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Meta's AI chatbot will now use personal data from users' Facebook and Instagram accounts for personalized responses in the United States and Canada, the company said in a blog post. The upgraded Meta AI can remember user preferences from previous conversations across Facebook, Messenger, and WhatsApp, such as dietary choices and interests. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the feature helps create personalized content like bedtime stories based on his children's interests. Users cannot opt out of the data-sharing fe
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The Federal Aviation Administration is facing its first major aviation disaster in 16 years without a leader because Elon Musk helped push him out. Michael Whitaker stepped down as FAA administrator on January 20th, the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration, after clashing with Elon Musk, who’s company SpaceX is regulated by the agency. Musk publicly […] Read more ›
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After a deadly crash between a civilian jet and a military helicopter, officials are scrambling to figure out what caused the deaths of as many as 67 people. Donald Trump, however, isn’t waiting for evidence: The president on Thursday blamed former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, a Democrat, and diversity, equity, and inclusion programs at the […] Read more ›
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First smartphone-to-satellite video call made. No advanced phone hardware required. Step towards under-served regions getting better communication networks. Users of smartphones in areas where there is no network access may have cause for optimism, after the news that Vodafone claims to have made the world’s first video call via the satellite network. The call was... Read more » Read more ›
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Tensions were high inside Meta ahead of Mark Zuckerbergâs first all-hands meeting of the year. Employee-submitted questions for the CEO touched on a couple of big themes: concerns about his announcement that âlow-performersâ would be let go on February 10th, his MAGA-fueled changes to Metaâs content moderation policies and DEI programs, and his comment to […] Read more ›
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Investigators found the recording devices, or black boxes, from the American Airlines plane that collided with a helicopter Wednesday near Washington. Read more ›
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Trump said he didn't know what caused the crash, but said "we have some very strong opinions and ideas." Read more ›
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Trump provided no evidence and said it was "common sense" the crash was caused by diversity in hiring. Read more ›
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With Indiana Jones & the Great Circle and Doom: The Dark Ages both waiting in the wings, Microsoft confirmed another of its first-party titles making the jump to PS5. Forza Horizon 5 is coming to Sony's console this "spring", and new content for all platforms is also on the way. Read more Read more ›
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Glenn Close played JD Vance's grandma in the 2020 movie "Hillbilly Elegy," based on the vice president's memoir of the same name. Read more ›
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The great battle for Greenland is probably all about resources to make apps like ChatGPT better. Read more ›
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A recent high school graduate and former Neuralink intern has joined meetings to review lines of code and other work history of career public servants, sparking chaos at a major government agency. Read more ›
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Apple held discussions with X (formerly Twitter) about once again showing ads on the social media site, reports The Wall Street Journal. The talks are said to have taken place "in recent weeks." In an attempt to maintain a relationship with X, Apple was one of the companies that did not pause ad buying when Elon Musk took over the company, but Apple did stop its ad buying in 2023... Read more ›
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Apple designed Macs with Apple silicon chips to automatically turn on and start up when the Mac's lid is opened or when the Mac is connected to power, but there is a workaround in macOS Sequoia if you don't like this behavior. In a new support document, Apple provided separate instructions on how to prevent an Apple silicon Mac from turning on when the lid is opened or when it's... Read more ›
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Moments after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerbergâs all-hands comments to employees were widely leaked, a company executive warned in an internal memo that leakers will be fired. âWe take leaks seriously and will take action,â Metaâs chief information security officer, Guy Rosen, said in an internal memo Iâve seen. âWhen information is stolen or leaked, there […] Read more ›
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Midnight Society, the studio co-founded by controversial streamer Guy "Dr Disrespect" Beahm, is shutting its doors, four months after making "significant" layoffs. The news comes as Google announces it's lifting Beahm's YouTube monetisation ban, which was put in place following his admission of "inappropriate" behaviour with a "minor" last year. Read more Read more ›
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Mark Zuckerberg said Meta underestimated TikTok's rise and dismissed it for not thinking it was truly social. Read more ›
