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E.U. Commission Fined for Transferring User Data to Meta in Violation of Privacy Laws
The European General Court on Wednesday fined the European Commission, the primary executive arm of the European Union responsible for proposing and enforcing laws for member states, for violating the bloc's own data privacy regulations. The development marks the first time the Commission has been held liable for infringing stringent data protection laws in the region. The court determined that
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Understanding the Language Server Protocol – Easier Code Editing Across Languages and Tools
In the past, many code editors were built just for one specific language. To provide rich and smart code editing, tight integration between the editor and the language tooling was a must. On the other hand, there were (and still are) more general-pur...
Published on: January 08, 2025 | Source:Shark joins the high-tech skincare mask war with an impressive CES 2025 opening shot
I have to admit — I used to be very skeptical of LED devices that purport to be good for your skin. When they first started being sold for home use, I felt like they were mostly expensive, ineffective appliances that were obvious cash grabs. Nowadays, though, as is usually the case with any burgeoning category of products, the technology has improved. We're seeing more sophisticated offerings that not only use better...
Published on: January 08, 2025 | Source:T-Mobile Sued Again Over Massive 2021 Data Breach
Washington state's attorney general says the company had years to fix vulnerabilities. T-Mobile says it's "fundamentally transformed" its approach to cybersecurity.
Published on: January 08, 2025 | Source:Bayesian A/B Testing Falls Short
Why Bayesian A/B testing can lead to misunderstandings, inflated false positive rates, introduce bias and complicate results(Image generated by the author using Midjourney)Over the past decade, I’ve engaged in countless discussions about Bayesian A/B testing versus Frequentist A/B testing. In nearly every conversation, I’ve maintained the same viewpoint: there’s a significant disconnect between the industry’s...
Published on: January 08, 2025 | Source:Statistical Learnability of Strategic Linear Classifiers: A Proof Walkthrough
With the help of an intricate geometric construction, we can prove that instance-wise cost functions quickly drive SVC to infinity.In the previous article in this series, we examined the concept of strategic VC dimension (SVC) and its connection to the Fundamental Theorem of Strategic Learning. We will make use of both of those in this article, alongside the ideas of achievable labelings and strategic shattering...
Published on: January 08, 2025 | Source:Performance Class helps Google Maps deliver premium experiences
Posted by Nevin Mital - Developer Relations Engineer, Android Media The Android ecosystem features a diverse range of devices, and it can be difficult to build experiences that take advantage of new or premium hardware features while still working well for users on all devices. With Android 12, we introduced the Media Performance Class (MPC) standard to help developers better understand a device’s capabilities and...
Published on: January 08, 2025 | Source:Healthcare analytics platform H1 has acquired Ribbon, backed by a16z and General Catalyst
H1, a healthcare data analytics platform serving the pharmaceutical industry with data on over 10 million healthcare professionals, has acquired Ribbon, a startup that helps patients find doctors that are supported by their insurance. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. The last time that Ribbon — founded in 2016 and a Y […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published on: January 08, 2025 | Source:T-Mobile is under fire again over its 2021 data breach
T-Mobile is once again being sued by Washington state over the 2021 data breach which exposed sensitive information for over 79 million people, The Verge reports. The lawsuit filed on Monday alleges that T-Mobile had been aware of various security loopholes in its systems for years but didn’t take any action. As a result, a hacker managed to breach T-Mobile in March 2021 and was undetected until August of the same year...
Published on: January 08, 2025 | Source:2025 List of UX + AI Design Conferences
The best conferences for AI designersThere’s always something new to learn in UX. For today’s designers, understanding adaptive user interfaces and Human-AI interaction is no longer optional— it’s essential. In fact, in the most recent ADPList job market report, one specialization saw significant growth: “Conversation Design roles have surged by 8.2%, likely due to advancements in AI and chatbots,” [Source].If ever...
Published on: January 08, 2025 | Source:A closer look at the slick Honda 0 SUV and Saloon prototypes at CES 2025
Last year, Honda teased its first two homegrown EVs with the Series 0 Saloon and Space-Hub. But now at CES 2025, those vehicles are getting one step closer to production by graduating from concepts to prototypes while getting updated names along the way: the Honda 0 Saloon and 0 SUV. But while we wait for them to officially hit the road sometime in 2026, I wanted to take a closer look at the evolved styling of Honda’s...
Published on: January 08, 2025 | Source:Organizing for AI
The interplay between ownership, outsourcing, and remoteworkAs we enter 2025, artificial intelligence (AI) is taking center stage at companies across industries. Faced with the twin challenges of acting decisively in the short run (or at least appearing to do so to reassure various stakeholders) and securing a prosperous future for the company in the long run, executives may be compelled to launch strategic AI...
