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Enlarge / An Apple Store in Shanghai, China, on April 11, 2024. CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images reader comments 187 Apple said it complied with orders from the Chinese government to remove the Meta-owned WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China. Apple also removed Telegram and Signal from China. “We are obligated to ..
reader comments 42 A jury has unanimously convicted Avi Eisenberg in the US Department of Justice’s first case involving cryptocurrency open-market manipulation, the DOJ announced Thursday. The jury found Eisenberg guilty of commodities fraud, commodities market manipulation, and wire fraud in connection with the manipulation on a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange called Mango Markets. Eisenberg is ..
reader comments 75 X’s chatbot Grok is supposed to be an AI engine crunching the platform’s posts to surface and summarize breaking news, but this week, Grok’s flaws were once again exposed when the chatbot got confused and falsely accused an NBA star of criminal vandalism. “Klay Thompson Accused in Bizarre Brick-Vandalism Spree,” Grok’s headline ..
reader comments 164 The US Constitution’s Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination does not prohibit police officers from forcing a suspect to unlock a phone with a thumbprint scan, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday. The ruling does not apply to all cases in which biometrics are used to unlock an electronic device but is a ..
reader comments 77 The US AI Safety Institute—part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)—has finally announced its leadership team after much speculation. Appointed as head of AI safety is Paul Christiano, a former OpenAI researcher who pioneered a foundational AI safety technique called reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), but is also ..
Getty Images reader comments 33 It’s easy to get the impression that Discord chat messages are ephemeral, especially across different public servers, where lines fly upward at a near-unreadable pace. But someone claims to be catching and compiling that data and is offering packages that can track more than 600 million users across more than ..
Enlarge / Tesla CEO Elon Musk at an opening event for Tesla’s Gigafactory on March 22, 2022, in Gruenheide, southeast of Berlin. Getty Images | Patrick Pleul reader comments 288 Tesla is asking shareholders to approve a move to Texas and to re-approve a $55.8 billion pay package for CEO Elon Musk that was recently ..
Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino reader comments 47 Some net neutrality proponents are worried that soon-to-be-approved Federal Communications Commission rules will allow harmful fast lanes because the plan doesn’t explicitly ban “positive” discrimination. FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel’s proposed rules for Internet service providers would prohibit blocking, throttling, and paid prioritization. The rules mirror the ones ..
reader comments 201 Elon Musk confirmed Monday that X (formerly Twitter) plans to start charging new users to post on the platform, TechCrunch reported. “Unfortunately, a small fee for new user write access is the only way to curb the relentless onslaught of bots,” Musk wrote on X. In October, X confirmed that it was ..
