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EHEALTH
Parents worry AI-generated influencers are promoting
unrealistic beauty standards to kids
Thousands of parents are urging TikTok to address their
concerns as AI-generated content creators grow more prevalent on social media.
CYBERSECURITY
Apple security update to safeguard against thieves now available
On the matter of the British Library cyber incident
The most important lesson to figure out is why it is taking
so long to restore services. That will tell us how to prevent such a calamity
in other vital national institutions.
LAW
Meta documents show 100,000 children sexually harassed daily
on its platforms
Employees fretted over company’s ‘negligible’ response to
child grooming, according to internal documents made public in lawsuit
CAREER
Younger workers need to be in the office because of AI,
PwC's U.K. boss says
More time in the office leads to quicker promotions
UBER
Ever Wondered What Your Uber Drivers Really Think of You?
Here's How to Check
If an Uber driver has ever left you a one-star review,
there's a way to find out.
AI
A university is offering lessons from hologram professors
A new kind of learning is on the horizon.
New Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand Text
Far from being “stochastic parrots,” the biggest large
language models seem to learn enough skills to understand the words they’re
processing.
Is OpenAI’s ‘moonshot’ to integrate democracy into AI tech more than PR?
Last week, an OpenAI PR rep reached out by email to let me
know the company had formed a new “Collective Alignment” team that would focus
on “prototyping processes” that allow OpenAI to “incorporate public input to
guide AI model behavior.” The goal? Nothing less than democratic AI governance
— building on the work of ten recipients of OpenAI’s Democratic Inputs to AI
grant program.
Cool Technology
Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra Early Impressions: The Ultra Is Not an Understatement
The titanium pulls everything together. And it turns out
that Galaxy AI's tricks are a treat, after all.
Remote-control rental cars: Not as driverless as they look
A number of companies are now running remote-control rental
car services, in which "teledrivers" guide an empty car out to you by
remote control, and then you drive it around yourself. It's a weird halfway
step towards fully autonomous robotaxis.
Propella hauls out its first blue-wheeled utility ebike
Last August, Redmond-based ebike maker Propella announced
its first step-through model. Now the company has revealed its first utility
ebike, a Class 2 ride that can be had for under US $1,000.
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