Published on: January 08, 2025 | Source:The Morning After: Meta gives up on fact checking for Facebook and Instagram
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced yesterday that the company is swinging away from its efforts to corral its content. Meta is suspending its fact-checking program to move to an X-style Community Notes model on Facebook, Instagram and Threads. We go into detail on the changes Meta promised, but is the company attempting to court the new Trump presidency? Well, alongside donating to Donald Trump’s inauguration fund,...
Published on: January 08, 2025 | Source:The best tech and gadgets we found on CES 2025 Day Two
It’s the second day of CES 2025, and I’m sure you’ve spent the whole day with your eyes pointed to our liveblog containing all the news of the day. But I’m sure there are a few folks who might have sneezed, or blinked, and missed something important. Which is why we’ve made this lovely list of all the biggest news from this day of the show, just for those folks who sneezed. Lenovo blesses us with its presence at CES...
Published on: January 08, 2025 | Source:T-Mobile sued by Washington over 2021 data breach failures
Attorney general Bob Ferguson alleges that the company's data breaches were 'entirely avoidable'. Read more: T-Mobile sued by Washington over 2021 data breach failures
Published on: January 08, 2025 | Source:NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang welcomes the rise of superintelligent AI at CES 2025
Surprising no one, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang isn't too worried about a future filled with robots and superintelligent AI. In fact, he welcomes it. During a CES Q&A session with media and analysts, Huang was asked if he thought intelligent robots would ultimately side with humans, or against them. "With the humans, because we're going to build them that way," he replied confidently. "The idea of superintelligence is...
Published on: January 08, 2025 | Source:Here are some of the horrible things that you can now say on Instagram and Facebook
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Meta overhauled its approach to US moderation on Tuesday, ditching fact-checking, announcing a plan to move its trust and safety teams, and perhaps most impactfully, updating its Hateful Conduct policy. As reported by Wired, a lot of text has been updated, added, or removed, but here are some of the changes that jumped out at us. These two sections outlining speech (written or visual)...
Published on: January 07, 2025 | Source:What Does OpenAI's Sam Altman Mean When He Says AGI is Achievable?
OpenAI's CEO made bold claims about artificial general intelligence and the adoption of AI agents in 2025, but experts aren't quite convinced.
Published on: January 07, 2025 | Source:CES 2025: The Lenovo Legion Go S is the first third-party SteamOS handheld
The Lenovo Legion Go is sort of like the SUV of gaming handhelds. It’s big, beefy, comes with a lot of extra equipment like detachable controllers and it supports vertical mouse functionality that lets it adapt to all sorts of situations. All of that versatility is great, but it makes the device kind of bulky. But for CES 2025, Lenovo is announcing a slightly more portable version called the Legion Go S with support...
Published on: January 07, 2025 | Source:FTC accuses gig work app Handy of misleading ads and opaque fees for workers
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and New York’s attorney general have accused Handy, the gig app customers can use to book cleaners, handymen, and more, of making deceptive claims about how much workers could earn through its platform. In a complaint filed on Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published on: January 07, 2025 | Source:Chinese VCs are hounding failed founders to claw back their investments
In the U.S., it’s accepted that most startups fail — and when that happens, VCs (generally) accept their losses and move on. But that’s not the case in China, where VCs are trying to claw back their investments in failed startups by pursuing the personal assets of their founders in court, The Financial Times reports. […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published on: January 07, 2025 | Source:How To Learn Math for Machine Learning, Fast
Even with zero math backgroundPhoto by Antoine Dautry onUnsplashDo you want to become a Data Scientist or machine learning engineer, but you feel intimidated by all the math involved? I get it. I’ve beenthere.I dropped out of High School after 10th grade, so I never learned any math beyond trigonometry in school. When I started my journey into Machine Learning, I didn’t even know what a derivative was.Fast forward to...
Published on: January 07, 2025 | Source:Understanding the Evolution of ChatGPT: Part 1—An In-Depth Look at GPT-1 and What Inspired It
Tracing the roots of ChatGPT: GPT-1, the foundation of OpenAI’sLLMs(Image from Unsplash)The GPT (Generative Pre-Training) model family, first introduced by OpenAI in 2018, is another important application of the Transformer architecture. It has since evolved through versions like GPT-2, GPT-3, and InstructGPT, eventually leading to the development of OpenAI’s powerfulLLMs.In other words: understanding GPT models is...