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Sony has announced it's very nearly time to bid a fond farewell to those PS5 themes it released in celebration of PlayStation's 30th anniversary last year. But the good news is it has plans to bring them back following a "fantastic response" from players. Read more Read more ›
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg addresses the company's rollback of DEI programs and its community notes model in a leaked recording of an all-hands meeting. Read more ›
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OpenAI says it has evidence suggesting Chinese AI startup DeepSeek used its proprietary models to train a competing open-source system through "distillation," a technique where smaller models learn from larger ones' outputs. The San Francisco-based company, along with partner Microsoft, blocked suspected DeepSeek accounts from accessing its API last year after detecting potential terms of service violations. DeepSeek's R1 reasoning model has achieved comparable results to leading U.S. models despite... Read more ›
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Nvidia has responded to the market panic over Chinese AI group DeepSeek, arguing that the startup's breakthrough still requires "significant numbers of NVIDIA GPUs" for its operation. The US chipmaker, which saw more than $600 billion wiped from its market value on Monday, characterized DeepSeek's advancement as "excellent" but asserted that the technology remains dependent on its hardware. "DeepSeek's work illustrates how new models can be created using [test time... Read more ›
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The UK is considering making households who only use streaming services such as Netflix and Disney pay the BBC license fee, as part of plans to modernize the way it funds the public-service broadcaster. Bloomberg: Extending the fee to streaming applications is on a menu of options being discussed by Prime Minister Keir Starmer's office, the Treasury and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, according to people familiar with... Read more ›
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Dangerous temperatures could kill 50% more people in Europe by the end of the century, a study has found, with the lives lost to stronger heat projected to outnumber those saved from milder cold. From a report: The researchers estimated an extra 8,000 people would die each year as a result of "suboptimal temperatures" even under the most optimistic scenario for cutting planet-heating pollution. The hottest plausible scenario they considered... Read more ›
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Garmin smartwatches are freezing in boot loops, users are reporting globally, with devices displaying a "blue triangle of death" when attempting GPS activities, affecting models across the Epix, Venu, Forerunner, Descent, and Fenix lines. Read more of this story at Slashdot. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a Scientific American opinion piece by Marcus Arvan, a philosophy professor at the University of Tampa, specializing in moral cognition, rational decision-making, and political behavior: In late 2022 large-language-model AI arrived in public, and within months they began misbehaving. Most famously, Microsoft's "Sydney" chatbot threatened to kill an Australian philosophy professor, unleash a deadly virus and steal nuclear codes. AI developers, including Microsoft and OpenAI, respon Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Late last month, researchers revealed a finding that's likely to shock some people and confirm the low expectations of others: Renewable energy facilities throughout Central Europe use unencrypted radio signals to receive commands to feed or ditch power into or from the grid that serves some 450 million people throughout the continent. Fabian Braunlein and Luca Melette stumbled on their discovery... Read more ›
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Meta plans to spend between $60 billion and $65 billion this year to build out AI infrastructure, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Friday, joining a wave of Big Tech firms unveiling hefty investments to capitalize on the technology. From a report: As part of the investment, Meta will build a more than 2-gigawatt data center that would be large enough to cover a significant part of Manhattan. The company --... Read more ›
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Meta's AI chatbot will now use personal data from users' Facebook and Instagram accounts for personalized responses in the United States and Canada, the company said in a blog post. The upgraded Meta AI can remember user preferences from previous conversations across Facebook, Messenger, and WhatsApp, such as dietary choices and interests. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the feature helps create personalized content like bedtime stories based on his children's interests.... Read more ›
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chicksdaddy share a report from the Security Ledger: Vulnerabilities in Subaru's STARLINK telematics software enabled two, independent security researchers to gain unrestricted access to millions of Subaru vehicles deployed in the U.S., Canada and Japan. In a report published Thursday researchers Sam Curry and Shubham Shah revealed a now-patched flaw in Subaru's STARLINK connected vehicle service that allowed them to remotely control Subarus and access vehicle location information and driver... Read more ›
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