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Irina Tech Tips Newsletter #8

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Sep 1, 2023
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Hello, my dear readers!

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Thank you so much for staying with me!

Just a reminder that in this newsletter, I will be collecting weekly posts from two Twitter accounts - https://twitter.com/cyb_detective and https://twitter.com/irina_tech_tips.

Last week, I finally got a website cybdetective.com with links to all my social media profiles. There you can also find links to discount coupons for games and software, which both allows you to save money and support me.

In this issue:

AI tools

OSINT tools

Learning materials

Voicemod's Text-to-Sing API

Select a tune, enter the lyrics and the result is an audio recording with music and vocals. It sounds pretty creepy so far, but it's getting very close to the point where neural networks could replace singers.

https://huggingface.co/spaces/Voicemod/Text-to-Sing

MS Image2Video

AI generator of short videos based on uploaded pictures.

If you use the pictures from the examples, it looks impressive. If you upload your own, it's pretty creepy.

But it still brings us closer to full AI video generation.

https://huggingface.co/spaces/fffiloni/MS-Image2Video

Code Llama Playground

Demo to generate text and code with the Code Llama model (13B).

Works quite well (generate code better than many other models).

https://huggingface.co/spaces/codellama/codellama-playground

Details about Code Llama:

https://huggingface.co/papers/2308.12950

Street Clip

AI, which determines from a photo the likelihood that it was taken in a particular country.

(don't forget to change the list of countries for each photo⚠️)

Demo:

https://www.plugger.ai/models/street-clip

Detailed model description:

https://medium.com/@jeremy-k/geolocation-and-ai-with-streetclip-introduction-country-classification-and-building-a-web-e13bd0e6d857

BlueSky stats

If you invite someone to BlueSky and they ask: "What is the audience for this social network?", then show them this page:

https://vqv.app/stats/chart

A month ago it was 396,000, now it's 750,000 (UPD: 839 000 one week later)!

Voters databases

When looking for information on U.S. citizens, do a first and last name search in voter records. You can find addresses and dates of birth there.

Links to different voter records database and Google CSE"Search for US voters" can be found here:

https://start.me/p/L1rEYQ/osint4all

OONI Explorer

World biggest open data resource on internet censorship around the world. 1.6+ million measurements in 241 countries since 2012.

https://explorer.ooni.org/search

Data OSINT

List of services for searching data leaks + list of services for decrypting password hashes + article on how to use data leaks in investigations.

https://github.com/cqcore/Data-OSINT

Awesome Python Scripts

132 examples of #python scripts for different purposes.

https://github.com/hastagAB/Awesome-Python-Scripts

Digital Forensics Incident Response & Detection Engineering

A collection of reference materials on #dfir.

https://github.com/adrianlois/DFIR-Detection-Engineering

As of today, that's it. Thank you very much for your attention! See you next Friday! (I hope).

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