Month: January 2024

Meta CEO accused of being ‘irresponsible’ by considering making tools on par with human intelligence open source Mark Zuckerberg has been accused of taking an irresponsible approach to artificial intelligence after committing to building a powerful AI system on a par with human levels of intelligence. The Facebook founder has also raised the prospect of …

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Employees fretted over company’s ‘negligible’ response to child grooming, according to internal documents made public in lawsuit Meta estimates about 100,000 children using Facebook and Instagram receive online sexual harassment each day, including “pictures of adult genitalia”, according to internal company documents made public late Wednesday. The unsealed legal filing includes several allegations against the …

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The Securities and Exchange Commission has alleged the crypto exchange is flouting rules and selling unregistered securities A federal judge in Manhattan on Wednesday grilled Coinbase and the US securities regulator about their divergent views on whether and when digital assets are securities, in a case closely watched by the cryptocurrency industry. Coinbase argued against …

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Sandberg was once considered so critical to Facebook’s success that her exit was seen as potential risk to investors’ money Sandberg to leave board of Facebook parent Meta Mark Zuckerberg hired Sheryl Sandberg as Facebook’s chief operating officer in 2008 as the social network was growing fast and trying to attract investment. Zuckerberg, who founded …

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South Korean firm will hope generative AI text, voice, image and video tools can help it regain top spot in phone market Samsung has leaned heavily into AI tricks for its latest premium S24 Android phones, including instant phone call translation, new Google search and advanced image and video-editing features as it attempts to reignite …

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Sundar Pichai’s memo acknowledges redundancies would come on top of round of layoffs reported last week Google’s chief executive has told employees to expect more job cuts this yearafter a recent round of layoffs that affected 1,000 staff. Sundar Pichai said in a memo to staff on Wednesday that “some roles may be impacted” as …

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Parents working for tech companies have a first-hand look at how the industry works – and the threats it poses to child safety Arturo Bejar would not have let his daughter use Instagram at the age of 14 if he’d known then what he knows now. Bejar left Facebook in 2015, where he spent six …

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In this week’s newsletter: Find out how the ‘no strings attached’ site hack forever altered thousands in Exposed. Plus: five of the best podcasts that ended too soon • Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here If you listened to Stephen Fry’s recent podcast, it might have left you puzzled. The …

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Sony, PS5Visual and haptical enhancements along with bonus content including new modes, cut stages and audio commentary from designers make this a required experience It’s hard to believe The Last of Us Part II originally arrived almost four years ago, dropping right into the middle of the Covid lockdown period. There was such a haunting …

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Former chief operating officer was lead architect of Facebook’s digital advertising-driven business model Sheryl Sandberg is to step down from the board of Facebook’s parent company, Meta, nearly two years after quitting her executive role at the business. Sandberg was the lead architect of Facebook’s digital advertising-driven business model as Meta’s chief operating officer. Continue …

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