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Largest Dataset Powering AI Images Removed After Discovery of ‘Suspected’ Child Sexual Abuse Material (www.404media.co)

Tesla blamed drivers for failures of parts it long knew were defective | Tens of thousands of customers told Tesla about a host of part failures on low-mileage cars. The automaker sought to blame d... (www.reuters.com)

Tesla blamed drivers for failures of parts it long knew were defective | Tens of thousands of customers told Tesla about a host of part failures on low-mileage cars. The automaker sought to blame d…::undefined

Apple loses attempt to halt Apple Watch sales ban (www.theverge.com)

Apple loses attempt to halt Apple Watch sales ban::Apple has lost its bid to delay an import ban on the Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2. In a filing on Wednesday, the ITC denied Apple’s motion to stay the ban.

Police to be able to run face recognition searches on 50m driving licence holders | Facial recognition | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

GM dealer chatbot agrees to sell 2024 Chevrolet Tahoe for $1 (gmauthority.com)

GM dealer chatbot agrees to sell 2024 Chevrolet Tahoe for $1::undefined

Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth (edition.cnn.com)

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced a computer glitch that’s causing a bit of a communication breakdown between the 46-year-old probe and its mission team on Earth.

Worst person in tech 2023 - semi final (mastodon.online)

Edit: final round is live now mastodon.online/

Biden urged to stop EU 'unfairly' targeting American tech (www.theregister.com)

Biden urged to stop EU ‘unfairly’ targeting American tech::5 out of 6 ‘gatekeepers’ are US-based so regulators across pond are just being mean to us, say lawmakers

TikTok requires users to “forever waive” rights to sue over past harms (arstechnica.com)

Aston Martin, Porsche Preview Bespoke Apple CarPlay Interfaces (www.caranddriver.com)

Steve Jobs Rigged The First iPhone Demo By Faking Full Signal Strength And Secretly Swapping Devices Because Of Fragile Prototypes And Bug-Riddled Software (finance.yahoo.com)

• Steve Jobs faked full signal strength and swapped devices during the first iPhone demo due to fragile prototypes and bug-riddled software....

Google brings India-first AI-powered localised features to Maps app (www.deccanherald.com)

A Googler who just resigned after 18 years reflects on the decline of the company he loved (ln.hixie.ch)

Proton Mail founder vows to fight Australia’s eSafety regulator in court rather than spy on users | Australia news | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

Child sex abuse images found in dataset training image generators, report says (arstechnica.com)

The report: …stanford.edu/…/ml_training_data_csam_report-2023…

AlphV ransomware site is “seized” by the FBI. Then it’s “unseized.” And so on. (arstechnica.com)

Sony's New Technology Would Adapt Game Difficulty to a Player's Skill Level (hypebeast.com)

Sony’s New Technology Would Adapt Game Difficulty to a Player’s Skill Level::Sony’s New Technology Would Adapt Game Difficulty to a Player’s Skill Level: The company filed a patent for the skill-based algorithm.

I want to leave the Dynamic Island (www.spacebar.news)

Overwatch 2 is the worst game on Steam, according to user reviews | "The people who make Overwatch porn work harder than the people who make Overwatch" (www.techspot.com)

Overwatch 2 is the worst game on Steam, according to user reviews | “The people who make Overwatch porn work harder than the people who make Overwatch”::undefined

Google Will Stop Telling Law Enforcement Which Users Were Near a Crime (finance.yahoo.com)

Google Will Stop Telling Law Enforcement Which Users Were Near a Crime::(Bloomberg) – Alphabet Inc.’s Google is changing its Maps tool so that the company no longer has access to users’ individual location histories, cutting off its ability to respond to law enforcement warrants that ask for data on everyone who was in the...

The Google Play Store Ruling Is Bad News for Longtime Android Phone Users (gizmodo.com)

Not to editorialize, but I think this is kind of a crazy article. Sharing for the laughs and the discussuon.

Rite Aid banned from using facial recognition software after falsely identifying shoplifters | FTC says the company's 'reckless use' of AI humiliated customers (techcrunch.com)

Rite Aid banned from using facial recognition software after falsely identifying shoplifters | FTC says the company’s ‘reckless use’ of AI humiliated customers::Rite Aid has been banned from using facial recognition software, with the FTC highlighting the drugstore’s “reckless” use of AI surveillance.

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