Figma Disables AI App Design Tool After It Copied Apple’s Weather App (archive.ph)
Leaked WhatsApp Feature Allows Users to Create Customized Stickers Using Their Own Image (www.techtimes.com)
WhatsApp is developing an AI-powered feature allowing users to create personalized stickers using their own images. The feature is currently in beta testing and is expected to be rolled out to the public soon.
ChatGPT and the movie ‘Her’ are just the latest example of the ‘sci-fi feedback loop’ (theconversation.com)
UN adopts Chinese resolution with US support on closing the gap in access to artificial intelligence (apnews.com)
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The US Supreme Court Has Handed Big Tech a Big Gift (www.wired.com)
Amid a decline in democratic standards, the Serbian government uses large-scale installation of surveillance systems with facial recognition technology to monitor opponents, activists and journalists (balkaninsight.com)
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How Big Tech is swallowing the AI industry (www.theverge.com)
Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw (www.theregister.com)
Now The EU Council Should Finally Understand: No One Wants “Chat Control” (www.eff.org)
The EU Council has now passed a 4th term without passing its controversial message-scanning proposal. The just-concluded Belgian Presidency failed to broker a deal that would push forward this regulation, which has now been debated in the EU for more than two years....
Brazil authority suspends Meta's AI privacy policy, seeks adjustment (www.channelnewsasia.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17563235
Apple could announce a Google Gemini deal this fall (www.theverge.com)
Supreme Court weakens federal regulators with Chevron overturning, threatening net neutrality, right to repair, big tech regulation, and more (www.theverge.com)
The downfall of Chevron deference could completely change the ways courts review net neutrality, according to Bloomberg Intelligence’s Matt Schettenhelm. “The FCC’s 2024 effort to reinstitute federal broadband regulation is the latest chapter in a long-running regulatory saga, yet we think the demise of deference will...
Is social media fuelling political polarisation? (theconversation.com)
Once upon a time, newly minted graduates dreamt of creating online social media that would bring people closer together....
France poised to bring 'charges against Nvidia' • The Register (www.theregister.com)
Human Rights Watch urges the European Commission to assess the impact of state-imposed forced labor in China's Xinjiang region in Electric Vehicle sector (www.hrw.org)
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Apple Vision Pro's Cheaper Version to Bring Bigger Displays with Lower Resolutions with New OLEDoS (www.techtimes.com)
Apple is not exactly downgrading the cheaper Vision Pros but there will be massive changes.
3 million iOS and macOS apps were exposed to potent supply-chain attacks (arstechnica.com)
Facebook and Instagram’s “pay or consent” ad model violates the DMA, says the EU (www.theverge.com)
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Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising (www.techradar.com)
Windows 11 is getting out of hand with its push for advertisments, frankly - remember the recent full-screen pop-up to persuade users to install Edge or other Microsoft services? Then another advertisment was placed in the Start menu, and now Microsoft has finally worn my temper thin - with a new Game Pass ad coming to the...
Disability community has long wrestled with ‘helpful’ technologies – lessons for everyone in dealing with AI (theconversation.com)
Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web (www.theverge.com)
T-Mobile In Trouble After It Decides To Build Cell Tower That Is 'Not Safe' For Residents (wccftech.com)
Meta created a ‘Supreme Court’ for content. Then it threatened its funds. (wapo.st)
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