Facebook to pay $725M in privacy settlement
Facebook has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over its privacy practices. The controversy revolves around the unauthorized sharing of users’ data with third parties, raising questions about the impact of this significant settlement. During a court hearing on this lawsuit, it was revealed that 28 million claims had been filed […]
Mojo programming language aims to fix the programming world
A new programming language called Mojo has been released by Modular AI, a company co-founded by Chris Lattner and Tim Davis. Lattner is a well-known figure in the programming world, having created the LLVM compiler infrastructure and the Swift programming language. Davis is also an experienced engineer, having worked on Google’s TensorFlow AI framework. Mojo […]
IRS to use AI to crack down on wealthy tax evaders
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is adding artificial intelligence (AI) tools to crack down on potential tax violations by wealthy taxpayers. The IRS says it will be focusing on individuals with a total income of $1 million or more who have used “sophisticated schemes to avoid taxes.” AI will reportedly be used to identify patterns […]
AI-generated news network launches
A new startup called Infobot has launched at Y Combinator Demo Day, with a mission to use artificial intelligence to generate news content. Infobot’s technology can synthesize publicly available information on topics like local government updates, financial news, and tech-related developments. This means that Infobot can keep users updated on the latest news without the […]
X sues California over content moderation law
X, the social media company formerly known as Twitter, has filed a lawsuit against the state of California over a law that requires companies to disclose details about their content moderation practices. The law, known as AB 587, requires social media companies to publish information about their handling of hate speech, extremism, misinformation and other […]
Alibaba’s Daniel Zhang steps down from cloud business
China’s Alibaba Group has announced that Daniel Zhang will step down from its cloud business, just two months after the company said he would leave his roles as group CEO and chairman to focus on the unit. Zhang had previously been concurrently serving in three roles, heading the group as well as the cloud intelligence […]
Google’s antitrust trial begins
Google is facing federal antitrust allegations that threaten its long-standing supremacy in the realm of internet search. The antitrust trial will test the tech giant’s two-decade-long dominance of the internet search field. The Justice Department filed the suit in 2020, accusing Google of operating a monopoly in online search and using that monopoly power to […]
Elon Musk blocked Ukraine’s drone attack on Russia
Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, personally ordered the company’s Starlink satellite broadband service to be withheld in parts of Ukraine, scuttling a major offensive operation by the nation against Russia. According to a biography about Musk, shared with CNN, the billionaire feared that a Ukrainian attack on Russian naval ships near Crimea could lead […]
Apple open source 200B parameter LLM code
Apple has open sourced the code for its 200 billion parameter LLM, Ajax GPT. The code is available on GitHub and can be used by anyone to train their own large language models. This is a departure from Apple’s previous closed-source approach to AI development, as Apple has been previously criticized for its secrecy. According […]
Cyber Security Today, Sept. 11, 2023 – Warnings from Cisco, a huge DDoS attack and more MOVEit and ransomware victims
This episode reports on vulnerabilities that have to be dealt with in Cisco applications, the sentencing of a Russian businessman in the US to nine years in prison for his role in a nearly US$100 million stock market cheating scheme
