Monthly Archives: August 2023

Mom’s Meals says data breach affects 1.2 million customers

Mom’s Meals, a meal delivery service for people with chronic health conditions, has confirmed a data breach affecting more than 1.2 million individuals. In a data breach notice filed this week with Maine’s attorney general, Mom’s Meals parent company PurFoods … Continue reading

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Snapchat launches a new AI selfie feature called ‘Dreams’

Snapchat is launching a new generative AI feature called “Dreams” that allows users to create fantastical images of themselves in different scenarios, such as a mermaid in a deep-seascape or a renaissance era royal. The official roll out comes a … Continue reading

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YouTube is giving creators violating policies a way to wipe out their warnings

YouTube announced this morning a change to its Community Guidelines that impact creators who break its rules. Starting today, creators will now have the option of taking an educational training course when they receive a warning. When completed, YouTube will … Continue reading

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It Costs Just $400 to Build an AI Disinformation Machine

A developer used widely available AI tools to generate anti-Russian tweets and articles. The project is intended to highlight how cheap and easy it has become to create propaganda at scale.

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Meta says it has disrupted a massive disinformation campaign linked to Chinese law enforcement

The disinformation campaign posted positive news about China and the Xinjiang province while criticizing U.S. policy and officials across dozens of platforms.

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Google’s AI feature in Gmail and productivity apps will cost big businesses $30 a month per user

Google and Microsoft will be charging the same amount for artificial intelligence tools that augment productivity products used by businesses

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Google tests watermark to identify AI images

The tech giant’s artificial intelligence firm DeepMind unveils measures to counter disinformation.

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Quora’s Poe launches bot search, announces enterprise package

Quora’s AI chatbot product Poe is still being updated at a rapid pace as the company announced new features over the past few days including the ability to search for custom bots and a new enterprise tier for its premium … Continue reading

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Amazon acquires Fig, a startup building autocomplete for the command line

Amazon has acquired Fig, a Y Combinator (YC) alum that has been setting out to turbo-charge the command line terminal. In a blog post published yesterday, CEO and cofounder Brendan Falk said that Amazon was acquiring Fig’s technology, while its … Continue reading

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Google introduces GKE Enterprise to help companies manage complex Kubernetes environments

Google launched Kubernetes back in 2014 as an open source project to help manage containers. Over time, as it has become a cloud native mainstay, the company has continued to support the open source project, while offering its own commercial … Continue reading

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