Published on: January 07, 2025 | Source:How to Create a Customized GenAI Video in 3 Simple Steps
Put a real-world object into fully AI-generated 4D scenes with minimal effort, so that it can star in yourvideos.The three steps of consistent video creation usingGenAI.Progress in generative AI (GenAI) is astonishingly fast. It’s becoming more mature in various text-driven tasks, going from typical natural language processing (NLP) to independent AI agents, capable of performing high-level tasks by themselves....
Published on: January 07, 2025 | Source:All the tech announced on Day One of CES 2025
CES 2025 is here, and that means a whole fleet of new gadgets has been introduced to the world. As we do annually, the Engadget team has battled jet lag, sleep deprivation and the static shocks of those horrible casino carpets to bring you all of the most pressing news coming out of the show this year. You can follow along with our CES liveblog here, but if you don’t want to keep a browser tab locked on the site, here’...
Published on: January 07, 2025 | Source:Lenovo is already teasing the successor to its flagship Legion Go gaming handheld
Lenovo is already announcing one new handheld (or two depending on how you’re counting) at CES 2025. However, that isn’t stopping the company from looking ahead to its next portable gaming device by teasing an early prototype of the Legion Go 2. Right off the bat it’s important to note that this successor to the original Legion Go is non-functioning and meant to be more of a design preview of Lenovo’s second-gen...
Published on: January 07, 2025 | Source:Agentic AI can help you to get a new software engineering job in 2025
Thanks to a widening skills shortage, software engineers don’t generally have to look too far for a new role on better money.
Published on: January 07, 2025 | Source:In Defense of Statistical Significance
We have to draw the line somewherePhoto by Siora Photography onUnsplashIt’s become something of a meme that statistical significance is a bad standard. Several recent blogs have made the rounds, making the case that statistical significance is a “cult” or “arbitrary.” If you’d like a classic polemic (and who wouldn’t?), check out: https://www.deirdremccloskey.com/docs/jsm.pdf.This little essay is a defense of the...
Published on: January 06, 2025 | Source:Gemini AI smarts are coming to Google Home to make the Assistant a better conversationalist
During CES 2025, I had a chance to check out a demo of the way Google is integrating Gemini capabilities into its smart home platform via devices like the Nest Audio, Nest Hub and Nest Cameras. The main takeaway is that the conversations you have with the Google Assistant will feel more natural. Personally, I'd appreciate being able to ask questions as they pop in my head, without having to formulate some...
Published on: January 06, 2025 | Source:Toyota’s futuristic Woven City in Japan is ready for its first residents
Image: Toyota Toyota’s futuristic Woven City, which is being built on the site of a former car factory in Japan, is almost ready for its first residents. At CES this week, the Japanese auto giant updated the public on the progress of the $10 billion project, which is said to be a “living laboratory” where people can live while also testing out futuristic projects. Toyota said it completed “phase 1” of the construction,...
Published on: January 06, 2025 | Source:Samsung claims its Ballie AI robot will actually be released this year
Is Samsung’s round robot finally ready to roll out of CES demos and into actual homes? Ballie, the rolling robot that reemerged at CES last year, will be shipping to consumers as an actual product sometime in 2025. That’s what Samsung is saying at the moment, anyway. We were first introduced to Ballie at CES five years ago. Since then, the robot has undergone a more practical redesign, so maybe it’s really going to...
Published on: January 06, 2025 | Source:Sam Altman says he's confident OpenAI can now build and deploy AGI - artificial general intelligence
Co-founder and CEO Sam Altman said in a recent blog post that when they started the company, they believed not only that AGI was possible, but that it could become the most impactful technology in human history.Read Entire Article
Published on: January 06, 2025 | Source:We have a vague release window and price for the Roborock with an arm from CES 2025
The Roborock robot vacuum with a grabby arm isn't available to preorder yet, but we do have a general time frame for its release and a loose idea of its price point.
Published on: January 06, 2025 | Source:Dell killing the XPS name is an unforced error
This year at CES 2025, Dell is announcing a huge rebranding for all of its consumer and commercial PCs. However, while this change is generally a move in the right direction, I think getting rid of the iconic XPS name is an unforced error. As a quick recap, Dell’s new unified branding will see its laptops, desktops and other devices divided into three main families. Standard Dell machines are aimed at general consumers...
Published on: January 06, 2025 | Source:This six-legged lamp might help your kid with their homework
Unlike some of the robots we’ve seen at CES 2025, Mi-Mo doesn’t have a face, but it still looks a little familiar thanks to its resemblance to the iconic Pixar lamp. Mi-Mo is still just a prototype, but there are some interesting ideas behind the unusual-looking robot walking around the show floor. The creation of Japanese firm Jizai, the company describes it as a “general purpose AI robot” that “thinks and acts” on...
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