Stealth, not secrecy (lemire.me)
Bungie wins $489K from player for racist harassment of employee | Ruling sets legal precedent for companies to recover costs from harassment campaigns. (arstechnica.com)
Bungie wins $489K from player for racist harassment of employee | Ruling sets legal precedent for companies to recover costs from harassment campaigns.::Ruling sets legal precedent for companies to recover costs from harassment campaigns.
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.
Brimstone's decarbonized cement passes crucial third-party strength test (www.engadget.com)
This sets up a major breakthrough for net-zero construction
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.
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.
Telly Starts Shipping Free, Ad-Supported 4K TVs, Will Charge Users up to $1,000 if They Violate Terms of Service (variety.com)
The Senate just lobbed a tactical nuke at NASA’s Mars Sample Return program (arstechnica.com)
“The Committee has significant concerns about the technical challenges facing MSR and potential further impacts on confirmed missions, even before MSR has completed preliminary design review,” stated the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies subcommittee in its report on the budget.
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...
Texas' refusal to upgrade its grid is causing generated solar and wind power to go to waste (electrek.co)
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%.
Light-based “LiFi” is stunningly fast, notably fragile—and now standardized (arstechnica.com)
Using bigger AI training data sets may produce more racist results (archive.is)
Contrary to Silicon Valley wisdom, training AIs on larger data sets could worsen their tendency to replicate societal biases and racist stereotypes
AI-powered companion robots could end loneliness in older adults (interestingengineering.com)
New study reports companion robots with artificial intelligence may one day help alleviate loneliness epidemic. Surgeon General says loneliness may be as pernicious as cigarettes.
One of Reddit’s biggest communities is suggesting users move to Discord (www.theverge.com)
One of Reddit’s biggest communities is suggesting users move to Discord r/malefashionadvice, the biggest Reddit community still inaccessible in protest of Reddit’s new API pricing, is encouraging its users to congregate on Discord and view guides on Substack.
New EU regulations mandate user-replaceable batteries in iPhones (appleinsider.com)
Meta Threads engagement has dropped 50% in a week (www.nbcnews.com)
Beware a world where artists are replaced by robots. It’s starting now (www.latimes.com)
Meta's Threads has had its daily users down 20% since Saturday and user time spent on the platform is down 50% ~ CNBC (www.cnbc.com)
Meta confirms it is blocking EU-based users from accessing Threads via VPN (techcrunch.com)
Why AI detectors think the US Constitution was written by AI (arstechnica.com)
TV producers wanted AI rights of extras forever, says union (www.theregister.com)
Hollywood's 'Groundbreaking' AI Proposal for Actors Is a Nightmare (gizmodo.com)
SAG-AFTRA said that AMPTP’s AI plan included scanning background actors and using their likenesses “for the rest of eternity.”
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