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I’m speaking at the EVN Media Festival in Yerevan, Armenia next month! It’ll be my first time in Armenia, recommendations for what to see, do, and eat are all welcome.
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I had no idea that the history of Soviet-born Tetris was so complicated.
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This article in the Columbia Journalism Review looks at how technology (i.e. AI) is transforming the work of visual investigations. As one Washington Post reporter put it: “I’m less concerned about having to prove to people that something is synthetic. What I’m more concerned about is how we prove to people that something is real.”
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A Saudi national has been charged with secretly planting a recording device in one of OpenAI’s offices in California. There are a lot of unanswered questions still, though Scott Stedman shared thoughts on potential links to Saudi intelligence. In 2014 - 2015, Saudi nationals stole data from Twitter in order to unmask anonymous dissidents. My account was targeted.