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Pharmacy chain Rite Aid must stop using facial recognition for five years as part of a settlement with the US FTC, which says the tech falsely flagged customers — - FTC says chain's surveillance system falsely flagged customers — Bankrupt pharmacy chain will stop using system, delete images
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Stanford researchers: LAION-5B, a dataset of 5B images used by Stability AI and others, contains 1,008 instances of CSAM, possibly helping to create AI CSAM — The dataset has been used to build popular AI image generators, including Stable Diffusion. — A massive public dataset used … | Sopan Deb / New York Times: |
NASA engineers streamed an HD cat video from 18.6M miles away, the farthest ever, using lasers instead of radio frequencies to achieve speeds of 267 Mbps — Using laser communication, NASA streamed a cat video from almost 20 million miles away, or 40 round trip flights to the moon.
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple's System Status page reports an ongoing outage for Apple Card, Apple Cash, Apple Pay, and Wallet since 6:15AM ET; users report issues with IAPs and more — There is an Apple Card, Apple Cash, Apple Pay and Wallet outage that is causing some users to experience issues … | Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Sony sold 50M PS5 consoles in the three years since its November 2020 launch, almost as fast as the PS4 reached 50M, and outsold Xbox by almost 3:1 in 2023 — Sony outsells Microsoft's Xbox and Nintendo's Switch as sector recovers from post-pandemic slump — Resurgent sales …
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| Sam Tobin / Reuters: |
The UK Supreme Court rules that AI can't be a patent “inventor”, rejecting a bid to register patents by US computer scientist Stephen Thaler, in a landmark case — A U.S. computer scientist on Wednesday lost his bid to register patents over inventions created …
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Researchers say AI robot CyberRunner outmaneuvers humans in the maze game Labyrinth, in a breakthrough for AI beating humans at direct physical applications — - Robot learned in record time to guide a ball through a maze — The AI robot used two knobs to manipulate playing surface
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail a MITM attack on SSH that can break the integrity of the protocol, the first “practical attack of its kind”; fixes face compatibility issues — Novel Terrapin attack uses prefix truncation to downgrade the security of SSH channels.
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| Nickolas Diaz / Android Central: |
Samsung adds the Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Z Fold 5 to its Self-Repair program, the first foldable devices, and expands the program to 30 more countries in Europe — Its latest smartphone series and laptop join in, too. — What you need to know — Samsung has expanded coverage of its Self-Repair program …
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| Anissa Gardizy / The Information: |
Sources: AWS plans to overhaul its 60K-person sales team and aims to increase the share of Fortune 1,000 companies spending $10M+/year from less than 20% to 80% — Matt Garman, head of sales at Amazon Web Services, plans to reorganize his more than 60,000-person team to address problems …
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| Jon Victor / The Information: |
Source: Google plans to reorganize a big part of its 30K-person ad sales unit, as the company relies more on ML techniques to help customers buy even more ads — Google plans to reorganize a big part of its 30,000-person ad sales unit, an executive told some staff last week, prompting anxiety that some departments will face job cuts.
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Analysis of 2K misleading Israel-Hamas war posts on X, viewed 500M+ times: verified users posting debunked claims are thriving and Community Notes can't keep up — Co-published with Tow Center for Digital Journalism … “My sisters have died,” the young boy sobbed, chest heaving, as he wailed into the sky.| Bloomberg: |
Bird files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Florida, listing $100M-$500M in liabilities; the NYSE began delisting the e-scooter rental company in September 2023 — The Miami, Florida based company listed assets and liabilities of between $100 million and $500 million in a court filing.
More: The Information, Engadget, Bird Global, Inc., Financial Times, New York Times, TechCrunch, Electrek, and The Verge
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
The EU designates Pornhub, XVideos, and Stripchat as Very Large Online Platforms under the DSA, meaning stricter rules on age verification and illegal content — Porn sites Pornhub, XVideos, and Stripchat face stricter requirements to verify the ages of their users after being officially designated as …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Copilot can now compose songs, including lyrics, instruments, and voices, from a sentence, due to a new integration with generative AI music app Suno — Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft's AI-powered chatbot, can now compose songs thanks to an integration with gen AI music app Suno.
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Sources: X set up a 10-person team to help reach $100M in US political ad spend in 2024, to offset other ad losses, a goal industry executives are skeptical of — Plans for new political ads team to hit $100mn in sales ahead of US presidential election are met with industry scepticism| Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: |
A look at the tech sector's longevity obsession, with Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman, Larry Page, and others pledging millions of dollars to firms pursuing longer life — Tech titans, venture capitalists, crypto enthusiasts and AI researchers have turned longevity research into something between the hottest science and a tragic comedy.| John Yoon / New York Times: |
A look at South Korea's AI industry, one of the world's most competitive and diverse, as startups train on Korean language and culture to compete with US giants — While they lag behind their U.S. counterparts, their focus on non-English languages could help loosen the American grip on artificial intelligence.
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| John Herrman / New York Magazine: |
OpenAI's deals with publishers are a hedge against a scenario in which scraping becomes harder, training material more expensive, and real-time data more scarce — This past week, Axel Springer, the German media conglomerate that owns Politico and Business Insider, signed a “multiyear licensing deal” … | David Shepardson / Reuters: |
The NIST seeks public input by February 2, 2024 for setting guidelines to evaluate the safety of generative AI systems, as directed by President Biden's AI EO — The Biden administration said on Tuesday it was taking the first step toward writing key standards and guidance for the safe deployment …
More: NIST, CoinGape, House Committee …, and Cointelegraph
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Sources: ByteDance's 2023 sales surged to $110B+, broadly matching 2022's 30% growth rate, despite economic turbulence in China and scrutiny in the US and India — - TikTok's Chinese owner expects revenue growth of about 30% … The world's most valuable startup's growth broadly matched …
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Interpol: a global law enforcement operation led by South Korea seized $300M and led to the arrest of 3,500 cybercrime suspects between July and December 2023 — An international law enforcement operation codenamed ‘Operation HAECHI IV’ has led to the arrest of 3,500 suspects … | Brady Snyder / Android Central: |
Google plans to limit the types of election-related queries that Bard and SGE respond to, starting in early 2024, in preparation for elections worldwide — The move is intended to curb misinformation as the 2024 election nears — What you need to know — Google today announced a plan … Sponsor Posts
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