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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
The EU fines Meta €1.2B for sending European user data to the US, a record GDPR fine, and orders Meta to end the 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
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Some blue-check Twitter accounts, one pretending to be Bloomberg, spread an AI-generated image of an explosion at the Pentagon; the stock market briefly dipped — An AI-generated image of a fake explosion near the Pentagon went viral thanks to blue-check Twitter accounts. — Chloe Xiang
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Some users say Twitter is restoring tweets and retweets that they had deleted, in what appears to be a new bug — Earlier this year on the 8th of May I deleted all my tweets, just under 5,000 of them. … This morning, though, I discovered that Twitter has restored a handful of my old re-tweets …
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After Google Photos labeled two Black people as “gorillas” in June 2015, photo apps from Google, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft still can't identify most primates — Eight years after a controversy over Black people being mislabeled as gorillas by image analysis software … | 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.
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Top500: 121 of the 500 fastest supercomputers globally are powered by AMD silicon, up 29% YoY; AMD also powers seven of the top ten systems on the Green500 list — AMD's silicon churns out the flops. — The Top 500 list of the fastest supercomputers in the world was released today …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Mark Zuckerberg says WhatsApp users can now edit messages up to 15 minutes after sending them; messages get an “edited” tag beside the time stamp for the change — WhatsApp is finally announced one of the most anticipated features today— message editing.
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| 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.
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| Wired: |
Leaked responses from 20 countries to an EU proposal show most of them support some form of scanning encrypted messages, with Spain wanting an E2EE ban — In response to an EU proposal to scan private messages for illegal material, the country's officials said it is “imperative that we have access to the data.”
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, President Greg Brockman, and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever say we'll likely need an international regulatory body for superintelligence — AI is developing rapidly enough and the dangers it may pose are clear enough that OpenAI's leadership believes that the world needs …
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| Rhiannon Williams / MIT Technology Review: |
Meta unveils open-source AI models it says can identify 4,000+ spoken languages and produce speech for 1,000+ languages, an increase of 40x and 10x respectively — They could help lead to speech apps for many more languages than exist now. — Meta has built AI models that can recognize …
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China's Micron ban may boost Samsung's and SK Hynix's sales, an uncomfortable position for South Korea given the companies' exposure to Chinese and US pressure — Samsung, SK Hynix would be best positioned to fill Micron's void, though geopolitical pressure from both Beijing and Washington make for a tough choice| Bloomberg: |
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| Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
A researcher says hackers took over crypto mixer Tornado Cash on May 20 using a malicious governance proposal to give themselves fake votes to gain full control — Tornado Cash, a service that allows users to mask cryptocurrency transactions, suffered a hostile takeover by hackers through a malicious governance proposal.Sponsor Posts
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