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'Sergey Brin ordered sale of Elon Musk investments after affair with Nicole Shanahan'

SAN FRANCISCO: Google co-founder Sergey Brin instructed his advisers to sell his personal investments in Elon Musk’s companies in recent months after learning that he had a brief affair with his wife, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The Times of India

Google fires software engineer who says AI chatbot LaMDA has feelings

Tech giant Google has sacked a senior software engineer who published a transcript of a conversation he had with chatbot LaMDA, in which it says it has a soul and a "very deep fear of being turned off".

ABC News

Elon Musk denies affair with Google founder's wife 'prompting their divorce'

Sergey Brin, who co-founded Google with Larry Page, filed for divorce from entrepreneur Nichole Shanahan earlier this year, according to people familiar with the matter

Daily Mirror

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Tech giants sign pact to tackle digital harm

A first of its kind agreement between social media platforms and digital stakeholders in NZ aims to set an industry standard for online safety.

Newsroom.co.nz

Elon Musk’s alleged affair with Google co-founder’s wife led to divorce, report says

Tesla chief allegedly had brief affair with the wife of his longtime friend Sergey Brin

The Independent UK

Top 10 tanning salons in Newcastle to keep your glow topped up this summer according to Google reviews

Just because you're not heading abroad this summer doesn't mean you can have a beautiful bronze tan

Chronicle Live

Who was Stefan Banach and why is Google celebrating him?

Banach was an original member of the Lwów School of Mathematics and founder of modern functional analysis

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Lawmakers press Commerce secretary over Big Tech ties

WASHINGTON — Two influential progressive lawmakers are raising concerns about what they say is excessive corporate influence at the Commerce Department, escalating a clash between the left wing of the Democratic Party and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.

Tribune News Service

3 Sites with HD Stock Photos to Boost Your Brand Visuals

Top Sites to Download HD Stock Photos for Business Statistics show that people memorize only 10% of the information they read, while adding an image to a text can improve remembrance by 65%. This data proves that you can use professional, ...

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Google fires software engineer who claimed AI chatbot was sentient

Blake Lemoine was placed on leave in June after claiming the AI resembled ‘a seven or eight-year-old kid’

Evening Standard

If our datacentres cannot take the heat, the UK could really go off the rails

It is understandable that railway infrastructure could not cope with last week’s temperatures, but why did Google and Oracle’s facilities go offline?

The Guardian - UK

The spooky, abandoned old Welsh village and mine nicknamed 'the slaughterhouse' for a very grim reason

It has a tragic past

Wales Online

Stephen L. Carter: Political emails may be spam, but Gmail wants to set them free

Lots of people are hopping mad about Google’s proposal to allow political campaign emails to bypass the spam folders of Gmail users. The dispute arose earlier this summer after Google asked the Federal Elections Commission for advice on the legality of a “pilot program” to make it easier for political…

Tribune News Service

Google fires software engineer who claims AI chatbot is sentient

Company said Blake Lemoine violated Google policies and that his claims were ‘wholly unfounded’

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Google Fires Software Engineer Who Claimed Its AI Chatbot Is Sentient

Alphabet Inc's Google said on Friday it has dismissed a senior software engineer who claimed the company's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot LaMDA was a self-aware person.

Reason

Authors Locked Out of Files Because of Their Ideological Content?

Today's post by Prof. Victor Mair (Language Log) also led me to this story, which is covered in the Wall Street Journal (Wenxin Fan) (paywalled) and also at Gizmodo (Passant Rabie) (unpaywalled) and MIT Technology Review (Zeyi Yang); I quite from Gizmodo: A Chinese software developer is facing backlash after…

The Independent UK

Democrats widen scrutiny of tech over abortion data privacy

Democratic lawmakers are widening their scrutiny into the role of tech companies in collecting the personal data of people who may be seeking an abortion, as lawmakers, regulators and the Biden administration grapple with the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling ending the constitutional protections for abortion

TechRadar

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January 6 Committee Wraps Summer Hearings With Footage of Hawley Fleeing, Detailed Account of Trump's Day

Plus: Electoral count reform, freeing baby formula from useless regulation, and more...

Glasgow Live

The Scottish universities most likely to have graduates hired by big tech companies revealed

New research from TonerGiant has revealed the universities with the most graduates who have moved into employment with the worlds largest tech companies.

The Independent UK

Google blocked by separatists in Ukraine because it promotes ‘violence against Russians’

Denis Pushilin, head of the Donetsk People’s Republic says the search engine spreads ‘disinformation’

The Guardian - UK

Google to be banned in Ukraine’s occupied Donetsk and Luhansk regions

Leader of self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic accuses search engine of promoting ‘terrorism and violence against all Russians’

Reuters

Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine block Google search engine

Russian-backed separatists in a breakaway region of eastern Ukraine have blocked access to the search engine Google, their leader said on Friday, citing what he calls "disinformation".

Evening Standard

Who was Stefan Banach? Google Doodle celebrates Polish mathematician

Everything you need to know about today’s Google Doodle

Financial Times

Positive feedback: the science of criticism that actually works

It really is possible to get better at giving — and receiving — constructive criticism

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