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An anonymous reader shares a report: Reddit's top lawyer, Ben Lee, said the company is considering legal action against researchers from the University of Zurich who ran what he called an "improper and highly unethical experiment" by surreptitiously deploying AI chatbots in a popular debate subreddit. The University of Zurich told 404 Media that the experiment results will not be published and said the university is investigating how the research was conducted. As we reported Monday, researchers at the University of Zurich ran an "unauthorized" and secret experiment on Reddit users in the r/changemyview subreddit in which dozens of AI bots engaged in debates with users about controversial issues. In some cases, the bots generated responses which claimed they were rape survivors, worked with trauma patients, or were Black people who were opposed to the Black Lives Matter movement. The researchers used a separate AI to mine the posting history of the people they were responding to in an attempt to determine personal details about them that they believed would make their bots more effective, such as their age, race, gender, location, and political beliefs.

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Learn more about new Google Wallet updates, including new ways to use your digital ID for age and identity verification.Learn more about new Google Wallet updates, including new ways to use your digital ID for age and identity verification.

Go behind the scenes in this new Lab Session and learn how Indian music icon Shankar Mahadevan used Music AI Sandbox to help create the song ''Rubaroo''.Go behind the scenes in this new Lab Session and learn how Indian music icon Shankar Mahadevan used Music AI Sandbox to help create the song ''Rubaroo''.

Learn more about NotebookLM’s Audio Overviews feature and its expansion to more than 50 languages.Learn more about NotebookLM’s Audio Overviews feature and its expansion to more than 50 languages.

Ubuntu 25.04 & Fedora 42 Hit A Long Sought Milestone With HDR Support Working Well On The Linux Desktop Review  Phoronix

Hackers working for governments were responsible for the majority of attributed zero-day exploits used in real-world cyberattacks last year, per new research from Google. From a report: Google's report said that the number of zero-day exploits -- referring to security flaws that were unknown to the software makers at the time hackers abused them -- had dropped from 98 exploits in 2023 to 75 exploits in 2024. But the report noted that of the proportion of zero-days that Google could attribute -- meaning identifying the hackers who were responsible for exploiting them -- at least 23 zero-day exploits were linked to government-backed hackers. Among those 23 exploits, 10 zero-days were attributed to hackers working directly for governments, including five exploits linked to China and another five to North Korea.

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AI Workflows Get New Open Source Tools to Advance Document Intelligence, Data Quality, and Decentralized AI with IBM's Contribution of 3 projects to Linux Foundation AI and Data  PR Newswire

The Albuquerque Public Schools (APS) district, which serves 70,000 students and employs more than 5,000 educators, faced the challenge of providing engaging, personalize…

A former Disney employee who hacked into the company's servers to alter its restaurant menus, including falsifying allergen information and printing profane language, has been sentenced to three years in prison. From a report: Michael Scheuer, a Florida resident, was sentenced last week in federal court and ordered to pay nearly $690,000 in restitution, with most of that going to Disney. He pled guilty in January to one count of computer fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. "Scheuer remains remorseful and apologetic to his former co-workers. We are grateful that the judge heard all of our arguments and mitigation when fashioning a sentence that was half of what the government was seeking," said David Haas, Scheuer's lawyer, in a statement to CNN. Scheuer worked as a menu production manager for Disney and was fired last June for misconduct, according to the original complaint. He had access to, and also used, secure internal servers for creating and publishing menus for all of Disney's restaurants as part of his job at the company.

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An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon doesn't want to shoulder the blame for the cost of President Donald Trump's trade war. So the e-commerce giant will soon show how much Trump's tariffs are adding to the price of each product, according to a person familiar with the plan. The shopping site will display how much of an item's cost is derived from tariffs -- right next to the product's total listed price. In response, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said: This is hostile and political act by Amazon. Why didn't Amazon do this when the Biden administration hiked inflation to the highest level in 40 years? Update: Amazon is considering showing a tariff surcharge on items sold via its site for ultra-low-price items, called Haul, the company said. "This was never a consideration for the main Amazon site and nothing has been implemented on any Amazon properties," the company added.

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DRM Code For Linux 6.16 Hides The "Disgusting Turds" & Adds TI AM68 GPU Support  Phoronix

Longtime Slashdot reader me34point5 writes: OpenBSD quietly released the new version (7.7) of its "secure by default" operating system. This is the 58th release. Changes include improved hardware and VMM support, along with many kernel improvements. This release brings several specific improvements, including performance boosts on ARM64, Arm SVE support, AMD SEV virtualization enhancements, better low-memory handling on i386, and improved suspend/hibernate and SMP performance. It also updates graphics drivers with support for AMD Ryzen IA 300, Radeon RX 9070, and Intel Arrow Lake, along with expanded hardware support for MediaTek SoCs. A full list of changes can be found here.

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OIN marks 20 years of defending Linux and open source from patent trolls  ZDNET

Kali Linux Users Need to do This Right Away!  It's FOSS News

Apple @ Work Podcast: Adaptiva expands to Mac and Linux  StartupNews.fyi

Wuthering Waves arrives on Steam, another with anti-cheat problems on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux  GamingOnLinux

Intel HID Preps For Panther Lake, Other Laptop Enhancements Squeeze Into Linux 6.15  Phoronix

We're ready to open registrations for the first ever Search Central Live Deep Dive, a 3-day event that will be held in Bangkok, Thailand this year on July 23-25!

Apple @ Work Podcast: Adaptiva expands to Mac and Linux  9to5Mac

The once-celebrated partnership between OpenAI's Sam Altman and Microsoft's Satya Nadella is deteriorating amid fundamental disagreements over computing resources, model access, and AI capabilities, according to WSJ. The relationship that Altman once called "the best partnership in tech" has grown strained as both companies prepare for independent futures. Tensions center on several critical areas: Microsoft's provision of computing power, OpenAI's willingness to share model access, and conflicting views on achieving humanlike intelligence. Altman has expressed confidence OpenAI can build models with humanlike intelligence soon -- a milestone Nadella publicly dismissed as "nonsensical benchmark hacking" during a February podcast. The companies retain significant leverage over each other. Microsoft can block OpenAI's conversion to a for-profit entity, potentially costing the startup billions if not completed this year. Meanwhile, OpenAI's board can trigger contract clauses preventing Microsoft from accessing its most advanced technology. After Altman's brief ouster in 2023 -- dubbed "the blip" within OpenAI -- Nadella pursued an "insurance policy" by hiring DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman for $650 million to develop competing models. The personal relationship has also cooled, with the executives now communicating primarily through scheduled weekly calls rather than frequent text exchanges.

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