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• Rite Aid hit with a five-year freeze on facial recognition

  20-12-2023 22:45
  Rite Aid has agreed to a five-year ban on using facial recognition technology for surveillance as part of a settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC).The decision follows charges by the FTC that the technology was misused, harming consumers. From 2012 to 2020, Rite Aid implemented AI-driven facial recognition to detect shoplifters. However, the FTC said the system wrongly identified specific customers as previous shoplifters and "disproportionately impacted people of color."Rite Aid
  
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• The top 10 tech stories of 2023

  20-12-2023 21:56
  The top technology stories of 2023 highlight fundamental changes in culture and geopolitics as well as tech itself: It's clear that generative AI will affect all aspects of technology and society, while geopolitical tensions are sparking cybersecurity attacks globally. General unease about the dominance of big tech, meanwhile, is pushing regulators to get tougher on mopolistic business practices and multibillion-dollar mergers.Fired! Rehired! Sam Altman’s ouster and return to OpenAIShutte
  
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• UK Supreme Court: No, your AI can’t hold a patent

  20-12-2023 20:24
  The UK's highest court ruled today that artificial intelligence systems can’t be the official holder of a patent, echoing legal trends elsewhere in the Western world and highlighting the legal issues still to come for the burgeoning field of generative AI.The UK Supreme Court’s ruling, in Thaler v. Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks, carefully marked out the limitations of the decision, saying that the appeal is “not concerned with the broader question of
  
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• Microsoft confirms Wi-Fi issue caused by update, issues rollback as temporary fix

  20-12-2023 19:50
  Microsoft has offered a temporary fix to Windows users for Wi-Fi related issues after a Windows 11 update that compromised wireless connections on public, education, and enterprise networks.The move is a response to reports from Windows users that they were having problems connecting their computers to Wi-Fi networks after the rollout of December's Patch Tuesday updates to Microsoft products.Microsoft blamed two OS updates from December's Patch Tuesday — KB5032288 and KB5033375 &mdas
  
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• Executive Roundtable: Will Indonesia Step It Up? - Asia Society

  20-12-2023 11:48 via news.google.com
  
  Executive Roundtable: Will Indonesia Step It Up?  Asia Society
  
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