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@hoare_spitall Next up, this case — the jury is currently deliberating:
A landmark lawsuit will set the stage for thousands of people who say social media platforms are intentionally addictive.
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Meta must pay $375 million for violating New Mexico law in a child exploitation case after a civil trial. The state’s attorney general had alleged that Meta had failed to safeguard its family of apps from child predators. Here's more from CNBC.
The five-or-so people who were still using Horizon Worlds in VR can breathe a huge sigh of relief: Meta has decided not to shut it down after all. Here's more from @Techcrunch.
Who is really footing the AI energy bill? Inside the debate about data center electricity costs, from CNBC.
"From rural Virginia to the Arizona desert, communities that once welcomed tech investment are now pushing back against data centers."
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #DataCenters #Tech #Energy #Technology
Here are the details for Angwin's lawyers, if you're an author who believes your identity has been used in Expert Review and would like to discuss joining the class action:
RE: https://flipboard.social/@TechDesk/116212811338255993
Update: Grammarly is now facing a class action over its Expert Review feature. Investigative journalist Julia Angwin is the only named plaintiff in the suit filed in New York today (Wednesday) that states she: "challenges Grammarly’s misappropriation of the names and identities of hundreds of journalists, authors, writers, and editors to earn profits for Grammarly and its owner, Superhuman.” Here's the story from @WIRED.
What do you do if you realize a friend is experiencing "AI psychosis?" Samantha Cole writes for @404mediaco about efforts to bring people back to reality.
The weeklong Game Developers Conference is underway in San Francisco, but many international devs are skipping it because they no longer feel comfortable traveling to the U.S. Here's @arstechnica's story. We want to know: If you live outside the United States, are you avoiding it?
Floppy disks were introduced in the early 1970s and in the two decades before they became obsolete, tens of billions were produced, most of which ended up in landfills, long-forgotten storage, or libraries. Archivist Leontien Talboom has been working for the past few years to preserve the floppy disks in the Cambridge University Library, collaborating with retro-computing enthusiasts. She talked to @PopularScience about the project.
