Slack by default using messages, files etc for building and training LLM models (mastodon.social)
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Slack by default using messages, files etc for building and training LLM models (mastodon.social)
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In response to Google (www.wheresyoured.at)
Google responded to Ed, Ed responds....
US urged Ukraine to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries (www.ft.com)
The US has urged Ukraine to halt attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure, warning that the drone strikes risk driving up global oil prices and provoking retaliation, according to three people familiar with the discussions. […]...
The AI-generated hell of the 2024 election (www.theverge.com)
A thread compiling all Verge articles about AI influence on the upcoming election....
Hidden cameras capture bank employees misleading customers, pushing products that help sales targets (www.cbc.ca)
AKA “surprisingly, oligopolies are there to make money and care about their customers just enough not to pee on their faces while someone else is looking”.
Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies (www.nytimes.com)
Kenn Dahl says he has always been a careful driver. The owner of a software company near Seattle, he drives a leased Chevrolet Bolt. He’s never been responsible for an accident....
Rising water: Quebec lender ending new mortgages in flood zones ’just the beginning’ (montrealgazette.com)
Desjardins Group announced as of Feb. 1 it would no longer offer new mortgages for properties in “0-20 year” flood zones — where there is a five per cent chance of flooding in any given year — because of what it called the rising effect of climate change....
CRA now allows 2FA apps
What the title says. Before you had to choose either SMS / call via phone or a very clunky code grid.
Reddit: 'We Are in the Early Stages of Monetizing Our User Base' (www.404media.co)
Reddit said in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission that its users’ posts are “a valuable source of conversation data and knowledge” that has been and will continue to be an important mechanism for training AI and large language models. The filing also states that the company believes “we are in the early...
"Tokenized" investments in real estate (elpais.com)
Yesterday, the business section of El País, the Spanish newspaper of record, published this story....
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Europe’s hidden security crisis [PDF] (www.iccl.ie)
Real-Time Bidding (RTB) allows foreign states and non-state actors to obtain compromising sensitive personal data about key European personnel and leaders....
We caught technicians at Best Buy, Mobile Klinik, Canada Computers and others snooping on our personal devices (www.cbc.ca)
Police raid WorldCoin cryptocurrency warehouse in Nairobi (www.capitalfm.co.ke)
This is good for Bitcoin.
Opinion: Quebecers, act now to freeze your credit file (montrealgazette.com)
I wrote this article for the Montreal Gazette a few months ago and I think it might be a good idea to share it here. If a few more people freeze their credit files and they avoid a potential id theft disaster in the future, that’s good enough for me....
How Manga Was Translated for America - NY Times (www.nytimes.com)
Gift link, read freely :-)
Dangerous storm set-up with tornado risk emerges over parts of Ontario, Quebec - The Weather Network (www.theweathernetwork.com)
Be careful out there today, looks nasty....
