**The Struggle is Real: Life with a Smart Washing Machine**

We've all had those moments where we just want to do our laundry and forget about the world outside. But for some people, that's not an option anymore thanks to smart washing machines. These machines can be connected to the internet, which means they need regular updates to stay functional. And it seems like these updates are becoming more frequent by the day.

I recently tried to download an update for my own smart washing machine, but I couldn't help but wonder why I needed one in the first place. "Why do we need a washing machine that needs to be connected to the internet?" I thought to myself. Can't we just use good old-fashioned relays and switches like our grandparents used to? But it turns out that smart washing machines are actually quite useful, especially when it comes to managing different types of loads.

For example, my friend has a heavily soiled pair of boots that she wants to wash. She can download special apps through her phone's connected washing machine, which will guide the machine on how to properly clean the boots. It's like having a personal laundry butler at your fingertips. And it seems like these machines are becoming more and more programmable, making them even more useful.

But sometimes, it feels like we're just trading one problem for another. Take Google, for example. The company has promised to delete location data on abortion clinic visits, but they claim that it would be too much work to find the data that they need to delete. Meanwhile, a study says that Google collects so much data that it's almost impossible to find what they want to use. It's like trying to find a needle in a haystack.

And then there's the issue of geofence warrants. This is where law enforcement can get access to location data from websites and apps, essentially tracking down anyone who was in a certain location at a certain time. It's like having a digital version of a "most wanted" list. And it seems like Google itself is complicit in this, using its tracking pixels to follow users around even when they're trying to browse privately.

**The Dark Side of Reddit**

But while the internet can be a useful tool for finding information and connecting with others, there's also a dark side to online communities like Reddit. Take the case of movie studios looking for information on piracy discussions on Reddit. It seems that these studios are using Reddit as a way to track down users who are discussing pirated content.

This is not the first time we've seen this kind of thing happen. In fact, Reddit has already won one case against a group of users who were accused of piracy. But it's clear that there are still plenty of people out there who are looking for ways to avoid detection. And sometimes, it feels like they're winning.

**The Battle Between Tech Giants**

Meanwhile, in the world of tech giants, things are getting more and more intense. Take the latest development between Reddit and movie studios. It seems that a group of Ukrainian hackers has launched a cyber attack on Moscow's ISP, taking down their service as a form of revenge for some perceived wrongs.

It's not clear what exactly was at stake in this particular case, but it's clear that the stakes are getting higher and higher all the time. Whether it's smart washing machines or high-stakes cyber attacks, it seems like the world of tech is becoming more and more complicated by the day.

**The Rise of Large Language Models**

But amidst all the chaos, there's one thing that stands out: large language models. These are AI systems that can be trained on vast amounts of data and then used to answer questions or complete tasks. And they're getting more and more sophisticated by the minute.

I recently tried to use a large language model to find some obscure episodes of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia". But unfortunately, the machine couldn't find them. It seems like piracy is still a problem for these models, even with all their advanced algorithms.

And then there's the issue of cybersecurity. With all the threats out there, it's hard to know who to trust or what information is safe. Even Reddit, which we thought was above reproach, has been caught up in some shady dealings lately.

**The Russia-Ukraine Conflict**

Finally, there's the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. This has been a major news story for weeks now, with both sides trading blows and neither side seeming to gain an advantage. It's like something out of a bad movie, but it feels all too real.

And in the midst of all this chaos, there's one thing that stands out: the role of cybersecurity in the conflict. Ukrainian hackers have launched several major attacks on Russian targets, including some pretty high-profile ones. And it seems like they're getting more and more skilled by the day.

