Department of Education Sued Following Markup Investigation Into FAFSA Data Shared with Facebook. (themarkup.org)
A neurological disease stole Rep. Jennifer Wexton's voice. AI helped her get it back. (www.npr.org)
OopsGPT - OpenAI just announced a new search tool. Its demo already got something wrong. (www.theatlantic.com)
How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internet (www.bbc.com)
World of Warcraft developers form Blizzard’s largest, most inclusive union | 500+ employees have organized across multiple departments, creating the first wall-to-wall union of its kind at the studio (www.theverge.com)
More than 500 developers at Blizzard Entertainment who work on World of Warcraft have voted to form a union. The World of Warcraft GameMakers Guild, formed with the assistance of the Communication Workers of America (CWA), is composed of employees across every department, including designers, engineers, artists, producers, and...
Major Labels Block 40 Pirate Domains, Search Deindexing More Concerning. (torrentfreak.com)
AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data - Nature (www.nature.com)
It is now clear that generative artificial intelligence (AI) such as large language models (LLMs) is here to stay and will substantially change the ecosystem of online text and images. Here we consider what may happen to GPT-{n} once LLMs contribute much of the text found online. We find that indiscriminate use of...
77% Of Employees Report AI Has Increased Workloads And Hampered Productivity, Study Finds (www.forbes.com)
The new global study, in partnership with The Upwork Research Institute, interviewed 2,500 global C-suite executives, full-time employees and freelancers. Results show that the optimistic expectations about AI’s impact are not aligning with the reality faced by many employees. The study identifies a disconnect between the high...
CrowdStrike to vendors: Sorry for the global tech outage. Here’s a $10 Uber Eats voucher (www.cnn.com)
Reddit changes have blocked all search engines except Google amid AI 'misuse' [U] (9to5google.com)
Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers (arstechnica.com)
YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete (www.yahoo.com)
YouTube has been spotted testing server-side ads, which could pose a problem to ad blockers.
Bing has been revamped to prioritize AI search results – whether you like it or not (www.techradar.com)
Microsoft has just announced a huge update to Bing that overhauls the search engine to put AI-powered answers first....
Anyone can Access Deleted and Private Repository Data on GitHub. (trufflesecurity.com)
AI achieves silver-medal standard solving International Mathematical Olympiad problems (deepmind.google)
Today, we present AlphaProof, a new reinforcement-learning based system for formal math reasoning, and AlphaGeometry 2, an improved version of our geometry-solving system. Together, these systems solved four out of six problems from this year’s International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), achieving the same level as a silver...
Despite Spending $100 billion on AI Google is still no where close to a real ai assistant | Amazon Walkout failure and no real plan for sustainable profit. (www.arktrek.shop)
KnowBe4 mistakenly hires North Korean hacker, faces infostealer attack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
CrowdStrike says over 97% of Windows sensors back online (www.reuters.com)
Tailscale now opens for ControlD integration! (tailscale.com)
Google and Brave The Only Search Engines Able To Index Reddit (www.webpronews.com)
at least we have competitions
Wearables linked to ‘pathologic’ heart disease symptom monitoring (mhealthintelligence.com)
AFib patients using wearable devices are more likely to engage in high rates of symptom monitoring and experience anxiety than non-users, a study shows.
How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internet (www.bbc.com)
How ordinary failure could have a seismic effect on an industrial giant (www.bbc.com)
Earlier this year, a Boeing aircraft’s door plug fell out in flight – all because crucial bolts were missing. The incident shows why simple failures like this are often a sign of larger problems, says John Downer.
Sudan’s plea to Elon Musk’s Starlink: Please don’t shut off our internet. (www.analystnews.org)
Google Planned to Sponsor IDF Conference That Now Denies Google Was Sponsor (theintercept.com)
The “IT For IDF” conference in Rishon LeZion, just south of Tel Aviv, brought together tech firms from across the world to support the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza and beyond....
