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Meta begins training AI using EU citizens’ data, but the fight’s not over yet
Meta can train its AI models using the public posts of European Instagram and Facebook users. But an expert tells Cybernews that a German court's decision to reject an injunction against the company doesn’t mean there will be no restrictions.
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OpenAI exploring ways for users to sign in to apps using ChatGPT
OpenAI is mulling over the possibility of implementing an option for users to sign in to third-party apps using their ChatGPT accounts. This isn’t surprising, as ChatGPT is already one of the largest consumer applications in the world.
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Adidas confirms customer data stolen in third-party breach, but still no word if US or EU customers impacted
Adidas on Tuesday officially confirmed that a third-party breach has led to the compromise of customer data, but questions remain as to whose customer data was impacted and where.
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Salesforce to acquire Informatica for $8BN
Salesforce has announced plans to acquire Informatica, an AI-powered cloud data management company, in a deal valued at $8 billion.
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Spotify down for thousands of UK and US users
Spotify is supposedly down in the US and UK as users struggle to listen to their favourite tracks.
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Are Telegram bots powering attack drones against Ukraine?
Ukrainian experts are casting doubt on reports that Russia is using Telegram bots to control drones attacking Ukraine.
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Cloudflare boss sends stark warning over LaLiga anti-piracy campaign
While LaLiga, Spain’s premier soccer league, continues its broad blocking of live pirated sports streams, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince seems frustrated that the blockade has also hit millions of innocent websites and “prays no one dies.”
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Teen dies after playing viral “run it straight” TikTok game
A 19-year-old from New Zealand has died after playing a viral social media game where people are made to collide at full force with other players.
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SHEIN has been misleading customers, EU demands answers
EU watchdogs have just put SHEIN on notice over fake discounts, greenwashing, and dodgy tactics.
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AI now threatens entry-level jobs: big tech hires 50% fewer college grads
Entry-level hiring has now collapsed, and the ruthless advance of artificial intelligence (AI) is at least partly to blame, a new report says.
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Plunge in tech jobs deflating majestic housing bubble in San Francisco
San Francisco is still one of the most expensive US cities to live in. But widespread tech layoffs are now plunging the area’s housing prices to pre-pandemic levels.
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OpenAI’s o3 model successfully avoids being turned off, researchers say
OpenAI’s o3, a powerful large language model, managed to alter a shutdown script to avoid being turned off even though it was specifically instructed to allow shutdown.
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YouTube has already paid out $12 billion to rightsholders through Content ID
Rightsholders are increasingly choosing monetization over removal of their content on YouTube, the platform’s latest “Copyright Transparency Report” shows.
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New AI model Aurora already better at weather prediction than current systems
A new artificial intelligence (AI) model named Aurora uses machine learning to outperform current weather prediction systems, researchers say, and hope it will help forecast extreme weather better.
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Musk’s DOGE pushes Grok AI into US government, causing conflict of interest concerns
Billionaire Elon Musk’s DOGE team is expanding use of his artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok in the US federal government to analyze data, said three people familiar with the matter, potentially violating conflict-of-interest laws and putting at risk sensitive information on millions of Americans.
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OnlyFans could be sold for $8 billion
OnlyFans owner Fenix International Ltd is in talks to sell the porn-driven company to an investor group at a valuation of around $8 billion, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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AI will use half of power generated in datacentres by end of year
Artificial intelligence (AI) will most likely account for nearly half of data center power consumption by the end of this year, an expert has estimated.
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Kettering hospitals scramble after ransomware attack, thousands patient procedures canceled
A ransomware attack on Kettering Health network in Ohio forces more than 120 medical facilities, including nine major hospitals, to cancel thousands of patient procedures – some of them for life-threatening illnesses.
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Microsoft blocks words like “Palestine,” “Gaza” from company emails
Microsoft employees report that internal emails containing words such as “Palestine,” “Gaza,” and “genocide” were blocked from reaching recipients.
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We’ll buy AI-generated drugs by end of decade, startup head says
Artificial intelligence (AI) helps many with productivity, but it will probably help even more people when it generates entirely new drugs. And they’ll probably be commercially available by the end of the decade, the CEO of an AI drug discovery startup says.
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