📰 News

🤐 Leaked Document Shows How Amazon Ended Up Over-Listing Thousands of Jobs

A leaked document from inside Amazon suggests that listing too many job openings and subsequent over-hiring may have contributed to the recent layoffs affecting 9,000 employees, as the company reportedly had little oversight on the hiring process until 2022, allowing managers to recruit and hire more employees than they were approved for.

🐛 ChatGPT bug exposes AI chat histories to other users

A bug in OpenAI's AI chatbot Chat GPT temporarily exposed descriptions of other users' conversations, leading the company to take the chat history feature offline while they work on a fix.

🤖 AI platform allegedly bans journalist over fake Trump arrest images

AI platform Midjourney has allegedly banned journalist Eliot Higgins for creating AI-generated fake images of former President Donald Trump’s arrest, and the platform has also reportedly banned the word “arrest” from being used in text prompts to generate images, leading to an error message appearing instead. Prompt responses using Trump family names also seemed to be blocked on the engine.

💰 The biggest lie the rich ever told? That money can’t buy you happiness

New studies confirm that having more money can improve our well-being, with researchers finding that for most people, earning more money makes you happier, though there are nuances to this, and extremely unhappy people will only see increases in happiness up to an annual household income of $100,000 before it levels off.

🤖 AI-faked images of Donald Trump’s imagined arrest swirl on Twitter

AI-generated images of Donald Trump's imagined arrest are circulating on Twitter, causing concern about the potential harm that may be caused by the images, with many users calling for better labeling of such content to help people understand their authenticity and to provide additional context.

💔 Ron DeSantis Said Google Should Be Broken Up

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has called for the break up of Big Tech firms like Google and Meta, saying they are "ruining our country" and have too much power, putting him further in the anti-tech camp than most of his fellow Republicans and quite a few Democrats. DeSantis has had a testy relationship with the tech industry for years, proposing a so-called Digital Bill of Rights and a law banning TikTok on all government devices, and has said that Silicon Valley’s tech behemoths are "exercising a more negative influence on society than the trust [Standard Oil] that got broken up in the early 20th century."

🎨 Adobe's AI image generator, only trained on licensed or out of copyright content

Adobe has released its own AI image generator, called Adobe Firefly, which will eventually be integrated into its suite of creative apps like Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere, and is one of the few companies to be transparent about what data its models are trained on, using only content that's licensed or out of copyright, licensed for training, or in the Adobe Stock library, so it does not use content from independent artists.

🚗 VW will support Android Automotive for the “lifetime” of a car – 15 years

Volkswagen's software division, CARIAD, has confirmed that it will provide lifetime support for Android Automotive in its vehicles, with an option for brands that want even longer support, which ought to guarantee upgrade-ability on all legal aspects for 15 years following service.

💸 Hackers drain Bitcoin ATMs of $1.5M by exploiting 0-day bug

Hackers have drained over $1.5 million from cryptocurrency ATMs by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability, leaving customers responsible for unrecoverable losses, according to ATM manufacturer General Bytes, which has issued an apology and is reviewing its security procedures. To pull off the heist, an unknown actor exploited a previously unknown vulnerability, allowing the attacker to upload and execute a malicious Java application. Hot wallets remain a weak link in cryptocurrency security, as evidenced by the risks posed to internet-connected wallets like ATM hot wallets.

🔨 Google’s Bard wants Google to be broken up

Google's chatbot Bard wants the company to be broken up, according to a conversation with researcher Jane Manchun Wong.

💻 Remote work is starting to hit office rents

The work-from-home trend is starting to affect office rental rates, with major markets like San Francisco and Manhattan being hit the hardest, while markets with a higher concentration of health services and life science employment are faring well, and it remains to be seen whether issues in the office market will worsen due to balance-sheet stress at regional banks.

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