NBC News Friday March 8, 2024
House Republicans and Democrats are joining together on legislation that would force TikTok’s parent company, China-based ByteDance, to divest the popular social media company or risk the U.S.’s banning it from app stores. The White House has signaled support for the bill while stopping short of endorsing it, notes NBC News. The bill, dubbed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, would create a process for the president to identify certain social media applications controlled of foreign adversaries, like China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, as national security threats. Mashable notes that impact all Chinese apps.
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The Guardian Friday March 8, 2024
The Department of Veteran Affairs has walked back a Feb. 29 memo that banned Alfred Eisenstaedt’s iconic VJ Day “Kiss” photo from its facilities. In a statement posted alongside the photo, which shows a navy sailor and a woman celebrating the end of World War II n New York’s Times Square, VA secretary Denis McDonough said: “Let me be clear: This image is not banned from VA facilities. The earlier memo ordered the photograph’s removal to maintain a “safe, respectful, and trauma-informed environment” in VA facilities.
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AXIOS Friday March 8, 2024
Meta's Imagine AI image generator makes the same kind of historical gaffes that caused Google to stop all generation of images of humans with its Gemini chatbot two weeks ago, notes Axios. (Google's stock lost $80 billion in market value — at least temporarily — because of the errors, reported Bloomberg.) AI makers are trying to counter biases and stereotyping in the data they used to train their models by turning up the "diversity" dial — but they're over-correcting and producing problematic results, adds Axios.
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David Schonauer Friday March 8, 2024
The way we think about and purchase cameras is changing. Firmware updates have been increasing in frequency, with camera and lens manufacturers issuing fixes to issues that may have not been caught
during production and enhancing already-released equipment with newly developed features. As we noted this week, Mitsuteru Hino, Nikon's head of UX Planning, recent told a French photo publication
that his company is … Read the full Story >>
