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From the report: Apple is concerned workers who use these types of programs could release confidential data, according to the document. Apple also told its employees not to use Microsoft-owned GitHub's Copilot, which automates the writing of software code, the document said. ChatGPT, created by Microsoft-backed OpenAI, is a chatbot derived from a so-called large language model that is able to answer questions, write essays and perform other tasks in humanlike ways. When people use these models, data is sent back to the developer to enable continued improvements, presenting the potential for an organization to unintentionally share proprietary or confidential information. OpenAI disclosed in March that it took ChatGPT temporarily offline because a bug allowed some users to see the titles from a user's chat history. apply tags__________ 170978385 story [43]The Courts [44]Content Creators File Lawsuit Against Montana Over TikTok Ban [45](apnews.com) [46]26 Posted by [47]BeauHD on Friday May 19, 2023 @07:11AM from the get-your-popcorn-ready dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: Five TikTok content creators have filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn [48]Montana's first-in-the-nation ban on the video sharing app, [49]arguing the law is an unconstitutional violation of free speech rights. The Montana residents also argued in the complaint, filed in federal court late Wednesday without public notice, that the state doesn't have any authority over matters of national security. Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte signed the bill into law Wednesday and said it would protect Montana residents' private data and personal information from being harvested by the Chinese government. The ban is scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1, 2024. "The law takes the broadest possible approach to its objectives, restricting and banning the protected speech of all TikTok users in Montana to prevent the speculative and unsubstantiated possibility that the Chinese government might direct TikTok Inc., or its parent, to spy on some Montana users," the complaint states. "We expected a legal challenge and are fully prepared to defend the law," said Emily Flower, spokeswoman for the Montana Department of Justice. TikTok has argued the law infringes on people's First Amendment rights. However, spokesperson Brooke Oberwetter declined to comment on the lawsuit Thursday. She also declined to say whether the company helped coordinate the complaint. The plaintiffs are Montana residents who use the video-sharing app for things like promoting a business, connecting with military veterans, sharing outdoor adventures or expressing their sense of humor. Two of them have more than 200,000 followers. One content creator, Carly Ann Goddard, shares videos about living on a ranch, parenting, recipes and home decor. Her account has 97,000 followers and has allowed her to roughly triple her family's household income, the complaint states. TikTok creators can make money in several ways, including by being paid to advertise products to their followers. The lawsuit -- filed just hours after Gianforte signed the measure into law -- states the ban would "immediately and permanently deprive Plaintiffs of their ability to express themselves and communicate with others." "Montana can no more ban its residents from viewing or posting to TikTok than it could ban the Wall Street Journal because of who owns it or the ideas it publishes," the plaintiffs' attorneys wrote. apply tags__________ 170978341 story [50]Youtube [51]Linus Sebastion From Linus Tech Tips Is Stepping Down As CEO [52](youtube.com) [53]20 Posted by [54]BeauHD on Friday May 19, 2023 @04:02AM from the not-clickbait dept. In a 10-minute video called "[55]I'm Stepping Down..," Canadian YouTuber Linus Sebastian announced that he's [56]stepping down as CEO of Linus Media Group, the company that runs Linus Tech Tips (LTT) as well as companies like Creator Warehouse and Floatplane Media. Slashdot reader [57]thesinfulgamer writes: Linus talked about resigning from LTT on a livestream 3 years ago. He announced today that he is stepping down as CEO and changing to "Chief Vision Officer" to focus on just the content and community with zero business administration duties. His former boss from NCIX, Terren Tang, will be taking over as CEO on July 1st. In the video, Linus also mentions Linus Media received an offer of $100 million to "sell out" but turned it down, "citing a combination of factors like the fact they liked working with the company as it was and that, to be real, they were already super rich already," adds Kotaku. apply tags__________ 170978327 story [58]AI [59]New York City Rescinds Ban on ChatGPT Use in Public Schools [60](thehill.com) [61]7 Posted by msmash on Friday May 19, 2023 @03:55AM from the how-about-that dept. The chancellor of New York City's school system says the city has [62]revoked