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Elon Musk’s Cuts at Twitter? A Data Center, Janitors, Some Toilet Paper
Elon Musk has reduced the company to a bare-bones operation, and employees are under a “zero-based budgeting” mandate to justify any spending.
Google Changes Appeals Process for Suspected Child Abuse Images
People who upload images of children that Google flags as potentially illegal will be able to provide more context to appeal bans.
Twitter Users Report Widespread Service Interruptions
The issues surfaced several days after Elon Musk said he had shut down one of the company’s major data centers.
Lawmakers Signal Inquiries Into US Government’s Use of Foreign Spyware
The moves come as Congress passed a measure last week to try to rein in the proliferation of the hacking tools.
For Sale on eBay: A Military Database of Fingerprints and Iris Scans
German security researchers studying biometric capture devices popular with the U.S. military got more than they expected for $68 on eBay.
As Covid-19 Continues to Spread, So Does Misinformation About It
Doctors are exasperated by the persistence of false and misleading claims about the virus.
Google Employees Brace for a Cost-Cutting Drive as Anxiety Mounts
The tech giant has so far taken steps to streamline without mass layoffs, but employees are girding for deeper cuts.
“Please slow down”—The 7 biggest AI stories of 2022
Enlarge / AI image synthesis advances in 2022 have made images like this one possible, which was created using Stable Diffusion, enhanced with GFPGAN, expanded with DALL-E, and then manually composited together. (credit: Benj Edwards / Ars Technica) More than once this year, AI experts have repeated a familiar refrain: “Please slow down.” AI news...
Meta to pay $725 million to settle Cambridge Analytica lawsuit
Enlarge (credit: Daniel Leal / Getty Images) Meta, the parent company of Facebook, will pay $725 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed in 2018. The lawsuit came in the wake of Facebook’s revelation that it had improperly shared data on 87 million users with Cambridge Analytica, a British political consultancy tied to former President...