How some people are using the term “slop” as a descriptor for low-grade AI material, after emerging in reaction to the release of AI art generators in 2022
A new term has emerged to describe dubious A.I.-generated material. — You may not know exactly what “slop” means in relation to artificial intelligence. X: @benhoffmannyt and @se...
How the Israeli military uses mobile phone data from the ~1.1M residents of Gaza to track their movements and assess how many heeded Israel's demand to leave
New York Times : X: @radio_research , @gabrielecarrer , @seangraf , and @radio_research X: @radio_research : The report outlines a color coordinated system using location data to ...
Meta identifies and fixes a bug after thousands of Palestinian supporters say their posts were suppressed or removed from Facebook and Instagram
Meta has cautioned that some posts may be temporarily suppressed or suspended as it sifts through millions of posts spreading across its platforms.
How Brad Smith, who became Microsoft's top legal officer in 2002, used a legal, policy, and influence machine costing $1B+ a year to close the Activision deal
Company's top legal officer has honed diplomatic skills to recast the US tech giant's reputation Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to Mastodon: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life@mas.to : Bra...
The Microsoft-Activision deal closure shows that tech giants can still grow by getting “vertical mergers” through courts and regulators relatively unscathed
With the completion of the blockbuster acquisition, the notion that tech giants can grow through “vertical transactions” remains intact.
After social media upended the fashion, beauty, and lifestyle magazine industries, some women turn to Facebook Groups and Substack for curated recommendations
and they want to trust the person telling them. The Women's Magazines of 2023 Are in a Facebook Group and Your Inbox https://www.nytimes.com/... Sapna Maheshwari / @sapna : wrote a...
Brazil's elections chief gets unilateral power to order tech companies to remove posts and videos ahead of the October 30 election, to combat misinformation
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A cyberattack on Illuminate Education, exposing the personal data of 1M+ students, highlights the dangers of stockpiling school children's sensitive information
At a moment when education technology firms are stockpiling sensitive information on millions of school children, safeguards for student data have broken down. Tweets: @funnymonkey...