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Okta's stock closes down 11.57% after the cybersecurity company said a hacker accessed its support system using a stolen credential and viewed client files — - Cybersecurity firm Okta said an unidentified hacker had accessed the company's support system and viewed client files.
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A US jury finds Google guilty of gender bias and awards female executive Ulku Rowe $1M+, in the first such case filed against Google after 2018's mass walkouts — Google LLC treated female executive Ulku Rowe differently than other employees because of her gender and must pay her more than $1 million … | Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: |
Paddy Cosgrave steps down as the CEO of Web Summit, which plans to appoint a new CEO; the event, set to start on November 13 in Lisbon, will go ahead as planned — Paddy Cosgrave has stepped down from his role as chief executive officer of Web Summit after his remarks following attacks …
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Google, Meta, Intel, Amazon, Siemens, and others pull out of Web Summit 2023, after the event's co-founder and CEO, Paddy Cosgrave, accused Israel of war crimes — Intel, Siemens and actor Gillian Anderson previously said they were withdrawing — Google and Facebook-owner Meta have become …
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Forums: r/technology and r/irishpolitics
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Report: seven unreliable X accounts, some promoted by Elon Musk, dominated English-language news on X around the Israel-Hamas war from October 7 to October 10 — The University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public said that the most popular posts about the crisis revealed how news …
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| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
A look at the Allen Institute for AI's plan to build “open” generative AI model OLMo; the nonprofit research center is led by former Apple ML leader Ali Farhadi — The nonprofit Allen Institute for AI, led by a respected computer scientist who sold his company to Apple, is trying to democratize cutting-edge research.
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LinkedIn: Rachel Shepheard, Matt Fleischl, Steve Lohr, Ali Farhadi, and Ashley Boyd
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How Meta is struggling to moderate Israel-Hamas war content, amid internal friction and its moderation tools' limited ability in parsing Arabic dialects — In trying to prevent Instagram and Facebook from contributing to further violence, Meta is juggling internal friction and limited tools to address a flood of content
More: 404 Media and Ars Technica
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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Bugs in the ChatGPT app reveal internal natural language prompts shared between DALL-E 3 and ChatGPT, including some commands written in all-caps for emphasis — Politeness and emphasis play a surprising role in AI-model communications. — Not long after OpenAI first unveiled …
More: Mashable, The Decoder, BGR, PetaPixel, Silicon Republic, MSPoweruser, and TweakTown
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Forums: r/artificial and Ars OpenForum
| Sanjay Gupta / The Keyword India: |
Google expands consumer and merchant credit features on Google Pay in India, launches new generative AI-based visual and local capabilities in Search, and more — Country Head & Vice President, Google India — With India looking at a billion connected people in the near future …
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LinkedIn: Shailesh Kulkarni, Abhilash Mohanty, and Satyendra Khare
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
A look at Discord's new Warning System, which limits users' behavior based on their violation instead of relying on strikes, and avoids permanent bans — Most platforms ban their trolls forever. Discord wants to rehabilitate them — Today, let's talk about how the traditional platform justice system …
More: Gizmodo. Threads: @crumbler. Bluesky: @glinden.bsky.social. X: @davidparis. LinkedIn: David Sullivan and Joshua C. Harris
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Hivebrite, a SaaS community engagement platform used by Boeing, the Obama Foundation, and others, raised a $37M Series B, bringing its total funding to $60M — Hivebrite, a SaaS community engagement platform, raises $37 million to fuel platform innovation and team expansion.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Joe Biden, Justin Trudeau, and most other G7 leaders plan to skip UK's Bletchley Park AI summit in November, denting the profile of the event — - Scholz, Trudeau don't plan to attend UK AI summit, people say — Premier wants nations to brand AI capable of catastrophic harmSponsor Posts
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