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The Galactica AI model was trained on scientific knowledge – but it spat out alarmingly plausible nonsense

Earlier this month, Meta announced new AI software called Galactica: “a large language model that can store, combine and reason about scientific knowledge”.

The Conversation

What are all those "chief metaverse officers" actually doing?

Metaverse execs are working on strategy, evangelizing and more.

Axios

Social media firms face big UK fines if they fail to stop sexist and racist content

Revised online safety bill proposes fines of 10% of revenue but drops harmful communications offence

The Guardian - UK

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Meta fined €265m over data protection breach that hit more than 500m users

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp owner has been fined nearly €1bn by EU since September 2021

The Guardian - UK

Facebook parent company fined 265 million euro by Irish data watchdog

Meta has been hit by almost one billion euro in fines by the Data Protection Commission in the past 18 months over EU data breaches.

The Independent UK

Meta fined €265m after personal details of millions of Facebook users leaked

Facebook parent company Meta has been fined €265 million by the Irish watchdog after a data breach which saw personal details of more than 530 million Facebook users published online

Dublin Live

Irish watchdog fines Meta 265M euros in latest privacy case

Irish regulators have slapped Facebook parent Meta with a 265 million euro fine in what is the company’s latest punishment for breaching strict European Union data privacy rules

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30 years later, Nintendo's weirdest hardware flop could finally catch on

After decades of little progress, VR gloves could be making a comeback and enriching the Metaverse.

Inverse

Nick Clegg sends son to £22k school after branding private education 'corrosive'

While he was Deputy Prime Minister, Sir Nick said the "rift" between state and private schools was "corrosive for our society and damaging to our economy"

Daily Mirror

Nike the latest fashion icon to step into the metaverse with new virtual trading platform

Nike has announced its new .Swoosh online platform, where users will be able to "collect, trade, and flex" virtual Nike products.

The New Daily

Met monitoring song lyrics of rap artist it tried to censor on Instagram

Drill artist Chinx (OS) reveals he has to send new song lyrics to police and probation service in case they are deemed to incite violence

The Guardian - UK

'Metaverse' could be word of the year, Johnnie Walker launches an NFT, and Mattel creates an NFT marketplace

"Metaverse" is competing against two other terms for the Oxford English Dictionary's word of the year, plus NFT news from Johnnie Walker and Mattel.

Fortune

Meta seeks government protection from Rees-Mogg’s EU law bonfire

Facebook owner seeks assurance that vital directive will not be purged by former business secretary’s bill

The Guardian - UK

Twitter Aims to Diversify Beyond Advertising, But Can it Be Done?

Is it a pipe dream or possibility? Elon Musk wants to diversify Twitter's revenue stream beyond advertising, a feat none of the biggest social networks have yet pulled off. Something of a gold standard, social media ads can be fine-tuned and tailored to individual users on a mass scale, and…

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Evening Standard

Meta’s tricksy bot fools humans in war game

Meta’s AI not only plays better than most humans, it does so without them knowing it’s just a bot.

Newsroom.co.nz

Govt weighs up police access to encrypted data

A cross-agency group will examine the relative risks and benefits of end-to-end encryption and advise ministers on whether to regulate the technology.

Evening Standard

End of an era? Get to know the big bosses quietly reshaping how tech does business...

With Elon mayhem at Twitter and mass firings at Meta, Silicon Valley is in chaos. Meanwhile, some low-key kingpins are quietly reshaping how tech does business (and you’ve probably never heard of them). Kate Wills reports

Daily Mirror

Hundreds of fake listings pulled from Instagram in huge Black Friday crackdown

Brits have been urged to be extra vigilant this Christmas as hundreds of counterfeit listings have been removed on Instagram in a clampdown by the Trading Standards

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The Independent UK

Manchester United ‘could be bought by Amazon or Facebook’

The Glazers have officially made the club for sale

The Conversation

An AI named Cicero can beat humans in Diplomacy, a complex alliance-building game. Here's why that's a big deal

In a rare piece of good news from Meta, artificial intelligence researchers at the company have just announced a scientific breakthrough. Their AI program named Cicero can now play the board game Diplomacy at a human level.

Tribune News Service

As job cuts roil Silicon Valley, workers confront post-boom reality

When Ryan Stevens joined Meta Platforms Inc. as a product operations manager for WhatsApp in August of 2021, he was enticed by the opportunity to help shape a messaging app used daily by 2 billion people.

Bangkok Post

Facebook's Most Popular Posts Were Trash. Here Is How It Cleaned Up.

Earlier this year, Meta Platforms Inc. quietly convened a war room of staffers to address a critical problem: virtually all of Facebook's top-ranked content was spammy, oversexualized or generally what the company classified as regrettable.

Bangkok Post

Facebook fails independent journalists

On Jan 29, 2018, the prominent Berlin-based Azerbaijani news site Meydan TV had its Facebook page hacked for the first time. The attackers removed all admin accounts, deleted all content, and removed nearly 100,000 followers.

Fortune

Google is toughening its performance reviews to identify 10,000 low performers. Employees fear layoffs are next

Google's performance review restructuring comes as the tech industry has suffered massive widespread layoffs. Googlers are worried.

Reason

Foreign Workers Are Losing Their Tech Jobs. Will They Have To Leave the Country Too?

Thousands of tech workers are being laid off. That’s putting H-1B visa holders on tight timelines to find new work.

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