Microsoft ha delineado una estrategia para blindar a Windows frente a futuros incidentes como CrowdStrike. La compañía publicó una serie de pasos a seguir para reaccionar, así como los ajustes necesarios del sistema operativo. La caída informática de hace una semana les hizo ver que Windows requiere cambios estructurales para que no vuelva a ocurrir. […]
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Hollywood screenwriters went on strike in May 2023. Two months later, actors joined them on the picket line. Those strikes ended later that year with historic deals that included, for the first time, protections regarding the use of artificial intelligence. Now it’s video game actors’ turn.
After nearly two years of negotiations with gaming companies, video game performers, who are represented by the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists union, announced that they would go on strike due to an impasse over protections from generative AI. The strike began at 12:01 a.m. on July 26, 2024.
The Conversation U.S. asked James Dawes, a scholar of video game narration, about the role voice actors have traditionally played in this industry and the threat that AI could pose to these performers.
The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists voted to authorize a strike, with an overwhelming 98.32% of the union’s members voting “Yes.”
SAG-AFTRA’s 160,000 members will refuse to work on video games produced by the industry’s major developers in support of the union’s more than 2,500 video game performers, which include voice actors and those who use their bodies to bring video game characters to life – often referred to as “mocap,” or motion-capture actors.
A key sticking point appears to involve the AI protections offered to performers.
SAG-AFTRA charges that gaming giants such as Activision, Disney and Electronic Arts have refused to “plainly affirm, in clear and enforceable language, that they will protect all performers covered by this contract in their A.I. language.”
Representatives for the industry counter that they have already agreed to historic wage increases and meaningful AI protections that include consent and fair compensation.
The video game industry has gone from a niche form of entertainment to a force that rivals Hollywood, with estimated revenues exceeding US$200 billion in 2023.
Voice and mocap acting have evolved along with it. For the 1983 classic Dragon’s Lair, game developers did the voice acting themselves to keep costs low, which means that among the first voice actors are Vera Lanpher Pacheco and Dan Molina, the game’s head of assistant animators and sound engineer, respectively.
The jump from that cringey-but-beloved amateur work to the voice acting of today represents one of the most rapid advances in any modern aesthetic medium.
Now performances like those of Troy Baker and Ashley Johnson are drawing the attention of major film and television studios. Their work in the 2013 action-adventure title The Last of Us earned them honorific cameos in the smash hit HBO series adaptation of the game.
Put simply, voice and body acting are as essential for a video game’s success as they are in movies and TV shows.
Immersion – that magical state in which gamers lose themselves and feel transported to more exciting, more fulfilling worlds – depends upon soulful and persuasive performances.
I’ll never forget the moment when I walked into the family television room and saw my hyperactive, 12-year-old son sobbing as he listened to the final voice-overs of Red Dead Redemption 2. Now a college student, he remembers that performance like my parents remember the death of the dog starring in “Old Yeller” and I remember E.T. phoning home.
Gamers may come for the hacking and slashing, but many of them stay for the characters.
Compared with their film and television counterparts, video game performers are still relatively invisible. But their fan bases are rapidly expanding. When Amelia Tyler, the dungeon master narrator for Baldur’s Gate 3, released clips of her outtakes and bloopers on YouTube, they became viral hits, garnering more than 2.5 million views.
Unfortunately, the bulk of the earnings go to established movie stars.
When publishers and studios seek to generate excitement about forthcoming games, they’ll recruit actors such as Keanu Reeves, Kiefer Sutherland or Patrick Stewart to voice characters.
According to one agent, a big-name movie star can garner upward of six figures for a single recording session.
However, SAG-AFTRA points out that at the low end of the pay scale, performers are paid as little as $902 for four hours of work. Legendary voice actress Jennifer Hale recently revealed that she was paid just $1,200 for her first voice-acting gig in the Metal Gear Solid series.
Video games present special aesthetic and technical challenges. Performers need to differentiate death by a knife to the throat from a bullet to the chest. They need to protect their voices while recording screams over background gunfire. And they also need to authentically capture the vulnerability of romantic and sexual relationships. For its recent smash hit Baldur’s Gate 3, Larian Studios set an industry precedent by hiring intimacy coordinators for its performers.
