Enlarge / Elon Musk. Getty Images | Bloomberg reader comments 573 Tesla shareholders have re-approved CEO Elon Musk’s $44.9 billion pay package, the company announced today. “Our stockholders have approved the ratification of the 100 percent performance-based stock option award to Elon Musk that was approved by stockholders in 2018,” Brandon Ehrhart, Tesla’s general counsel ..
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Enlarge / The standard Starlink satellite dish. reader comments 109 You can now buy a Starlink satellite dish for $299 (plus shipping and tax) in 28 US states due to a discount for areas where SpaceX’s broadband network has excess capacity. Starlink had raised its upfront hardware cost from $499 to $599 in March 2022 but ..
reader comments 57 Photos of Brazilian kids—sometimes spanning their entire childhood—have been used without their consent to power AI tools, including popular image generators like Stable Diffusion, Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned on Monday. This act poses urgent privacy risks to kids and seems to increase risks of non-consensual AI-generated images bearing their likenesses, HRW’s ..
Getty Images | Justin Sullivan reader comments 32 Google has achieved its goal of avoiding a jury trial in one antitrust case after sending a $2.3 million check to the US Department of Justice. Google will face a bench trial, a trial conducted by a judge without a jury, after a ruling today that the ..
Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino reader comments 16 The Federal Communications Commission wants to verify that Internet service providers are strengthening their networks against attacks that take advantage of vulnerabilities in Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). The FCC today unanimously approved a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would require ISPs to prepare confidential reports “detail[ing] their ..
reader comments 19 The European Center for Digital Rights, known as Noyb, has filed complaints in 11 European countries to halt Meta’s plan to start training vague new AI technologies on European Union-based Facebook and Instagram users’ personal posts and pictures. Meta’s AI training data will also be collected from third parties and from using ..
Getty Images | NurPhoto reader comments 29 The US Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission reportedly plan investigations into whether Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI are snuffing out competition in artificial intelligence technology. The agencies struck a deal on how to divide up the investigations, The New York Times reported yesterday. Under this deal, the Justice ..
Enlarge / T-Mobile logo exhibited during Mobile World Congress on February 28, 2019 in Barcelona, Spain. Getty Images | NurPhoto / reader comments 111 T-Mobile is hoping that home Internet customers who suffer from frequent service outages will pay $30 a month for a “backup” 5G plan. T-Mobile’s new “Home Internet Backup,” announced today, is ..
reader comments 63 After the most downloaded local news app in the US, NewsBreak, shared an AI-generated story about a fake New Jersey shooting last Christmas Eve, New Jersey police had to post a statement online to reassure troubled citizens that the story was “entirely false,” Reuters reported. “Nothing even similar to this story occurred ..
Getty Images | NurPhoto / reader comments 175 Canada has ordered large online streaming services to pay 5 percent of their Canadian revenue to the government in a program expected to raise $200 million per year to support local news and other home-grown content. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced its decision yesterday ..
