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New York City turns to AI-powered scanners in push to keep guns out of the subway system
New York City is turning to AI-powered scanners in a new bid to keep guns out of its subway system, but the pilot program launched Friday is already being met with skepticism from riders and the threat of a lawsuit from civil liberties advocates who say the searches are unconstitutional. The Evolv scanner — a sleek-looking weapons detector using artificial intelligence to search riders for guns and knives — was on display at a lower Manhattan subway station where Mayor Eric Adams announced the
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ISPs are fighting to raise the price of low-income broadband
Internet service providers are objected to the lower rates they need to offer lower income customers if they want to obtain government funds from a new Internet access program.
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Apple reports iCloud Private Relay global outages for some users
Apple's iCloud Private Relay, which helps protect paid iCloud users from online trackers, has experienced outages affecting major markets, restricting users from accessing web services and apps that use internet connectivity. TechCrunch understands that iCloud Private Relay's downtime has affected some Apple users in markets including Europe, India Japan, and the United States since at least Thursday. The sporadic outages are restricting users from accessing the web on the Safari browser and r
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Elon Musk’s X Gives Users Chance to Keep Posts From AI Chatbot
(Bloomberg) -- Elon Musk’s X has given users a way to prevent their posts and interactions from helping train his artificial intelligence chatbot Grok.Most Read from BloombergTrump Risks Losing Voters He Needs With Loaded Attacks on HarrisParis Sticks to Olympics Opening Event Plans After Rail SabotageFed’s Favored Price Gauge Rises at Mild Pace, Spending Holds UpHarris Just Showed Why Trump Is So Afraid of HerUS Accuses Famed Short-Seller Andrew Left of Securities FraudSettings for X users defa
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Apple signs the White House's commitment to AI safety
Apple signed the White House's voluntary commitment to developing safe, secure and trustworthy AI, according to a press release on Friday. The company will soon launch its generative AI offering, Apple Intelligence, into its core products, putting generative AI in front of Apple's 2 billion users. Apple joins 15 other technology companies — including Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI — that committed to the White House's ground rules for developing generative AI
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Privacy watchdog says it's 'surprised' by Elon Musk opting user data into Grok AI training
X, formerly Twitter, quietly pushed out a change that appears to default user data into its AI training pool for Grok, a move that was spotted by users of the platform on Friday. Grok is the name of a conversational AI, or large language model (LLM), developed by Elon Musk-owned X and intended as a rival to OpenAI's viral ChatGPT chatbot — but with less political correctness (and more humor) as its claimed selling point. Anyone concerned about their X info being fed to Musk's chatbot can learn
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Apple’s M3 MacBook Air with 16GB of RAM is $200 off right now
Apple’s M3 MacBook Air combines Apple’s lightest and thinnest laptop design with the cutting-edge horsepower of the latest Apple silicon chip. You can get the 2024 model on sale for $200 off right now.
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