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| Matt Novak / Forbes: |
X appears to have deleted all images posted directly on the website between 2011 and 2014; links that used Twitter's native shortening service are also broken — Twitter, the social media platform officially known as X, appears to have deleted all images from the website that were posted between 2011 and 2014.
More: The Verge and PCMag
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Bluesky: @fudge.org, @melwell.bsky.social, and @westernspinster.bsky.social
X: @tomcoates, @leahmcelrath, @fy4chan, @jayrosen_nyu, @peanut_crunch, @martinsfp, @tomcoates, @broderick, @bubbaprog, @elranno, @velodus, @rebel44cz, @tomcoates, @stealthygeek, @tomcoates, @mat, @tomcoates, @rmac18, @faineg, @tvaziri, @tomcoates, @tomcoates, @zoeschiffer, @illneil, @btsthroughyears, and @bfriedmandc. Forums: Hacker News
| Alex Reisner / The Atlantic: |
Analysis: Books3, a dataset used to train Meta's Llama, BloombergGPT, and EleutherAI's GPT-J, contains 170K+ books from Stephen King and other authors — One of the most troubling issues around generative AI is simple: It's being made in secret. To produce humanlike answers to questions …
More: TorrentFreak, Gizmodo, The Verge, AI and Copyright, and Mashable
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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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| 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, Tom's Hardware, WinBuzzer, BetaNews, Security Affairs, and PCMag
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| 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.
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| Dayana Mustak / Bloomberg: |
John Warnock, who co-founded Adobe in 1982 with Charles Geschke and served as the company's CEO until 2000, died on August 19 at age 82 — Technology entrepreneur John Warnock, co-founder of Adobe Inc., died on Saturday at age 82, the company said in a statement. — The cause of Warnock's death wasn't disclosed.
More: Reuters and Stack Diary
| Julian E. Barnes / New York Times: |
US intelligence agencies warn US space companies that China and Russia are targeting them and preparing cyberattacks that could disable satellites in a conflict — U.S. officials say Chinese and Russian spy agencies are trying to steal technology from private American space companies … | Amanda Hoover / Wired: |
How Science, Nature, and other peer-reviewed journals are grappling with outlines, drafts, or papers that authors wrote using generative AI, without disclosure — Ethics watchdogs are looking out for potentially undisclosed use of generative AI in scientific writing. But there's no foolproof way to catch it all yet.
More: The Decoder. X: @wiredscience, @byamandahoover, @nalanpog, @wired, @microbiomdigest, @kunews, and @gcabanac
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
As Big Tech companies compel employees back to the office, some companies, like Atlassian, Airbnb, Dropbox, and Twilio, remain steadfast backers of remote work — - Some tech companies still see benefit of work-from-home policy — Move runs counter to effort to revive US office comeback
More: Insider. Threads: @carnage4life. X: @news_by_nick and @business
LinkedIn: Matthew Boyle, Annie Dean, and Brody Ford
| 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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Mastodon: @newstik@social.heise.de. X: @jigglypants44, @senatorshoshana, @novascotiabuzz, @corybmorgan, @commsrisk, @jason_kint, @meyer_lucas, @cblackst, @rosnerc, @gloria_sin, @pt, @ow, @fboversight, @accountabletech, @caj, @markkersten, @picardonhealth, @meyer_lucas, @ohstephaniesm, @doncochraneyow, and @p_evans. LinkedIn: Shawna Bruce
Forums: r/CanadianConservative and r/technology
| David Ljunggren / Reuters: |
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| 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/technology, r/technews, r/gadgets, r/DataHoarder, r/hardware, r/tech, Beehaw, and Ars OpenForum
| James Titcomb / Telegraph: |
Sources: the UK is in talks to acquire GPUs worth up to £100M for a national “AI Research Resource”; some officials are pushing for allocating more funds — Effort fuels prime minister's ambitions to make Britain a global leader in the field| 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) … | 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: Reuters, The Register, and The Information
| Anirban Sen / Reuters: |
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