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Meta fined $567m in largest child safety ruling against social media giant
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Meta fined $567m in largest child safety ruling against social media giant

A New Mexico judge ordered the Instagram, Facebook and Whatsapp parent company to pay another $567m for the way it has harmed children.

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Bemondták az oroszok: eljött az idő – Szét kell bombázni Zatokát nemzetkozi-gazdasag

Bemondták az oroszok: eljött az idő – Szét kell bombázni Zatokát

Az ukrán légvédelmi rendszerek kifogytak a rakétákból, meg kell ragadni az alkalmat arra, hogy az orosz haderő mélységi csapásokkal pusztítsa el az Ukrajna és NATO-országok közti logisztikai útvonalakat – mondta Jurij Knutov orosz biztonságpolitikai szakértő az MK-nak.

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Film posters for The Mummy banned from public display in UK nemzetkozi-gazdasag

Film posters for The Mummy banned from public display in UK

Watchdogs say adverts in London tube stations broke its rules with ‘realistic impression of a dead child’ Film posters for The Mummy have been banned from outdoor public display in the UK because they include realistic depictions of a dead child. The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) received 30 complaints over the promotional campaign in London tube stations for the new Lee Cronin film. Continue reading…

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The herbicide haunting a New York farm town nemzetkozi-gazdasag

The herbicide haunting a New York farm town

Paraquat is banned in over 70 countries. Some farmers and their families in Hebron believe the pesticide is causing Parkinson’s disease and are demanding that New York ban it Gordon Chaplin gingerly stepped out of the car at the top of the steep hill behind his farmhouse, sporting a bandage on his hand from a fall the day before. He gripped his cane as he shuffled through the knee-high grass. He stopped every few feet to catch his breath, leaning on his caregiver for support. Looking out at the distant Adirondacks and Catskill mountains, he thought back to the years when he could run up the hill with ease. Continue reading…

Business | The Guardian
Businesses in England: tell us about your experience of taking on apprentices nemzetkozi-gazdasag

Businesses in England: tell us about your experience of taking on apprentices

The government has announced plans to create thousands more apprenticeships. We want to hear from employers about their experiences of recruiting apprentices The government has announced plans to create thousands more apprenticeships in England as part of wider reforms to technical and vocational education. We’d like to hear from employers who have taken on apprentices. What has your experience been like? Have apprentices benefited your organisation? What have been the biggest challenges? What changes or government support would encourage you to offer more apprenticeship opportunities? Continue reading…

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The Winners of Trump’s A.I. Safety Plan nemzetkozi-gazdasag

The Winners of Trump’s A.I. Safety Plan

The Trump administration’s new safety review guidelines appear to exempt Chinese artificial intelligence models. OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s aren’t.

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Teachers need help with AI. A union is offering training – with $23m in funding from big tech nemzetkozi-gazdasag

Teachers need help with AI. A union is offering training – with $23m in funding from big tech

Partnership between American Federation of Teachers, one of the largest labor unions in the US, and AI firms has stirred controversy Darius Saczuk, a high school teacher, views artificial intelligence as his enemy. Earlier this year, he and several dozen New York City teachers spent the day inside a windowless conference room in downtown Manhattan to learn how to use AI and prevent students from outsourcing their thinking to it. As Saczuk sees it, he needs to understand his enemy in order to beat it. Continue reading…

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Sweltering summer lifts Next sales as profit outlook upgraded again nemzetkozi-gazdasag

Sweltering summer lifts Next sales as profit outlook upgraded again

Clothing and homeware retailer says growth led by suite of alternative brands and strong online sales Next has raised hopes that UK shoppers are still willing to spend despite pressures on household budgets, after the hot summer boosted its clothing sales. The retailer has upgraded its profit guidance for the third time this year, saying it benefited from sunny weather and the release of some “pent-up demand” in the Middle East and northern Europe in the 13 weeks ended on 1 August. Continue reading…

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‘They’re selling the safety of the traveling public’: TSA workers decry Trump privatization push nemzetkozi-gazdasag

‘They’re selling the safety of the traveling public’: TSA workers decry Trump privatization push

Union exploring options to oppose program that would put US airport screening into hands of private contractors The labor union representing workers at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is raising alarms over a new program that will expand privatizing security checkpoints at three airports. The agency informed the union last month of plans to enact the TSA Gold+ program, which would shift security and control of the screening technology into the hands of private contractors at airports in Tampa, Charleston and Des Moines. Union workers are expected to lose their union contract and benefits once a contractor takes over. Continue reading…

Business | The Guardian
Why is Anthropic destroying books? | Kathryn James nemzetkozi-gazdasag

Why is Anthropic destroying books? | Kathryn James

The AI company apparently found destructively scanning ‘all the books in the world’ easier than dealing with copyright in its quest for training data Should we destroy all the books in the world? An answer to this question can be found in the court documents of Bartz v Anthropic PBC. The northern California district court case, decided in late July this year, highlighted the improbably named “Project Panama”, one of the AI company Anthropic’s efforts to improve its large language model Claude. “What is Project Panama?” court exhibit 21 asks, in an internal memo. The answer: “Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world.” The memo advises discretion: “Why use a codename? … [B]ecause we don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.” Continue reading…

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