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An excellent episode of the #DarknetDiaries: 158: @…
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MalwareTech – Darknet Diaries
MalwareTech was an anonymous security researcher, until he accidentally stopped WannaCry, one of the largest ransomware attacks in history. That single act of heroism shattered his anonymity and pulled him into a world he never expected.

#ICEBlock, an iPhone app that allows users to anonymously report sightings of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents,
⭐️has rocketed to one of the coveted top spots in Apple’s U.S. App Store rankings.
The upshot: Criticism from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi helped get it there.
Most of ICEBlock’s users
— about 20,000
— are in Los Angeles,
where ICE ra…

ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral overnight after Bondi criticism | TechCrunch
The citizen app for anonymously reporting ICE agents and raids went viral after criticism from the U.S. Attorney General.

RT-VC: Real-Time Zero-Shot Voice Conversion with Speech Articulatory Coding
Yisi Liu, Chenyang Wang, Hanjo Kim, Raniya Khan, Gopala Anumanchipalli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10289

RT-VC: Real-Time Zero-Shot Voice Conversion with Speech Articulatory Coding
Voice conversion has emerged as a pivotal technology in numerous applications ranging from assistive communication to entertainment. In this paper, we present RT-VC, a zero-shot real-time voice conversion system that delivers ultra-low latency and high-quality performance. Our approach leverages an articulatory feature space to naturally disentangle content and speaker characteristics, facilitating more robust and interpretable voice transformations. Additionally, the integration of differentia…