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🎾 French Open organisers to offer players AI protection against online abuse

French Open organisers will be offering players artificial intelligence-protection from social media abuse in the form of Bodyguard technology, which will filter out abusive comments on social media platforms like Instagram, Twitter and TikTok in real time, during the tournament in Paris, to help prioritise the mental health of players and enable them to remain focused on their competition, marking the first initiative of its kind by a Grand Slam tournament.

📵 DfT Recommends Removing WiFi from Trains to Cut Costs

Rail passengers in England may lose access to wifi on trains after the Department for Transport told its contracted operators to cease offering the service unless it can be justified financially, as the government seeks to cut costs and reform all aspects of the railway. Most British train services currently provide free wifi as standard, but the DfT said the technology was low on passengers’ priorities and that operators needed to demonstrate the business case for its provision. The move has been criticised by industry figures, with one describing the proposal as a “ridiculous measure” that will reduce the quality of train services.

🚀 SpaceX launches tenth crewed mission, third fully commercial flight

SpaceX launched its 10th crewed mission, the third fully commercial flight carrying four people, including a former NASA astronaut, to the International Space Station in a mission brokered by Houston-based Axiom that appeals to potential customers for a variety of reasons, including space tourism, and will conduct about 20 scientific experiments while on board the orbiting laboratory before departing for Earth.

☀ Solar farms took over California desert: ‘An oasis has become a dead sea’

Desert communities in California feel trapped and choked by dust while experts warn about the environmental damage caused by massive solar power plants, which are harming the habitat of endangered species and ancient Indigenous cultural sites in the area, and killing or harming birds and other animals. The authorities are under pressure to address concerns and consider alternatives to large-scale centralised power generation.

🤖 Hypersensitive robot hand is eerily human in how it can feel things

Researchers at Columbia University have developed a robotic hand that can "feel" what it is touching and handle objects almost as humans do, thanks to a hypersensitive sense of touch and dexterity achieved through the integration of multiple types of machine learning.

🐛 A Twitter bug is restoring deleted tweets and retweets – including my own

A Twitter bug is causing deleted tweets and retweets to reappear on profiles, leading to questions about Twitter's ability to protect user data and control their own information, with some users speculating that it may be related to Twitter's unpredictable behavior under Elon Musk.

🔓 Bruteprint attack can cheaply unlock various fingerprint-secured phones

Researchers have discovered an inexpensive smartphone attack dubbed the BrutePrint attack, which requires physical control of the device to crack the authentication fingerprint used to unlock the screen and perform other sensitive actions on a range of Android devices in as little as 45 minutes.

🐦 Fake Pentagon attack hoax shows perils of Twitter’s paid verification

The recent fake Pentagon attack hoax that circulated on Twitter shows the perils of the platform's pay-to-verify system, which makes it easy to spread misinformation, especially when combined with generative AI, and raises questions about how it could be used to manipulate the stock market.

🍎 Apple is on the hunt for generative AI talent

Apple is seeking generative AI talent by posting at least a dozen job ads seeking experts in generative AI on its career page to help build extraordinary autonomous systems and visual generative modelling to power applications across computation photography, image and video editing, 3D shape and motion reconstruction, avatar generation among others, amid signals about its approach to generative AI have remained mixed.

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