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Amazon: Gesichtserkennung durch Polizei eingeschränkt – per Vertrag
Das FBI nutzt Amazon Rekognition für Bilderkennung. Das Produkt erlaubt auch Gesichtserkennung, die Amazon der Polizei nur für bestimmte Zwecke anbieten will.​

Amazon launches iOS and Android apps for Amazon One, which let users sign up for the palm-scanning service by using generative AI to analyze palm vein structure (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/28/24114499/amazon-one-palm-scanni…

Amazon’s palm-scanning service now lets you sign up from your phone
Amazon One now lets users enroll using a mobile app. The service uses palm scans to verify a user’s age or make contactless payments.

Side affect of AWS' way on public IPv4 is that ssh access evolves to using Instance Connect with private sub nets.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/new-using-amazon-ec2-instance-connect-for-ssh-access-to-your…

New: Using Amazon EC2 Instance Connect for SSH access to your EC2 Instances | Amazon Web Services
This post is courtesy of Saloni Sonpal – Senior Product Manager – Amazon EC2 Today, AWS is introducing Amazon EC2 Instance Connect, a new way to control SSH access to your EC2 instances using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). About Amazon EC2 Instance Connect While infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Chef and Puppet […]

“The GMB estimates that paying 1,300 additional workers costs Amazon over £300,000 a week.”
Amazon would rather do this at one warehouse than have its workers form a union.
This is how much they fear unions. If this doesn’t convince you how important unions are, nothing will.
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Amazon Warehouse in Chaos Due to Union-Busting ‘Dirty Tricks’
Facilities at the Coventry site are overwhelmed as the company keeps hiring more non-union employees.

Oh look, yet another thing AI is super useful for: scamming children and defrauding parents!
https://futurism.com/amazon-kindle-lock-screens-ai-generated-books

Amazon Kindle Lock Screens Are Showing Ads for AI-Generated Books
Amazon Kindles, by far the most popular e-readers in the world, are displaying ads for blatantly AI-generated books.

amazon_copurchases: Amazon co-purchasing network (2003)
Network of items for sale on amazon.com in 2003 and the items they "recommend" (via the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" feature). If one item is frequently co-purchased with another, then the first item recommends the second.
This network has 400727 nodes and 3200440 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Unweighted

Neue Filme und Serien bei Netflix, Disney und Amazon Prime im Mai 2024
Disney bringt im Mai neuen Star-Wars-Content an den Start, Netflix setzt auf viele Eigenproduktionen. Auf Amazon Prime startet eine deutsche Buchverfilmung.

Many of Amazon's Kindles are displaying ads for blatantly AI-generated books on the lock screen, with some appearing to be flagrant copies of existing works (Frank Landymore/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/amazon-kindle-lock-screens-ai-generated-books<…

Amazon Kindle Lock Screens Are Showing Ads for AI-Generated Books
Amazon Kindles, by far the most popular e-readers in the world, are displaying ads for blatantly AI-generated books.

Oh look, yet another thing AI is super useful for: scamming children and defrauding parents!
https://futurism.com/amazon-kindle-lock-screens-ai-generated-books

Amazon Kindle Lock Screens Are Showing Ads for AI-Generated Books
Amazon Kindles, by far the most popular e-readers in the world, are displaying ads for blatantly AI-generated books.

Sources: Amazon's AGI team is aiming to outperform Anthropic's latest Claude models by the middle of 2024 using the company's forthcoming LLM, codenamed Olympus (Alex Heath/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/29/24116056/amazo…

Amazon builds Olympus AI model to compete with Anthropic, OpenAI
Amazon is pushing to be a leading player in the AI wars by aggressively investing $ billion in the OpenAI rival Anthropic, even as it quietly works to build a competing AI model codenamed Olympus.