But even with all these advances, it's hard to know who's really winning. It feels like everyone is just trying to outdo each other in a game of cat and mouse. And sometimes, it feels like we're just along for the ride.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enHello everybody welcome back to the L1 Show links with friends today is January 23rd it's almost the end of the month and we're doing government insecurity stories to start the week no bingo card this week I didn't mess up any of that oh I'm sure I didn't say the wrong word I didn't say the wrong date I didn't say the wrong category it's been a hectic day yeah it's been very snowy it's impressive that you got it after all that we have a big Story coming out of the Supreme Court not because of what they did because of what they didn't the US Supreme Court has snubbed Apple mostly and the Apple epic games battle legal battle actually both epic and apple appealed Apple won a nine of the 10 counts that wasn't good enough for them epic one on one of the 10 counts epic is suffering and the US Supreme Court says no we're going to let it stand they were both pissed they both press released and was like we hate this we're both pissed we're going to talk a lot a lot more about the aspects of that in the business section tomorrow um a lot of Apple news so be sure to check that out but oh boy it is uh it is it's just oh it's frustrating and a lot of that comes from Apple now they're going to have to do something about this and like you said we'll talk more about it but it's a weird time for them to fight that because they also know that on the horizon there's this the US to face a or the apple is g to face a US antitrust lawsuit as soon as March uh Apple Shrugged off this epic lawsuit which I thought brought up valid capitalistic complaints I can't imagine that apple is going to shrug this off because they're they're going to be facing the incompetent US Government so this is just going to be all for show right look we did something about it and you're going to get a lot of testimony that's going to happen there where they're going to drag out all the nasty stuff that Apple's done over the years and all the stuff they continue to do that's anti-consumer and anti-worker and yet they just can't help themselves move to Texas or else Apple sends some California employees a clear message and that message is move to Texas or else most of the team working on Siri it's like hey we're moving Siri's headquarters to Austin it's like but but I always worked in San Diego for series like well guess what you got to move or don't have a job and in fact I told them hey we're going to move you to a different building in San Francisco and everybody was like all right cool I guess you know I can do that and then now I was like no we're not doing that anymore yeah that would suck Apple really is just like pray I've altered the deal pray do not alter it any further I don't know why I put that in the government section this no the one before Oh I don't know cuz something something California there is a California didn't make that decision no no this the employment lawsuit like there's going to be oh and I would say San Francisco is probably responsible for those uh the real estate collapse and all the madness the poop on the streets and so forth so yeah maybe we could squeeze that in there but this one's definitely a government story because the government and Congress in particular is banging their fist on the table and saying we want the moon and we want it now the the headline is the US must beat China back to the Moon Congress tells NASA and that sounds like an amazing headline and then you dig into it and NASA's like well you've given us a163 and some used chewing gum I don't know what you expect NASA's done more with less and they're like Ela mus goes He launches every day with that the you don't understand all the regulations we have to comply with and all the safety and we have to do everything to the inth degree our robots aren't allowed to kill people uh the other big thing in here if you read between the lines are actually not even between the lines that much is the reason they want to beat China back to the Moon is because they want to be the first to the Moon to establish like some bases and B basically land grabbing the moon I think is what they have in mind I was hoping it'd be more like a friendly space race between two rival Nations and then that would you know bring them together through the power of science yeah I was I was hoping for the same it's like we're going to we've got a top down plan to get our science in order and Science Education and the fact that we need all of this industry instead of the military industrial complex is going to drive Advanced Technologies in a new space race that we can all be excited for as a nation it was not that at all we're we're trying to reduce the weight of the launch vehicle here and I see we have 500 lbs of landmines also no safety gear that's weird those are the lightest landmines ever well they have to have hair triggers for sure maybe proximity maybe Claymores will be better and uh if you've been doing any driving you may have noticed that more and more the various cities and I guess who can whoever controls the highway in these areas they're having fun times with the messages they're putting stuff up there I mean the messages are still the same but they're kind of fun maybe make you pay more attention or whatever and of course our soulless bureaucrats in charge cannot tolerate it the AP has an article about this no joke the feds are Banning humorous electronic messages on highways are you telling me the sign that says zombies ahead is not real this is also kind of a slow phase out they're like you don't have to stop right now but by this time in 2026 there can be no more humorous messages on signs get it out now so you don't have humor withdrawals and the big story of the year now