Flipboard Tech Desk 2 months ago

Seven more families have filed lawsuits against OpenAI claiming that the company’s GPT-4o model was released prematurely and without effective safeguards. Some of the suits address ChatGPT’s alleged role in suicides of their family members. [@Techcrunch](

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Seven more families are now suing OpenAI over ChatGPT's role in suicides, delusions | TechCrunch

In one case, 23-year-old Zane Shamblin had a conversation with ChatGPT that lasted more than four hours.

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Flipboard Tech Desk 2 months ago

Google, Microsoft, and Meta have stopped publishing workforce diversity data, according to a report in [@WIRED](

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Google, Microsoft, and Meta Have Stopped Publishing Workforce Diversity Data

Other big tech companies including Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia have continued their annual disclosures this year even as the Trump administration cra...

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Flipboard Tech Desk 2 months ago

A U.S. judge rules against online platform Roblox, keeping alleged abuse case in the public eye. [@abc](

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Judge rules against online platform Roblox, keeping alleged abuse case in the public eye

A father's lawsuit against the online gaming platform Roblox will remain in the public eye after a judge denied the company's bid for private arbit...

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Flipboard Tech Desk 2 months ago

How successful has Twitter's rebrand to X been? Well, most people still refer to the platform as "X, formerly Twitter," so we're going to say, not very. The team at Creative Bloq report on the blue bird's last gasp, as X sunsets the twitter.com URL, and how — no surprise — that's not gone smoothly.

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One last debacle for the messiest rebrand of the decade.

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Flipboard Tech Desk 2 months ago

Australia adds Reddit and Kick to social media platforms banning children under 16. [@AssociatedPress](

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Australia adds Reddit and Kick to social media platforms banning children under 16

Australia has added Reddit and Kick to its list of social media platforms that must ban children under 16 from having accounts.

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Flipboard Tech Desk 2 months ago

Gaza Sky Geeks (GSG) gave the Gaza Strip a glimpse of an international future, training thousands of young people training in coding, digital marketing, graphic design and entrepreneurship. This offered them a gateway to new remote work from within the besieged territory. Then Hamas attacked Israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking more than 200 hostages, and Israel launched a full-scale war. Rest of World takes a look at how GSG got started, the challenges it faced as it established itself, and where the community is now.

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The bombing of Gaza Sky Geeks

For over a decade, Gaza Sky Geeks built a tech future for the Gaza Strip. Then came war.

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Flipboard Tech Desk 2 months ago

Stability AI largely wins U.K. court battle against Getty Images over copyright and trademark. [@AssociatedPress](

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Stability AI largely wins UK court battle against Getty Images over copyright and trademark

Stability AI has mostly prevailed against Getty Images in a British court battle over intellectual property.

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Flipboard Tech Desk 2 months ago

When hackers hit a company with a ransomware attack, another company that specializes in negotiating with the perpetrators may step in. Two such specialists were recently charged by the U.S. Dept. of Justice for carrying out ransom attacks of their own. [@Techcrunch](

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DOJ accuses US ransomware negotiators of launching their own ransomware attacks | TechCrunch

Three people, including two U.S. ransomware negotiators, are accused of working on behalf of the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang.

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Flipboard Tech Desk 2 months ago

What jobs is AI actually replacing? Henley Wing Chiu, who blogs about enterprise tech at Bloomberry.com, analyzed 180M job postings to find out. He found that the job with the biggest decline is computer graphics artist, with photographer, journalist and writer high on the list too. Some of the shifts aren't to do with AI. At least three of the top 10 declining roles are in sustainability and compliance positions — symptomatic of the U.S. government's approach to regulation and the environment. Which jobs are on the up? Machine learning engineer and trade compliance specialist.