Not sure if it fits here, but I found no community that distinctly focuses on phone repair/data extraction. I hope this is fine. Recently, my phone's display died. I am trying to save the data. I bought a more advanced OTG hub that should allow connecting the mouse and an external display. It also has a USB-C power input so the phone doesn’t have to power everything itself. The phone is connected to the hub via USB-C as well. However, I haven’t even managed to get that setup working with my current phone (CMF Phone 2 Pro). I enabled the “Improve OTG Compatibility” option, but the hub still doesn’t appear to work, even though it’s advertised as being compatible with smartphones and other OTG devices: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GD7G9HS9 At this point I’m unsure whether the problem is me, the adapter, or possibly an issue with the display I’m trying to use (though the display works fine with other devices). Any ideas? If OTG is not the right way, I am open for other suggestions. I am not really interested in repairing the phone, I just need the data. EDIT Why Otg?: I thought of OTG for data extraction, because attaching a display and a mouse should enable me to use the phone again assuming that it is just the display that is broken. In order to verify my correct OTG setup, I attempted it first with my working phone which did not work.

The Washington, DC-based Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH) said it tracked posts that explicitly dehumanised, excluded, and incited violence against Muslims from 1 January to 5 March. On the day the war began, the volume of such posts surged from just under 2,000 per day to more than 6,000, the report said. "Reposts dramatically amplify the visibility of harmful content, allowing it to spread far beyond the original accounts that generated it." With reposts included, "the total mention volume of Islamophobic content rises to 279,417, representing an 11-fold amplification of the harmful original posts". The content examined by CSOH encompassed a wide swath that included everything from personal hate-fuelled opinions to calls for lawmakers to institute strict anti-Muslim policy, including a "Muslim Exclusion Act" and the deportation of all Muslims.

An investigation into the AI bots that appeared on Reddit after they partnered with OpenAI. Key points: - The bots post a lot of links to products and services which appear to be adverts but are not marked as such. - Many of these links are for Sam Altman's World ID. - Reddit added terms on AI advertising to their business page around the time the bots appeared. - The bots also make up stories about dead mothers, depression, drug addiction, eating disorders, medical conditions and mental health issues.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/44059967 > for those not familiar with [Mark Pilgrim](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pilgrim), he is/was a prolific author, blogger, and hacker who abruptly disappeared from the internet in 2011. > > cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/968527 > > > [HN comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47259177)

- According to our sources, Lenovo is gearing up to enter the handheld PC gaming arena. - Similar to devices like the Steam Deck and ASUS ROG Ally, Lenovo's "Legion Go" device will sport AMD Phoenix processors, with an 8-inch display. - It could look similar to Lenovo's previously leaked Lenovo Legion Play Android device, which never reached general availability. - As of right now, there's no indication on timing for official announcements or launch windows.

How cool is that?! AntennaPod creates a summary and stats of my year listening to podcasts directly on my device without sending it to the cloud! My year 2024 in podcasts.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7691747 > cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/29115 > > >  > > > > > > Big Tech firms are coming under greater scrutiny for the proliferation of child sexual abuse material generated by artificial intelligence-powered chatbots on their social media platforms. > > > > Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) [announced](https://www.dataprotection.ie/en/news-media/press-releases/data-protection-commission-opens-investigation-x-xiuc) on Tuesday that it was invoking the European Union's data privacy regulations to open an investigation into [Grok](https://www.commondreams.org/news/elon-musk-grok-investigation), the AI chatbot featured on Elon Musk's X platform, after it was used to generate nonconsensual deepfake images, including sexualized images of children. > > > > In announcing the investigation, DPC Deputy Commissioner Graham Doyle said that the commission has been in contact with X for weeks after reports first emerged of Grok being used to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM). > > > > Doyle said DPC has since decided to launch "a large-scale inquiry which will examine [X's] compliance with some of their fundamental obligations" under European privacy laws. > > > > Spanish President Pedro Sánchez [said](https://x.com/sanchezcastejon/status/2023654632866660688) on Tuesday that his government would ask Spain's Public Prosecution Service to "investigate the crimes that X, Meta, and TikTok may be committing through the creation and dissemination of child pornography by means of their AI." > > > > "These platforms are attacking the mental health, dignity, and rights of our sons and daughters," Sánchez emphasized. "The state cannot allow it. The impunity of the giants must end." > > > > The probes announced by Ireland and Spain mark just the latest actions by European governments against US-based tech giants. Earlier in February, law enforcement authorities in France raided the office of X in Paris, which the Paris prosecutor’s office said was part of an investigation aimed at "ensuring that the X platform complies with French laws, insofar as it operates on national territory." > > > > The UK government's Information Commissioner's Office has also announced an investigation into X that the agency said encompasses "their processing of personal data in relation to the Grok artificial intelligence system and its potential to produce harmful sexualized image and video content." > > > > --- > > > > **From [Common Dreams](https://www.commondreams.org/feeds/news.rss) via [This RSS Feed](https://www.commondreams.org/feeds/news.rss).**