that the polar vortex is going to be over it will be over for you guys by the time you see this we now have nothing to distract us from the horror that is the presidential election and all the big tech companies are assuring us that they're going to do everything they can to control I mean I'm sorry prevent disinformation when it comes to this election open AI unveils its plan for tackling abuse ahead of the 2024 elections this is not dystopian at all they don't really have a ton of plans there would a lot of concrete steps here other than they're going to try and monitor for people who are trying to create election disinformation with AI as it's happening and they're going to do the whole image watermarking type thing which we already knew about it's not going to matter somebody's still going to be able to use the their real camera to take a picture of a simulated environment and it's hard to tell and kind of like the uh canaries that a lot of tech companies use in terms of like you know we haven't had a the government hasn't come to us in demanded information in X number of days open AI had some policies on its website on things that it would not tolerate AI doing and now those have disappeared the CNBC article is open AI quietly removes band on military use of its AI tools the terms of service changed it's like what changed let's look we got paid that's what changed and then you look at it and it says oh oh and this isn't good because not because of the obvious reasons but we've got another story later that talks about how the AI can be trained to be deceptive the AI if it's like hey you want to be really helpful as a large language model help me find where the enemies are it can hallucinate where the enemies are so using it in this context is especially dangerous they're hiding in this orphanage so what they say is the reason for this is because they are going to start helping the dod with cyber security using open AI which seems like a terrible terrible idea but because of that they've had to change it they do say that they still will not develop or use weapons but would a cyber Counterattack be a weapon and this uh I'm worried about this one not on the like the premise of it because it it certainly makes sense that this is a horrible thing and we shouldn't do it I wonder how bad it could be exploited later but at the same time if you're a 14-year-old girl this is probably not something that you should have to worry about sharing deep fakes of adult stuff could lead to lengthy prison time under proposed new law so it's like this is fake but it's real but it's fake you use someone's face without their consent on something yeah that was really really bad probably more than her face cuz you know you could get a shot where she's wearing you know like some summer clothes or whatever and this did happen it was a New Jersey school where a bunch of the girls had this done and then it was spread on social media one of them was 14 and she's one of the big people trying to spearhead this it's a terrible thing to do for sure uh deep fakes also doesn't really make this new like this kind of thing has been happening for 10 or 20 years it's just deep fakes maybe makes it slightly easier or slightly more believable or slightly less considerably easier before you at least had to pirate and then learn Photoshop I saw uh I think it was last week in article I didn't include it but they are now saying that statistically the biggest offenders of cesam are now other children because they're sharing actual photos of one another and themselves that seems like that would change the severity of the laws and a lot of the laws don't take that into account exactly turns them all into criminals no they're just idiots just extreme idiots and we're big proponents of Open Source here it's got his ups and downs one of the big Downs is that the major corporations can just pick it up and use it and then not play by the rules what are you going to do sue them well guess what their legal department is never going to even be worried about you they will crush you uh I love I love this story because there's there's hope uh this is a new judicial ruling in the Vio lawsuit to strengthen the GPL so in California this was um basically Vizio has been violating the GPL and it's just okay who's going to bring the lawsuit for that and so this is a ruling that says hey there's an aspect of the GPL it's not copyright but it's actually a contract and we should treat this as a contract enforcement action under the law because that'll be easier for people to um get enforcement of the GPL and that legal strategy is actually working in California so this could be a new tool to get GPL compliance out of companies that flagrantly violate it like Vio and also they're probably coming for you ubiquity this guy the rule is if you use open source software you have to to give somebody whoever demands it a copy of that software if you buy a Vio TV I could request it because you are you know the product has the software in it so you should be able to get a copy of it they can't just protect that they said no or basically just ignored him and so now it's going to have to go through the courts to see if he can compel that from them but but the judge was very uh Pro little guy in this which is nice here is another judge who hopefully is also Pro guy guy because if you recall a lot of this facial recognition training data came from your social media posts did you consent to that well the Texans want some answers from Mr Zuckerberg met CEO Mark Zuckerberg may be headed to Texas over legal woses the judge says yeah he can be deposed here bring him here he'll have to leave his Hawaiian bunker oh it's a fancy what inconvenience for someone with millions of dollars well you know while he's out he's going to be buying a couple billion dollars worth of Nvidia G pus oh I forgot to add that one I saw it this morning and apple they have lost in Europe