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| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
Google says it is “taking swift action” to remove AI Overviews on certain queries “where appropriate under our content policies” — Social media is abuzz with examples of Google's new AI Overview product saying weird stuff, from telling users to put glue on their pizza to suggesting they eat rocks.
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| Peter Kafka / Business Insider: |
Google says the vast majority of AI Overviews provide high-quality information and many of the viral examples have been uncommon queries or have been doctored — Step 1: Google rolls out a new AI-powered product. Step 2: Users quickly find the product's flaws and point them out with social-media posts, which become news stories.
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| Washington Post: |
Two lawsuits filed on behalf of the Uvalde shooting victims allege Activision, Meta, and the gunmaker, Daniel Defense, are responsible for “grooming” the gunman — The lawsuits allege the companies are responsible for pushing the Robb Elementary shooter to acquire an AR-15-style weapon.
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
A US jury finds that Phoenix Digital, which owns the cheat mod site AimJunkies, is guilty of violating Bungie copyrights when it created cheats for Destiny 2 — The landmark decision may be the first time a jury has agreed that a cheat creator violated a gaming company's copyrights.| Viola Zhou / Rest of World: |
How Threads became a gathering space for young progressives in Taiwan, who now use the app to organize protests against pro-China opposition parties — Despite Meta's promise to crack down on political content in the app, Taiwanese activists are using it to organize.| Bloomberg: |
A significant amount of illicit crypto activity still remains in China, highlighting the continuing use of cryptocurrencies despite Beijing's digital asset ban — - Crypto tied to billions of dollars in underground transactions — Cases are further signs of holes in China's digital-asset ban| Christine Mui / Politico: |
Congress has quietly diverted $3.5B from the US CHIPS Act to Secure Enclave, a classified project proposed by Intel to build chips for defense needs — The Commerce Department was expecting to hand out new federal money to high-tech research. Congress sent it to a secretive natsec program instead.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Filings: US pharmaceutical company Cencora notified ~500K individuals since learning about a data breach in February 2024 that exposed health diagnoses and more — U.S. pharmaceutical giant Cencora says it is notifying affected individuals that their personal and highly sensitive medical information …
More: BleepingComputer, Benzinga, and Reuters
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| Will Knight / Wired: |
How SLMs like Microsoft's Phi-3, which can run locally on phones or PCs without big compromises, open up new AI use cases by being more responsive and private — Research at Microsoft shows it's possible to make AI models small enough to run on phones or laptops without major compromises to their smarts.
More: Wccftech. X: @sergiomaldo and @mcwm
LinkedIn: Montgomery Singman, Craig Scroggie, Martijn Rasser, and Ian Mullane
| Rest of World: |
A test of 11 WhatsApp-based fact-checking “tip lines” during elections in India finds long delays and inconsistencies in responses — Rest of World tested 11 leading WhatsApp-based chatbots that promise to help Indian voters identify misinformation.| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
Instant messaging client ICQ will stop working from June 26, recommends users migrate to messaging platforms from parent company VK; ICQ had 100M users in 2001 — ICQ will stop working on June 26. It's encouraging users to migrate to a messaging app from Russia-based VK, its parent company.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says that users' deleted photos that resurfaced after installing iOS 17.5 weren't synced to iCloud Photos and could have persisted after restoring backups — Earlier this week, Apple released iOS 17.5.1 to address a rare problem where deleted photos would reappear on a user's device after installing iOS 17.5.
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