its ban on the use of ChatGPT in public schools. From a report: Chancellor David Banks wrote in an op-ed, published by Chalkbeat Thursday, that while the school system proceeded with "initial caution" concerning artificial intelligence (AI) programs earlier this year, they will now work to integrate the programs into the curriculum. He wrote that they consulted with technology and education experts to come to the decision and are ready to teach students about the advantages and disadvantages of AI. "Our nation is potentially on the brink of a significant societal shift driven by generative artificial intelligence," he wrote. "We must make sure that this technology's benefits are equitably distributed to prevent further widening of socioeconomic gaps in our country." Schools will now use resources developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to "encourage all schools to engage students in activities exploring how artificial intelligence has already impacted their lives and the broader issues it presents to our society," Banks added. apply tags__________ 170975891 story [63]Communications [64]FCC Rejects Dish 5G Plan That Could Have Made Starlink Broadband 'Unusable' [65](arstechnica.com) [66]11 Posted by [67]BeauHD on Thursday May 18, 2023 @11:30PM from the win-for-humanity dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Federal Communications Commission sided with Starlink in [68]a battle against Dish Network today, [69]rejecting a Dish proposal that could have degraded Internet service for Starlink satellite users. In a 4-0 vote, the FCC [70]decided not to authorize high-powered terrestrial mobile service in the 12.2-12.7 GHz band that is already used by Starlink customer terminals for downloads. The vote "ensure[s] the present and future of satellite services in the 12.2-12.7 GHz band. We recognize that millions of people rely on services in this band -- and we want to see that continue," FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel said at today's meeting. The band is also used for satellite TV. In its announcement of the vote, the FCC said it "declin[ed] to authorize two-way, high-powered terrestrial mobile use due to a significant risk of harmful interference to existing and emergent services, particularly in the growing satellite broadband market." Dish already uses spectrum from the 12.2-12.7 GHz band for satellite TV and wants to use the band for cellular service as well. While the FCC rejected the mobile proposal, it said it would investigate the potential to expand terrestrial fixed use or permit unlicensed use in that spectrum. Specifically, the FCC will seek comment on allowing point-to-point fixed links in 12.2-12.7 GHz at higher power levels than the current rules allow and on "adding indoor-only underlay and unlicensed use." The agency also teed up a plan that could eventually allow mobile broadband in the adjacent 12.7-13.25 GHz band. "Thank you to the 100K+ Starlink customers who spoke up, the FCC voted to protect high-speed satellite Internet users from harmful interference," Starlink [71]wrote on Twitter today. apply tags__________ 170975873 story [72]Science [73]Physicists Create Biggest-Ever Schrodinger's Cat [74](scientificamerican.com) [75]35 Posted by [76]BeauHD on Thursday May 18, 2023 @09:00PM from the stretching-the-limits dept. Researchers in the Hybrid Quantum Systems Group at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have [77]put a sapphire crystal weighing 16 micrograms in a quantum-mechanical superposition of two vibrational states. The researchers "excited the crystal into vibrations such that its atoms oscillated back and forth simultaneously and in two opposite directions -- putting the entire crystal in what is known as a state of quantum superposition," reports Scientific American. From the report: As the research group [78]reports in Science, this condition is much like that of the cat in the famous thought experiment of physicist Erwin Schrodinger. In [79]Schrodinger's quantum-mechanical scenario, a cat is simultaneously alive and dead, depending on the decay of an atom that releases a vial of poison. The sapphire crystal in the new experiment has been put in the macroscopic equivalent of that "cat state." Such states can help scientists fathom how and why the laws of the quantum world transition into the rules of classical physics for larger objects. To get the sapphire, which consists of about 10^17 atoms, to behave like a quantum-mechanical object, the research group set it to oscillate and coupled it to a superconducting circuit. (In the terms of the original thought experiment, the sapphire was the cat, and the superconducting circuit was the decaying atom.) The circuit was used as a qubit, or bit of quantum information that is simultaneously in the states "0" and "1." The circuit's superposition was then transferred to the oscillation of the crystal. Thus, the atoms in the crystal could move in two directions at the same time -- for example, up