Lawyers representing Elon Musk and X have quietly begun sending subpoenas to a host of public interest groups, many of whom signed open letters to X’s advertisers expressing concerns about the platform’s direction under Musk’s leadership. “The subpoenas represent a new chapter in the legal war Musk launched after advertisers fled X, and are part of a lawsuit Musk and X first filed about a year ago against Media Matters over a report it published documenting that ads appeared alongside extremist content,” writes [@motherjonesmag](
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Sports stadiums in the U.S., are turning increasingly towards facial recognition in order to save time, and therefore money, by shortening lines at stadium entrances. From the MLB to the NFL, fans across the country are being offered express entry into sports grounds if they opt in to the technology. However privacy advocates argue that these kinds of surveillance tools are never totally secure, make it easier for police to get information about fans, and fuel “mission creep” where surveillance technology becomes more common, or even required. [@WIRED](
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Stadiums Are Embracing Face Recognition. Privacy Advocates Say They Should Stick to Sports
Protesters took to Citi Field Wednesday to raise awareness of the facial recognition systems that have become common at major league sporting venues.
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With generative AI imaging tools getting increasingly sophisticated and all-the-more accessible, it’s getting harder to trust the pictures we see online — but the tech is out there to put an end to the doubt. C2PA is a picture authentication standard that uses additional metadata to highlight any fakery that's taken place, but it’s taking years for the key players to get on board and make it happen. [@theverge](
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This system can sort real pictures from AI fakes — why aren’t platforms using it?
It’s taking years to get platforms to adopt the C2PA’s standard.
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While the debate about which smartphone brand offers the best camera performance is unlikely to be settled any time soon, the winners of the 17th iPhone Photography Awards certainly make for impressive viewing. TechRadar has pulled together the 46 winners across 15 categories — some of which used phones as old as 2015’s iPhone 6S to take their winning snaps, proving the old adage that “the best camera is the one you have with you” may well be a cliché, but it’s also true. https://flip.it/Sde8jv #Apple #iPhone #Photography #Camera #Smartphone #Tech
Earlier this week, Disney argued that a man could not bring a wrongful death lawsuit against a restaurant at Disney World, Florida due to the T&Cs he had signed for a trial Disney+ subscription years previously. While it has since gone back on this decision and said it will allow the matter to be heard in court, it has raised concerns about what we are really agreeing to when we sign up for any service or account online. Here’s more from [@AxiosNews](
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Microsoft’s Windows Recall feature, which stores a timeline of activity snapshots on your PC, has a new release date. Microsoft unveiled the feature to much fanfare at Build 2024 in May, only to delay it indefinitely after security researchers called the feature a “privacy nightmare.” Now, having added some extra security measures, the company has said it will roll out Recall to beta testers using Copilot+ PCs in October. @Engadget :press: has more.
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Microsoft’s revised Recall AI feature will roll out to beta testers in October
Microsoft’s Windows Recall feature, which stores a timeline of activity snapshots on your PC, has a new release date for Windows Insiders. It wil...
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In 2004, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced plans for a “hydrogen highway” — a network of stations for hydrogen fuel cell cars that would clean up the air and free the U.S. from foreign oil, with California leading the way. Except that didn’t really happen. Twenty years later, the American automotive industry has moved heavily towards electric vehicles that run on batteries, not hydrogen, and those who invested in the hydrogen dream are left battling fuel shortages, high prices and faulty equipment. [@theverge](
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What happened to the “hydrogen highway”?
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In March 2022, Microsoft announced that it would be building a data center on a 22-acre plot in Mekaguda, a village in the southern Indian state of Telangana. As of July this year, 70% of the construction of the building had been completed — but locals aren’t happy. A group of 56 local residents have filed a petition claiming that Microsoft was occupying land beyond the boundaries of its property and dumping industrial waste into a nearby lake, hurting resident cattle and impacting livelihoods. While a hearing for the case is pending, @npub1qt7k...dgeq went to the site and spoke to some of the people involved to understand their concerns.
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Microsoft is building a data center in a tiny Indian village. Locals allege it’s dumping industrial waste
“These big companies think they can enter small villages like ours, take our land, and destroy it.”
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Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter could go down as the worst buyout for banks since the 2008 global financial crisis, reports Fortune. While more than half of the $44 billion price tag came from Musk, some $13 billion had to be raised from a consortium of lenders. However, nearly two years on, investment banks have been unable to offload the debt. tying up precious capital and limiting their ability to originate and finance more deals. Here’s more.
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Elon Musk’s Twitter deal may be the worst leveraged buyout deal for banks since Lehman, raising risks to Tesla | Fortune
Banks had hoped to package and sell Musk's LBO debt to investors. Instead, it's sat on their balance sheet, tying up capital, for almost two years.
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Having pumped billions of dollars into building the next generation of computer chip factories in the U.S., the Biden administration is facing new pressure over the health and safety risks those facilities could pose. “Environmental reviews for the new projects need to be more thorough, advocates say. They lack transparency around what kinds of toxic substances factory workers might handle, and plans to keep hazardous waste like forever chemicals from leaching into the environment have been vague,” writes [@theverge](
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Do we know enough about the health risks of new semiconductor factories?
They’re calling for thorough environmental reviews of semiconductor factories.
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