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• Chinese-made 7nm chips in Huawei phone raise questions over US export ban

  08-09-2023 18:29
  
  The US government has reportedly opened a probe into Chinese chips being used in  Huawei’s latest 5G-enabled smartphone, a move that has raised questions around the effectiveness of President Joe Biden’s recent executive orders that were supposed to have tightened export controls on such technology.The Huawei Mate Pro 60 contains Kirin 9000s chips — 7 nanometer (nm) chips that have been made in China by the partly state-owned Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp
  
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• The Donald Trump deep fake ‘interview’ and the problem with avatars

  08-09-2023 18:18
  
  One of the technologies being explored by videoconferencing software vendors involves the use of Deep Fake avatars to present at, or attend, meetings. The avatars allow a presenter to alter their appearance so they always look sharp and to pre-tape their speech for a more professional result. Eventually, the avatar could do the talk from a script generated by artificial intelligence (AI).Invitees who can’t attend could have their avatars take their place and both transcribe and summarize
  
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• Message to IT: Update all your Apple devices right away

  08-09-2023 15:51
  
  Apple has pushed out an essential security update to defend against yet another attack by an out-of-control mercenary surveillance group.Like a bad smell, NSO Group has clawed its way back into the spotlight with yet another unprincipled attack against free speech and citizens' rights, as revealed by Citizen Lab. The security researchers found this latest example of a sinister, yet egregious zero-click attack while checking the device of an “Individual employed by a Washington DC-based ci
  
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• Microsoft pledges to defend Copilot customers against copyright lawsuits

  08-09-2023 15:42
  
  Microsoft is promising to defend customers of its Copilot AI assistant against copyright lawsuits, the company said in a statement Thursday.Customers are worried that outputs from the generative AI assistant could infringe on copyright law, putting them at risk of legal claims, Microsoft said. To address those concerns, the company pledged to “defend the customer” and pay any judgments or settlements incurred as a result of lawsuit.The Copilot Copyright Commitment applies to custome
  
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• Amazon's return-to-office mandate won't work out

  08-09-2023 13:30
  
  Amazon CEO Andy Jassy recently told Amazon employees who refuse to come into the office at least three days a week that "it's probably not going to work out for you" — threatening to fire those employees (or invite them to engage in a "voluntary resignation").I'm afraid I have to disagree. I predict the edict will instead not work out for Amazon.Jassy's comments reflect his frustration over non-compliance with his May 1 back-to-office order. And he's not alone. Jassy told employees t
  
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• How note-taking AI from Google and Apple complete you

  08-09-2023 12:08
  
  We all take notes. Since grade school, we’ve scribbled down the main points of what we’re learning so we can access that information later. Suddenly, the power of note-taking is about to increase 100-fold.Major existing data-container products such as Box, Dropbox, Notion, and thousands of new tools now use generative AI to let you query your own data.Google believes this idea is great for note-taking, too. So, the company is working on something called NotebookLM (the LM stands for
  
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• 'It wasn't handled well' - Leeds executive blasts USMNT star Tyler ... - Goal.com

  08-09-2023 01:21
  
  'It wasn't handled well' - Leeds executive blasts USMNT star Tyler ...  Goal.com
  
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