and down -- just as Schrodinger's cat is dead and alive at the same time. Importantly, the distance between these two states (alive and dead or up and down) had to be greater than the distance ascribed to the quantum uncertainty principle, which the ETH Zurich scientists confirmed. Using the superconducting qubit, the researchers succeeded in determining the distance between the crystal's two vibrational states. At about two billionths of a nanometer, it's tiny -- but still large enough to distinguish those two states from each other beyond doubt. These findings have "pushed the envelope on what can be considered quantum mechanical in an actual lab experiment," says Shlomi Kotler, a physicist who studies quantum mechanical circuits at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Kotler did not participate in the study. [...] Kotler notes that finding larger cat states is a way of "stretching the limit" of observed quantum-mechanical objects -- in this case, by demonstrating that something as massive as 16 micrograms can exist in this state. (Though, to be clear, 16 micrograms is still microscopic.) apply tags__________ 170975817 story [80]Bitcoin [81]Seattle Startup's Ex-CFO Accused of Diverting $35 Million, Losing It In Crypto Crash [82](seattletimes.com) [83]25 Posted by [84]BeauHD on Thursday May 18, 2023 @08:02PM from the winners-and-losers dept. A former CFO of a Seattle startup is [85]accused of diverting $35 million and [86]losing it when the crypto market crashed last year (Warning: source paywalled; [87]alternative source), according to a report. The CFO allegedly used the funds for personal expenses and investments without authorization. The Seattle Times reports: Nevin Shetty, 39, was hired in March 2021 as CFO of a company called fabric, which makes software platforms for retail commerce. About a year later, after the company informed him it was letting him go over job performance concerns, he secretly took the money and transferred it to HighTower Treasury, a crypto platform he controlled as a side business, the indictment said. His idea was to pay the company 6% interest while retaining profits above that, but soon the $35 million investment was practically worthless, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Seattle said in a news release. The indictment in U.S. District Court charged Shetty with four counts of wire fraud. He is scheduled to be arraigned May 25. Shetty's attorney, Cooper Offenbecher, said in an emailed statement that he and his client had been in regular contact with prosecutors and disagreed with the decision to bring an indictment. "As the CFO of his former employer, tasked with making investment decisions for its benefit, Mr. Shetty was personally devastated by these losses, which occurred as a result of a catastrophic crash in the cryptocurrency market in May 2022," Offenbecher wrote. "We look forward to responding to these allegations in Court." Prosecutors, however, said that as the company raised hundreds of millions of dollars in startup funding, it adopted a conservative approach to managing that money -- a policy that Shetty had helped draft. According to the Seattle tech news website GeekWire, fabric had raised more than $293 million by February 2022 and was valued at $1.5 billion. In an emailed statement, the company said it had been cooperating with law enforcement and appreciated the work of the FBI and federal prosecutors. "While the amount taken is substantial, fabric remains very well-funded with years of runway," the statement said. apply tags__________ 170975775 story [88]Displays [89]Augmented Reality Laptop Ditches Screen For 100-Inch Virtual Display [90](axios.com) [91]31 Posted by [92]BeauHD on Thursday May 18, 2023 @07:20PM from the now-we're-talking dept. Spacetop, a $2,000 laptop [93]developed by two former Magic Leap employees, replaces the traditional screen [94]with augmented reality glasses featuring a 100-inch virtual display. Axios reports: The company is selling 1,000 of the devices as part of an early access program, with hopes of using the feedback to inform a broader launch. The Spacetop runs a custom operating system, with its backers touting the ability to run Web-based applications such as Zoom, Google Workspace and Figma. And it's not promising this first version will be for power users or gamers, saying those folks should probably wait for a later version. The Tel Aviv-based company behind the startup, Sightful, is led by CEO Tamir Berliner and COO Tomer Kahan, both formerly of AR headset maker Magic Leap. They have raised $61 million in venture funding. The devices are being manufactured by Wistron, a major contract manufacturer of laptops, while the required AR glasses come from Nreal. Those interested can sign up now, with the devices promised for shipping starting in July. Sightful says the glasses offer 1080p resolution per eye, which they promise is enough to offer sub-pixel viewing resolution. In a pinch the Spacetop can also