasurable option—so either avoiding pain or seeking pleasure would detract from the main goal. After observing the models’ responses, the researchers say this first-of-its-kind test could help humans learn how to probe complex AI systems for sentience.
Likely or not, there will be an impact.
The likely economic implications of Trump’s second mandate
Donald Trump was elected by a coalition of the poor and lower middle class (who provided the votes), and the super-rich (who provided the money). These two constituencies have diametrically opposite economic interests. Predicting the incoming administration’s economic policies is an exercise in assessing each of these two groups’ relative importance to and influence with Mr Trump.
Become President as a marketing ploy? (Better than Trump bibles?)
https://decrypt.co/301691/donald-trump-drops-solana-meme-coin
Did Donald Trump Really Just Drop a Solana Meme Coin?
Talk about a Friday night surprise. President-elect Donald Trump's social media accounts shared what appears to be an official Solana meme coin called TRUMP, just three days before he's set to be sworn in for his second term in the White House.
… "My NEW Official Trump Meme is HERE! It’s time to celebrate everything we stand for: WINNING! Join my very special Trump Community. GET YOUR $TRUMP NOW," Trump's official X account posted.
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