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Interviews with over three dozen creators about going viral on TikTok show how the app's vast reach plus tools like “duet” and “stitch” can amplify harassment — TikTok's explosive stardom has created a new kind of celebrity. But nothing goes viral like rage.
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Brazil's elections chief gets unilateral power to order tech companies to remove posts and videos ahead of the October 30 election, to combat misinformation — Brazilian authorities granted the country's elections chief broad power to order the takedown of online content in a bid … | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple plans to expand ads to the App Store's main Today tab and the “You Might Also Like” section of app listings globally on October 25, except for China — In an email to developers this week, Apple announced that app-related ads will begin appearing in the App Store's main Today tab and in a …
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The Wire retracts its recent stories on Meta and says it is using “independent external experts” to conduct an investigation into its Meta coverage — Earlier this week, The Wire announced its decision to conduct an internal review of its recent coverage of Meta … | Rachel Metz / CNN: |
Several artists whose work Stability AI included in the dataset used to train Stable Diffusion are angry that they weren't informed, asked for consent, nor paid — Erin Hanson has spent years developing the vibrant color palette and chunky brushstrokes that define the vivid oil paintings for which she is known.| Axios: |
The RNC sues Google for Gmail allegedly putting its campaign emails in spam, after criticizing Google's pilot launched in September 2022 to address the problem — The Republican National Committee (RNC) has filed a lawsuit against Google in a U.S. district court in California for allegedly putting …
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McAfee security researchers found 16 clicker apps in Google Play with 20M+ downloads in total; Google removed the adware apps after McAfee reported them — Security researchers at McAfee have discovered a set of 16 malicious clicker apps that managed to sneak into Google Play, the official app store for Android.| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
A profile of Stability AI founder and CEO Emad Mostaque, a British former hedge fund manager who has quickly become a polarizing figure within the AI community — A celebration for Stability AI, the start-up behind the controversial Stable Diffusion image generator, represents the arrival of a new A.I. boom.
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In his memoir, Bono details making a deal with Steve Jobs for the U2 iPod in October 2004 and convincing Tim Cook to give away an iTunes album in September 2014 — In an exclusive extract from his memoir, the singer looks back — nything strange or startling? " That's how my da, Bob, opens our conversations.| Charlotte Jee / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at the companies using AI to build tech that lets users talk to digital versions of deceased loved ones by video chat, text, phone, or voice assistants — Digital clones of the people we love could forever change how we grieve. — My parents don't know that I spoke to them last night.
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| Tracy Qu / South China Morning Post: |
Canalys: smartphone shipments in India fell 6% YoY to 44.6M units in Q3 2022; Xiaomi shipped 9.2M units, down 18% YoY, for a 21% share, followed by Samsung — Xiaomi Corp held onto the top of the leaderboard in India 's vast smartphone market, despite the sector's overall decline …
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Chicago-based Tempus, which uses AI for drug discovery, clinical trials, and diagnostics, raised $275M in equity and debt, bringing its total funding to $1.3B+ — This is not your average raise. — Biotech upstart Tempus announced on Thursday it raised $275 million through equity …
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