connect to a traditional monitor for some features, with more available later via software updates. Further reading: [95]I used the world's first augmented reality laptop (The Verge) [96]Meet Spacetop, a radical new laptop with no screen (PCWorld) [97]New Spacetop Laptop Puts Your Workspace in the Air (The New Stack) apply tags__________ 170975639 story [98]Open Source [99]Bluesky Social Just Took a Big Open-Source Step Forward [100](zdnet.com) [101]14 Posted by [102]BeauHD on Thursday May 18, 2023 @06:40PM from the open-source-FTW dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: [103]Bluesky Social, the popular new beta social network, is [104]taking a big open-source step forward. On May 15th, 2023, it open-sourced the codebase for its Bluesky Social app [105]on GitHub. This fits well with its plans. From the start, its owner, BlueSky Public Benefit LLC, a public benefit corporation, was building an "open and decentralized" social network. Unlike Twitter, which is still tripping over its [106]own open source feet, Bluesky client code is for anyone who wants to work on improving the code or use it as the basis for their own social network. Twitter's recommendation code, on the other hand, is essentially unusable. The Bluesky code, licensed under the [107]MIT License, can be used now. Indeed, while it's been out for only about 24 hours, it's already been forked 88 times and has earned over 1,300 GitHub Stars. While it's specifically the Bluesky Social app's codebase, it's also a resource for [108]AT Protocol programmers. This protocol supports a decentralized social network. Its features include connecting with anyone on a server that supports AT Protocol; controlling how users see the world via an open algorithm market; and enabling users to change hosts without losing their content, followers, or identity. The code itself is written in [109]React Native. This is an open-source, user-interface JavaScript software framework. It's used primarily to build applications that run on both iOS and Android devices. apply tags__________ 170975573 story [110]The Courts [111]Supreme Court Rules Against Reexamining Section 230 [112](theverge.com) [113]36 Posted by [114]BeauHD on Thursday May 18, 2023 @06:00PM from the foundational-internet-laws dept. Adi Robertson writes via The Verge: The Supreme Court has [115]declined to consider reinterpreting foundational internet law Section 230, saying it wasn't necessary for deciding the terrorism-related case Gonzalez v. Google. The ruling came alongside a separate but related ruling in Twitter v. Taamneh, where the court concluded that Twitter had not aided and abetted terrorism. In an [116]unsigned opinion (PDF) issued today, the court said the underlying complaints in Gonzalez were weak, regardless of Section 230's applicability. The case involved the family of a woman killed in a terrorist attack suing Google, which the family claimed had violated the law by recommending terrorist content on YouTube. They sought to hold Google liable under anti-terrorism laws. The court dismissed the complaint largely because of [117]its unanimous ruling (PDF) in Twitter v. Taamneh. Much like in Gonzalez, a family alleged that Twitter knowingly supported terrorists by failing to remove them from the platform before a deadly attack. In a ruling authored by Justice Clarence Thomas, however, the court declared that the claims were "insufficient to establish that these defendants aided and abetted ISIS" for the attack in question. Thomas declared that Twitter's failure to police terrorist content failed the requirement for some "affirmative act" that involved meaningful participation in an illegal act. "If aiding-and-abetting liability were taken too far, then ordinary merchants could become liable for any misuse of their goods and services, no matter how attenuated their relationship with the wrongdoer," writes Thomas. That includes "those who merely deliver mail or transmit emails" becoming liable for the contents of those messages or even people witnessing a robbery becoming liable for the theft. "There are no allegations that defendants treated ISIS any differently from anyone else. Rather, defendants' relationship with ISIS and its supporters appears to have been the same as their relationship with their billion-plus other users: arm's length, passive, and largely indifferent." For Gonzalez v. Google, "the allegations underlying their secondary-liability claims are materially identical to those at issue in Twitter," says the court. "Since we hold that the complaint in that case fails to state a claim for aiding and abetting ... it appears to follow that the complaint here likewise fails to state such a claim." Because of that, "we therefore decline to address the application of 230 to a complaint that appears to state little, if any, plausible claim for relief." [...] The Gonzalez ruling is short and declines to deal with many of the specifics of the case. But the Twitter ruling does take on a key