and they've lost in a big way and a lot of people predicted that if they were to lose they would simply have two different worlds one in the EU that complies and one in the rest of the world that doesn't comply seems like that's what they're going to do Apple Store to be split in two ahead of EU iPhone side loading deadline basically the EU has said the iPhone is basically a computer people ought to be able to load whatever on it and so apple is gearing up to split the App Store in two to split the world into two and treat their devices differently does this mean they're not the mother well uh this is yeah is that a Solomon J the uh what is it Norway I think Norway there's some of these rules are already in place in Norway we'll talk a little bit more about it in the business section because that's what Apple uses as a template for their epic lawsuit here in the US all these things sort of overlap and it really is amazing how sociopathic apple is in their response to these kinds of things didn't we establish that Norway is not in the if they're in the economic Union but not the government Union yeah something like that or was that Netherlands engagement challenge lots of Engagement engage let us know below apple is not the only one that is feeling the brunt of those EU policies and they shouldn't be let's be fair but their biggest competitor will also be dealing with this problem Rogers has a pretty good write up Google to tweak search results to comply with EU Tech rules this mainly has to do with comparison sites right like I got I thought this was going to be a more comprehensive ruling but this seems like a really minor tweak I think the idea is when you search for something and you see the sidebar which is all of Google's coverage of that then they feel like that's an advantage over another side who's offering the same service service who gets buried by the SEO so now they're going to try to feature more third party content in that so there's probably going to be another section up at the top before you get to actual search results worse and the uh oh the building's collapsing the UK had a big problem with their post office with their internal employees they decided to let some software just run the show just bureaucratic software was completely in charge shockingly it made terrible mistakes but it turns out that they have enshrined in their laws some insane rules the guardian has a headline update law on computer evidence to avoid Horizon repeat ministers urged so it it like all of this we just said sounds like word salad what actually happened here is the postmasters in these regions had been accused of stealing and not even large amounts of money it's just that well actually a couple of times it was large amounts of money but usually not it just their cash accounting would be off a couple of hundred dollars and most of the postmasters it turned out would just pay they're just like I don't want to go through the headache of this just pay some of them were fired some of them are in jail I think it was pretty severe punishment for the people that stood their ground and said no this has got to be some kind of a mistake a decade later yeah it turns out it was actually a mistake holy crap but the law says that we can trust evidence forensic evidence that's been pulled from computers because that's going to be accurate but in the world of modern AI they can hallucinate this wasn't even AI this was just bad software yeah there could just be any sort of bug that could cause a problem like it should be audited right so if you can have bugs that are this bad imagine layering on AI on top of that what a crazy law though because you remember the first year of computer science when we did the ethics class and they were like yeah here's the radiation machine that cooked people here's the one that stole money by accident here's the elevator that decapitated people yeah we went through all of these things all the work they had to do to fix like just dates flipping over like so no one in the UK leadership has ever had that training I suppose the EU or just falling down a YouTube rabbit hole where you watch the one about the radiation you're like oh no maybe that should be required for being a lawmaker there's going to be a new entry in those ethics textbooks is like oh the postmasters were put in jail because of buggy software and the EU is also fighting for the artists and to be fair this sounds like they are kind of going for the little guys and maybe not just Taylor Swift is probably a good thing music streaming platforms must pay artists more say the EU um we're on an inevitable trajectory where the platforms on which content are distributed are normalized in terms of their cost to operation whether that's apps or copyrighted material which are also apps kind of so they want the stuff that makes the most money for them and that means the algorithm and that means the other people get buried but then they gain that system to make even more money by saying to the little guys who can't get discovered hey you want to get discovered well if we didn't have to pay you these pesky royalties we' give you free entry into the algorithm and some people are like okay I guess that sounds like YouTube offering creators to promote their stuff to the audience for money that's weird and then still just show you the same every time I'm on a twitch stream it's like oh I watched this YouTube video this week it was really interesting everybody's like yeah I saw that too we're all in the same algorithm no moving over to India they are also quite concerned about the Deep fakes in this case though they're more concerned about politics India puts Tech firms on notice over deep fakes in action you know I read I always read this and I read it's easier Maybe in the lens of somewhere else and so like the worry in India is the Deep fakes are now so accessible and so easy that people would see that and freak out and