Unless you opt in, Windows won’t take the photos after all
Microsoft has said that it will continue to develop new ” capabilities and experiences” for its customers by prioritising privacy, safety and security first. This comes after Microsoft’s ‘Recall’ feature was criticised for failing to protect users’ data from unauthorised access. “We are taking steps to improve recall security,” said Nina Davuluri, corporate VP at Microsoft.
The Israeli army launched a missile strike on the shelter in central Gaza
The Israeli military on Thursday claimed it killed nine people during an air strike in the Gaza Strip. It did not provide information on the kind of bombs used in the strike, but they did provide the names of nine men who they said were killed. The strike came after a rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel on Wednesday.
An Israeli influence campaign was trying to sway American lawmakers
Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren has said a social media campaign by Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs “causes strategic damage” to the State of Israel in wartime. The campaign is being paid $2 million by Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs to influence Democratic members of the US Congress to maintain support for Israel, The New York Times reported.
The city police are inside by machines
A police department in the US is monitoring 911 calls by using drones. This comes after Daniel Posada and his girlfriend lost their lives in 2018 at a bus stop. The police department began using drones in October 2018 to monitor emergency calls. Police logs show that neither the officer monitoring the drone feed nor the person who called 911 witnessed any physical altercation.
There are harms to online misinformation
Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and YouTube face the threat of “disinformation”, reported The Washington Post. “We’ve been facing a challenge…from social media companies like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr, who are making it harder for Americans to get information through their platforms,” said Washington Post. Facebook has removed over 300 accounts from its platform in the last few months.
We don’t know how misinformation spreads online
A new study by Stanford University and the US’ New York University has found that companies are ten times more likely toadvertise on misinformation sites if they advertise using exchanges. Researchers used a dataset of over 1 million content posted on WhatsApp to discover that the content was “forwarded many times”. It was the first study to use GenAI to understand misinformation.
It curbed misinformation after the Capitol riots
Scientists at Columbia University, US and University of Chicago, US have found that it is possible to make molecular entanglements in polar molecules. Molecules can rotate and vibrate in ways that are impossible for atoms and polar molecules, which have positively or negatively charged end, can interact over long ranges through electromagnetic forces, they added. This would allow physicists to simulate and understand much wider array of phenomena.
There is still room for Chinese science to grow
South Korea and Singapore, which are part of China-backed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), have emerged as the most active countries in collaboration between China and BRI countries, a US-based researcher said. “It’s not like…Chinese Communist Party is saying to Chinese researchers that they must collaborate with these countries,” Jenny Lee, a science policy researcher at the University of Arizona in Tucson, said.
There is still room for Chinese science to grow
A Chinese researcher has said that it requires an “ambitious plan for improvement and to be indexed in the Web of Science within three years” to be included in the CJEAP. Shu Fei, who studies scholarly communication at Hangzhou Dianzi University in China, added, “Being selected for support under the CJEAP isn’t easy…it requires an ambitious plan for improvement.”
Search results Copied my original work
Google has responded to journalist Anthropic’s allegation that its artificial intelligence-powered summaries used one of his articles without his permission. “We see that links included in the AI Overviews get more clicks than if the page had appeared as a traditional web listing for that query,” Google said. Anthropic’s article was often a featured link in the top of search results.