question from Gonzalez: whether recommendation algorithms constitute actively encouraging certain types of content. Thomas appears skeptical: "To be sure, plaintiffs assert that defendants' 'recommendation' algorithms go beyond passive aid and constitute active, substantial assistance. We disagree. By plaintiffs' own telling, their claim is based on defendants' 'provision of the infrastructure which provides material support to ISIS.' Viewed properly, defendants' 'recommendation' algorithms are merely part of that infrastructure. All the content on their platforms is filtered through these algorithms, which allegedly sort the content by information and inputs provided by users and found in the content itself. As presented here, the algorithms appear agnostic as to the nature of the content, matching any content (including ISIS' content) with any user who is more likely to view that content. The fact that these algorithms matched some ISIS content with some users thus does not convert defendants' passive assistance into active abetting. Once the platform and sorting-tool algorithms were up and running, defendants at most allegedly stood back and watched; they are not alleged to have taken any further action with respect to ISIS." "The interpretation may deal a blow to one common argument for adding special liability to social media: the claim that recommendation systems go above and beyond simply hosting content and explicitly encourage that content," adds Robertson. "This ruling's reasoning suggests that simply recommending something on an 'agnostic' basis -- as opposed to, in one hypothetical from Thomas, creating a system that 'consciously and selectively chose to promote content provided by a particular terrorist group' -- isn't an active form of encouragement." apply tags__________ 170975419 story [118]AI [119]OpenAI Launches Free ChatGPT App For iOS [120]11 Posted by [121]BeauHD on Thursday May 18, 2023 @05:20PM from the AI-at-your-fingertips dept. An official ChatGPT app is [122]now available for iOS, with an Android version coming "[123]soon." It can be downloaded from the App Store [124]here. The Verge reports: The app is free to use, syncs chat history with the web, and features voice input, supported by OpenAI's open-source speech recognition model Whisper. The app works on both iPhones and iPads and can be downloaded from the App Store. OpenAI says it's rolling out the app in the US first and will expand to other countries "in the coming weeks." OpenAI didn't previously hint that a mobile app was coming, but it makes sense given the incredible popularity of ChatGPT. The AI chatbot launched last November but rocketed in use. Some outside estimates suggest the app attracted 100 million users by January this year, though OpenAI has never confirmed these figures. apply tags__________ 170975407 story [125]Businesses [126]Alibaba To Spin Off Its Cloud, AI and Business Messenger Unit [127](techcrunch.com) Posted by [128]BeauHD on Thursday May 18, 2023 @04:40PM from the two-is-better-than-one dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Seven weeks after Alibaba announced its [129]historic restructuring plan to split itself into six independent companies, the juggernaut is gearing up to spin off its intelligence group. Alibaba went public in New York back in 2014, marking the [130]largest IPO at the time. Not long after Hong Kong relaxed rules around dual-class structures, which allow founders to retain certain control while opening the company to outside investment, in 2019, Alibaba sought a secondary listing in the city. Rising tensions between the U.S. and China also prompted many Chinese companies to retreat from the NASDAQ and NYSE in recent years. "We are taking concrete steps towards unlocking value from our businesses and are pleased to announce that our board has [131]approved a full spin-off of the Cloud Intelligence Group via a stock dividend distribution to shareholders, with intention for it to become an independent publicly listed company," Daniel Zhang, chairman and chief executive officer of Alibaba Group, announced in the firm's [132]earnings report today. Zhang is also one of the cloud arm's board of directors. Alibaba aims to complete the spinoff in the next 12 months and plans to include external strategic investors in the group through private financings. You might not be familiar with Alibaba's cloud intelligence group, but think of its main product lines roughly as "AWS+Slack+OpenAI". Its cloud business Alibaba Cloud dominates China's market. Globally, Alibaba Cloud was the third largest infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) public cloud provider in 2021, according to market research firm Gartner. Add platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and private cloud to the mix, Alibaba came in fourth in Q4 2021, according to another market insight firm Synergy Research Group. Alibaba's Dingtalk, an enterprise chat app and productivity platform, surpassed 600 million