Collaborate Disseminate
A class action filed this week accused Amazon’s Twitch gaming service of using video streams to fuel its AI products without licensing or obtaining permission, reports Engadget:
Earlier this month, Twitch Support posted on X that it added an option to… Continue reading Twitch And Amazon Hit With Lawsuit for Training AI With Streamers’ Content
This week OpenAI launched a version of ChatGPT exclusively designed for teenagers between the ages of 13 and 17, reports CTV, “saying this version came with stronger protections around content related to mentions of suicide, self-harm and romantic or s… Continue reading OpenAI Faces Safety Scrutiny After Introducing ‘ChatGPT For Teens’
“Iran shut down a British power plant for four days in an unprecedented cyber attack,” reports the Telegraph.
More details from the BBC:
The government said that at no point was there a risk to the UK’s energy system, but the Department for Energy … Continue reading Iran-linked Cyberattackers Shut Down a UK Power Plant for Four Days
Slovakia acquired speed cameras to modernize its traffic control– but there was a surprise. Tom’s Hardware cites this story from the Risky Bulletin Newsletter:
Unfortunately, the country’s national security service, the NBU, has discovered that the c… Continue reading Slovakia Finds Russian Backdoor In Traffic Speed Cameras
“There is still no sign of economy-wide job destruction,” says economist Erik Brynjolfsson. Working with researchers at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, Brynjolfsson has determined an AI “job apocalypse” is unlikely, reports the Washington Post, “even… Continue reading Stanford Economist Now Believes an AI Job Apocalypse Is Unlikely
“It began life just a year after SimCity 4’s 2003 launch,” writes the blog PCGamesN. “Now, over 20 years later, it’s still going strong with the arrival of Network Addon Mod update 50.”
The SimCity 4 Network Addon Mod, or simply ‘NAM’ among the commun… Continue reading 23 Years After SimCity 4’s Release, ‘Eternal Commuter’ Bug Finally Fixed
An anonymous reader shared this report from the blog It’s FOSS:
Canonical has committed funding to a three-year PhD project focused on building a system that can automatically translate large C codebases into Rust. And they are not alone; UK Research… Continue reading Canonical is Funding a PhD to Automate C to Rust Translation
Falling prices have made grid-scale storage batteries more attractive, reports Bloomberg. But after decades of stagnant investment, America’s grids “are racing to make the upgrades needed to plug them in,” with supplies straining for the necessary equi… Continue reading Supply Chain Issues Delaying US Grid Batteries’ Installation
Debian developers are voting on whether to ban AI-assisted contributions, reports the blog Linuxiac, with a ballot listing eight proposals and a “None of the above” option.
The first one is still the original proposal to ban LLM-assisted contributio… Continue reading Debian is Voting on Whether to Allow AI-Assisted Contributions
Retraction Watch reports:
A trial date has been set in a $1 billion defamation case against Elsevier that alleges the company published what plaintiffs say was a manipulated study about an air purifying technology over objections from peer reviewers… Continue reading Defamation Suit Demanding Elsevier Retract Paper Heads Closer To Trial