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CEOs of Meta, X, Discord, TikTok and Snap testify before Senate Judiciary Committee
2Apr By adminNo Comments
Technology

CEOs of Meta, X, Discord, TikTok and Snap testify before Senate Judiciary Committee

The Senate Judiciary Committee's grilling of four social media executives produced some notable moments. Here are a few:Zuckerberg, Spiegel personally apologize to families: Meta CEO Zuckerberg stood to apologize to the families in the hearing room. “I’m sorry for everything you have all been through,” he said. “No one should go through the things that your families have suffered and this is why we invest so much and we are going to continue doing industry-wide efforts to make sure no one has to go through the things your families have had to suffer.”Mark Zuckerberg spoke to victims and their family members as he testified during the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, "Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis." Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty ImagesSnap CEO Evan Sp...
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Elon Musk’s Poisoned Platform | The New Yorker
21Nov By adminNo Comments
Entertainment

Elon Musk’s Poisoned Platform | The New Yorker

Last Wednesday, an account on X named @breakingbaht posted a message that read, “Jewish communties [sic] have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.” The post went on to espouse a line of conspiratorial thinking that is sometimes called the “great replacement” theory, suggesting that Jews were driving “hordes of minorities” to supplant white people. @breakingbaht has less than six thousand followers, and the account’s casual, blatant antisemitism might easily have passed with little notice. Since Elon Musk’s acquisition of X last October, the company has slashed its content-moderation staff, and countless virulent posts proliferate daily. This time, though, Musk himself replied, telling @breakingbaht, “Yo...
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Cryptoverse: Bitcoin miners make money ahead of ‘halving’
14Nov By adminNo Comments
Money

Cryptoverse: Bitcoin miners make money ahead of ‘halving’

A bitcoin is seen in an illustration picture taken at La Maison du Bitcoin in Paris, France, June 23, 2017. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsNov 14 (Reuters) - Bitcoin miners are making hay while the sun shines.The business has been yanked out of the doldrums by the cryptocurrency's recent rally - and now mining companies are racing to lock in profits before bitcoin's "halving", when rewards for producing the tokens are cut in half.The next halving is expected in April 2024, a process designed to slow the release of bitcoin, whose supply is capped at 21 million - of which 19 million have already been mined."You're seeing a lot of urgency to plug rigs in ahead of the halving," said Gregory Lewis, analyst at brokerage BTIG that covers the 13 biggest U.S.-listed bit...
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AI Is a National-Security Danger
2Nov By adminNo Comments
World

AI Is a National-Security Danger

Artificial intelligence poses threats to U.S. national security, and the Biden administration takes them seriously. On Oct. 30 the president signed a wide-ranging executive order on artificial intelligence. Among other things, it mandates that a significant portion of the nation’s AI industry must now check its models for national-security vulnerabilities and potential misuses. This means assembling a “red team” of experts to try to make their AIs do dangerous things—and then devising ways of protecting against similar threats from outside. This isn’t a mere bureaucratic exercise. It is a clarion call for a new era of responsibility. The executive order defines dual-use AI as any model “that is trained on broad data; generally uses self-supervision; contains at least tens of billions of p...
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