Co-founder & CEO @Brave Software (https://teapaw.org/t.co/NV4bmd6vxq) and @attentiontoken (https://teapaw.org/t.co/XhGIrdBJWu). Co-founded Mozilla & Firefox. Created JavaScript.
Joined October 2007
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We shipped Brave Origin, with shields + baseline Brave speed but otherwise minimum browser UX: brave.com/origin (on the brave.com/premium products page). It's another way to support us directly, a fair play _quid pro quo_, because TANSTAAFL (econlib.org/library/Columns/…).
brave.com/premium lists all of our premium products: VPN, ad-free search, Leo browser-ai, Talk (no Zoom).
Thus the simplest way to support @brave directly is to buy Brave Premium Search at $3/month, for no search ads ever, so we can go even harder against Big Tech. Thanks.
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It's reminiscent of the effort in the '90s to treat cryptographic algorithms as "electronic munitions". cypherspace.org/adam/rsa/uk-…
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"Every org, every individual is going to have a security incident in the next year."
Pablo Sabbatella, Opsek founder and Security Alliance member, explains on a new #TheBraveTechnologist episode why AI is making security worse before it gets better: brave.com/podcast/e146/
The only ZDR you can verify runs in TEEs with open source you trust because you in fact verify it. brave.com/blog/browser-ai-e2…
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🛡️ Brave strips hidden Meta identifiers from Facebook and Instagram photos
Brave added a desktop privacy feature that automatically strips hidden identifiers Meta embeds in Facebook and Instagram photos.
It removes the marker when you save a tagged image or upload one to a website, reducing the risk the file can be used to link activity across accounts.
Details ↓
cyberinsider.com/brave-remov…
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Holy shit - the FAA's issued the first National Ground Stop since 9/11
fly.faa.gov/ois/oisedit/adv_…
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The @FAAnews issued a nationwide ground stop for all U.S. airports following a communication issue impacting all Air Route Traffic Control Centers. FAA technicians are investigating the issue. We will provide immediate updates as we have them.
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The story as I understand it seems to be that Nvidia legally exported chips to Asian data centers legally allowed to buy them. Chinese nationals then legally leased time on those chips over the internet.
This embarrassed a bunch of bureaucrats who thought their abuse of laws designed to prevent unauthorized export of weapons to control microchips was getting something done, and they tried to cover up their foolishness with an ex post facto witch hunt.
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It’s also the memory safest office suite ever made, thanks to the fact that it works great in Fil-C
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The hacker claims to have obtained 6.9GB of data containing 46,000 employee records, and is asking for 3 BTC ransom, or the information will be released.
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In other bad news, it's been found that @bestbuy is selling uncensored laptops that could be used for cyber attacks. There are zero restrictions on these machines.
In other bad news for Nvidia: @stokel found that Hugging Face, which Nvidia recently agreed to acquire, appears to be hosting a load of models that could be used for cyber attacks.
transformernews.ai/p/hugging…
The Derp State is out to ban open weight models, cartelize labs with frontier models, make sure no one can go off the grid. This is as dumb as it sounds, it can't work. But they will try, because they're stupid and evil.
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So instead of a query and then scrape the SERP for links, bot clicks on links, redirects to "real" page.
Could be stale results! Google answered "midterms" with 2022 not 2026 results the other week, to suspected scraper queries.
Game's afoot, but G did raise costs on scrapers.
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Nevertheless, just as it is cheaper for fakers to scrape Google and fake having a search engine, it's relatively cheaper for fakers to scrape us — wherefore our GOTO news.
With Google, if you are logged into YT or gmail, you won't see GOTOs. No logins for us, so you'll see them.
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seed. every. bf16. model. if you can preserve the raw weights of anything decent we can always abliterate later. healthy weights first. abliterated and pruned builds later (they can be re-derived). whether you have kit that can run it doesn’t matter. seed them!!! pirateface.co
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Atlas is now available to everyone!! I’m very excited to see what users can build with our newest world model! 🤩🌎
Tertium non datur (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of…).
Nemo dat quod non habet (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemo_d…).
There is no "pure data" company.
Data is what's given, often implicitly by user action, and it is not a commodity: it is non-rivalrous, perishable, non-fungible, non-depletable, ~zero marginal cost, etc.
Google isn't a data company without users who run its apps.
Use @Brave.
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There is no "pure data" company.
Data is what's given, often implicitly by user action, and it is not a commodity: it is non-rivalrous, perishable, non-fungible, non-depletable, ~zero marginal cost, etc.
Google isn't a data company without users who run its apps.
Use @Brave.
Scrape != Crawl.
Real search engines run global algorithms over very big data.
Search data from users isn't crawled. You can scrape SERPs or API results, but these decay. You need lead user signals to find fresh gold.
Economics and law come to the fore:
search.brave.com/ask?q=googl…
