Hi friends!
The last two #photos from my photowalk in January! I rarely do macros but that day I wasn't out for hiking but really for #photography. So I thought, I could also step down into the frozen stream, take some time and look for tiny structures.
Needless to say that I was…
Filing: Dell cut 13,000 employees over the last fiscal year, a steeper reduction than initially announced, and had 120K staffers globally as of February 2, 2024 (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Kris @… goes into a very important issue here (in German):
Since "AI" has become the thing to do, no cloud platform is neutral anymore (they never fully were, try hosting warez there, but for your own content they mostly were): They all "need" (as in want) to use your work as training data for their neural networks - especially work that's not "…
You know what...this is *brilliant*! https://mastodon.ie/@Infrapink/112158800620843186
SAG-AFTRA calls for laws making the development and distribution of false AI images illegal, following the release of sexually explicit AI fakes of Taylor Swift (The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/taylor-swift-sag-aftra-condemns-ai-fake-explicit-ima…
Filing: Sun Microsystems co-founder Andreas Bechtolsheim settles with the US SEC for alleged insider trading on Cisco's $2.6B offer to buy Acacia in 2019 (Austin Weinstein/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Filing: FTC says Jeff Bezos, Andy Jassy, and other Amazon execs used Signal's disappearing messages to conceal evidence in FTC's antitrust case against Amazon (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Apple removes three AI image generation apps from the App Store after 404 Media probe found the apps advertised the ability to create nonconsensual nude images (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/apple-removes-nonc