Or simply debloat Brave...

I wonder who makes their cameras and what backdoors they may have; it’s an intelligence agencies wet dream: a potential adversary pays to install and maintain hour intelligence gathering tools.

No, but CSAM can be on a phone. So can a list of assassination targets, an app that detonates an explosive, stolen classified data, Stuxnet-like malware...there are PLENTY of actually-problematic things that could be on a phone. ...for the record, that doesn't mean that this person had any of those things on his phone (and I'm inclined to believe that he didn't), just that digital contraband exists and it CAN exist on a phone.

Yes

Military personnel get 30 days annual leave and can bank up to 60, plus federal holidays. Of course, depending on your unit taking it can be challenging.

Nah, it's just an added Bennie that costs nothing; they'll still get any other incentives, which, depending on the specialty, can be thousands or tens of thousands of dollars.

Probably not - it depends on the data that's been ingested.

Odds are pretty good that they've got decades of information regarding flight information. While it's obvious that there are more flights during the holidays, others surrounding regional events may have some value. There may be some custom coded Excel macros that have some value if they still worked; the business logic may still be useful even if the literal programming language isn't. The frequency of words used - or not used - by an airline within internal emails may be helpful. How frequently supervisors catered to customer requests vs. denying them, especially if the outcome is also known, can be helpful in optimizing recommendations for customer interactions.

Even without being super insidious, the useful data to an AI model isn't "did the business succeed", it's "who said what, and who did what, when".

It certainly isn't anything new, it's been used for a long time to develop information; computers have just gotten more powerful so it can be done faster and by people and companies, not just government agencies who could through lots of people at the task. Pattern recognition with computers goes way back, Johns Hopkins University, for example, was doing research on it in the 70's.

*sigh*

Because Spirit Airlines failed at BEING AN AIRLINE. Google isn't trying to use the data to become an airline, they're adding it to the meat grinder with which to train Gemini.

Even if it would be truly anonymized, once combined with th other vast amounts od data Google has means it is possible to tie the anonymized data to specific, or a plausible group of people.A bad anonymizing process would be a far more likely culprit, but by analyzing patterns, something AI and computers are good at, could yield interesting results.

More interesting is if 1 in five thousand is also a shoplifter, that means 1 fals positve and one real one, so a 50/50 chance of being wrong when an identificattion is made.

He'll have to cut back on, well, nothing.

It's called amateur porn...

Independent of the sleazy nature of the glass, process patents have gotten out of hand and need to be reigned in. People have made highlight reels for years, this is just an automation tool that certainly could be protected rationally by copyright without a claim to have invented automating highlight reels. I mean, AI could already do it with the right prompt and training.

Yes, you must inject one byte for every byte you take; can't let you get away with science. Maybe Congress should make it illegal to take publicly available information and use it for scientific purposes.

Since researchers used publicly available orbital information from Starlink satellites , I wonder how long it will be before Musk wants to get paid for the data.