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The legal loophole that lets the government search your phone

Despite the US ethos that you’ll be innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, law enforcement finding an excuse to search your digital devices only requires a presumption of wrongdoing. The tech to do this already exists, and murky legislation lets it happen, speakers from the Legal Aid Society said at DEF CON […]

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X is slowing down links to websites Elon Musk has publicly feuded with

It appears that Elon Musk is, once again, punishing websites run by his perceived enemies. The website formerly known as Twitter seems to be interfering with links to The New York Times, Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads and Substack to make them load noticeably slower. Clicking links to those websites from within X causes a significant delay […]

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OpenAI is using GPT-4 to build an AI-powered content moderation system

Content moderation has been one of the thorniest issues on the internet for decades. It's a difficult subject matter for anyone to tackle, considering the subjectivity that goes hand-in-hand with figuring out what content should be permissible on a given platform. ChatGPT maker OpenAI thinks it can help and it has been putting GPT-4's content […]

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Amazon hardware VP Dave Limp set to retire after almost 14 years

Dave Limp, Amazon’s Senior Vice President of Devices and Services, has announced his pending retirement from the company. Limp has been with the company for nearly 14 years and, as his title suggests, oversaw Amazon’s transition into dedicated hardware devices like Kindle e-readers, Alexa-enabled Echo speakers and the various Fire-branded products, among many others. Amazon […]

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Ex-FTX exec Salame won’t testify in alleged illegal campaign donation case

Ryan Salame plans to plead the Fifth if he is asked to testify at Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal trial, according to United States prosecutors. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/rss Ex-FTX exec Salame won’t testify in alleged illegal campaign donation case