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Apple, Goldman Sachs card partnership to end, report claims

Apple is set to finish its credit card partnership with Goldman Sachs, according to a Wall Street Journal report published on Tuesday. People claiming …

ActivityPub and the End of Walled Gardens, with Evan Prodromou (Dot Social Podcast) - Flipboard

Inside Flipboard · Mia Quagliarello

There was a time where people couldn't email each other unless they were using the same email client. That changed when developers came up with a...

Best Tech Gifts

A guide to help you spoil the gadget lover in your life.

The 37 best tech gifts to give in 2023

Reviewed · Madison Durham, Jonathan Hilburg

Don't blow a fuse — these gifts are perfect for the tech fanatic in your life

TODAY · Brittany Loggins

Our favorite tech gifts: Stocking stuffers, kitchen gadgets, and gaming galore

Mashable · Leah Stodart

Amazon's Q AI assistant lets users ask questions about their company's data

The Verge · Emilia David

Amazon Q, currently available for contact centers, will be integrated to other AWS services soon. Amazon's cloud business AWS launched a chat tool...

Meta reveals plans for 2024 global elections

Mashable · Meera Navlakha

"No tech company does more or invests more to protect elections online than Meta." Meta has laid out plans for political advertising in 2024, as some of...

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Fake babies, real horror: Deepfakes from the Gaza war increase fears about AI's power to mislead

Associated Press · DAVID KLEPPER

WASHINGTON (AP) — Among images of the bombed out homes and ravaged streets of Gaza, some stood out for the utter horror: Bloodied, abandoned infants....

Paul Christiano and Beth Barnes are trying to make advanced AI honest, and safe

Vox · Dylan Matthews

Christiano and Barnes have helped mainstream concerns about AI misalignment. The first arguments that AI "misalignment" — when artificially intelligent...

FTC can seek tough new restrictons on Meta's use of personal data, federal judge rules

CNN · Brian Fung

A federal judge will not block the US government from expanding a landmark $5 billion privacy settlement with Instagram-parent Meta, paving the way for...

Generative AI can easily be made malicious despite guardrails, say scholars

ZDNET · Tiernan Ray

Researchers found an easy way to retrain publicly available neural nets so they would answer in-depth questions, such as how to cheat on an exam, …

Inside Foxconn's struggle to make iPhones in India

restofworld.org · Viola Zhou and Nilesh Christopher

When Chinese engineer Li Hai left the wintry cold of northern China and flew into the humid heat of Tamil Nadu in southern India, he had little idea …

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