Facial recognition firm Clearview has run nearly a million searches for US police, its founder has told the BBC CEO Hoan Ton-That also revealed Clearview now has 30 billion images scraped from platforms such as Facebook, taken without users’ permissions. […] The company is banned from selling its services to Read more…
EU police force Europol on Monday warned about the potential misuse of artificial intelligence-powered chatbot ChatGPT in phishing attempts, disinformation and cybercrime, adding to the chorus of concerns ranging from legal to ethical issues. “As the capabilities of LLMs (large language models) such as ChatGPT are actively being improved, the Read more…
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp notes Microsoft’s friendly relationship with North Dakota, pointing out that in 2017 Microsoft’s president Brad Smith said the company would provide the state “cash grants, technology, curriculum and resources to nonprofits” and also “partner with schools to strengthen their ability to offer digital skills and computer Read more…
The island nation of Greenland — population 56,000 — has “sprung forward” for the very last time, reports Bloomberg: On March 25, Greenland will move its clocks forward one hour to UTC -2 time zone for the summer, just as it has done in the past. Except starting this year, Read more…
Apple has allegedly demonstrated its mixed reality headset to its top executives recently, in an attempt to generate excitement for the upcoming platform launch. While executives are keen on the product, others within Apple are not sure it’s a home run hit. Eight anonymous current and former employees told the Read more…
It’s there to help steer you to your destination. It’s there to free you to focus on steering your life. And it’s there to help you land on the perfect version of you, the one that does more in order to, I don’t know, be more. There’s one difference, though, Read more…
Toronto-based Feroot Security “found that so-called tracking pixels from the TikTok parent company were present in 30 U.S. state-government websites across 27 states,” reports the Wall Street Journal, “including some where the app has been banned from state networks and devices.” The review was performed in January and February. The Read more…