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Science journalism is no longer safe

Science desks are needed more than ever, but traditional revenue models are destroying them

Salon

Microsoft Copilot AI Gives Misleading Election Info, New Study Finds

Researchers claim the issue with Copilot is systemic since similar problems were found when using the chatbot to get info about the German and Swiss elections,

International Business Times UK

Unverified election claims from Microsoft's AI Chatbot ignite debate over its ability to preserve democracy

Microsoft's Copilot reportedly shares conspiracy theories and inaccurate information when responding to US elections-related questions barely a few months before next year's poll.

Windows Central

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Genetic testing firm 23andMe admits hackers accessed DNA data of 7m users

US company says ‘threat actor’ responsible for security breach that affected nearly half of its 14m reported users

The Guardian - US

Wanna dip your toes in the Audiophile pool? These headphones are the way to go

The Black Friday deals are looking slick this year, and these audiophile deals aren't to be missed.

iMore

"That little bastard had chops!" The Police's Stewart Copeland explains why Slipknot's Joey Jordison was one of the greatest drummers of his generation

The Police drummer Stewart Copeland pays tribute to one of metal's greatest ever players

Metal Hammer

The Smartest Sci-Fi Show of 2023 Just Dropped a Painfully Realistic Twist

'For All Mankind' Season 4 just got real about labor in space, and Episode 2, "Have a Nice Sol," has intriguing parallels to real concerns about how we'll explore the final frontier.

Inverse

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Twitter’s Community Notes Faces Criticism Over Misflagging Trump Jr.’s Video

Elon Musk's Community Notes under scrutiny as it mistakenly flags video shared by Donald Trump Jr. during Israel-Hamas conflict.

Zenger

The scientist whose research was key to developing the COVID vaccines was demoted, had her salary cut, and threatened with deportation. Today, she won the Nobel Prize

Katalin Karikó, now a vice-president at BioNTech, saw her research undermined for years before the 2005 breakthrough that led to the COVID-19 vaccine.

Fortune

eSafety commissioner flags policy on child abuse material after Apple backflip

Tech to scan cloud storage services is operated by Meta, Microsoft and Google, but Apple stopped development last year to focus on warnings for explicit images

The Guardian - AU

U.K. Government Finally Admits It Can't Scan for Child Porn Without Violating Everybody's Privacy

A surveillance authority in the country’s troubling Online Safety Bill won’t be enforced, officials say. But for how long?

Reason

Mincing rabid unicorns as a hoverboard-skating cat is the most fun I had at Gamescom this week

Gamescom 2023 | For me, Gori: Cuddly Carnage stole the show – and some entrails to boot

GamesRadar

AP, other news organizations develop standards for use of artificial intelligence in newsrooms

The Associated Press has issued guidelines for its journalists on use of artificial intelligence, saying the tool cannot be used to create publishable content and images for the news service

The Independent UK

Researcher claims a key Mac security feature can be bypassed and Apple won't fix it

A security researcher says that it made Apple aware of a Mac security flaw that is "trivially" easy to bypass but hasn't been fixed.

iMore

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Tom’s Hardware

Raspberry Pi Used To Hijack Casino Card Shuffler

Security pros from IOActive demonstrated a full hijack of a current Deckmate 2 casino shuffling machine using a Raspberry Pi hacking device.

The Independent UK

Grimes says her and Elon Musk’s three-year-old child X ‘knows a lot about rockets’

‘He’s a little engineer, for sure,’ musician says about her son

Fortune

Grimes, Universal and Google: The debate over A.I. and copyright is rapidly evolving

"If you’re an artist, how could you not find it beautiful to be building the soul of an alien?” asks Grimes.

Fortune

Elon Musk's ex says a cage fight with Mark Zuckerberg will be good for his masculinity

"It's not going to cause brain damage, so actually, I think this is good. Dudes need some outlet for trad masculinity," said musician Grimes, who gave birth to two of Musk's children.

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The Week

The new Covid variant Eris behind a rise in cases this summer

There has been a slight rise in the number of Covid cases in the UK, with more people being admitted to hospital including those requiring intensive care.

TechRadar

AI chatbots like ChatGPT could be security nightmares - and experts are trying to contain the chaos

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have demonstrated a way to build adversarial attacks on chatbot models, and they can repeat it over and over again

Zenger

WhatsApp Founder Brian Acton’s Missed Opportunity At Facebook Leads To $3 Billion Windfall

Rejected by Facebook in 2009, Acton's decision to launch WhatsApp pays off with a $3 billion acquisition deal

The Guardian - US

‘Wow’: Uber chief startled by US reporter’s expensive three-mile ride

Dara Khosrowshahi expresses surprise at Wired journalist’s $51.69 journey to company’s annual product event in New York

Fortune

Uber's CEO doesn't know how much a three-mile ride in one of his own cabs costs

"On my God. Wow," was Khosrowshahi's response.

Fortune

Uber's deadly self-driving car crash exposed tricky A.I. workplace issues

The landmark case may be over, but big questions remain as employees increasingly work with and at the behest of A.I. systems they had no role in creating.

The Week

Threads: will privacy fears scupper Meta’s Twitter ‘killer’?

Meta has launched Threads, a text-based app to rival Twitter, in a “bold attempt to lure users away from its floundering competitor”, said Kari Paul in The Guardian.

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