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Google is releasing an open source harassment filter for journalists

The Verge

Google’s Jigsaw unit is releasing the code for an open source anti-harassment tool called Harassment Manager. The tool, intended for journalists and other public figures, employs Jigsaw’s Perspective API to let users sort through potentially abusive comments on social media platforms starting with Twitter.

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Meta and Google are blocking links to news in Canada. The US might be next.

Vox

A Google office in Canada in 2016, when relations between the company and the country were friendlier. A considerably smaller Canadian publication, the Tyee, reported on Wednesday that its social media manager, Sarah Krichel, was similarly blocked from viewing its Instagram account which, considering her job title, might be a bit of an issue.

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Tech Moves: Xbox hires Seattle gaming vet Kim Swift; Frontdoor adds Amazon Fashion leader; more

GeekWire

Swift is a longtime Seattle-area gaming industry vet whose resume includes Valve Software (she helped lead development of Portal), Airtight Games, Amazon, EA, and most recently Google Stadia, where she was a game design director for the tech giant’s cloud gaming service. Google Stadia closed its first-party game studios in February.

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10 fastest growing US tech hubs for IT talent

CIO Business Intelligence

Dice defines a growing tech hub as a city with universities and colleges to recruit from, venture funding opportunities, a strong social scene for networking, and existing companies looking to hire talent. After that, Google searches for “Miami Tech” doubled amidst the pandemic and the city continued to gain momentum in the tech scene.

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Artists are playing takedown whack-a-mole to fight counterfeit merch

The Verge

It had tons of other products that a reverse image search on Google showed were stolen.”. One semester, Sandra Aistars, director of the Arts and Entertainment Advocacy Clinic at George Mason University, had law students do takedown notices for artists and nonprofits and tracked their interactions. And that’s just Facebook. “One

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What will stop AI from flooding the internet with fake images?

Vox

CSA Archive / Getty Images Google, Adobe, Microsoft, and other tech companies are trying new ways to label content made by AI. Companies like Google, Adobe, and Microsoft are all supporting some form of labeling of AI in their products. On May 22, a fake photo of an explosion at the Pentagon caused chaos online.

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ChatGPT net worth: Is OpenAI the next tech behemoth?

Dataconomy

Nonetheless, the Wall Street Journal reported on January 5 that the AI lab is in negotiations with venture capital companies to sell at least US$300 million worth of current shares. Companies like Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce use the API services provided by ChatGPT. Advertising ChatGPT also generates revenue with advertisements.

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