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Meta to push on with plan to use UK Facebook and Instagram posts to train AI

Move to use shared posts follows information commissioner concerns and sets collision course with EU over privacy

The Guardian - UK

UK users' Facebook and Instagram posts to be used to train AI, Meta announces

FACEBOOK and Instagram parent firm Meta has said it will soon begin training its AI models using public posts to the social media sites from UK…

The National (Scotland)

Independence group to match donations as crowdfunder for Yes campaign grows

A SCOTTISH independence campaign group has hit one-third of its fundraising target in just 24 hours – and has pledged to match any donations…

The National (Scotland)

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Watch: The Rams pranked players by digging up embarrassing old photos of them

The Rams asked players to sign embarrassing old photos of themselves and their reactions were spectacular

USA Today Sports Media Group

Glasgow 'pro-UK' rally organiser breaks silence on funding raised

THE organiser of the right-wing “pro-UK” rally in Glasgow has broken his silence after he failed to show up at his own event ...

The National (Scotland)

‘I set a goal to make her famous’: the baby pygmy hippo who became a giant online

Moo-Deng from Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Thailand has amassed a legion of fans across TikTok, Facebook and Instagram

The Guardian - AU

The death of printed newspapers has long been predicted – but there are still some pleasing signs of life

This piece is part of a series on the Future of Australian media. You can read the rest of the series here.

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Why One Analyst Says the 'Magnificent 6' Will Dominate Future AI Waves

The 'Mag 7' stocks, except for Tesla, will continue to rule the next waves of artificial intelligence, says this analyst.

Barchart

“This Isn’t Funny At All”: Littered Snack Causes Environmental Chaos In Isolated Cave

Bored Panda

Parents ‘don’t use’ parental controls on Facebook and Instagram, says Nick Clegg

Meta’s global affairs chief points to ‘behavioural issue’ around child safety tools on the social media platforms

The Guardian - UK

Gen Z’s new TikTok news habit widens the generational gap with TV-loving boomers

TikTok has been “growing in popularity as a source of news” for about 11% of U.K. adults—up from just 1% in 2020, an Ofcom report found.

Fortune

Facebook has scraped public data from Australian users without an opt out. What can we do?

Facebook acknowledged in a Senate inquiry yesterday that it is scraping the public photos of Australian users to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models.

The Conversation

Meta admits it scraped all Australian Facebook posts since 2007 to train its AI

Meta has been using Instagram and Facebook user photos and posts train generative AI models.

TechRadar

How well is the federal government regulating social media in Australia?

This is the fourth piece in a series on the Future of Australian media. You can read the rest of the series here.

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The Guardian - AU

Meta’s AI is scraping users’ photos and posts. Europeans can opt out, but Australians cannot

Meta’s director of privacy policy declines to say whether such an option would be offered to Australians in the future

AAP

Privacy law calls as Meta admits farming Aussie photos

Experts are calling for changes to privacy laws after Meta revealed Australian photos from Facebook and Instagram were being used to train AI tools.

TechRadar

Meta showcases the hardware that will power recommendations for Facebook and Instagram — low-cost RISC-V cores and mainstream LPDDR5 memory are at the heart of its MTIA recommendation inference CPU

Meta has revealed details of its next Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA) chip

TV Tech

NAB Says New California Big Tech Deal “Hurts Local Journalism”

The NAB slammed a last minute deal between Google and California that doesn’t offer “fair compensation for our content”

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The Independent UK

Health department praised for bizarre campaign on pooing at work: ‘Do it on company time’

Queensland health department praised for campaign to warn against ‘ignoring your need to poo’

International Business Times

Europe's Fight With Big Tech Over Tax, Data And Disinformation

The European Union scored two major legal victories on Tuesday in separate cases that left Apple and Google owing billions of euros.

Bangkok Post

Dogs get mouths taped shut in Pattaya

Photos of a pack of stray dogs in Pattaya with their mouths taped shut to prevent them biting people has sparked a debate on social media over whether this amounts to animal cruelty.

The Conversation

Local papers are central to our democracy. We must do more to bring them out of crisis

This is the second piece in a series on the Future of Australian media. You can read the first piece in the series here.

The Conversation

Elon Musk’s feud with Brazilian judge is much more than a personal spat − it’s about national sovereignty, freedom of speech and the rule of law

It is easy to get distracted by the barbs, swipes and bluster of the ongoing and very public spat between the world’s richest man and a fierce justice on Brazil’s highest court. Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, posts regularly of his contempt for Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de…

The Independent UK

Trump claims Zuckerberg told him ‘there’s no way I can vote for a Democrat’ after assassination attempt

Zuckerberg has refused to endorse either candidate in this election

The Guardian - AU

‘It’s okay to poo at work’: Australian health department praised for tackling taboo with humorous campaign

Queensland Health lauded for social media campaign raising awareness of the dangers of ‘holding it in’

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