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Microsoft Copilot has reportedly been blocked on all Congress-owned devices
30 Mar

Microsoft Copilot has reportedly been blocked on all Congress-owned devices

John RoutledgeLatest News
US Congressional staff members can no longer use Microsoft's Copilot on their government-issued devices, according to Axios. The publication said it obtained a memo from House Chief Administrative Officer Catherine Szpindor, telling Congress personnel that the AI chatbot is now officially prohibited. Apparently, the Office of Cybersecurity has deemed Copilot to be a risk "due to the threat of leaking…
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LinkedIn is testing a TikTok-like feed for vertical video
30 Mar

LinkedIn is testing a TikTok-like feed for vertical video

John RoutledgeLatest News
LinkedIn is testing a new feed of TikTok-like vertical videos. The feature hasn’t been publicly announced but it’s been spotted by users in recent days and the company confirmed the tests to TechCrunch. According to a screenshot shared by Instagram employee Jenny Eishingdrelo and a video posted to LinkedIn by influencer marketing exec Austin Null, the new feed will appear…
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Journaling app Palmsy offers fake likes from real friends
29 Mar

Journaling app Palmsy offers fake likes from real friends

John RoutledgeLatest News
An oddball new app called Palmsy lets you post to a social media network full of adoring followers who only exist in your imagination. Whether used as a journaling app with a fresh twist or a nicotine patch equivalent for social media addiction, Palmsy prevents the real world from ever seeing your “posts,” storing them on-device, offline and private. Palmsy’s…
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X is working on NSFW Communities for adult content
29 Mar

X is working on NSFW Communities for adult content

John RoutledgeLatest News
X is working on features that will allow admins of “Communities,” the platform’s tool for subreddit-like groups, to designate the spaces as containing “adult content.” The change was confirmed by an engineer at X amid reports that the Elon Musk-owned company was working on enabling NSFW groups. In a post on X, engineer Dong Wook Chung noted that “soon” NSFW…
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OpenAI says it can clone a voice from just 15 seconds of audio
29 Mar

OpenAI says it can clone a voice from just 15 seconds of audio

John RoutledgeLatest News
OpenAI just announced that it recently conducted a small-scale preview of a new tool called Voice Engine. This is a voice cloning technology that can mimic any speaker by analyzing a 15-second audio sample. The company says it generates “natural-sounding speech” with “emotive and realistic voices.” The technology is based on the company’s pre-existing text-to-speech API and it has been…
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How Uber and the gig economy changed the way we live and work
29 Mar

How Uber and the gig economy changed the way we live and work

John RoutledgeLatest News
Gig work predates the internet. Besides traditional forms of self-employment, like plumbing, offers for ad-hoc services have long been found in the Yellow Pages and newspaper classified ads, and later Craigslist and Backpage which supplanted them. Low-cost broadband internet allowed for the proliferation of computer-based gig platforms like Mechanical Turk, Fiverr and Elance, which offered just about anyone some extra…
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