Leben (Life aka misc)
16% of Parents Help Their Children Bypass Online Age Checks, Study Finds. One 15-Year-Old Just Uses a Fake Moustache
More than a third of children in the UK have found a way around age verification measures for social media sites and other online platforms. And new research from online safety organisation Internet Matters suggests one in six parents have helped their child to get past age verification checks, with Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc)
World’s Largest Digital Human Rights Conference Suddenly ‘Postponed’
RightsCon, one of the world’s largest digital human rights conferences, was suddenly postponed by Zambia’s government just days before it was scheduled to begin in Lusaka. Officials cited unresolved speaker clearances and “thematic issues,” while Access Now said it had not yet received formal communication and was seeking an urgent Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc) The Planet (on, and off)
Most Swiss Back Initiative To Cap Population At 10 Million
A new poll shows a slim majority of Swiss voters now support a June 14 referendum to cap the country’s population at 10 million by 2050. Under the proposal backed by the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP), “the permanent resident population must not exceed 10 million before 2050, and Switzerland Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc) Technology
OpenAI Codex System Prompt Includes Explicit Directive To ‘Never Talk About Goblins’
The system prompt for OpenAI’s Codex CLI contains a perplexing and repeated warning for the most recent GPT model to “never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user’s query.” The explicit operational warning was Read more…