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The EU fines Meta €1.2B over sending European user data to the US, a record GDPR fine, and orders Meta to stop transfers and delete the data within six months — Decision places pressure on Washington to implement surveillance changes for Europe to allow Meta to keep the data spigot open| Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
A researcher says crypto mixer Tornado Cash was taken over by hackers on May 20, who used a malicious governance proposal to give themselves a majority of votes — Tornado Cash, a service that allows users to mask cryptocurrency transactions, suffered a hostile takeover by hackers through a malicious governance proposal.| Bloomberg: |
China says Micron's products caused “significant security risks to our critical information infrastructure supply chain” and warns operators against buying them — China delivered the latest salvo in an escalating semiconductor war with the US, announcing that Micron Technology Inc. products … | Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Top500: 121 of the fastest supercomputers globally are powered by AMD silicon, up 29% YoY; the AMD-based Frontier supercomputer retains its top spot — AMD's silicon churns out the flops. — The Top 500 list of the fastest supercomputers in the world was released today … | Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Nvidia, HPE, and the University of Bristol unveil Isambard 3, a supercomputer using 384 Nvidia Grace CPUs, each with 144 cores, reaching speeds of 2.7 petaflops — Nvidia Corp. today detailed three initiatives in which researchers will use its chips to support scientific discovery.| John Harris / The Guardian: |
An interview with AI researcher Timnit Gebru on her controversial sacking by Google in 2020, biases in AI and Big Tech, racism in Silicon Valley, and more — The Ethiopian-born computer scientist lost her job after pointing out the inequalities built into AI.| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
Email: Uber suspends its diversity head Bo Young Lee for hosting sessions on race titled “Don't Call Me Karen”, which attendees felt were insensitive to PoC — The executive hosted sessions about race and being a white woman that were titled “Don't Call Me Karen,” prompting an employee uproar.| New York Times: |
After Google Photos labeled two Black people as “gorillas” in May 2015, photo apps from Google, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft still do not identify gorillas — Eight years after a controversy over Black people being mislabeled by image analysis software — and despite big advances … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers reveal many low-cost Android phones and smart TVs from lesser-known brands, sold in the US and owned by millions, come with malware preinstalled — The bane of low-cost Android devices is showing no signs of going away. — Overall, Android devices have earned a decidedly mixed reputation for security.| RT Watson / The Block: |
Australian blockchain-based fitness app Stepn says iOS users can now buy and sell NFTs from its app, signaling perhaps Apple has softened its stance on crypto — - Stepn users will be able to buy, sell and trade the game's NFT sneakers without having to leave the app.| Financial Times: |
Some educators are cautiously experimenting with generative AI, questioning whether the tech can be used in classrooms without undermining numeracy and literacy — When Lauren started researching the British designer Yinka Ilori for a school project earlier this year, she was able to consult her new study pal: artificial intelligence.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
NYC-based FlowX.ai, which helps financial companies port and modernize legacy software, raised a $35M Series A led by Dawn Capital, following a $9M seed in 2021 — “Digital transformation” and AI remain very buzzy terms in the world of enterprise software, and today a startup operating …
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