That’s insane. And what does researcher even mean - some random university student? What would they know about securing that data? I wonder if the people whose data is out there even know this is happening

The people involved are volunteers. The rules for getting access are readily available, and clearly don't include "some random university student": https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/about-us/how-we-work/access-to-u...

They clearly do include "some random student" as the data can be shared with others from the eligible research group which are almost always university students who have zero clue about itsec.

I worked in this field. It's not just the students. Hardly anyone seemed to understand how and why you would keep data out of a git repo.

Yet another example why NO ONE should trust age verification laws or companies like Anthropic forcing you to verify identity with shady companies like Persona (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47872608). Whatever info you give up, it’ll be exposed one day.

Other countries should just view all of this as a declaration of war by this theocratic authoritarian regime. I don’t like Trump and his dangerous corrupt rule, but the rule of the ayatollahs must also come to an end.

If you are an American citizen, you should not worry about the ayatollahs ruling thousands of miles away from you, but you should be doing something about the tyrant ruling near you.

It was slowly sunsetting not so long ago ... what ever happened to make them act out so badly recently?

It was only last year they were sincerely offering to dilute the HEU reserves.

The rule of the United American Epsteinates must come to an end too.

One perspective is that politics requires participation and that doesn't exist in an authoritarian theocracy.

Reversing this isn't Trump's goal, of course. But for many, human rights supercedes national sovereignty.

> One perspective is that politics requires participation

That's democracy, which is one way a country can choose to run itself. It isn't god given.

I feel like it does not work well. Shazam struggles to recognize music in real life environments that have some background noise, even with a lot of time. It’s much worse than the built in music recognition Google’s phones have, for example.

No way I would agree to that. It’s already bad that Anthropic asks for a phone number, when other services don’t. People have a right to use AI anonymously just like they have a right to access the Internet without age verification or other violations of privacy. Otherwise, everything you say and search for could be used against you. Maybe even in a court.

But worse, on top of that, they’re using Persona? This is the company that is apparently linked to Peter Thiel and Palantir (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47021421). Discord ended up cutting ties with Persona (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47136036). And allegedly Persona might be sharing the data you submit to them with the federal government (https://cybernews.com/privacy/persona-leak-exposes-global-su...).

Anthropic seems to be losing the plot. It’s getting harder and harder to trust them as they keep making changes without transparency, and making changes like this. I’m sure they will claim they have good reasons - like blocking Chinese AI companies from distilling Claude or whatever - but this makes me view Anthropic the same way I view Palantir.

Does this mean you could use other non Anthropic models those clouds offer but with Claude Cowork or Claude code?

Why does this person write like an immature brat?

Has Firefox abandoned all the weird services and things they were building as side projects? Or the political missions that seemingly occupied leaders? I feel like most people just want a simple and fast browser. This particular addition seems useful though.

It’s not out of favour among citizens, as much as not aligned to how our grifting corrupt leaders make money.

I often see people talking about how MacBooks are better for local LLM usage. How would this compare?