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China ordered Apple to remove some of the world’s most popular chat messaging apps from its app store in the country, the latest example of censorship demands on the iPhone seller in the company’s second-biggest market. WSJ: Meta’s WhatsApp and Threads… Continue reading Apple Removes WhatsApp, Threads and Telegram From China App Store
The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has slapped coding boot camp BloomTech — formerly known as Lambda School — with several punishments for alleged deceptive business practices. From a report: The business, which claims on its site it … Continue reading Feds Hit Coding Boot Camp With Big Fine For Allegedly Conning Students
A jury found Avraham “Avi” Eisenberg guilty on all three counts of fraud and manipulation in a $110 million crypto trade scheme using the Mango Markets platform. Axios: The case was the first known test for a jury to decide whether existing U.S. laws g… Continue reading Crypto Trader Eisenberg Convicted of Fraud in $110 Million Mango Markets Scheme
U.S. aircraft manufacturer Boeing plans to enter the flying car business in Asia by 2030, looking to tap demand for the fast travel the vehicles could provide in the region’s traffic-choked cities. Nikkei: Boeing Chief Technology Officer Todd Citron re… Continue reading Boeing Aims To Bring Flying Cars To Asia By 2030
Nigeria will criminalize the destruction of broadband fiber cables following repeated complaints by MTN Nigeria and other telecommunications companies that they are losing billions of naira, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matt… Continue reading Nigeria To Criminalise Fiber Cable Damage Costing Telecoms Billions
The U.S. Copyright Office has granted a copyright registration to Elisa Shupe, a retired U.S. Army veteran, for her novel “AI Machinations: Tangled Webs and Typed Words,” which extensively used OpenAI’s ChatGPT in its creation. The registration is amon… Continue reading Author Granted Copyright Over Book With AI-Generated Text – With a Twist
An anonymous reader shares a report: A financially motivated criminal hacking group says it has stolen a confidential database containing millions of records that companies use for screening potential customers for links to sanctions and financial crim… Continue reading Hackers Are Threatening To Publish a Huge Stolen Sanctions and Financial Crimes Watchlist
Meta debuted a new version of its powerful Llama AI model, its latest effort to keep pace with similar technology from companies like OpenAI, X and Google. The company describes Llama 3 8B and Llama 3 70B, containing 8 billion and 70 billion parameters… Continue reading Meta Releases Llama 3 AI Models, Claiming Top Performance
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced substantial internal reorganizations on Thursday, including the creation of a new team called “Platforms and Devices” that will oversee all of Google’s Pixel products, all of Android, Chrome, ChromeOS, Photos, and mor… Continue reading Google is Combining Its Android and Hardware Teams
Researchers in Canada got most of what they were hoping for in the country’s 2024 federal budget, with a big boost in postgraduate pay and more funding for research and scientific infrastructure. From a report: “We are investing over $5 billion in Cana… Continue reading Canadian Science Gets Biggest Boost To PhD and Postdoc Pay in 20 Years