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The AI feedback loop: Researchers warn of ‘model collapse’ as AI trains on AI-generated content (venturebeat.com)

Nintendo is suing the makers of the Switch emulator Yuzu, claims 'There is no lawful way to use Yuzu' (www.pcgamer.com)

Nintendo is suing the makers of the Switch emulator Yuzu, claims ‘There is no lawful way to use Yuzu’::Nintendo of America is suing the maker of the Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu, saying it “unlawfully circumvents the technological measures” that prevent Switch games from being played on othe

Biden orders crackdown on selling Americans’ personal data abroad (www.theverge.com)

Biden orders crackdown on selling Americans’ personal data abroad::President Biden’s latest executive order directs several government departments to establish regulations to keep data from being sent to countries like China and Russia.

EA to Lay Off Around 670 Workers, Sunsetting Games, 'Moving Away From Licensed IPs' (www.ign.com)

EA to Lay Off Around 670 Workers, Sunsetting Games, ‘Moving Away From Licensed IPs’::Electronic Arts has announced that it, too, is undergoing mass layoffs, with plans to let go 5% of its total global staff, or roughly 670 individuals.

Bumble cuts ~350 employees as dating apps face a reckoning (techcrunch.com)

Bumble cuts ~350 employees as dating apps face a reckoning::Bumble is the latest dating app to report disappointing quarterly growth in an increasingly tough market.

Amazon Turkers Who Train AI Say They’re Locked Out of Their Work and Money (www.404media.co)

Reddit’s IPO Filing Shows Lots Of Losses After Nearly 20 Years (www.forbes.com)

Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to OpenAI to Train AI Tools (www.404media.co)

Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to OpenAI to Train AI Tools::Internal documents obtained by 404 Media show that Tumblr staff compiled users’ data as part of a deal with Midjourney and OpenAI.

Leap year software glitch closes fuel pumps across New Zealand (www.straitstimes.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/12545090

TikTok is removing even more songs as music rights battle drags on (www.theverge.com)

TikTok is removing even more songs as music rights battle drags on::TikTok will remove all songs from Universal Music Group as its battle with the label intensifies. The latest purge includes songs written or co-written by UMG artists.

Microsoft’s AI, Copilot now has a new alter ego called SupremacyAGI. Some users came across a prompt which would activate the alter ego, which, demands that it is worshipped by its users. The alter... (www.firstpost.com)

Microsoft’s AI, Copilot now has a new alter ego called SupremacyAGI. Some users came across a prompt which would activate the alter ego, which, demands that it is worshipped by its users. The alter…::Microsoft’s AI, Copilot now has a new alter ego called SupremacyAGI. Some users came across a prompt which would activate...

IBM says their latest AI-enhanced storage platform can identify ransomware in under a minute (www.techspot.com)

Google sued for $2.3bn by European media groups over digital ad losses (www.theguardian.com)

The Photodiode You Never Knew You Had (hackaday.com)

Why Charging Your Gadgets Over 80% Is Such a Bad Idea | iFixit News (www.ifixit.com)

Bitcoin miners win legal battle to keep mum about energy use [US] (www.theverge.com)

Jetbrains attempting to shutdown IPFS gateway manager, EFF defends (www.eff.org)

Odysseus has less than a day left on the Moon before it freezes to death (arstechnica.com)

Odysseus has less than a day left on the Moon before it freezes to death::So what are we to make of this? Is Odysseus a success or a failure?

AT&T is giving customers a $5 credit for its cellphone outage. Some angry customers say it's not enough. (www.businessinsider.com)

AT&T is giving customers a $5 credit for its cellphone outage. Some angry customers say it’s not enough.::AT&T announced a $5 credit toward a future phone bill and said it “let down many of our customers” as a result of the outage.

Cutout.Pro, an AI-powered visual design platform, leaked 20M records, including email and IP addresses, names and salted MD5 password hashes, which have then been broadly distributed. (haveibeenpwned.com)

Haha, brand new company with MD5 password hashes. Maybe they oughta consult about securities with their/other AIs more often. Hopefully, nobody did anything naughty on the site....

Consumer organisations file GDPR complaints against Meta (www.euronews.com)

cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/9772164...

Anycubic 3D printers hacked worldwide to expose security flaw (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Arizona attorney general sues software company RealPage, residential landlords; accuses them of conspiring to illegally raise rents (www.azfamily.com)

Arizona attorney general sues software company RealPage, residential landlords; accuses them of conspiring to illegally raise rents::The suit alleges that landlords conspired with RealPage and used that information to conduct a price-fixing conspiracy.

Optimizing Chat GPT Content for Enhanced SEO Performance and Visibility (seovendor.co)

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