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OpenAI Poaches 4 High-Ranking Engineers From Tesla, xAI, and Meta
The new hires are joining OpenAIās scaling team, according to an internal Slack message sent by cofounder Greg Brockman.
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OpenAI has hired 4 high-level engineers, including David Lau, former vice president of software engineering at Tesla, away from rivals. Theyāre joining the scaling team, per a Slack message from Greg Brockman just now. New from me and @willknight.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/openai...
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European Commission aims to guide research cash to political priorities in next long-term budget
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European Commission aims to guide research cash to political priorities in next long-term budget
Major sums could be directed towards competitiveness and technology with military uses.
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Trump: "Wind is a very expensive form of energy. It's very bad for your beautiful surroundings, the plains and the valleys and the birds are dying all over the place."
He then repeats his lie about China not having wind farms.
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The FTC should be focused on lowering the cost of these groceries and making sure data brokers donāt get more people killed ā¦but instead theyāre hosting a workshop tomorrow to pick on trans youth!
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Read our advice for staying safe in demonstrations in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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Attending a Protest
For quick reference, we've createdĀ a handy guide designed to be printed, folded, and carried in your pocket (PDF download). Now, more than ever, citizens must be able to hold those in power accountab...
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Google continues the industry-wide trend of jamming AI down users' throats, making it difficult or impossible to opt out, and potentially endangering the privacy of communications: www.neowin.net/guides/googl...
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Google can now read your WhatsApp messages, here's how to stop it
Google has released a feature that allows Gemini to access third-party apps, such as WhatsApp, even if you've turned off Gemini Apps Activity. Here's how to prevent that from happening.
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im gonna have to write this story like 400 more times aren't i
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X Is a White-Supremacist Site
Elon Musk has made one of Twitterās most glaring problems into a core feature on X.
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Trump: "In New England, for 50 years they had two whales washed up. And last summer they had 14 washed up. Now, I'm not saying that's the wind farm that was built, but maybe it is. Probably is."
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Tech can be complicated, but we've got some clear answers to frequently asked questions about the devices you use every day.
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Welcome to Digital Rights Bytes
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Join The Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg and staff writers Ross Andersen, Tom Nichols, and Missy Ryan for a conversation at the intersection of national defense, technology, and global conflict.
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The Big Story: Nuclear War and the Future of National Security
Ross Andersen, Tom Nichols, and Missy Ryan join Jeffrey Goldberg for a conversation about the intersection of national defense, technology, and global conflict. Tune in for this subscriber-only event.
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Why is Elon Muskās chatbot spewing anti-Semitic bile? @cwarzel.bsky.social and @matteowong.bsky.social report:
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Elon Muskās Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust
The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names.
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Trump on wind energy: "It is so horrible. And if you look at smart countries, they don't use it. Smart countries don't use it. And we're not a brilliant country. We're not a stup-- we're a brilliant country."
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šØ Just launched: Net Zero Day ā a new Substack where climate risk, cybersecurity, and AI collide.
Co-writing this with @DrNewtonCampbell, and weāre cutting through the noise with weekly insights on the cascading crises no oneās connecting fast enough.
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NetZeroDay | Camille Stewart Gloster | Substack
Net Zero Day is your weekly dispatch where climate risk and cybersecurity collideādecoded through AI by Camille Stewart Gloster, a leading voice in responsible tech & cybersecurity, and Dr. Newton Cam...
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Good news. @knightcolumbia.org wins their appeal to have the El Faro journalists' lawsuit against NSO Group remanded to the court for re-consideration after it was thrown out for jurisdictional reasons.
Here's our @citizenlab.ca report that kicked it all off š
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Project Torogoz: Extensive Hacking of Media & Civil Society in El Salvador with Pegasus Spyware - The Citizen Lab
Journalists and members of civil society had their phones successfully infected with NSOās Pegasus spyware between July 2020 - November 2021.
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āWeāre pleased with todayās decision and look forward to seeking justice on behalf of El Faro journalists in U.S. court, where the case belongs,ā says @carriedecell.bsky.social. Learn more & see statement from @elfaroenglish.bsky.social's @carlosdada.bsky.social: knightcolumbia.org/content/appe...
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Tech advances
Email: People can send letters instantly now! (magical!)
Web: People can put up a magazine or store for the whole world to see! (useful!)
Smartphone: People can carry computers in their pocket now! (convenient!)
Generative AI: Computers can pass as people now! (*record scratch*)
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Well, here's what Ellen Nakashima was working on www.washingtonpost.com/naā¦.
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Gabbardās team has sought spy agency data to enforce Trumpās agenda
A team created by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has sought access to emails and chat logs of the largest U.S. spy agencies to root out āweaponization.ā
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Did you know EFF's Certbot tool has helped encrypt millions of websites? Our open source software is free to everyone, but we need your support.
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Defend Privacy and Free Speech
We're building a better web together. Donate to help out Certbot and all of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's public interest software development, activism, and legal work. Your support...
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"Brain data cannot become just another commodity in the digital economy. The time to act is nowābefore peopleās private thoughts become the next frontier of surveillance capitalism," writes Virginia Mahieu.
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Why EU Policy Must Catch Up to the Neurotechnology Boom | TechPolicy.Press
Neurotechnology that can read and interpret brain activity is rapidly entering the mainstream market with no regulatory oversight, writes Virginia Mahieu.
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"When 18 House Republicans wrote a letter to Speaker Johnson before the election begging him not to eviscerate the IRA, many in the climate community took it as a sign that interests would overcome ideology. But in the end, all 18 voted for a bill that does exactly what they hoped it wouldnāt do."
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The Republican budget is a climate horror
Not content to ignore climate change, they decided to make it even worse.
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Talked to Waymo about teensā fearsāof driving, of awkward small talk, of social FOMOāand if self-driving cars are part of a solution
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The Teens Are Taking Waymos Now
Alphabetās self-driving car company launches what it hopes will be lucrative individual teen accountsāand maybe a whole lot of social change in the process.
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āSuddenly, something you thought was a First Amendment protected activity now lands you under scrutiny of police, and suddenly that license plate reader data, which you thought was so innocuous, is a lot less innocuous.ā
I got to speak to the LAist about the massive expansion of ALPRs in SoCal.
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License plate readers coming to West LA's Cheviot Hills amid privacy and immigration concerns
People living in the West L.A. community requested the cameras because of recent home burglaries and calls for more safety measures.
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new from me and @gerritd.bsky.social wapo.st/4lg3pIh (gift link)
on an internal forum for Google Deepmind employees, Sergey Brin called the UN a ātransparently antisemitic organizationā after a new UN report accused tech companies of profiting from genocide in Gaza
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin calls U.N. ātransparently antisemiticā after report on tech firms and Gaza
Google co-founder Sergey Brin called the United Nations ātransparently antisemiticā in a message on a company forum, after a U.N. report alleged Google profited from Israelās war in Gaza.
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NEW: Shockingly bad but seemingly inevitable beats every pleasant surprise, once again. @carolinehaskins.bsky.social and @laurengoode.bsky.social report www.wired.com/story/grok-a...
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Grok Is Spewing Antisemitic Garbage on X
Elon Musk's chatbot has gone on a tirade, praising Adolph Hitler and parroting antisemitic tropes.
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The Trump bill repealed the 30 percent tax credit for solar and wind & provided a 2.5% tax credit for coal instead, labeling it a "critical rare earth mineral" like cobalt. You can't make this stuff up!
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