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Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal

“Meta has treated the so-called ‘public availability’ of shadow datasets as a get-out-of-jail-free card, notwithstanding that internal Meta records show every relevant decision-maker at Meta, up to and including its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, knew LibGen was ‘a dataset we know to be pirated,’” the plaintiffs allege in this motion. (Originally filed in late 2024, the […]

Technology

No, Microsoft isn’t using your Office docs to train its AI

Microsoft says it isn’t using customer data from its Microsoft 365 apps to train its AI models. The clarification addresses reports circulating online in the last few weeks claiming Microsoft required Word and Excel users to opt out of training the company’s AI systems. The confusion arose from a privacy setting in Microsoft Office that […]

Politics

Top House committee subpoenas Biden admin for docs on faulty border cameras: ‘National security threat’

FIRST ON FOX: The House Homeland Security Committee has subpoenaed the Biden administration for documents related to what it says is a failure to operate and maintain surveillance cameras at the southern border after it did not receive a response to its demands for answers. Chairman Mark Green has issued a subpoena for documents and […]

Science

Stop using Arial: How to change the default fonts in Google Docs

Part of the appeal of Google Docs is the convenience: It’s quick, requires no installation, everything gets synced to the web instantly, and you can get your words down on a digital page with minimum fuss. Despite its straightforward and accessible interface though, there are plenty of settings and useful features under the surface of […]

Technology

Leaked Docs From Far-Right Militias Show History of Voter Intimidation Plans

A trove of leaked internal messages and documents from the militia American Patriots Three Percent—also known as AP3—reveals how the group coordinated with election denial groups as part of a plan to conduct paramilitary surveillance of ballot boxes during the midterm elections in 2022. This information was leaked to Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets), a […]

Entertainment

Tallinn’s Black Nights Film Festival: First Features, Docs Competition

One of Northern Europe’s leading festivals, the A-listed Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (also known as PÖFF) unspooling Nov. 8-24 in the Estonian capital, has unveiled its first features and inaugural documentary competition programs, each boasting an enticingly curated slate of 11 titles. Among the seven world premieres selected for the First Feature strand are […]