At the extreme ends, there are two ways of thinking about the effect AI will have on any industry: You are either an AI boomer or an AI doomer; you either believe the technology will usher in a new era of creativity and possibility, or you believe it will destroy everything we hold dear.
I became involved in AI research by way of drones and the global weaponization of artificial intelligence – literal end-of-the-world scenarios – so I tend to focus on the risks. And the risk here is that large corporations will purloin the creative work of artists to reap even more profit and, eventually, displace them altogether.
At its core, the strike is an attempt to protect some of the most essential but least compensated and least protected workers in a multibillion-dollar industry.
James Dawes does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
Las agresiones secsuales con penetración cometidas por mujeres se han multiplicado por siete en cuatro años, pasando de 25 en 2019 a 174 en 2023. Esto es, se han disparado un 700% en menos de un lustro. Así se desprende de la comparativa de entregas del Informe sobre Delitos contra la Libertad Sexual en España. Las feministas atribuyen este auge a la aprobación de las leyes trans autonómicas y de la nacional, que entró en vigor el 2 de marzo del año pasado. @theobjective
Vamos, que gracias a la Ley Trans las cifras de violetaciones y demás movidas machirulas se van a ir igualando entre hombres y mujeres, y el ministerio de igualdad carecerá de sentido… Maravilloso.
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Se hace viral este corte de un programa argentino en el que una participante trans usó su "fuerza masculina" para ganar una de las pruebas. pic.twitter.com/11hhfGAPmH
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El mundo del hardware y las modificaciones que parecen imposibles siguen asombrándome. El otro día leía sobre un proyecto para miniaturizar una consola Nintendo Wii y dejarla del tamaño de un llavero:
Como se puede observar en el prototipo que aparece arriba. El sistema consta de la propia Wii (que sería la pieza de color azul) y un dock donde estarían las conexiones de alimentación, salida de vídeo, mandos a distancia. Las medidas parecen increíbles: 60x60x16 mm. La Wii original no era muy grande, pero esto ya parece imposible. El tamaño del hardware se va reduciendo y este proyecto es un ejemplo muy visual.
De momento no está a la venta, pero se puede reservar. Desconozco el precio, pero si no fuese muy cara creo que me plantearía su compra. La Wii original de mi hijo sigue conectada a la TV en mi casa. Y sobre todo en invierno seguimos jugando con ella. Lástima que la aplicación de las Olimpiadas sea la de Londres 2010, pero creo que es algo que podremos soportar.
Ahora falta ver si Nintendo bloquea este proyecto de miniaturización de su hardware, espero que no lo hagan.
La entrada Kawai una Nintendo Wii del tamaño de un llavero se publicó primero en Al otro lado del mostrador.
Building a certificate authority (CA) hierarchy using AWS Private Certificate Authority has been made simple in Amazon Web Services (AWS); however, the CA tree will often reside in one AWS Region in one account. Many AWS customers run their businesses in multiple Regions using multiple AWS accounts and have described the process of creating a CA hierarchy to reflect their organizational structure as complex. This blog post guides you through building a two-level CA hierarchy with CAs in multiple Regions and in multiple accounts.
Certificates, like those provided through AWS Private CA, are usually used to establish encrypted network connections to meet security requirements of an organization’s data, such as database connections. For example, a software as a service (SaaS) company headquartered in Singapore that offers managed database services to users across multiple Regions, such as Oregon (us-west-2), Singapore (ap-southeast-1), and Tokyo (ap-northeast-1). To comply with the regulatory requirements of various countries and Regions, the company needs to build a CA hierarchy with a root CA located in Singapore and subordinate CAs distributed globally.
Another example is a large manufacturing company selling millions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices globally that needs to issue certificates to those devices for identity, authentication, and secure network connections. Different device types or business requirements are handled by different teams that have their own independent AWS accounts within the organization. To meet the certificate policy requirements (such as key length, validity period, and so on) for different types of devices, preserve business flexibility, and control the blast radius of risks, these teams use their own CAs to issue certificates. A customer like this needs a CA hierarchy that aligns with its organizational structure. Subordinate CAs should be deployed to the AWS accounts in different business departments, with each department managing its own subordinate CAs. Each device, or end-entity, typically requires a unique certificate, but the number of private certificates each CA will issue is 1,000,000 by default. Because this number is easy to exceed in a mass-production scenario, a CA hierarchy with multiple subordinate CAs can help mitigate this limitation.
