OpenAI board first learned about ChatGPT from Twitter, according to former member (arstechnica.com)
Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors (www.phoronix.com)
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How the FBI built its own smartphone company to hack the criminal underworld (www.theverge.com)
Apple's Wifi router database: Surveilling the Masses with Wi-Fi-Based Positioning Systems (www.cs.umd.edu)
Apple’s huge database, which usually records the locations of Wi-Fi base stations to the nearest metre, has apparently been exploited without hindrance: With little effort, attackers are able to create a ‘global snapshot’ of all the location data of the WLANs recorded there. This allows them - over a longer period of time...
Europe sets benchmark for rest of the world with landmark AI laws (www.reuters.com)
California Resto Lets You Pay For Meal With Your Face: Payment Method May Be Available Nationwide Soon (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
Forget swiping your card - thanks to a banner year for biometric payments, with JPMorgan and Mastercard joining the fray, paying with your face could soon be your new reality.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on AI-powered search and the future of the web (www.theverge.com)
Here Is What Axon’s Bodycam Report Writing AI Looks Like (www.404media.co)
Axon has been inviting police departments to webinars about the new AI-based product, which will automatically generate police reports based on bodycam audio, according to emails obtained by 404 Media.
Waymo Under Investigation for Driverless Car Crashes and Traffic Violations (www.thedrive.com)
The NHTSA is probing Google-supported Waymo regarding crashes caused by its driverless taxi program and underperforming self-driving tech.
Everything happening at Google’s I/O developer conference 2024 (www.theverge.com)
Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip (arstechnica.com)
Meta’s “set it and forget it” AI ad tools are misfiring and blowing through cash (www.theverge.com)
The teens making friends with AI chatbots (www.theverge.com)
TikTok is allowing users to spread manipulated videos of Biden, despite the platform's policies (www.mediamatters.org)
Instagram is updating its algorithm to surface more content from smaller, original creators | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Google has delayed killing third-party cookies in Chrome (again) (www.engadget.com)
After 48 years, Zilog is killing the classic standalone Z80 microprocessor chip (arstechnica.com)
Cisco firewall 0-days under attack for 5 months by resourceful nation-state hackers (arstechnica.com)
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Feds hit coding boot camp with big fine for allegedly conning students (www.theregister.com)
The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has slapped coding boot camp BloomTech with several punishments for alleged deceptive business practices.
We Need To Rewild The Internet | NOEMA (www.noemamag.com)
Fake Footage of Iran’s Attack on Israel Is Going Viral (www.wired.com)
AI-Music Arms Race: Meet Udio, the Other ChatGPT for Music (www.rollingstone.com)
I’ve messed around with Udio and Suno quite a bit and I think Udio is a bit better. Especially with generating vocals without an auto-tune sound. Although I don’t think it responds to prompts quite as well.
Where there's a will, there's Huawei to develop one's own chipmaking kit (www.theregister.com)
Microsoft Pitched OpenAI’s DALL-E as Battlefield Tool for U.S. Military (theintercept.com)
Microsoft last year proposed using OpenAI’s mega-popular image generation tool, DALL-E, to help the Department of Defense build software to execute military operations, according to internal presentation materials reviewed by The Intercept. The revelation comes just months after OpenAI silently ended its prohibition against...