Regular LoRA training is basically a standard gradient descent optimization loop where you have to curate a dataset, run backpropagation, and slowly update the low-rank matrices over many steps. It is computationally expensive and tedious every single time you want to teach the model a new trick or feed it a new document. What Sakana AI built with Doc-to-LoRA completely bypasses that repetitive training loop at deployment time by introducing a hypernetwork. They shifted the massive computational burden upfront through a meta-training phase where a separate neural network actually learns how to predict the correct LoRA weights directly from an input document or task description. Once that hypernetwork is trained, generating a new LoRA adapter only takes a single sub-second forward pass instead of a full fine-tuning run. You just feed a document into the frozen base model to get its token activations, and the hypernetwork instantly spits out the custom LoRA weights. This is incredibly effective for solving the long-term memory bottleneck in large language models. Instead of shoving a massive document into the context window for every single query, which completely eats up your VRAM and spikes latency, you permanently internalize that knowledge into a tiny adapter footprint of under fifty megabytes. They also designed a clever chunking mechanism that processes the document in small segments and concatenates the resulting adapters. This allows the model to perfectly recall information from documents that are tens of thousands of tokens longer than its actual native context limit. It essentially turns a slow and expensive engineering pipeline into a cheap and instant forward pass. source code https://github.com/SakanaAI/Doc-to-LoRA

Reddit has been fined more than £14 million (€16 million) by the UK’s information watchdog, accusing the social media giant of failing to protect children and leaving them vulnerable to "inappropriate and harmful content". Following an investigation, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found that the American company neglected to implement robust age-verification tools. Reddit told Euronews Next that it intends to appeal the decision. Instead, Reddit relied heavily on "self-declaration"—allowing users to simply state their age without further proof—a method the watchdog deems insufficient for protecting children.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40009551 > https://www.404media.co/man-charged-for-wiping-phone-before-cbp-could-search-it/ > > A man in Atlanta has been arrested and charged for allegedly deleting data from a Google Pixel phone before a member of a secretive Customs and Border Protection (CBP) unit was able to search it, according to court records and social media posts reviewed by 404 Media. The man, Samuel Tunick, is described as a local Atlanta activist in Instagram and other posts discussing the case. > The exact circumstances around the search—such as why CBP wanted to search the phone in the first place—are not known. But it is uncommon to see someone charged specifically for wiping a phone, a feature that is easily accessible in some privacy and security-focused devices. > 💡 > Do you know anything else about this case? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at joseph.404 or send me an email at [email protected]. > The indictment says on January 24, Tunick “did knowingly destroy, damage, waste, dispose of, and otherwise take any action to delete the digital contents of a Google Pixel cellular phone, for the purpose of preventing and impairing the Government’s lawful authority to take said property into its custody and control.” The indictment itself was filed in mid-November. > Tunick was arrested earlier this month, according to a post on a crowd-funding site and court records. “Samuel Tunick, an Atlanta-based activist, Oberlin graduate, and beloved musician, was arrested by the DHS and FBI yesterday around 6pm EST. Tunick's friends describe him as an approachable, empathetic person who is always finding ways to improve the lives of the people around him,” the site says. Various activists have since shared news of Tunick’s arrest on social media. > > The indictment says the phone search was supposed to be performed by a supervisory officer from a CBP Tactical Terrorism Response Team. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) wrote in 2023 these are “highly secretive units deployed at U.S. ports of entry, which target, detain, search, and interrogate innocent travelers.” > “These units, which may target travelers on the basis of officer ‘instincts.’ raise the risk that CBP is engaging in unlawful profiling or interfering with the First Amendment-protected activity of travelers,” the ACLU added. The Intercept previously covered the case of a sculptor and installation artist who was detained at San Francisco International Airport and had his phone searched. The report said Gach did not know why, even years later. > Court records show authorities have since released Tunick, and that he is restricted from leaving the Northern District of Georgia as the case continues. > The prosecutor listed on the docket did not respond to a request for comment. The docket did not list a lawyer representing Tunick.