In a CA hierarchy, the root CA is responsible for issuing certificates to subordinate CAs, and subordinate CAs are responsible for issuing end-entity certificates. Because the root CA is the root of the trust chain, loss of trust in this CA can mean that the end-entity certificates it issued will become invalid. Therefore, it’s recommended to place the root CA in a dedicated account and apply strict access control and auditing on its usage. We also recommend you strictly limit the scope of use of the root CA. For more best practices, see AWS Private CA best practices and Designing a CA hierarchy.
In AWS Private CA, when you use AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) or AWS APIs to issue a certificate, you need to supply the certificate template Amazon Resource Name (ARN) to specify the X509v3 parameters of the certificate. A certificate template defines what type of certificates can be issued and allows CA administrators to control what certificates are issued and with what attributes. If you provide no ARN, AWS Private CA will automatically apply the EndEntityCertificate/V1 template to issue an end-entity certificate.
AWS Private CA offers certificate templates that encapsulate best practices for the basic constraint values in X509v3 parameters of certificates. For example, if it’s an end-entity certificate, the cA value of Basic constraints in the parameter is False; if issuing a CA certificate, it is necessary to set the cA value in the parameter to True and set the pathLenConstraint according to the level of the CA using this certificate in the CA hierarchy.
When issuing certificates, you must select the appropriate certificate template based on the certificate’s intended purpose. For more information about certificate templates, see Understanding certificate templates.
Now that you understand the core concepts of a CA hierarchy, we will show you how to use two CAs located in different accounts and different Regions to establish a CA hierarchy and use the subordinate CA to issue an end-entity certificate associated with a web application. In the example, you will create two CAs: one in the Oregon (us-west-2) Region acting as the root CA and the other one in the Singapore (ap-southeast-1) Region acting as the subordinate CA.
The following figure shows what you will build:
Figure 1: Architecture of a two-level CA hierarchy
You need the following prerequisites to build and implement the solution in this post.
AWSCertificateManagerPrivateCAFullAccess associated or has permissions to create CAs and issue certificates in AWS Private CA.With the prerequisites in place, you can start building the hierarchy, including the:
Figure 2: Create root CA
Figure 3: Root CA in pending certificate status
Figure 4: Root CA in active status
Figure 5: Create a subordinate CA
Figure 6: Subordinate CA in pending certificate status
In a CA hierarchy, the certificate of the subordinate CA must be issued by the higher-level CA, which in this case is the root CA. To configure the subordinate CA to be Active, you need to get the certificate signing request (CSR) of the subordinate CA and use the root CA to sign it and issue a certificate for it.
Although the subordinate CA was managed by AWS Private CA, it will be considered as an external private CA because it’s in a different account and a different Region from the root CA.
Figure 7: Details page of Install subordinate CA certificate
SubordinateCACertificate_PathLen0/V1 template on the root CA. This encodes a limitation into the CA that declares that the subordinate CA cannot sign a CSR for another CA. To do this, switch to the Root CA account and use CloudShell to run commands with the AWS CLI. Recreate the file sub-ca.csr using a text editor within CloudShell, and then use the following command to issue subordinate CA certificate. Replace the root-ca-arn with the ARN of the root CA you created previously:
aws acm-pca issue-certificate --region us-west-2 \
--certificate-authority-arn <root-ca-arn> \
--csr file://sub-ca.csr \
--signing-algorithm SHA256WITHRSA \
--template-arn arn:aws:acm-pca:::template/SubordinateCACertificate_PathLen0/V1 \
--validity Value=5,Type=YEARSThe output looks like the following. Note the CertificateArn that is returned, because it will be used as <sub-ca-certificate-arn> in the following steps:
{
"CertificateArn": "<sub-ca-certificate-arn>"
}aws acm-pca get-certificate --region us-west-2 --certificate-authority-arn <root-ca-arn> --certificate-arn <sub-ca-certificate-arn> --query “Certificate” --output textaws acm-pca get-certificate --region us-west-2 --certificate-authority-arn <root-ca-arn> --certificate-arn <sub-ca-certificate-arn> --query “CertificateChain” --output text
Figure 8: Import certificate and certificate chain to the subordinate CA
Figure 9: Subordinate CA in active status
Now that you have established a two-level CA hierarchy, you can issue an end-entity certificate and deploy a web application in the Subordinate CA account. Use a web browser to view the web application and validate the CA hierarchy.
