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MS-365-Electron v2.0.0 has been released :)

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Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership

Many users are removing or editing their questions and answers to prevent them from being used to train AI — decisions which have been punished with bans from the site's moderators. The moderators also changed the questions back.

Ben posted on Mastodon about his experience editing his most successful answers to try to avoid having his work stolen by OpenAI. He added that:

[The moderator crackdown is] just a reminder that anything you post on any of these platforms can and will be used for profit. It's just a matter of time until all your messages on Discord, Twitter etc. are scraped, fed into a model and sold back to you.

🔗 TomsHardware
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Amazon Prime Video ads are about to get more intrusive

Amazon will roll out three new ad formats for Prime Video later this year. Shoppable carousels will soon appear during ad breaks in shows and movies that present viewers with a "sliding lineup" of products they can buy on Amazon. That essentially makes this an ad within another ad, and it even "automatically pauses" if interacted with to give viewers time to browse.

TV shows, movies, and live sports will also show interactive brand trivia ads that can provide rewards "like Amazon shopping credits" and pause ads that bring up a translucent overlay, allowing viewers to directly add the promoted product to their Amazon carts. Amazon says this overlay will only appear while the video is paused.

Prime Video users who want an ad-free experience have to pay Amazon an additional $2.99 per month on top of their existing subscription, as usual.

🔗 Amazon Ads | TheVerge
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Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip

The first invasive brain chip Neuralink embedded into a human brain has malfunctioned, with neuron-surveilling threads appearing to have dislodged from the brain.

Neuralink's invasive implant includes 64 flexible threads carrying a total of 1,024 electrodes that can detect neuronal activity. The company's proprietary surgical robot inserts those flexible threads individually into the brain.

It remains unclear why the threads moved from their placement, but one hypothesis is that there was air trapped inside Arbaugh's skull after the surgery, a condition called pneumocephalus. The possibility of removing the implant was considered after the problem was identified.

Arbaugh's safety does not appear to be negatively impacted, However, the retraction of the threads lowered the patient's bits-per-second (BPS) rate, which is used to measure how quickly and accurately a patient with an implant can control a computer cursor.

🔗 ArsTechnica
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Dell API abused to steal 49 million customer records in data breach

A threat actor known as Menelik put the data up for sale on the Breached hacking forum on April 28th, with the moderators soon taking down the post.

This data breach contained customer order data, including warranty information, service tags, names, installed locations, customer numbers, and orders.

Menelik stole the data after discovering a portal for partners, resellers, and retailers that could be used to look up order information. He could access the portal by registering multiple accounts under fake company names and had access within two days without verification.

The threat actors emailed Dell on April 12th and 14th to report the bug to their security team. However, they harvested 49 million records before contacting the company.

🔗 BleepingComputer
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Lenovo and Motorola get a sales ban in Germany

The legal dispute is between Lenovo and the US-based InterDigital over a patent infringement regarding WWAN modules, which enables wireless mobile connection. The court decided that Lenovo utilizes technology InterDigital has a patent over and Lenovo hasn't met InterDigital's demands for fair and reasonable licensing fees.

As a result, all Moto and Lenovo devices supporting GSM, UMTS, LTE and 5G connectivity will not be allowed on the German market.

As of now, only third-party retailers are selling Lenovo and Motorola-branded devices until stocks last.

🔗 GSMArena
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VMware Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro is now free for Personal Use

From now onward, Fusion Pro and Workstation Pro will have two license models: Free Personal Use and Paid Commercial Use

Everyday users who want a virtual lab on their Mac, Windows or Linux computer can do so for free simply by registering and downloading the latest build from the new download portal located at support.broadcom.com. 

🔗 VMware
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Google I/O has started

🌐 https://www.youtube.com/live/XEzRZ35urlk

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OpenAI is considering allowing generation of NSFW content

OpenAI is considering allowing NSFW content generation on DALL-E and more importantly, ChatGPT. Despite this, they will still have a ban on deepfake content, especially adult related. This suggestion was revealed in a recent document that talks about the development of the AI.

Now, the main point is: OpenAI MAY allow NSFW soon. And as it's the leader in AI space, consider how other AI services (ESPECIALLY Character.ai) react.

🔗 Link

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Google Photos ‘Ask Photos’ will let you search your images with voice and text prompts

"Ask Photos" will make it easier to search across your photos and videos with the help of Gemini models. It goes beyond simple search to understand context and answer more complex questions

🔗 9to5Google
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