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Ireland's DPC fines TikTok €345M after finding the company in breach of GDPR in relation to its handling of children's data and gives three months to comply — It's been a long time coming but TikTok has finally been found in breach of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
X partners with Au10tix to offer paid users government ID-based account verification, which is not available in the EU or the UK, likely due to strict data laws — X, formerly Twitter, has launched government ID-based account verification for paid users to prevent impersonation and give them benefits such as “prioritized support.”
More: PCMag, X, The Verge, MobileSyrup, Engadget, and Coinspeaker
| Victor Tangermann / Futurism: |
Microsoft's Start news website published a garbled, seemingly AI-generated obit for former NBA player Brandon Hunter, headlined, “Brandon Hunter useless at 42” — Former NBA player Brandon Hunter passed away unexpectedly at the young age of 42 this week, a tragedy that rattled fans … | Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Google confirms the company does not offer repair options for cracked Pixel Watch screens; Google's hardware warranty policy does not cover accidental damage — If you crack the screen on the Pixel Watch, getting it officially repaired by Google isn't in the cards.
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| Elizabeth Pineau / Reuters: |
Apple plans an iPhone 12 software update in France over radiation, saying this is “not a safety concern” and is for the regulators' “specific testing protocol” — Apple said on Friday it would issue a software update for iPhone 12 users in France …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Meta is exploring whether to show ads in WhatsApp and charge a subscription fee to use the app without ads; WhatsApp denies working on such a feature — Talks are at an early stage, sources say, as Facebook parent looks for new ways to increase revenue
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Google agrees to pay California $93M to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of tracking users for commercial gain even after they turned off Location History — Google will pay California $93 million to resolve a lawsuit accusing the search engine company of misleading consumers about its location tracking practices.| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Salesforce plans to hire 3,300 people across sales, engineering, and its data cloud product, after cutting 10% of its workforce, or ~8,000 jobs, in January 2023 — - New hires will be split among sales, engineering, data cloud — Many hires will be boomerang employees, CEO Benioff says
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Sources: TSMC told its major suppliers to delay the delivery of high-end chipmaking equipment, as the chipmaker grows increasingly nervous about customer demand — Taiwan's TSMC (2330.TW) has told its major suppliers to delay the delivery of high-end chipmaking equipment …
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| Jon Victor / The Information: |
Sources: Google gave a small group of companies access to an early version of its Gemini AI model, suggesting the company is close to launching the GPT-4 rival — Google has given a small group of companies access to an early version of its highly anticipated conversational artificial intelligence software …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
X changes its crowdsourced fact-checking Community Notes feature to show contributors other note proposals and see other viewpoints before they submit a rating — X (formerly Twitter) this week changed how its crowdsourced fact-checking Community Notes feature works.| Bloomberg: |
At trial, the US DOJ asserted Googlers are trained to have sensitive conversations over chat with history off and avoid phrases like “market share” and “bundle” — Hi all, it's Tom Giles in San Francisco and Davey Alba in Washington.
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| Mehul Srivastava / Financial Times: |
MGM was likely hacked by Scattered Spider, an English-speaking group that previously used help desk calls to get passwords and planned to hack the slot machines — Person claiming to represent cybercriminals explains techniques used to evade detection by casino resort company
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Sources: ByteDance and the US restart their negotiations over TikTok's operations after six months, as calls to ban the app fade ahead of the 2024 US election — Calls to ban the wildly popular app have faded ahead of the 2024 election — TikTok's China-based parent company and the U.S. government … | Rest of World: |
How some Chinese data labeling companies hired by Baidu, Alibaba, and JD.com to train AI are exploiting vocational school students via data labeling internships — As part of China's digital underclass, vocational school students work as data annotators - for low pay and little future prospects.
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