💻 Google 'losing fight' against AI spam
🔳 MKBHD reviews 'worst gadget'
📺 Roku suffers another data breach
🍿 The Sympathizer review 🕹️ Epic Games' big ideas |
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Google is losing battle against AI spam in search results, AI specialist claims
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There are fears the search engine model could break as AIs ingest other AI-generated content and end up regurgitating other low-grade synthetic data |
Jon Gillham, founder and CEO of AI content detection platform Originality.ai, has told The Register that Google is finding it hard to keep AI-generated spam out of its search results. The “machine-generated drivel” is said to account for around 10% of Google search results, despite recent efforts by the web giant to block it.
"What's clear right now is that there's no one spamming Google [that's] not doing it with AI," Gillham told The Register. "Not all AI content is spam, but I think right now all spam is AI content." Gillham added that Google “did these manual actions to try and win a battle, but then seem to still be sort of struggling with their algorithm being overrun by AI content” ... |
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In February alone, spammers sent out over 19.2 billion texts. Ever wonder where they get your info to begin with? Data brokers. They sell your address, phone number, Social Security number, family contacts — you name it — to anyone willing to pay. And, yes, it’s all legal as long they give you a way to opt out. The problem? They make the opt-out process as difficult as possible. The solution? Remove your data from over 180 data brokers' and people-search sites automatically with Incogni. If you’re tired of spam calls, unwanted emails and that nasty feeling of always being tracked, this is for you ... |
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MKBHD says this new gadget is the worst he’s ever reviewed |
The YouTuber offered respect for trying something new and hoped that it will improve |
Marques Brownlee has taken Humane's new AI Pin for a spin and concluded that it's “the worst product I’ve ever reviewed.” The Humane AI Pin looks like a strapless Apple Watch that you pin to your top. It deploys artificial intelligence and is supposed to one day replace your smartphone. But it has no display as such, with interaction conducted by voice and via an interface that’s projected onto your palm. Brownlee, who’s built a reputation for his honest, thoughtful opinions about new tech products, could hardly find a good word to say about the Humane AI Pin. After wearing it for a week, he decided that it was “too much of a pain to use” and was “bad at almost everything it does” ... |
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Roku hit by second data breach this year
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Roku believes the hackers failed to gain access to sensitive data such as payment information |
Roku has been hit by another cyberattack, this latest one impacting 576,000 customer accounts, the company said. The hackers used a method known as “credential stuffing” where fraudsters use stolen usernames and passwords from one platform and attempt to log in to accounts on other platforms in the hope that the account holder uses the same credentials. Roku said there was no indication that its platform was the source of the account credentials used in the latest attack or that Roku’s systems were compromised. It added that in less than 400 cases, the perpetrators "logged in and made unauthorized purchases of streaming service subscriptions and Roku hardware products using the payment method stored in these accounts" ... |
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The Sympathizer review: a masterful spy thriller
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'HBO and Park Chan-wook's The Sympathizer is a thematically rich, stylistically refreshing miniseries that you won't ever want to look away from,' writes Alex Welch |
Adapting a piece of fiction like The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning debut novel, is no easy feat. The book, among the most acclaimed of the past decade, is thematically rich and formally playful. It follows its own set of rules and does so with alluring gusto. Turning it into a TV series would be one thing, but making it into a great one that actually holds on to the depth and complexity of its source material would be another, much more difficult, challenge altogether. That is, nonetheless, exactly what HBO, Oldboy director Park Chan-wook, and co-creator Don McKellar have done ... |
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Epic Games has some big ideas for the Google Play Store |
Epic said that customers and developers should have greater control over 'how they make and offer in-app purchases, free from anticompetitive fees and restrictions'
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Following Epic's big win in December, when a U.S. Federal Court jury found that Google illegally monopolized the Play Store and its corresponding billing services, details are emerging about the kind of changes the game publisher wants to see going forward. According to a recent court filing, Epic wants Google to open up its Play Store to increased competition, allowing users greater freedom in how they download apps, and also to limit Google's ability to make agreements with device makers that restrict the preloading of competing app stores, Reuters reported. The maker of the hit game Fortnite added in a statement that it wants to be able to bring its Epic Games Store to Android "without delays and barriers" ... |
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