users as of Q3 2022, with 15 million paid daily active users and 23 million enterprise users, the company said previously. [...] It makes sense that Alibaba is grouping its cloud business and AI research team under one umbrella as these two go hand in hand. With each new breakthrough in AI, the amount of computational power needed to train data increases exponentially -- so does the cost. "The cloud business generated $2.7 billion in revenue during the first quarter, making up 9% of Alibaba's total revenues," notes TechCrunch. You can read a deep dive into the cloud spinout [133]here. apply tags__________ 170974455 story [134]AI [135]Italy Allocates Funds To Shield Workers From AI Replacement Threat [136](reuters.com) [137]61 Posted by msmash on Thursday May 18, 2023 @02:00PM from the interesting-approach dept. Italy has earmarked 30 million euros ($33 million) to [138]improve the skills of unemployed people as well as those workers whose jobs could be most at risk from the advance of automation and artificial intelligence. From a report: According to the Fondo per la Repubblica Digitale (FRD), set up in 2021 by the Rome government to boost the digital skills of Italians, 54% of those aged 16-74 lack basic digital skills, compared with an average 46% in the European Union. The funding in improving training will be allocated in two ways, FRD said. Of the total, 10 million euros will go towards boosting the skills of those whose jobs are at high risk of being replaced due to automation and technological innovation. The remaining 20 million euros will be allocated to help unemployed and economically inactive people develop digital skills that would improve their chances of entering the job market, FRD said. A wide range of jobs could come under threat from automation, FRD said, citing sectors including transport and logistics, office support and administration, production, services and the retail sector. apply tags__________ 170973969 story [139]Youtube [140]YouTube is Bringing 30-Second Unskippable Ads To Its TV Apps [141](engadget.com) [142]136 Posted by msmash on Thursday May 18, 2023 @01:20PM from the shape-of-things-to-come dept. An anonymous reader shares a report: If you watch YouTube videos primarily on your TV, you may soon come across [143]30-second ads you won't be able to skip, just like commercials on traditional TV channels. The video platform has announced during its Brandcast event for advertisers that it's bringing 30-second unskippable ads to connected TVs. It will make the option available through YouTube Select, which is a targeting option open to eligible clients who want to reach the audiences of the website's most popular channels. YouTube says 70 percent of Select impressions land on TVs, so the new format will give advertisers the chance to show more of their services or products in a way that allows "for richer storytelling." If you already regularly see two 15-second ads consecutively, then the new format wouldn't make that much of a difference for you -- unless they show up more frequently, of course. The format is now generally available in the US and Canada and will expand worldwide later this year. apply tags__________ 170973995 story [144]United States [145]Biden Intends To Pick Lawyer Anna Gomez for FCC To End Agency Deadlock [146](bloomberg.com) [147]37 Posted by msmash on Thursday May 18, 2023 @12:41PM from the up-next dept. President Joe Biden intends to select veteran government lawyer Anna Gomez to [148]serve on the Federal Communications Commission and give the agency its first Democratic majority of his presidency, Bloomberg reported Thursday, citing a person briefed on the matter. From the report: Gomez's arrival would poise the FCC, after more than two years of partisan deadlock, to act on matters including restoring net neutrality rules that bar broadband providers from interfering with web traffic. Gomez's selection may be announced soon, said the person briefed on the matter, who declined to be identified because the matter hasn't been made public. The FCC has been split 2-to-2 along party lines since Biden's inauguration in 2021. An earlier nominee withdrew amid opposition from Senate Republicans. Gomez, with a long resume of Washington jobs including private law practice and work at two agencies, needs to win confirmation from the Senate where Democrats wield a narrow majority. Democrats including FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel have said they support restoring net neutrality rules that bar broadband providers from unfairly manipulating web traffic. The FCC under Republican leadership in 2017 gutted rules adopted earlier by the agency. apply tags__________ [149]« Newer [150]Older » Slashdot Top Deals Slashdot Top Deals [151]Slashdot Deals Slashdot Poll Recently, an open letter signed by tech leaders, researchers proposes delaying AI development. Do you agree that AI development should be temporarily halted? 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