Meta AI is obsessed with turbans when generating images of Indian men (techcrunch.com)
Conservative cell carrier Patriot Mobile hit by data breach (techcrunch.com)
Encrypted services Apple, Proton and Wire helped Spanish police identify activist | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
By the way, the earlier posted article https://restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-discloses-user-data-leading-to-arrest-in-spain had an update starting at the paragraph with title Update: Statement from Proton and additional commentary
Google will use Gemini to detect scams during calls | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Jack Dorsey departs Bluesky board | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Google to build first subsea fiber-optic cable connecting Africa with Australia (techcrunch.com)
Google's call-scanning AI could dial up censorship by default, privacy experts warn (techcrunch.com)
A feature Google demoed at its I/O confab yesterday, using its generative AI technology to scan voice calls in real time for conversational patterns associated with financial scams, has sent a collective shiver down the spines of privacy and security experts who are warning the feature represents the thin end of the wedge. They...
This Week in AI: OpenAI considers allowing AI porn | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Synapse, backed by a16z, has collapsed, and 10 million consumers could be hurt (techcrunch.com)
Orange Charger thinks a $750 outlet will solve EV charging for apartment dwellers (techcrunch.com)
Jack Dorsey says he’s no longer on the Bluesky board (techcrunch.com)
It sounds like Bluesky’s most prominent backer is no longer on its board. On Saturday, Jack Dorsey posted on X about grants for open protocols from his
Read the memo: Meta is shutting down Workplace, cutting back enterprise ambitions (techcrunch.com)
Samsung’s operating profit soars 930% as AI tailwinds drive demand for memory chips (techcrunch.com)
Jack Dorsey departs Bluesky board. (techcrunch.com)
Google I/O was an AI evolution, not a revolution | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
X rolls out a revamped version of its Communities feature, which lets users network around topics of interest, including improved discovery tools and search (techcrunch.com)
Reddit tests automatic, whole-site translation into French using LLM-based AI (techcrunch.com)
In its first-ever earnings call as a public company, Reddit talked about user growth in non-U.S. countries using LLMs for automatic translations.
OpenAI's new safety committee is made up of all insiders (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI has formed a new safety committee. But the committee, which will be charged with overseeing the company's AI safety efforts, is made up of all insiders.
Spyware app pcTattletale was hacked and its website defaced (techcrunch.com)
pcTattletale's website was briefly defaced and contained links containing files from the spyware maker's servers, before going offline.
FCC proposes all AI-generated content in political ads must be disclosed (techcrunch.com)
Under the envisioned framework, both candidate and issue ads would be required to include an on-air and filed disclosure that AI-generated content was used.
Chinese e-commerce marketplace Temu faces stricter EU rules as a 'very large online platform' (techcrunch.com)
Temu is to face Europe's strictest rules after being designated as a "very large online platform" under the Digital Services Act (DSA).
Google is launching a new Android feature to drive users back into their installed apps (techcrunch.com)
Google says the new SDK would help Google expand on its core mission of connecting the right audience to the right content at the right time.
Netflix to take on Google and Amazon by building its own ad server (techcrunch.com)
Netflix is launching its own ad tech platform only a year and a half after entering the advertising business.
Google mentioned 'AI' 120+ times during its I/O keynote (techcrunch.com)
It ran 110 minutes, but Google managed to reference AI a whopping 121 times during Google I/O 2024 (by its own count). CEO Sundar Pichai referenced the figure to wrap up the presentation, cheekily stating that the company was doing the “hard work” of counting for us
Stack Overflow signs deal with OpenAI to supply data to its models (techcrunch.com)
Stack Overflow, the developer Q&A site, has inked a licensing agreement with OpenAI to supply data to its models.
