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Twilio hack leaves Authy users exposed to text-messaging scams
03 Jul

Twilio hack leaves Authy users exposed to text-messaging scams

John RoutledgeLatest News
If you use Authy, update your app immediately. Twilio, the messaging company that owns the two-factor authentication service, confirmed to TechCrunch on Wednesday that hackers breached Twilio and acquired mobile phone numbers for 33 million users.Twilio published a statement on its website also confirming the hack. “Twilio has detected that threat actors were able to identify data associated with Authy…
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Artists criticize Apple’s lack of transparency around Apple Intelligence data
03 Jul

Artists criticize Apple’s lack of transparency around Apple Intelligence data

John RoutledgeLatest News
Later this year, millions of Apple devices will begin running Apple Intelligence, Cupertino's take on generative AI that, among other things, lets people create images from text prompts. But some members of the creative community are unhappy about what they say is the company’s lack of transparency around the raw information powering the AI model that makes this possible.“I wish…
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The Morning After: Google’s greenhouse gas emissions climbed nearly 50 percent in five years due to AI
03 Jul

The Morning After: Google’s greenhouse gas emissions climbed nearly 50 percent in five years due to AI

John RoutledgeLatest News
Google’s greenhouse gas emissions spiked by nearly 50 percent in the last five years, due to data centers required to power artificial intelligence, according to the company’s 2024 Environmental Report. The report shows the company’s progress towards meeting its self-proclaimed objective of becoming carbon neutral by 2030 – despite this additional challenge.Using AI features (let alone training the models) uses…
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Proton launches its own version of Google Docs
03 Jul

Proton launches its own version of Google Docs

John RoutledgeLatest News
Proton now has its own version of Google Docs in its Drive cloud storage service, and like the company's other products, it comes with end-to-end encryption. The company says its flavor of Docs "offers a unique solution in a market where most popular products neglect privacy" and recommends it for use in the healthcare, media, finance and legal industries. Proton…
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Google’s greenhouse gas emissions climbed nearly 50 percent in five years due to AI
03 Jul

Google’s greenhouse gas emissions climbed nearly 50 percent in five years due to AI

John RoutledgeLatest News
Google’s greenhouse gas emissions spiked by nearly 50 percent in the last five years thanks to energy-guzzling data centers required to power artificial intelligence, according to the company’s 2024 Environmental Report released on Tuesday. The report, which Google releases annually, shows the company’s progress towards meeting its self-proclaimed objective of becoming carbon neutral by 2030.Google released 14.3 million metric tons…
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