The New York Times Friday November 25, 2022
Google has agreed to a record $391.5 million privacy settlement with a 40-state coalition of attorneys general over charges that it misled users into thinking they had turned off location tracking in their account settings even as the company continued collecting that information. Under the settlement, Google will also make its location tracking disclosures clearer starting in 2023. Google said it had already corrected some of the practices mentioned in the settlement, notes The New York Times.
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Vogue Friday November 25, 2022
Old photos played a role in the recent White House wedding of President Joe Biden's granddaughter. According to Vogue, which had exclusive pre-wedding access to the nuptials, Naomi Biden drew inspiration from vintage issues of Time magazine featuring past White House weddings. But, as Business Insider notes, modern-day journalists began caterwauling after Vogue published images of the bride by photographer Norman Jean Roy, complaining that the White House had earlier said the wedding would be a private family affair.
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Sony Rumors Friday November 25, 2022
Sony has stopped downloads of a FX30 and FX3 firmware updates after reports that in some cases they will cause the cameras to get trapped in a boot loop, notes PetaPixel. The problem was first reported by Sony Rumors. The firmware updates were relatively minor, only addressing two bugs and improving overall operational stability, adds DP Review. While the issue only seems to pertain to the new v1.01 update for the Sony FX30, Sony has pulled both the FX30 and FX3 firmware updates from their website and blocked downloads while they investigate, notes DIY Photography.
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David Schonauer Friday November 25, 2022
Bias in AI systems--whether it's facial recognition failing more often on Black people or AI image generators like DALL-E reproducing racist and sexist stereotypes--has been well documented. This week
we took note of a free tool that enables users to see what that bias looks like in the real world. The tool, Stable Diffusion Bias Explorer, lets anyone query a popular text-to-image system, allowing … Read the full Story >>
