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An investigation finds thousands of Instagram accounts run by parents posting images of their children, attracting pedophiles who sometimes pay for more content — The ominous messages began arriving in Elissa's inbox early last year. “You sell pics of your underage daughter to pedophiles,” read one.
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Sources: staff warned Meta in 2023 that its Facebook and Instagram subscription tools were being misused by adults profiting from exploiting their own children — Employees offered suggestions to reduce risks of misuse of subscription accounts featuring minors.| Aditya Soni / Reuters: |
Nvidia crossed a $2T market cap intraday on February 23, after adding $277B to its market value on February 22, Wall Street's largest one-day gain on record — Nvidia (NVDA.O) hit $2 trillion in market value on Friday, riding on an insatiable demand for its chips that made the Silicon Valley firm …
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| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Q&A with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about plans for a new type of data center dubbed an “AI factory”, foundational robotics, the Mellanox acquisition, and more — Tech companies can't get enough of this tech company. Earnings are off the charts. WIRED probes the mind of its CEO, Jensen Huang.| Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab: |
Google says there are no plans to remove the News tab on search results pages, after testing temporarily removing the filter for “a small subset of users” — The News filter disappearing from Google search results for some users this week won't help publishers sleep any easier.
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Google says poor image tuning and Gemini becoming more cautious than intended made the model “overcompensate in some cases, and be over-conservative in others” — Google announced yesterday that it disabled image generation of people in Gemini following criticism about its historical accuracy.
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Humane postpones the delivery of its Ai Pin for “priority access” customers from March to “mid-April”, with the remaining preorders arriving “shortly after” — Hardware is difficult, to paraphrase a famous adage. First-generation products from new startups … | Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNet: |
Microsoft releases PyRIT, a tool that the company's AI Red Team has been using to more efficiently check for risks in its generative AI systems, such as Copilot — Despite the advanced capabilities of generative AI (gen AI) models, we have seen many instances of them going rogue, hallucinating … | Brendan Farrington / Associated Press: |
Florida passes one of the US' most restrictive bills on minors' social media use, despite First Amendment concerns; Governor Ron DeSantis has to sign the bill — A bill to create one of the nation's most restrictive bans on minors' use of social media is heading to Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis … | Jessica Lyons / The Register: |
Filing: UnitedHealth says a “suspected nation-state” actor had access to IT provider Change Healthcare's systems, disrupting services at pharmacies in the US — Prescription orders hit after IT supplier Change Healthcare pulls plug on systems — UPDATED IT provider Change Healthcare …
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Interviews and emails show that technical interviews have become more punishing for engineers after mass layoffs, requiring days of work on unpaid assignments — Tech companies are famous for coddling their workers, but after mass layoffs the industry's culture has shifted.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces “Generative erase”, which uses generative AI to remove objects and people from images, coming to the Photos app in Windows 10 and Windows 11 — Google and Samsung aren't the only ones baking magical AI selective photo erasers into their devices … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google strikes a deal with Reddit, reportedly for $60M/year, gaining Reddit Data API access to surface more Reddit content in Search and to train its AI models — Google today announced an “expanded partnership” with Reddit that sees it get access to the forum website's data for training and other product uses.
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