He called himself an ‘untouchable hacker god’. But who was behind the biggest crime Finland has ever known?
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OpenAI considers Ads to support free ChatGPT amid growth
Alexey Shabanov / testingcatalog - OpenAI plans to explore ads to support free access to ChatGPT, promising separation from user interactions and no use of content for targeting.
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Bluetooth devices with Google Fast Pair are vulnerable to new hack
Dean Daley / mobilesyrup - A group of researchers have learned about some faults within Google’s Fast Pair technology. Fast Pair allows users to connect with Bluetooth devices on Android and ChromeOS with a single tap. The researchers, from Belgium’s KU Leuven University, learned t…
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Supreme Court Hacker Posted Stolen Government Data On Instagram
BeauHD / slashdot - An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Last week, Nicholas Moore, 24, a resident of Springfield, Tennessee, pleaded guilty to repeatedly hacking into the U.S. Supreme Court's electronic document filing system. At the time, there were no deta…
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Google is appealing a judge’s search monopoly ruling
Lauren Feiner / theverge - Google is appealing a federal court's decision ruling it an illegal online search monopolist. The company filed a notice to appeal on Friday, requesting a pause on the court-ordered remedies meant to restore competition to the online search market. "As we…
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OpenAI set to start rolling out ads to free and ChatGPT Go users
Jon Keegan / sherwood - OpenAI says user conversations will be kept private from advertisers, and answers will not be influenced by ads.
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Wikipedia Announces New AI Partnerships With Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and More
Laurent Giret / thurrott - Wikipedia new AI partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI, and Perplexity, which will join Google and other companies already using its content to train their AI models.The post Wikipedia Announces New AI Partnerships With Amazon, Meta, Micro…
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TikTok is ready to roll out age checking in Europe
Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson / betanews - Social media platforms are under global pressure to take care of younger users on their platforms, and this is very much the case in Europe. TikTok is about to start rolling out age checks in the region in a bid to keep regulators happy. TikTok’s owner, B…
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Sony, Anker, and other headphones have a serious Google Fast Pair security vulnerability
Andrew Liszewski / theverge - Several Bluetooth audio devices from companies like Sony, Anker, and Nothing are susceptible to a new flaw that can allow attackers to listen in on conversations or track devices that use Google's Find Hub network, as reported by Wired. Researchers from K…
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Mother of Elon Musk's child sues xAI over Grok deepfakes
bbc - The parent company of X and Grok, xAI, launched a counter-suit saying she had violated its terms of service.
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improved memory in chatgpt:
@gdb / x - improved memory in chatgpt:samir (@_samirism)we've been improving memory.ChatGPT is now more reliable at finding and remembering details from your past chats, like recipes or workouts.give it a try - and let us know what you think — https://x.com/_samiris…
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Ashley St. Clair Sues Elon Musk’s xAI Over Grok Sexual Images
Madlin Mekelburg / bloomberg - Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk’s children, sued the billionaire’s artificial intelligence company for harassment, accusing xAI’s Grok chatbot of generating sexually explicit images of her without her consent.
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Italy's Privacy Watchdog, Scourge of US Big Tech, Hit By Corruption Probe
BeauHD / slashdot - The powerful data privacy watchdog in Italy long known for aggressively policing U.S. and Chinese AI giants is under investigation for possible corruption and embezzlement. Reuters reports: Rome prosecutors are investigating the agency's president, Pasqua…
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AWS Launches Independent European Cloud to Meet Sovereignty Requirements
PYMNTS / pymnts - AWS has launched the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, an independent cloud located in the European Union and designed to help customers meet the EU’s sovereignty requirements. The cloud is physically and logically separate from other AWS regions, and it feat…
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Cloudflare Acquires Human Native
FinSMEs / finsmes - Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), a San Francisco, CA-based connectivity cloud company, acquired Human Native, an AI data marketplace that connects creators and AI developers. The amount of the deal was not disclosed. The acquisition will enable AI developers…
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AWS flips switch on Euro cloud as customers fret about digital sovereignty
Lindsay Clark / theregister - EU-only ops, German subsidiaries, and a pinky promise your data won't end up in Uncle Sam's hands Amid continued trade and geopolitical volatility between Europe and the US, Amazon Web Services is making its European Sovereign Cloud generally available to…
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Google’s Gemini AI will use what it knows about you from Gmail, Search, and YouTube
Jay Peters / theverge - Google's Gemini AI is getting what could prove to be a very big upgrade: To help answers from Gemini be more personalized, the company is going to let you connect the chatbot to Gmail, Google Photos, Search, and your YouTube history to provide what Google…
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Fintech Firm Betterment Confirms Data Breach After Hackers Send Fake $10,000 Crypto Scam Messages
BeauHD / slashdot - An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Betterment, a financial app, sent a sketchy-looking notification on Friday asking users to send $10,000 to Bitcoin and Ethereum crypto wallets and promising to "triple your crypto," according to a thread…
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Instagram denies data breach: So whats up with those sketchy change password emails?
mashable - Instagram said there wasn't a data breach, but the company did fix a bug that led to an external actor sending password reset emails.
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Monero Sets New Record Price as Privacy Trade Re-Emerges
Sebastian Sinclair / decrypt - Monero’s push to a record high follows renewed interest in privacy-focused coins, even as uneven liquidity complicates price signals.
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