Figure 10: Issue certificate using subordinate CA in ACM
Figure 11: Details of the ALB
Figure 12: Certificate details in the web browser
From this image, you can see that the certificate trust chain of the CA hierarchy has been established successfully. The end-entity certificate (on the left) was issued by the CA Example Corp SG L2 CA, which you can identify from its Issuer Name. In the middle is the certificate of Example Corp SG L2 CA, and its issuer is Example Corp Root CA. You can see the certificate of Example Corp Root CA on the right, which is the root CA, and its Issuer Name is itself. When the subject and issuer attributes match, this is indicative of a root CA.
In this post, we showed you how to build a CA hierarchy solution across AWS accounts and Regions, using AWS Private CA. Using this as a guide, you can build a complex CA hierarchy to help meet your global business security and compliance requirements.
If you have feedback about this post, submit comments in the Comments section below. If you have questions about this post, start a new thread on the AWS Private Certificate Authority re:Post or contact AWS Support.
Jiaqing Xue
Jiaqing is a Solutions Architect at AWS. He focuses on helping customers build more secure, modern applications on AWS. In his spare time, he enjoys coding.
Patrick Palmer
Patrick is a Principal Security Specialist Solutions Architect. He helps customers around the world use AWS services in a secure manner and specializes in cryptography. When not working, he enjoys spending time with his growing family and playing video games.
Xinran Liu
Xinran is a Solutions Architect at AWS. Edge computing and DevOps are his areas of interest. He has 14 years of experience leading large-scale engineering projects with expertise in designing and managing both on-premises and cloud-based infrastructures.
Matt Yu
Matt is a Security Solutions Architect at AWS, responsible for providing customers with end-to-end cloud security solutions. He has extensive experience in identity and access management, threat detection, and cloud security protection.
Biden grew a few inches while he was missing for five days… pic.twitter.com/oLkANz941o
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El director del FBI, Christopher Wray, cuestionó este miércoles que fuera una bala lo que alcanzó la oreja de Donald Trump en el intento de asesinato del pasado 13 de julio. “Hay dudas sobre si fue una bala o metralla”, explicó Wray, sin especificar qué fue entonces lo que dañó la oreja de Trump. Sin embargo, sugirió que se trataba de una bala cuando dijo lo siguiente: “No sé ahora mismo si esa bala, además de causar el roce, pudo caer en otro sitio”. @as
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Thanks so much to everyone that has come to see us on this tour, we had an absolute blast! See you soon! pic.twitter.com/4PoT0EFqpz
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La empresa encargada del catering de la Villa Olímpica, Sodexo Live!, ha propuesto un menú donde el 40% de las recetas son totalmente vegetarianas, pero se ha pasado de frenada en lo que respecta a un alimento clave para las dietas de muchos deportistas: el huevo. Los deportistas se han quejado de que la comida es insuficiente y, sobre todo, los huevos no se están reponiendo a la velocidad adecuada. Estos tuvieron incluso que ser racionados en el desayuno del pasado miércoles.
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El equipo de investigadores llevó a cabo un experimento con mayores de 65 años que son vacunados contra el herpes con la vacuna atenuada (Zostavax) y la recombinante (Shingrix). El estudio comparó a más de 100.000 personas que habían recibido el fármaco viejo entre 2014 y 2017 con otras 100.000 que recibieron la nueva versión. Pero no todo el mundo está convencido, debido en parte a que el virus del herpes es muy común y se encuentra en el cerebro de personas que nunca llegan a desarrollar demencia.
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