Rogue Amoeba opened its doors on September 30, 2002, and they’re celebrating 24 years with a birthday sale: 24% off anything in their store with the code 24YEARS. The discount runs through October 4.
I use Rogue Amoeba apps every day. Audio Hijack, Fission, and SoundSource are baked into how I record every podcast. My wife, who is very much not a power user, loves Piezo. If you’ve been eyeing one of their apps (or the upgrade to SoundSource 6), this is the week to do it.
The latest versions of their whole lineup also support macOS 27, and Rogue Amoeba says Golden Gate fixes several long-standing problems in the Mac’s audio system. Good news all around.
Happy birthday, Rogue Amoeba. Here’s to 24 more.
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In response to a new European Union law, AI platforms are implementing new schemes for watermarking the content they generate. Anthropic recently disclosed its future Claude models will use SynthID-Text, an approach Google created and released as open source. It uses a secret key that subtly changes the process a model uses for choosing the next word in a sentence. Whereas a top next word choice might be “cloudy,” the key might change it to “overcast.” Anyone who knows the key can determine if it was generated by the platform using it.
New research shows that SynthID-Text can change not just word selection but also the tools a model invokes and the chances it will adhere to or disregard safety guardrails it has been trained to follow. The threat can become greater in the face of an adversarial prompt, in which an attacker attempts to cause a model to carry out a harmful action, such as revealing a password or other sensitive information. Instructions that normally wouldn’t be followed will, in some cases, be performed once the watermarking is deployed. The finding underscores the need for developers to thoroughly test how their LLMs and agents behave when watermarking is in place.
“As compared to the same models without watermarking, it is definitely going to change their behavior, especially when we place it under adversarial conditions, or we make these models call tools when they’re powering an agent,” Andrea Siposova, an AI security researcher at Lasso Security, told Ars. “Watermarking is made to not be perceptible to a reader, but we know that when we are changing anything about what the model is generating, it is going to cause some tradeoffs, it’s going to show up somewhere.”
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In Episode 95 of the Sceptic: Reform's record-breaking donations row, Eugyppius on the AfD's breakthrough in Germany and David Turver on the £483 billion climate damage claim over North Sea oil and gas.
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Arctic summer sea ice should have melted away years ago, according to the 'experts' who foretold its demise by 2007, 2012, 2016... But with the ice going nowhere, those experts are very quiet now, says Paul Homewood.
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The Conservatives want to brand Burnham’s administration as a ‘traditional tax and spend socialist government’
In a news release issued ahead of his speech this morning, Andrew Griffith, the new shadow chancellor, gave details of some of the questions he wants the experts he has asked to review small business regulation to address. (See 8.58am.) He said:
[Craig Mackinlay and Robert Colvile] will produce a report taking evidence from small business and self-employed organisations. While they will have a wide remit, they will consider in particular these key questions, and report in December:
-Why have past attempts to reduce the regulatory and compliance burden on small business and the self-employed failed, and what specifically should be done to reduce the burden successfully?
This is staggering. Our socialist Chancellor has dished out a big Bank of England finance job to a socialist union boss who knows nothing about finance.
Clearly, trade union donations not only buy your way into government policymaking, but also onto the Bank of England’s board. This is cronyism in plain sight.
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Nearly 1,000 bones and teeth from three Granada caves show that Neolithic cannibalism was not one practice or one event. The dates and traces point to different stories.
The post What Happened in These Neolithic Caves? Human Bones Record More Than One Kind of Cannibalism appeared first on Curiosmos.
This is episode 1,000 of the Macworld Podcast! We’re taking this opportunity to take a look at some historic Apple releases and how they were covered way back then.
This is episode 1,000 with Michael Simon, Jason Cross, and Roman Loyola.
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Will my Apple Watch 11 be slower on watchOS 27 if my phone doesn’t have Apple Intelligence support?
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I do have a question about audio intelligence. If the watch is only buffering the last 15 seconds, and doesn’t record anything, how is the summary feature invoked? To create the summary it “has” to record what the watch hears. Presumably the recording is happening on the iPhone, right?
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