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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Cruise complies with California DMV's request to halve its fleet, as the regulator probes “recent concerning incidents” involving its robotaxis in San Francisco — Cruise, the self-driving car subsidiary of GM, has been asked to reduce its robotaxi fleet by 50% in San Francisco following …
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Forums: Hacker News and r/sanfrancisco
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Windows file archiver utility maker WinRAR fixes a vulnerability that could let an attacker remotely execute arbitrary code, after a researcher flagged the flaw — A high-severity vulnerability has been fixed in WinRAR, the popular file archiver utility for Windows used by millions …
More: Zero Day Initiative, WinBuzzer, Tom's Hardware, BetaNews, Security Affairs, and PCMag
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LinkedIn: Artem Baranov and Pascal Ackerman
Forums: r/Piracy, r/InfoSecNews, and Slashdot
| Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter: |
A judge upholds a US Copyright Office finding that artwork created by AI isn't eligible for copyright protection as “human authorship is a bedrock requirement” — A federal judge on Friday upheld a finding from the U.S. Copyright Office that a piece of art created by AI is not open to protection.
More: PCMag, Gizmodo, IPWatchdog.com, Mashable, Bloomberg Law, Cryptopolitan, The Wrap, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, and Patently-O
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Forums: Hacker News, r/stupidpol, r/technology, r/Futurology, r/television, r/movies, r/boxoffice, and r/entertainment
| David Ljunggren / Reuters: |
Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge demands that Meta lift its “reckless” news ban on Facebook and Instagram for the safety of people fleeing wildfires — The Canadian government on Friday demanded that Meta (META.O) lift a “reckless” ban on domestic news from its platforms …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/canada, r/neutralnews, r/worldnews, and r/technology
| Pete Evans / CBC News: |
Evacuees from the wildfires threatening Yellowknife say that Meta's news fight with Canada's government makes it harder for them to share lifesaving information — Meta notes government sources not blocked as northerners duck ban by sharing screenshots of information
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Forums: r/CanadianConservative, r/technology, r/Canada_sub, r/onguardforthee, r/CanadaPolitics, and r/canada
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Elon Musk claims “block is going to be deleted as a ‘feature’, except for DMs”, without giving any details, in a reply to a user's X post about block vs. mute — Elon Musk says X's — formerly Twitter's — block feature is on the chopping block …
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Forums: Hacker News and r/popculturechat
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Western Digital refuses to answer questions about how its portable SanDisk Extreme SSDs may lose users' data; the company is being sued for fraud and data loss — Eleven days ago, we sent these questions to Western Digital's head of PR and published them publicly on The Verge:
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Forums: Hacker News, r/hardware, r/technews, r/tech, r/gadgets, r/DataHoarder, Beehaw, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Reuters: |
Nestlé, Unilever, and other big advertisers are experimenting with using generative AI ads, but many remain wary of the security, copyright, and data bias risks — Some of the world's biggest advertisers, from food giant Nestle (NESN.S) to consumer goods multinational Unilever (ULVR.L) …
More: The Verge
| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the AI-powered robots that help maintain critical US infrastructure, including from Gecko Robotics, Skydio, Anybotics, Invert Robotics, and Greensea — Robots fly, walk, swim and crawl with new sensors and artificial intelligence to spot—and sometimes fix—problems.
Mastodon: @mimsical@mastodon.social and @mimsical@mastodon.social
| Bloomberg: |
Draft IPO filing: Arm's revenue fell 1% YoY to $2.68B in its fiscal year ended on March 31, 2023; sources: Arm plans to sell ~10% of its shares in its listing — - Decline in revenue is according to US accounting standards — Arm's parent SoftBank posted gains for unit under IFRS
More: The Register, Reuters, and The Information
| Thomas Barrabi / New York Post: |
Private equity firm Ethical Capital Partners, which acquired MindGeek in March 2023, rebrands the Pornhub owner as Aylo, seeking a “fresh start” after scandals — Pornhub's shadowy parent company MindGeek said it is changing its name as its new owners seek a “fresh start” for the scandal-ridden smut empire.| Emily Bobrow / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of, and interview with, Max Tegmark, who co-founded the Elon Musk-backed Future of Life Institute and says AI may be an existential threat to humanity — Long optimistic about the possibilities of artificial intelligence, the MIT physicist now says companies and governments must work together … | Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon restarts Amazon Shipping, its UPS and FedEx competitor that handles packages from other websites, after pausing the US service earlier in the pandemic — Amazon Shipping, paused earlier in the pandemic, handles packages from other websites and selling channels
More: Insider, Associated Press, and Livemint
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