Month: September 2024

Hackers were trying to undermine Trump’s campaign as Republican nominee for president, says Merrick Garland The US justice department unsealed criminal charges on Friday against three Iranian operatives suspected of hacking Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and disseminating stolen information to media organizations. The US attorney general, Merrick Garland, said on Friday afternoon that hackers were …

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Mark Zuckerberg is embracing both AI and full-on imperial monomania. As for petty gripes about elections and teen mental health, so what? The good news is that Mark Zuckerberg has become bored of looking like an answer to the AI prompt “efit of a teen villain”. The bad? While the Meta overlord has grown out …

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Ex-employee William Saunders says he is also concerned by reports Sam Altman could hold stake in restructured firm OpenAI’s plan to become a for-profit company could encourage the artificial intelligence startup to cut corners on safety, a whistleblower has warned. William Saunders, a former research engineer at OpenAI, told the Guardian he was concerned by …

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Even if you haven’t knowingly opted in, companies are still scraping your personal information to train their systems Welcome to Opt Out, a semi-regular column in which we help you navigate your online privacy and show you how to say no to surveillance. If you’d like to skip to a section about a particular site …

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Carmaker wants to ‘appeal to employees’ work ethic’ but move prompts outrage from plant’s union The boss of a Tesla factory has defended the decision to send managers to the homes of workers on long-term sick leave. In recent weeks, a director of Tesla’s electric car plant in Germany sent managers to check up on …

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Though the message has been shared by many users, including celebrities, it offers no copyright or privacy protection The “Goodbye Meta AI” message, which purports to protect the user from having the likes of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp use their accounts as an AI training camp, has become an increasingly common feature on timelines. It …

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X owner responds by saying people should avoid UK when ‘they’re releasing convicted pedophiles’ Elon Musk has hit back at the UK government after he was not invited to an international investment summit following his controversial social media posts during last month’s riots. Musk said on X on Thursday: “I don’t think anyone should go …

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Company plans announced as it reckons with departure of senior executives and seeks huge investment OpenAI planning to become for-profit company, say reports OpenAI, the developer of the groundbreaking ChatGPT chatbot, is preparing to overhaul its corporate structure and become a for-profit business. The startup’s chief executive, Sam Altman, acknowledged on Thursday that it was …

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False information spurred these migrants to come to the US. Now they receive even more misleading information about navigating their new home This article is co-published with Documented, a multilingual news site about immigrants in New York, and the Markup, a non-profit, investigative newsroom that challenges technology to serve the public good. One video told …

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Online pledge by Smartphone Free Childhood signed by at least one parent at 6,537 schools An online pledge to withhold smartphones from children until they are at least 14 has been signed by parents at 20% of schools across the UK, according to a campaign group. A “parent pact” organised by Smartphone Free Childhood has …

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