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Amazon agrees to pay $25M to settle FTC and DOJ charges that the company kept Alexa voice recordings and geolocation data collected from children for years (Natasha Singer/New York Times)
Natasha Singer / New York Times: Amazon agrees to pay $25M to settle FTC and DOJ charges that the company…
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A profile of Plaid, valued at $13.4B, and founder Zach Perret, after a $58M data scraping settlement in 2022, as the company expands and fights a lawsuit by PNC (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: A profile of Plaid, valued at $13.4B, and founder Zach Perret, after a $58M data scraping settlement in 2022,…
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Respiratory virus spiked as COVID, RSV cases fell, agency data shows
Health officials reported that cases of human metapneumovirus (HMPV) spiked this spring as COVID-19 and Respiratory Syncytial Virus cases fell. …
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Canadian AI chipmaker Tenstorrent partners with LG Electronics to build chips for smart TVs, autos, and data centers; CEO Jim Keller worked at Apple and AMD (Jane Lee/Reuters)
Jane Lee / Reuters: Canadian AI chipmaker Tenstorrent partners with LG Electronics to build chips for smart TVs, autos, and…
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MCNA Dental, one of the largest US government-sponsored dental insurers, says hackers stole data of ~8.9M people; LockBit claimed responsibility for the attack (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: MCNA Dental, one of the largest US government-sponsored dental insurers, says hackers stole data of ~8.9M…
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South Korea's Naver plans to offer versions of its ChatGPT-like AI model to governments worried about US data controls, addressing political and cultural issues (Song Jung-a/Financial Times)
Song Jung-a / Financial Times: South Korea’s Naver plans to offer versions of its ChatGPT-like AI model to governments worried…
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Nvidia announces a range of AI products and updates, including the DGX GH200 supercomputer platform, data center networking tools, and a robotics platform (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: Nvidia announces a range of AI products and updates, including the DGX GH200 supercomputer platform, data center networking tools,…
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Chartbeat data for 1,350 publishers: Twitter referral traffic fell from 1.9% in April 2018 to 1.2% in April 2023; medium-sized publishers' traffic dropped 40% (Aisha Majid/Press Gazette)
Aisha Majid / Press Gazette: Chartbeat data for 1,350 publishers: Twitter referral traffic fell from 1.9% in April 2018 to…
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The UK CMA says Meta has offered to limit use of other businesses' ad data for Facebook Marketplace to address the regulator's competition concerns (Reuters)
Reuters: The UK CMA says Meta has offered to limit use of other businesses’ ad data for Facebook Marketplace to…
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German newspaper Handelsblatt: a Tesla whistleblower leaked 100GB of data on customer FSD complaints from 2015 to 2022, including 2,400 self-acceleration issues (Emma Roth/The Verge)
Emma Roth / The Verge: German newspaper Handelsblatt: a Tesla whistleblower leaked 100GB of data on customer FSD complaints from…
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