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Comment Sales pitch to merchants from reviewvio.com (Score 2) 8

"With our proprietary technology, we
REMOVE negative content online from major review sites such as Google, Facebook, Tripadvisor
PREVENT 90% of new negative reviews from occurring and
CAPTURE new positive reviews for over 1,000 businesses across the U.S. and Canada

"Our legal team prepares legal letters for each piece of negative content on Google, Facebook and more. Each letter is carefully crafted to produce the desired result - get the review removed! After some negotiation with the review company, the reviews are removed permanently from your page and we monitor the page moving forward!"

Submission + - Silicon Valley once again to cash in on other people's products (mercurynews.com)

rtfa0987 writes: Front page of the San Jose Mercury News: "Silicon Valley is poised once again to cash in on other people’s products, making a data grab of unprecedented scale that has already spawned lawsuits and congressional hearings.

"Chatbots and other forms of generative artificial intelligence that burst onto the technology scene in recent months are fed vast amounts of material scraped from the internet — books, screenplays, research papers, news stories, photos, art, music, code and more — to produce answers, imagery or sound in response to user prompts.

"Technology companies are falling over themselves to leverage this new and potentially lucrative technology. Google, valued at $1.5 trillion, has gone all in with its Bard chatbot after rival Microsoft, valued at $2.4 trillion, invested billions in San Francisco’s generative AI pioneer OpenAI. Meta, valued at $680 billion, just announced plans to add chatbots to its apps. Venture capitalists are pouring billions of dollars into generative AI startups."

"But a thorny, contentious and highly consequential issue has arisen: A great deal of the bots’ fodder is copyrighted property...."

Comment 4,000 to 6,000 out of 51,000 employees (Score 4, Informative) 32

"HP Inc. on Tuesday said it would eliminate between 4,000 to 6,000 people from its workforce by 2025 after a tough fourth-quarter earnings report showed a year-over-year revenue drop of 11.2 percent to $14.8 billion. Palo Alto, Calif.-based HP had approximately 51,000 global employees as of December 2021, according to a regulatory filing. The company’s annual net revenue held at $63 billion in 2022, a .8 percent decline from 2021 net revenue. Still, notebook sales fell 23 percent to $6.4 billion following an overall consumer PC market softening in 2022." https://www.crn.com/news/compu...

Submission + - Zuckerberg and Sandberg Ordered to Testify over Alleged Involvement in Cambridge (gizmodo.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and former COO Sheryl Sandberg will have to provide testimony to a federal court to discuss their alleged involvement in the company’s notorious Cambridge Analytica scandal, over half a decade since it first captured the world’s attention. A new filing (PDF) in the Northern District of California Tuesday shows Zuckerberg and Sandberg agreed to be deposed for six and five hours respectively in September of this year. This comes as part of a class action lawsuit filed against Meta, claiming the company violated consumer privacy laws when it shared user data with Cambridge Analytica back in 2015.

In addition to Zuckerberg and Sandberg, the court’s also seeking to depose Meta’s newly named CTO Javier Olivan—who previously served as the company’s Chief Growth Officer—as well as a handful of other “key witnesses.” Olivan’s deposition is expected to last three hours. According to Tuesday’s filing Meta will also hand over 1,200 documents “previously withheld as privileged.” Plaintiffs in the case previously accused Meta and the law firm representing it of “stonewalling,” during the court’s discovery phase.

Comment A techie judge (Score 5, Informative) 73

"Alsup was the presiding judge over Oracle America, Inc. v. Google, Inc., where he notably was able to comment on issues relating to coding and programming languages, specifically Java. He learned the Java programming language solely for the purpose of being able to understand the case more clearly. However, the Federal Circuit overturned his rejection of the copyrightability of Java API." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment Use X10 power line remotes - no Internet required (Score 1) 183

"X10 is a protocol for communication among electronic devices used for home automation (domotics). It primarily uses power line wiring for signaling and control, where the signals involve brief radio frequency bursts representing digital information. A wireless radio based protocol transport is also defined. "X10 was developed in 1975 by Pico Electronics of Glenrothes, Scotland, in order to allow remote control of home devices and appliances. It was the first general purpose domotic network technology and remains the most widely available[citation needed].[1] "Although a number of higher bandwidth alternatives exist, X10 remains popular in the home environment with millions of units in use worldwide, and inexpensive availability of new components. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment What's a "police sheriff"? (Score 1, Insightful) 39

There's no such thing as a "police sheriff." Any editor should know that there are police and there are sheriffs. Someone mangled the NYTimes article which says "...the former sheriff of Mississippi County, Mo., used a lesser-known Securus service to track people’s cellphones, including those of other officers, without court orders, according to charges filed against him in state and federal court."

Submission + - How a Norwegian comment section turned chaos into order—with a simple quiz (arstechnica.com)

jebrick writes: The five-person team behind a simple WordPress plugin, which took three hours to code, never expected to receive worldwide attention as a result. But NRKbeta, the tech-testing group at Norway's largest national media organization, tapped into a meaty vein with the unveiling of last February's Know2Comment, an open source plugin that can attach to any WordPress site's comment section.

"It was a basic idea," NRKbeta developer Ståle Grut told a South By Southwest crowd on Tuesday. "Readers had to prove they read a story before they were able to comment on it."

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