they have in the past that wasn't there there was an election in a rural Village and it was a case of mistaken identity and there was a mob and some people got killed I think that was simply that wasn't even AI that was just simply social media post saying somebody was a witch or something yeah so I get why they're really worried about this but then I also think about uh Orson Wells remember the War of the Worlds like people were freaking out that that was real that was a real radio broadcast somebody is going to do that somebody like a modern Orson Wells is going to do that with tons of deep fakes and tons of stuff what was the thing everyone in our twitch chat was talking about like a week ago where it was like the monster at the mall in Miami the aliens yeah there was like an alien at the and I was like no was funny that was a weird situation we didn't get any information about it and China uh we've learned that huawei's recent success was not because they fabricated some new Chips rapidly and they actually just had some or they got some in a nefarious way turns out the reality is much darker China's chip Imports fell by record 15% due to us sanctions and a globally weaker demand that is the headline that uh Tom's Hardware chose but this is part of a larger Global Trend analysts dumped reports from the Q4 numbers and 2023 was the most amazing winter ever uh for um PC sales and component sales and and everything like that now really is the winter of our discontent in terms of semiconductor sales but one big player is saying don't count China out just yet Qualcomm CEO leading Tech requires big business in China yeah pretty much all business requires big business in China pretty much anything that is state-of-the-art is a global operation it requires everybody from all around the globe to cooperate but those factories are shutting down rapidly I think that's going to have some kind of knock on effect I don't know what it's going to be and apparently uh not getting the memo from the UK Papa New Guinea also decided to let software run everything and disaster the registers headline is a technical glitch quote unquote in payroll software Sparks riots and Popa New Guinea anytime somebody says technical glitch like this I get the office space it's like oh we just we fixed the glitch in this case people were shorted about $500 US on their paycheck which is a lot of money for Papa New Guinea it was $100 but that was like half their paycheck yeah yeah half their paycheck it was a lot of money for them and uh they uh some people died because they thought it was a new tax or something you know they always say that were five meals between society and Anarchy these guys didn't even wait for the five meals they were like $100 and they started burning stuff and the police were the first ones to strike so there was no police to stop the riders in Rural America with inflation it really does feel like it's getting like that yeah I mean just being in line at the grocery store people are uh unhappy the grocery store was apparently I didn't go with my husband last night but it was like right before snowstorm and he said there was nothing there and they closed early too wow I tried to get my mom a case of water on like Monday and they didn't have any well Australia is also like every other country trying to get their arms around this AI problem they are not trying that hard though Australia to create an advisory body to tackle the risks of AI sounds like those people on The Advisory body are going to get free money for not doing anything bried and as is always the case with these articles when you get to the last paragraph non-enforceable and voluntary yeah that's all you needed to know there's literally nothing else of value in this article it's just like can I be on a committee like that will somebody give me money to not do anything that sounds amazing hell they can just write the the fluff text using Ai and then just go home they don't even have to write it the danger of AI it might take my job don't tell anybody all right we're got to time this correctly you ready yep a VW millions of Apple AMD and qualcom gpus could expose AI data okay oh you even like kind of stretched it out there and you still got it before the popup see this is a nothing Burger this is mostly a nothing Burger this is just a gentle reminder to computer scientists that hey when you load stuff in GPU memory the GPU doesn't clear the memory when you're done with it if you're running multiple jobs in parallel all those jobs can access GPU memory because guess what gpus weren't built for multi-user multi-purpose compute not really and uh they point out that they were able to pull enough stuff off the GPU to reconstruct someone asking an AI for like their entire prompt and the answer but you have to already be so deep into the system at that point that like why are you it's like I have a cold but sir you've also been shot five times like we don't need to worry about this you're already compromised everything is already too far gone you can put polonium on your bullets and then somebody will have a real problem and it's like wait wait a minute but it was a head shot and the Myriad of ways that are phones track US uh you think you know all of them but they just keep coming up with new ones your tablet's light sensor can spy on you so your light sensor is accessible to JavaScript and it's generally not considered high security the light sensor just Returns illuminance value it's one pixel but that's enough to figure out a TV program that you're watching or to know what kind of an environment that you're in or maybe learn some other details about your stuff here they were able to get a very vague sense of where your hand was on the screen which just how often you're pawing at it yeah basically again kind of not worried about this one I suppose when you're punching in your uh passcode they can maybe eventually get that it also takes a