Stealth, not secrecy (lemire.me)
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FTC investigating ChatGPT creator OpenAI over consumer protection issues (apnews.com)
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has launched an investigation into ChatGPT creator OpenAI and whether the artificial intelligence company violated consumer protection laws by scraping public data and publishing false information through its chatbot.
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Brimstone's decarbonized cement passes crucial third-party strength test (www.engadget.com)
This sets up a major breakthrough for net-zero construction
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Striking actors say rejected 'AI proposal' would let studios use their likeness without fair pay (www.engadget.com)
The AMPTP says the proposal would allow performers to consent to the creation of a digital replica.
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How a cloud flaw gave Chinese spies a key to Microsoft’s kingdom (arstechnica.com)
Hackers stole a cryptographic key that let them forge user identities and slip past defenses.
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Dutch government officially launches Mastodon server (fediversereport.com)
The Dutch government has officially launched their Mastodon server, at social.overheid.nl. The server came online over the weekend, and today the Alexandra van Huffelen, State Secretary of Digitalisation, announced that the server has officially been taken into use. The server is hosted on the domain overheid.nl, the official...
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Facial recognition surveillance in São Paulo could worsen racism (www.aljazeera.com)
More than 90% of arrests based on facial recognition are Black. In state of Rio de Janeiro, unjust arrests involving Black individuals reached 81%.
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Producers allegedly sought rights to replicate extras using AI, forever, for just $200 (www.theregister.com)
Union prez Fran Drescher thinks Hollywood’s digital desires have no style or flair
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Meet Microsoft Office’s new default font: Aptos (www.theverge.com)
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Virgin Galactic's first private passenger spaceflight will launch as soon as August 10th (www.engadget.com)
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Twitter Inc. is starting to provide revenue for impressions (twitter.com)
While there's nothing inherently wrong with this, the current state of the social media meta is to purposefully stir up drama and ragebait for clicks. Now aside from just impressions and clout, people will have an actual monetary incentive to do so....
GM ditches Apple CarPlay: a smart drive or a dead end? (www.arenaev.com)
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Why SUSE is forking Red Hat Enterprise Linux (techcrunch.com)
A storm is brewing in open-source land that could change the Linux distro landscape
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PC market shows signs of a turnaround after historic slide (www.computerworld.com)
Business demand for desktops and laptops is expected to return to growth early next year after a series of declines in recent quarters. But uncertainty remains, as macroeconomic concerns persist.
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FTC appeal in Microsoft/Activision case shows US regulator isn’t giving up yet (arstechnica.com)
The Federal Trade Commission has given legal notice that it intends to appeal a recent district court decision that denied a temporary injunction in Microsoft’s proposed merger with Activision.
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FTC opens investigation into ChatGPT creator OpenAI (www.engadget.com)
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Co-founder of Stability AI, worth billions, says he was tricked into selling stake for $100 (www.semafor.com)
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Google AI health chatbot passes U.S. medical exam: study (www.thehindu.com)
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Deepfake voices improving kidnapping scams (www.cnn.com)
“A reasonably good clone can be created with under a minute of audio and some are claiming that even a few seconds may be enough.” Mom wary about answering calls for fear voice will be cloned for future virtual kidnapping.
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Elon must act to stop the tide of frauds swamping Twitter - Ed Sheeran, Bear Grylls, Daniel Radcliffe and Tom Holland have all had their names exploited in scam tweets. So, ironically, has Elon Musk. (www.mirror.co.uk)
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Buffalo mass shooting victims sue social media platforms that they say contributed to the massacre (www.13newsnow.com)
A lawsuit claims Google has been 'secretly stealing everything ever created and shared on the internet by hundreds of millions of Americans' to train its AI (www.businessinsider.com)
A lawsuit claims Google took people’s data without their knowledge or consent to train its AI products, including chatbot Bard.
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Advice for Operating a Public-Facing API (jcs.org)
Tax prep companies shared private taxpayer data with Google and Meta for years, congressional probe finds (www.cnn.com)
Some of America’s largest tax-prep companies have spent years sharing Americans’ sensitive financial data with tech titans including Meta and Google in a potential violation of federal law — data that in some cases was misused for targeted advertising, according to a seven-month congressional investigation.
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