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Scammers are using voice-cloning AI to impersonate distressed loved ones, sometimes spoofing specific phone numbers to further the ruse, and victims fall for it — Scammers are using artificial intelligence to sound more like family members in distress. People are falling for it and losing thousands of dollars.
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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Some Twitter services were down, like loading images and TweetDeck; clicking a link in a tweet gave the error “your current API plan does not include access” — Links are completely busted on Twitter at the minute across the company's website and mobile apps.
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| Wired: |
An analysis and reconstruction of Rotterdam's Accenture-made welfare fraud algorithm and its training data finds discrimination based on ethnicity and gender — Obscure government algorithms are making life-changing decisions about millions of people around the world.
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft announces Dynamics 365 Copilot, built using OpenAI's tech, helping draft contextual chat and email answers and more, rolling out in preview — Microsoft Corp., having brought artificial intelligence to its battle with Google over search, is now turning to the latest AI technology …
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| Associated Press: |
German police, Europol, FBI, and Ukrainian authorities disrupt a ransomware gang that deployed DoppelPaymer; Europol says US victims paid out €40M+ in 2019-2021 — German police said Monday that they have disrupted an international cybercrime gang which has been blackmailing large companies …
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| Reuters: |
The EU says WhatsApp agreed to increase transparency over its privacy policy changes from 2021, letting users reject the rules, limiting data sharing, and more — Meta Platforms' (META.O) WhatsApp has agreed to be more transparent about changes to its privacy policy introduced in 2021 …
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| Laurie Chen / Reuters: |
At the National People's Congress in Beijing, Tencent CEO Pony Ma and other executives were absent, as China boosts representation for its tech hardware sector — Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) founder Pony Ma and others from China's crackdown-hit internet sector will be absent … | Matthew Goldstein / New York Times: |
How buy now, pay later services became a popular target for fraudsters, sometimes helped by companies having a loose underwriting process for applications — Seung Song said his identity was stolen and used to buy $5,000 worth of gun components from an online dealer using a buy now, pay later service.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
A look at the AI Objectives Institute, founded by deceased privacy luminary Peter Eckersley, aiming to influence AI's evolution and safeguard humanity's future — Peter Eckersley did groundbreaking work to encrypt the web. After his sudden death, a new organization he founded is carrying …
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| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Siri co-creator Adam Cheyer says generative AI will spur an assistant voice renaissance; Satya Nadella says Cortana, Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant “don't work” — Teams working on the ecommerce giant's voice assistant have been hit hard by the largest cuts in company's history
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| Antoine Gara / Financial Times: |
US private equity firm Silver Lake and a Canadian pension fund offer to acquire Qualtrics for $12.4B as majority owner SAP looks to divest its 71% stake — Deal for survey software group would be one of largest this year — US private equity group Silver Lake and one of Canada's largest pension funds …
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| Kaya Yurieff / The Information: |
Sources: around 20 leaders at Clubhouse have left over the past year, including hires from Meta, Google, and others; Clubhouse continues to add “top talent” — Roughly 20 leaders have departed Clubhouse over the past year or so, including many of the notable hires …
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