Triller has lost its mind: “Triller will pursue the full $150,000 penalty per person per instance for anyone who doesn't do the right thing and pay before the deadline” reut.rs/3b2bvCy
“Triller filed legal action on April 23 in U.S. District Court of Central California against the owners of the H3Podcast website for piracy of the event, and a dozen other sites that restreamed and profited from as many as hundreds of thousands of users each”
Triller has secured itself as a dead meme of an app. The ‘rebroadcast’ angle is a clear cut example of acceptable fair use. They’re targeting the YouTube couple that literally represents the landmark fair use ruling of Hosseinzadeh v. Klein
It is particularly interesting that Triller is targeting Ethan Klein because Jake Paul is an investor — and Klein has dedicated two multi-hour podcasts to covering Team 10 and the Justine Paradise assault allegations, including interviewing @TaylorLorenztechcrunch.com/2021/03/29/jak…
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I slept through the opench.aix.uy drama, but the synopsis of this — and someone can correct me if I miss anything — is that ai-eks used their Clubhouse user token and had a bot join every room, collect the Agora tokens, and plug them into a browser client.
This technical breakdown shows how Clubhouse works. It's a scrappy startup, & there are 3 legs. Clubhouse has their own API for user management. It relies on Agora for RTC audio streams. And less spoken is that the room interactions flow over PubNub events theori.io/research/korea…
Unless I missed something, Clubhouse conversations weren't being recorded by the opench.aix.uy experiments. But, the metadata was indeed being scraped & relayed over the flask service. That's of course a cause for concern for the intimate, ephemeral network.
iOS release notes are always comforting when you have firsts like this. 3 zero-days actively exploited in the wild. 2 involving WebKit. "Apple said additional details would be available soon" techcrunch.com/2021/01/26/app…
The bricked state I encountered didn't end up having to do with the battery, at least obviously so. After a day of wrestling with DFU mode, it was successfully restored. If it attempted to boot, it would endlessly loop; breaking that cycle was hard.
The morning following the mobile Chrome stuttering, the device was very warm — like you would expect from an iCloud Photos daemon. Springboard worked, albeit dropping frames, but third party apps (I didn't test first party) began failing to boot. Upon shutdown, it was bricked.
Uh oh: “The most important site is E484, where neutralization by some sera is reduced >10-fold by several mutations, including one in emerging viral lineages in South Africa and Brazil.”
The South African variant has both E484K and N501Y, so the concerns from the last few weeks are more justified now. What will the combination of the higher viral loads associated with N501Y — if that holds — mean when neutralization dips because of E484K escape? Not liking this.
We’re already seeing that experiment play out in South Africa. We’ll know more about vaccine efficacy soon, but I imagine the first immune escape alarm would be a rise in re-infections among those exposed to prior lineages. We shouldn’t wait around for that data...
The underlying tone of this is irresponsible. This is not journalism; this is a collection of anecdotes with a preconceived narrative. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
That Quibi screenplay really cherry picks details, like the leaked Hubei CDC reports that suggest the first epidemic may not have occurred in Wuhan after all. The Yichang or Xianning 'influenza' epidemics could have been wrongfully attributed cnn.com/2020/11/30/asi…
At the end of the day, so much of this easily weaponized mystique results directly from the Communist Party's narrative, cover up, and censorship. This is a story about the Chinese system, not about a virology lab and gain functions.