long time to get enough data to probably better ways to compromise someone you can use your nose just bash it against your face there's a kind of a nothing Burger as well I don't know maybe J Morgan felt like they needed a headline this week but if you run any kind of web server the numbers that they're throwing out here aren't that crazy because it really never stops yeah JP Morgan Chase says that hacking attempts are increasing CNN didn't lead with the big number what was the number like 54 billion I think they're just worried that they haven't invested enough in security and they're going to point back to this and say look it's fine 15 billion dollars no that was dollars but the most of the headlines were talking about the number of attempts that to hack them there was and I'm guessing that they're counting every attempt to visit SL WP admin yeah likely but that would be a juicy Target and The Internet of Things has always been we've always warned about the internet of things and a lot of people might think that that was hyperbolic and it's not really that big a deal well how about this your washing machine could be sending 3.7 gabt of data a day an LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive ongoing daily data traffic this was probably a malfunctioning washing machine trying to download an update but why why does this even need to be connected to the internet why does your washing machine need an update we can just do that with relays and switches you don't even need a transistor I'm trying to imagine what they would add to make it so actually I looked into this it's for the connected phone app the phone app has like special washing machine programs for certain things like oh you have a heavily soiled pair of boots or something like that you throw in the washing so and they have all these different and you can download new apps and stuff so the washing machine has to update it's programmable it's yeah I'm just kid it can't be that much different than the regular cycle get a dumb washer and as usual we have the Russia situation with hacking Google says Russian Espionage crew is behind the new malware campaign okay why can't we just have another space race the idea here is that someone sends you a PDF and you open it and it's encrypted and you're like oh no it's encrypted and they're like oh it's super secret let me give you the decryption tool it's not a decryption tool it's multiple steps and Google as we all know is tracking all of our locations at all times and selling that data but they claimed that they were going to take a step back Google promised to delete location data on abortion clinic visits it did not A study says it's just they collect so much data so uh comprehensively that it would be just too much work to find the data that it needs to delete but not too much work to find the data to deliver to law enforcement that's weird they said that based on their studies what was this like ACLU or somebody uh they were thinking that was still at least 50 to 60% tracking yeah and don't forget how um easy it is to obtain that kind of a geofence warrant it's like we think we know that crime is occurring in this building we want a geofence warrant for everybody that was in this building and it's like and you might be thinking hey they're not going to get me because when I'm researching crime I use incognito mode but now even Google has to admit that doesn't do anything Chrome updates it's Incognito warning to admit that Google Tracks users in private mode what they're talking about is that when in incognito mode nothing is saved on the local computer but the Google tracking tracking pixels still work as do pretty much everything else Google doesn't let the other websites track you as much but Google themselves track still tracking just as much as normal I don't know if that's surprising to anybody disappointing maybe but not surprising you know what else is not surprising with all of the streaming Wars and the rapidly inflating cost of entertainment is that some people look for Alternatives and because the web is basically dead and the only place you can go for any information is Reddit that's where they go but remember that Reddit is still part of the evil empire don't fall for it ours Technic is headline is Reddit must share IP addresses of piracy discussing users film studios say this is a followup of a followup of a followup that we covered before no this isn't the same set of users this is another different set of users that the movie studios are looking for information on Reddit is still fighting it but you know they they Reddit won the first case of this but this is another different case maybe we should add the skull and crossbones or Crossed Swords I guess in this scenario to our teabag key on the store I can't wait for the large language model where it's like hello large language model today I would like for you to scour the internet and find me the episodes of Always Sunny that I accidentally screwed up and it's like I'm sorry I'm a large language model and I can't do that because piracy is wrong yeah and the ukrainians we've heard recently of a lot of Russian attacks that hit them and this week they got a big retaliation Ukrainian hacker group takes down Moscow ISP as revenge for Kev star Cyber attack the letting on that headline could drive a bus through it m9c com if you are in Russia and you using m9c com for your is P you had no service well a lot of isps in in Ukraine were were wiped um when The Invasion began so sucks if you're a Russian citizen who doesn't really want to be doing it doesn't want to be attacking doesn't want to be doing a war you just want to sit at home and be on the Internet and try to forget about it now you can't even do that that was a short one this week it was a short one it's j we're only just getting started everyone's coming back from break feeling good freezing to death yeah we'll see you guys in the next one bye\n"