Meta CTO says the technical issues during live demos of its new smart glasses were due to a self-inflicted DDoS and a bug that put Zuckerberg's glasses to sleep
and it wasn't the Wi-Fi Lakshmi Varanasi / Business Insider : Meta's CTO: We'd ‘love’ iMessage on Ray-Ban glasses, but Apple won't allow it David Heaney / UploadVR : Meta Explains ...
OpenAI and others will likely face more copyright lawsuits as systems like DALL-E produce copyright-infringing materials without attribution or informing users
including movie, TV, and computer game scenes and characters. Reductio ad absurdam: trademark-infringing output from a two word prompt ("animated toys"): https://garymarcus.substa...
OpenAI and others will likely face more copyright lawsuits as systems like DALL-E produce copyright-infringing materials without attribution or informing users
A full of spectrum of infringement — At around the same time as news of the New York Times lawsuit vs OpenAI broke … Threads: @carnage4life and @thebrianpenny Mastodon: @cstross@...
How Meta and Google held back their tech to recognize unknown people's faces due to privacy worries, opening the door for startups like Clearview AI and PimEyes
A profile of Mike Masnick, who founded Techdirt in 1998, considered by lawmakers, CEOs, and activists as an essential guide for what's happening in tech
A profile of Mike Masnick, who founded Techdirt in 1998, considered by lawmakers, CEOs, and activists as an essential guide for what's happening in tech
Mike Masnick, who founded Techdirt in 1998, writes for an influential audience of lawmakers, C.E.O.s and activists.
OpenAI and DeepMind executives, Geoffrey Hinton, and 350+ others sign a statement saying “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority”
and says computer scientists need ethics training Brian Fung / CNN : AI industry and researchers sign statement warning of ‘extinction’ risk Alka Jain / Livemint : Industry leaders...
SafeGraph says it will stop selling the location data of visitors to Planned Parenthood and other family planning centers “to curtail any potential misuse”
including the authorities — conveniently pre-sifted for visits to reproductive health clinics. A years-in-the-making total regulatory failure. https://twitter.com/... https://twitt...
Leaked pitch deck: Clearview AI told investors that it will have 100B facial photos in its database within a year, after growing to 10B+ since early 2020
because Congress is doing NOTHING to stop this — that it can get away with everything. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Will Oremus / @willoremus : In the absence of regulation,...
Leaked pitch deck: Clearview AI told investors that it will have 100B facial photos in its database within a year, after growing to 10B+ since early 2020
because Congress is doing NOTHING to stop this — that it can get away with everything. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Will Oremus / @willoremus : In the absence of regulation,...
Leaked pitch deck: Clearview AI told investors that it will have 100B facial photos in its database within a year, after growing to 10B+ since early 2020
because Congress is doing NOTHING to stop this — that it can get away with everything. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Will Oremus / @willoremus : In the absence of regulation,...
Citizen Lab: the iPhone of Ben Hubbard, an American reporter for NYT, was hacked in 2020 and 2021, likely by Saudi Arabia using NSO's Pegasus; NSO denies claim
Invasive hacking software sold to countries to fight terrorism is easily abused. Researchers say my phone was hacked twice, probably by Saudi Arabia. Source: The Citizen Lab .
Lyft and Uber say they will cover legal fees for drivers who are sued under Texas' new abortion law for transporting women to abortion clinics
- Lyft and Uber said Friday they would cover legal fees for drivers on their respective platforms who are sued under Texas' restrictive abortion law that went into effect this week...
Following Texas' abortion law, tech companies could face suits over providing on-demand rides to clinics, subpoenas requesting user data, and more
Issie Lapowsky / Protocol :
Following Texas' abortion law, tech companies could face suits over providing on-demand rides to clinics, subpoenas requesting user data, and more
With the Supreme Court deciding not to block Texas' effective ban on abortion this week, fears have been rightly focused on the people in Texas …
Group behind Poly Network, a cross-chain protocol used for DeFi applications, says a hacker has stolen $611M; one researcher blames the attack on a crypto flaw
Quick Take — Cross-chain protocol Poly Network has been hacked for $611 million. — The team behind the protocol …
A look at link rot, and projects like Perma, which are trying to give authors of enduring documents like scholarly papers a way to preserve links permanently
Sixty years ago the futurist Arthur C. Clarke observed that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Tweets: @lanceulanoff , @ethanz , @heghoulian , @d...
Researchers say the study of social media's large-scale societal impact should be treated as a “crisis discipline”, like climate science or conservation biology
One challenge is how little we know about the dangers. — Social media has drastically restructured … Tweets: @ct_bergstrom , @ct_bergstrom , @zittrain , @richggall , @bob_wachter...
Researchers say the study of social media's large-scale societal impact should be treated as a “crisis discipline”, like climate science or conservation biology
One challenge is how little we know about the dangers. — Social media has drastically restructured … Tweets: @ct_bergstrom , @ct_bergstrom , @zittrain , @richggall , @bob_wachter...
Researchers say the study of social media's large-scale societal impact should be treated as a “crisis discipline”, like climate science or conservation biology
One challenge is how little we know about the dangers. — Social media has drastically restructured … Tweets: @ct_bergstrom , @ct_bergstrom , @zittrain , @richggall , @bob_wachter...