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And we think AI can take over lower level programmers jobs? Just search for the SHA hash for the "rogue" sound file and delete it. -
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Meta will use AI to summarize your WhatsApp messages by David Uzondu Recently, Meta announced that ads are coming to WhatsApp, appearing in Status and Channels. Now, another update is on its way, this time in the form of a new feature called "Message Summaries", that leverages Meta's AI to summarize your chats for you. For those moments when you are drowning in unread messages, you can choose to have the AI generate a quick summary to get the gist of a conversation. To address the immediate privacy alarms this sets off, Meta says that its "Private Processing technology" will be used. This supposedly ensures that neither Meta nor WhatsApp can see your original messages or the private summaries the AI generates. To prove its sincerity, Meta published a deep technical white paper that explains how this privacy is supposed to be maintained. In the technical documentation, Meta explains the way it works is built on "Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs)". These TEEs are essentially secure, isolated black boxes running on a server, powered by hardware like NVIDIA H100 GPUs. Your phone establishes a direct, encrypted connection to one of these TEEs, sends the message data for processing, and receives the summary. Meta's own administrators and other systems supposedly cannot peek inside this box. And when the job is done, no message is retained. The security of the entire system hinges on being able to trust that this TEE is what it claims to be. Meta's system uses a process called remote attestation. Before your phone sends any data, it demands proof from the server. This proof is a cryptographic report, signed by the hardware itself, verifying that the TEE is running the exact, unmodified software that Meta has publicly logged with a third party like Cloudflare. Only if that proof checks out does the connection proceed. Users will have control over this process. The feature is off by default, and a setting under "Advanced Chat Privacy" will let you specify which chats can be shared for AI features. Message Summaries is currently rolling out in English for users in the US, with Meta planning for a global expansion sometime next year. -
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By bikeman25 · Posted
Well I tried New Outlook a bit in the past, But was concerned on the privacy aspect with Gmail Imap and Comcast.net email going to Microsoft Servers. I've been using Outlook Classic since 1997 on my Personal systems, so for now think will stick with that, but i could get used to New Outlook i think fairly quickly if i forced to in the future. Anyhow who knows maybe it will be as good as Outlook Classic in the future, never know
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I've been searching the internet for a while trying to find out how this is possible. My friend was programming in C++ and somehow messed with pointers or something like that.
Some of the stuff that happened after she ran her program (it was a programming project)
All her keys were randomized, some spouted the ABCs, some spouted out the less often used characters
Her computer immediately started overheating. Her computer literally started smoking within 5 minutes i believe.
My question is, how is it possible for a program to physically destroy a computer. Aren't the controls for the cooling fan, etc. protected or just plain simply built right into the motherboard or BIOS?
Thanks
P.S. I never managed to get a copy of the program from my friend seeing as how they're computer got destroyed.
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