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Twitter has disbanded its Trust and Safety Council. Reuters writes this on the basis of an internal email sent to council members. In the email, Twitter writes that the advisory board "does not fit with the new phase of the platform".The…

US President Joe Biden has signed a decree stating that Europeans' privacy must be better protected against possible abuse by intelligence services. It is now up to the European Commission to determine whether the pact meets the…

The California Department of Motor Vehicles accuses Tesla of misleading consumers. According to the regulator, the advertisements that the company makes for its self-driving functions are misleading.The DMV states in his accusations…

Taxi company Uber deployed various kill switches to frustrate the investigation into its UberPOP service around 2015. Inspectors who wanted to look around in the app did not see any drivers. It concerned a version of the app that was…

Clearview AI promises to stop selling its facial recognition database to private companies in the US. The company does so after a settlement with the American civil rights organization ACLU. The company is still allowed to provide…

Meta makes a translation training model public for scientists. The Open Pretrained Transformer model is an NLP model with 175 billion parameters that machine learning scientists can use.The model is called OPT-175B and is made by the…

The French airport operator Aeroports de Paris will test two air taxi routes for the Summer Olympics in 2024. ADP wants to transport passengers via these routes. Several aircraft manufacturers and air taxi companies are participating in…

Rockstar has apologized for the "unexpected technical issues" associated with the recently released GTA remasters. The publisher promises improvements and will put the classic versions back online, but only through its own launcher."The…

Disney+ streaming service will show thirteen Marvel films with an IMAX aspect ratio of 1.9:1 from November 12. This gives the movies on TVs smaller black bars than with the current versions, which have a wider 2.35:1 ratio.The IMAX…

Nine British schools started using facial recognition for checkout in the cafeteria on Monday. The step should make the payment faster, the schools reason. Critics think the technique normalizes facial scans and oppose it.It concerns…