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An Amnesty report details Israel's Red Wolf facial recognition system at checkpoints in Hebron and East Jerusalem, helping restrict Palestinians' movements (New York Times) 02-05-2023

New York Times: An Amnesty report details Israel’s Red Wolf facial recognition system at checkpoints in Hebron and East Jerusalem, helping restrict Palestinians’ movements  —  The Israeli government is using computer vision to monitor Palestinian travel across checkpoints, according to the report. Lees verder op Tech Meme

BeReal rolls out RealPeople, a curated timeline of “the world's most interesting people”, first to the UK, as the startup seeks to reverse slowing growth (Kris Holt/Engadget) 02-05-2023

Kris Holt / Engadget: BeReal rolls out RealPeople, a curated timeline of “the world’s most interesting people”, first to the UK, as the startup seeks to reverse slowing growth  —  Days after it started offering users the option to post more than once per day, BeReal is rolling out another new feature. Lees verder op Tech Meme

A profile and interview of Geoffrey Hinton, who laid the foundations for LLMs via backpropagation, worked with OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, and more (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review) 02-05-2023

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: A profile and interview of Geoffrey Hinton, who laid the foundations for LLMs via backpropagation, worked with OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, and more  —  “I have suddenly switched my views on whether these things are going to be more intelligent than us.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

Geleidelijk meer zon en droog. Woensdag zonnige perioden en droog KNMI : 02-05-2023

Geleidelijk meer zon en droog. Woensdag zonnige perioden en droog Verwachting voor vandaag en morgen Waarschuwingen Er zijn geen waarschuwingen. Vanochtend zijn er wolkenvelden aanwezig waaruit plaatselijk wat lichte motregen kan vallen. In de loop van de ochtend breekt de zon op steeds meer plekken door en wordt het droog. Er staat een matige noord tot noordwestenwind.Vanmiddag is het droog en hebben we een afwisseling van zon en bewolking. De temperatuur loopt uiteen van 9°C in het Waddengebied tot 15°C in het zuiden. De wind is matig en komt uit een noordelijke richting.Vanavond klaart het op en blijft het droog.… Lees verder »Geleidelijk meer zon en droog. Woensdag zonnige perioden en droog KNMI : 02-05-2023

Pornhub disabled its website in Utah following a new age verification law for porn sites, instead showing a video asking users to talk to their representatives (Samantha Cole/VICE) 02-05-2023

Samantha Cole / VICE: Pornhub disabled its website in Utah following a new age verification law for porn sites, instead showing a video asking users to talk to their representatives  —  People in Utah who visit Pornhub will now be greeted by adult performer Cherie DeVille asking them to tell their representatives to change their age verification law. Lees verder op Tech Meme

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says the company plans to slow or stop back-office hiring, impacting ~26K staff, and ~30% could “easily” be replaced by AI in five years (Brody Ford/Bloomberg) 02-05-2023

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says the company plans to slow or stop back-office hiring, impacting ~26K staff, and ~30% could “easily” be replaced by AI in five years  —  International Business Machines Corp. Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna said the company expects to pause hiring … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Internal records show ByteDance uses word lists, extending beyond standard moderation blocklists, to detect or suppress content; TikTok denies using the lists (Alexandra S. Levine/Forbes) 02-05-2023

Alexandra S. Levine / Forbes: Internal records show ByteDance uses word lists, extending beyond standard moderation blocklists, to detect or suppress content; TikTok denies using the lists  —  A moderation system run by ByteDance staff in China uses word lists to detect or suppress content about everything from TikTok rival YouTube … Lees verder op Tech Meme