Notices by Techmeme (techmeme@techhub.social), page 15

WhatsApp's AI generates stickers of kids with guns when prompted with "Palestine", but prompts for "Israeli" generate stickers of people who are mostly smiling (Johana Bhuiyan/The Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/02/whatsapps-ai-palestine-kids-gun-gaza-bias-israel
http://www.techmeme.com/231106/p2#a231106p2

Discord plans to switch to temporary file links for all users by the end of 2023 to block attackers from using its CDN for hosting and pushing malware (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/discord-will-switch-to-temporary-file-links-to-block-malware-delivery/
http://www.techmeme.com/231104/p6#a231104p6

A jury finds Sam Bankman-Fried guilty on all seven federal counts of fraud and conspiracy for defrauding FTX customers (Jacquelyn Melinek/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/02/sam-bankman-fried-found-guilty-on-all-seven-counts/
http://www.techmeme.com/231102/p42#a231102p42

What Biden's EO means for AI openness, and why a compute threshold is unlikely to effectively anticipate individual models' riskiness, but may work in aggregate (AI Snake Oil)

https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/what-the-executive-order-means-for
http://www.techmeme.com/231031/p43#a231031p43

Adam Mosseri says Threads is working on an API, despite concerns that "it'll mean a lot more publisher content and not much more creator content" (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/27/instagram-head-says-threads-api-is-in-the-works/
http://www.techmeme.com/231028/p4#a231028p4

Members of Gen Z say they use family location sharing apps to bolster a sense of security, such as during dates or at concerts; Life360 now has 33M+ US MAUs (Julie Jargon/Wall Street Journal)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/track-my-phone-teens-feel-safer-when-parents-monitor-7ad437ff?mod=followamazon
http://www.techmeme.com/231023/p14#a231023p14

FaZe Clan is acquired by esports holding company GameSquare Holdings in a deal valuing Faze at ~$16M, down from a $725M market cap at its 2022 SPAC merger (Alexander Lee/Digiday)

https://digiday.com/marketing/faze-clan-acquired-by-gamesquare/
http://www.techmeme.com/231020/p8#a231020p8

GPT4-V, the new mode of GPT-4 that lets users upload images as part of conversations, allows for prompt injection attacks by following instructions in images (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Oct/14/multi-modal-prompt-injection/
http://www.techmeme.com/231014/p7#a231014p7

Automattic releases ActivityPub 1.0.0 for WordPress, letting fediverse users follow WordPress blogs on apps like Mastodon and receive replies as blog comments (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/14/wordpress-blogs-can-now-be-followed-in-the-fediverse-including-mastodon/
http://www.techmeme.com/230914/p27#a230914p27

WhatsApp introduces screen sharing during video calls, rolling out on iOS, Android, and Windows, and support for landscape mode on video calls (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/08/whatsapp-screen-sharing-video-calls-landscape/
http://www.techmeme.com/230808/p22#a230808p22

Qualcomm, NXP, Bosch, and Infineon form a new company in Germany to promote the open-source RISC-V chip architecture, initially targeting the auto industry (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-04/qualcomm-nxp-and-others-team-up-to-develop-arm-rival-chip-tech
http://www.techmeme.com/230804/p7#a230804p7

The FBI's seizure of Mastodon server Kolektiva.social in May, part of a raid over unrelated charges, should serve as a wakeup call to fediverse users and hosts (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/fbi-seizure-mastodon-server-wakeup-call-fediverse-users-and-hosts-protect-their
http://www.techmeme.com/230726/p18#a230726p18

Larry Hryb, Xbox's senior director of corporate communications, also known as Major Nelson, says he is leaving Microsoft after 22 years at the company (Matt Wales/Eurogamer.net)

https://www.eurogamer.net/larry-major-nelson-hryb-departs-microsoft-after-22-years
http://www.techmeme.com/230714/p17#a230714p17

Bluesky raised an $8M seed led by Neo and partners with Namecheap to offer easy custom domain purchasing and management, Bluesky's first paid service (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/bluesky-announces-its-8m-seed-round-first-paid-service-custom-domains/
http://www.techmeme.com/230705/p30#a230705p30

TweetDeck users report major problems, including notifications and entire columns failing to load, after Elon Musk's new read-limits; home timelines still load (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/03/tweetdeck-suffers-as-musk-enforces-read-limits-on-twitter/
http://www.techmeme.com/230703/p5#a230703p5

Sources: EU privacy regulators fine Meta a record $1.3B over sending user data to the US; the ruling is expected later on Monday (Sam Schechner/Wall Street Journal)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/meta-fined-1-3-billion-over-data-transfers-to-u-s-b53dbb04?mod=djemalertNEWS
http://www.techmeme.com/230522/p7#a230522p7

Musk says he has found a CEO for X/Twitter and "she will be starting in ~6 weeks"; Musk will become "exec chair & CTO" overseeing "product, software & sysops" (Elon Musk/@elonmusk)

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1656748197308674048
http://www.techmeme.com/230511/p33#a230511p33

AI text generators are quietly authoring more of the internet; more AI-generated books and personalized articles mean fewer clients buying human-written content (Will Oremus/Washington Post)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/05/05/ai-spam-websites-books-chatgpt/
http://www.techmeme.com/230506/p8#a230506p8

AWS begins offering customers access to LLMs by Anthropic, Stability AI, AI21 Labs, and AWS, aiming to become a neutral platform for generative AI features (Tom Dotan/Wall Street Journal)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-joins-microsoft-google-in-ai-race-spurred-by-chatgpt-d7c34738?mod=djemalertNEWS
http://www.techmeme.com/230413/p16#a230413p16

A look at the impact of 34 US bitcoin mines and their extreme demand for energy, as the cost of electricity for locals increases in Texas and other areas (New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/09/business/bitcoin-mining-electricity-pollution.html
http://www.techmeme.com/230410/p8#a230410p8