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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
EU issues Meta a record €1.2B GDPR fine for sending European user data to the US and orders Meta to end the transfers and unlawful processing 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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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp rolls out the ability to edit messages up to 15 minutes after they are sent; edited messages get an “edited” tag, without showing edit history — WhatsApp is finally announced one of the most anticipated features today— message editing.
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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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| 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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| Bobby Allyn / NPR: |
TikTok sues Montana over its new law banning the app, citing the First Amendment, the state's lack of authority on national security issues, and more — TikTok has filed a federal lawsuit against Montana after the state passed a law last week intended to ban the app from being downloaded within its borders.
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| New York Times: |
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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| Yossi Matias / The Keyword: |
Google expands its AI-based flood forecasting service Flood Hub to 80 countries, up from 20, offering forecasts up to 7 days in advance to 460 million people — Flood Hub is expanding to 80 countries, providing forecasting up to 7 days in advance of a flood to 460 million people.| 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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| 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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| Tiyashi Datta / Reuters: |
Zoom reports Q1 revenue of $1.11B, vs. $1.08B est., up 3% YoY, Enterprise revenue of $632M, up 13% YoY, and customers contributing $100K+ annually up ~23% YoY — Zoom Video Communications Inc (ZM.O) on Monday raised its annual revenue forecast, betting on hybrid work trends to sustain demand for its video-conferencing services.
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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
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