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Over 8,500 authors sign an Authors Guild letter asking AI leaders to get consent and fairly compensate writers when using copyrighted material for generative AI (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: Over 8,500 authors sign an Authors Guild letter asking AI leaders to get consent and fairly compensate writers when using copyrighted material for generative AI  —  If you ask GPT-4 to do a passage in the style of Carmen Machado or Margaret Atwood or Alexander Chee, it will do a fair

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Rapid7: threat actors have exploited zero-day RCE flaws in Adobe ColdFusion and Citrix NetScaler; Citrix patched its flaw but Adobe issued an incomplete fix (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Rapid7: threat actors have exploited zero-day RCE flaws in Adobe ColdFusion and Citrix NetScaler; Citrix patched its flaw but Adobe issued an incomplete fix  —  The exploited code-execution flaws are the kind coveted by ransomware and nation-state hackers.  —  Organizations big and small …

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TikTok debuts Elevate, a program to help rising music artists via amplification, early access to new features, and more, and signs a Warner Music licensing deal (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: TikTok debuts Elevate, a program to help rising music artists via amplification, early access to new features, and more, and signs a Warner Music licensing deal  —  TikTok is launching a new program that is designed to identify the next wave of rising artists in the music industry, the company announced

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The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rules that Instagram is not liable for copyright infringement related to embedded images on BuzzFeed News and Time (Andy Maxwell/TorrentFreak)

Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak: The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rules that Instagram is not liable for copyright infringement related to embedded images on BuzzFeed News and Time  —  Two photographers who filed a copyright lawsuit against Instagram after their images posted to the platform appeared on BuzzFeed News …

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Due to safety concerns like facial recognition abuse, OpenAI hasn’t widely shipped GPT-4’s “multimodal” capability that can respond to images and text prompts (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)

Kashmir Hill / New York Times: Due to safety concerns like facial recognition abuse, OpenAI hasn’t widely shipped GPT-4’s “multimodal” capability that can respond to images and text prompts  —  An advanced version of ChatGPT can analyze images and is already helping the blind.

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Sources: Cameo tells staff it is laying off 80+ workers because of financial pressures, leaving fewer than 50, down nearly 90% from its peak headcount last year (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)

Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information: Sources: Cameo tells staff it is laying off 80+ workers because of financial pressures, leaving fewer than 50, down nearly 90% from its peak headcount last year  —  Cameo, the video shoutout app that gained in popularity during the pandemic shutdowns, told employees on Tuesday that it was laying off

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McKinsey partners with Cohere to help enterprise clients adopt generative AI, after Deloitte partnered with Nvidia and Bain and Company teamed up with OpenAI (Krystal Hu/Reuters)

Krystal Hu / Reuters: McKinsey partners with Cohere to help enterprise clients adopt generative AI, after Deloitte partnered with Nvidia and Bain and Company teamed up with OpenAI  —  Consultancy giant McKinsey said it had struck a partnership with artificial intelligence startup Cohere in an effort to provide AI solutions to its enterprise clients.

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Critics say Saudi Arabia uses Snapchat to promote Mohammed bin Salman’s image and as a tool for repression globally; sources: the country closely monitors snaps (Stephanie Kirchgaessner/The Guardian)

Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian: Critics say Saudi Arabia uses Snapchat to promote Mohammed bin Salman’s image and as a tool for repression globally; sources: the country closely monitors snaps  —  Critics say app – partly owned by a Saudi investor – promoting image of Mohammed bin Salman while critical voices are punished

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Logitech buys Stream Deck rival Loupedeck

Logitech has acquired Loupedeck for an “undisclosed, non-material” sum. | Image: Loupedeck Logitech has acquired Loupedeck — the company behind the self-titled editing console beloved by streamers and creative professionals — for an undisclosed sum, according to a press release published on Tuesday. It’s one of many recent steps that Logitech has taken to gain

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This $49.99 wired Xbox controller has sticks that won’t drift

It’s a basic-looking Xbox controller with a basic-ass name, but what’s on the inside makes it unique. | Image: GameSir Stick drift can plague any controller still using wear-and-tear-prone potentiometers, and unfortunately for us, that includes all current first-party gamepads from Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft. However, after years of notoriously drift-prone Joy-Cons, third-party accessory makers

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