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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 AI to generate CSAM — The dataset has been used to build popular AI image generators, including Stable Diffusion. — A massive public dataset used …
More: 404 Media, Axios, Washington Post, The Verge, VentureBeat, Engadget, Stanford Cyber Policy Center, Associated Press, Telegraph, Forbes, PetaPixel, and Cryptopolitan
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Sony has 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
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
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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LinkedIn: Evan Schuman, Samuel A.A. Levine, and Timnit Gebru
| Sam Tobin / Reuters: |
The UK Supreme Court rules that AI can't be a patent “inventor”, denying a US computer scientist's bid for two patents for an AI's creations, in a landmark case — A U.S. computer scientist on Wednesday lost his bid to register patents over inventions created …
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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.
More: Search Engine Land, Beyond Search, Reuters, and NBC 7 San Diego
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
The EU designates Pornhub, XVideos, and Stripchat as Very Large Online Platforms under the DSA, facing stricter rules to verify ages and stop 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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| ProPublica: |
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.| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Researchers say AI robot CyberRunner outmaneuvers humans in the game Labyrinth, one of the first instances of 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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| Bloomberg: |
Miami-based Bird files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, listing $100M to $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.| 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 …
More: Samsung Newsroom, Android Authority, Engadget, TalkAndroid.com, Silicon Republic, Sam Lover, SamMobile, Android Headlines, Wccftech, Sammy Fans, Phandroid, nextpit, 9to5Google, PhoneArena, Neowin, The Verge, and Android Police. Forums: r/Android
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Investors are spending hundreds of millions on FTX bankruptcy claims, betting that its new leadership will recover funds that Sam Bankman-Fried misappropriated — Investors are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on FTX bankruptcy claims, betting that the firm's new leaders will recover …
More: Bloomberg, CoinGape, Coinpedia Fintech News, and CCN.com
| 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 …
More: TechRadar, ComputerWeekly.com, and SiliconANGLE
| 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 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” … | 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.
More: MSPoweruser
| 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
| 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| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Interviews with 20 Meta and Google staff say FTC consent decrees sometimes blocked data harvesting, but the agreements are now outdated and inadequate — Google's doomed social network Buzz led US regulators to force Google and Meta to monitor their own data use.
X: @jason_kint and @jason_kint
| Bloomberg: |
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 …
More: Tech in Asia
| 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 … | Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple resolved an outage for Apple Card, Apple Cash, Apple Pay, and Wallet that started around 6:15AM ET; users had reported IAP issues and more — There is an Apple Card, Apple Cash, Apple Pay and Wallet outage that is causing some users to experience issues with Apple Cash transaction notifications …
More: Apple, AppleInsider, Android Authority, 9to5Mac, The Messenger, Engadget, CNBC, iMore, NBC 7 San Diego, and The Apple Post. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| 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.
More: Terrapin Attack, Terrapin Attack, TechRadar, Hackster.io, RUB-NDS on GitHub, Washington Post, RUB-NDS on GitHub, BleepingComputer, Terrapin Attack, The Register, and SiliconANGLE
Threads: @nixcraft. Mastodon: @sadiedoreen@mastodon.social, @drahardja@sfba.social, @dangoodin@infosec.exchange, and @dangoodin@infosec.exchange
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
An interview with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman about the moderator rebellion, limiting free access to the company's API, AI's role in Reddit's future, and more — Rebellious moderators. Large language models' peril and promise. Maybe a long-awaited IPO. Amid it all, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says the web megacommunity is on a roll.Sponsor Posts
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