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| Walter Isaacson / CNBC: |
How Tesla's Autopilot team moved away from a rules-based approach for the upcoming FSD 12 to a “neural network planner” trained on 10M+ Tesla car video clips — The following is adapted from Walter Isaacson's biography “Elon Musk,” publishing Sept. 12.
More: Axios and UPROXX
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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
A US appeals court finds the White House, the CDC, and the FBI likely violated the First Amendment by influencing tech companies' moderation of COVID-19 posts — The Court upheld many restrictions on the White House and Surgeon General's office's contacts with tech companies, finding that they ‘coerced’ platforms' content decisions
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| Hillel Italie / Associated Press: |
Amazon starts requiring writers in its e-book program to disclose using AI-generated content in their books, after complaints from the Authors Guild and others — After months of complaints from the Authors Guild and other groups, Amazon.com has started requiring writers who want to sell books through …
More: Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, The Authors Guild, PCMag, and Cryptopolitan
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Google says North Korea-backed hackers are again targeting security researchers via a zero-day exploit; this still unfixed flaw is in a popular software package — Google researchers say currently unfixed vulnerability affects a popular software package. — North Korea-backed hackers …
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| Bloomberg: |
An FTC judge rules that Intuit misled consumers with its ads claiming that TurboTax is free when most customers need to pay to use the tax preparation software — - Judge orders company to stop advertising TurboTax as free — Intuit to appeal ‘flawed and highly questionable’ decision
More: Ars Technica, The Verge, Federal Trade Commission, PCMag, CNBC, Federal Trade Commission, The Messenger, MarketWatch, and Reuters
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Roblox unveils Roblox Assistant, a conversational AI assistant that lets creators type in prompts to generate virtual environments, get coding help, and more — Roblox announced a new conversational AI assistant at its 2023 Roblox Developers Conference (RDC) that can help creators more easily …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
More: TechCrunch, Wired, Neowin, and Mashable
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
| Vincent Manancourt / Politico: |
How privacy campaigners and tech executives, like Signal president Meredith Whittaker, teamed up to challenge the UK's Online Safety Bill encryption crackdown — LONDON — Deep in the recesses of Britain's Hogwarts-like houses of parliament, a Facebook lobbyist-turned-lord is trying to foment a rebellion.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Some Wyze security camera owners report that they were briefly able to see feeds from cameras they didn't own or recognize; Wyze blames “a web caching issue” — Some Wyze security camera owners reported Friday that they were unexpectedly able to see webcam feeds that weren't theirs … | Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
How some doctors are using VR to help patients manage pain and to practice by simulating procedures, as medical schools insert the tech into their curriculums — - Surgeons are using Meta's Quest 2 to simulate procedures, allowing doctors to practice from home.
More: Oculus Blog
| Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: |
The Delhi High Court approves an injunction for preemptive blocks of pirate websites that covers “future content”, as requested by Netflix, Disney, and others — Like many other countries around the world, India's copyright law allows rightsholders to limit access to pirate sites.| Bloomberg: |
Code in Uber's iOS app suggests that the company is working on a TaskRabbit-like service, codenamed Chore, that lets users hire people to conduct various tasks — - Uber is looking for new ways to grow beyond rides, deliveries — Uber Technologies Inc. is working on a TaskRabbit-like service … | Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg: |
X sues California over AB 587, arguing the law forcing social networks to detail their moderation interferes with X's constitutionally protected editorial calls — Elon Musk's X Corp. sued California over a law requiring social media companies to explain how their content is moderated.
More: The Verge, United States District Court Eastern District of California Sacramento Division, Techdirt, Los Angeles Times, Insider, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Reclaim The Net, Associated Press, The Hill, Chamber of Progress, Reuters, and Engadget
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X: @globalaffairs, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, and @elonmusk
| Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Maltese politician Alex Agius Saliba, who led the EU's legislation to make USB-C the standard, forcing Apple to replace the iPhone's Lightning port — Apple's new iPhone is expected to include a big change. Why? Ask someone from the EU's smallest country.
More: Wired, Android Authority, CNET, and Mercury News
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