India has warned its citizens of an advanced Android malware that can access sensitive data and give hackers control over infected devices. Indian Defence Ministry’s Controller General of Defence Accounts issued an advisory on DogeRAT, a Remote Access Trojan discovered by cybersecurity startup CloudSEK. The note said the malware, which …
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Social network to “better align” investments, reducing news focus Meta announced today that it will end Facebook News in the U.K., Germany, and France in early December. The social network said it was part of its “ongoing effort to better align our investments to our products and services people value …
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The opioid epidemic has complicated researchers for over two decades as they try to understand the changing social and systemic factors that lead to opioid abuse and identify overdose hot spots. Clinicians provide safe, effective treatment and other resources to addicts, which is tedious and often flawed. AI may be …
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Large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s ChatGPT all lie. The mistakes range from bizarre and harmless—claiming the Golden Gate Bridge was transported across Egypt in 2016—to dangerous and problematic. A mayor in Australia threatened to sue OpenAI after ChatGPT misrepresented his plea to a major bribery scandal. Researchers found that …
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Tinrocket, makers of Waterlogue and Olli, released Cinemin, a camera app that shoots animated photos and videos without AI filters. The free app’s filters are inspired by traditional animated art and films. Apply filters while capturing photos or videos to preview them live. After taking a picture, you can edit …
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People send themselves messages on messaging apps. So much so that WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram have bookmarking and note-taking features. Willem de Beijer created Qept, an iOS note-taking app, for the “DM-to-yourself” phenomenon. The developer said that while popular chat apps offer self-texting, Qept is better at note-taking organization and …
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Inalife, a new startup, has created a digital legacy platform to help families preserve their memories, create an interactive family tree, and record messages for future generations, such as when a baby turns 18. The Hong Kong-based company launched its desktop app in July, attracting a few hundred users. Next …
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BeFake, an AI-augmented social network based on Gen Z app BeReal, raised $3 million in seed funding. The app’s name, a play on BeReal’s authentic photo sharing among friends, implies the opposite. BeFake users grab photos with both the front and back cameras and customize them with AI using in-app …
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Meta released FACET, a new AI benchmark, today to assess the “fairness” of AI models that classify and detect objects and people in photos and videos. FACET, a tortured acronym for “Fairness in Computer Vision EvaluaTion” with 32,000 images of 50,000 people labeled by human annotators, accounts for occupations and …
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Walden Catalyst, Pitango, SCB10X, b2venture, Samsung Next, and Intel-owned Mobileye founder Amnon Shashua led a $155 million Series C funding round for Tel Aviv-based AI21 Labs, which develops text-generating AI tools. Google and Nvidia joined. AI21 Labs’ total raised $283 million values the company at $1.4 billion, up from The …
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