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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Is artificial intelligence worth all the money and energy it’s guzzling?

An incident on 28 March 1979 changed the course of energy forever, at least in the US. The reason: to meet its burgeoning need for clean energy for its massive artificial intelligence data centres, as the tech industry balances building giant energy-sucking AI models with its environmental, social and governance goals. The global concern this spawned has led Big Tech …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

A new life is proposed for Three Mile Island supplying power to Microsoft data centers

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The owner of the shuttered …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Thirsty AI: Microsoft majorly disrupted US city’s water supply to develop ChatGPT, Bard, causing a crisis

Firstpost

Generative AI like ChatGPT, Bard consumes a lot of water, so much so that Microsoft and OpenAI nearly caused a potable water crisis in the US state of Iowa. Iowa’s Des Moines and Raccoon squeezed dry Very few people know that central Iowa played a pivotal role in the creation of OpenAI’s most advanced large language model, GPT-4, until a …

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1 year, 8 months ago

'Lawsuit Time': Elon Musk to Sue Microsoft for 'Illegally' Using Twitter Data

News 18

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has issued a legal threat against Microsoft, accusing the company of training its machine learning models using microblogging website’s data in an illegal manner. This comes after Microsoft reportedly refused to pay Twitter’s API fees, which provide researchers with valuable data on online conversations. BREAKING: Twitter to sue Microsoft $MSFT for illegally using training data. 👀 …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Update your Mac now to fix a vulnerability that lets attackers gain access to your sensitive data

India Today

Microsoft recently discovered a new macOS vulnerability that could allow an attacker to access your sensitive data. The company’s Microsoft 365 Defender Research team claims that the new "Powerdir" macOS vulnerability can bypass the operating system’s Transparency, Consent, and Control tech and gain unauthorized access to users’ data. Microsoft has detailed this security flaw in a blog post and asserted …

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4 years, 2 months ago

Adobe's new attribution tool for Photoshop to tackle misleading content

The Hindu

Adobe on Tuesday unveiled its content attribution tool for Photoshop, designed to tackle deepfakes and misleading content. The tool is part of Adobe’s Content Authenticity Initiative that was launched last year, and is developed with an open standard to offer a secure layer of “tamper-evident” attribution data to photos. “The more creators distribute content with proper attribution, the more consumers …

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4 years, 4 months ago

Walmart wants to buy TikTok. Here’s why

CNN

Hong Kong CNN Business — Walmart is a 58-year-old American company known for big box stores that sell everyday goods, casual clothing, groceries and TVs. But analysts who have watched the meteoric rise of social commerce in China — a mash up of social media activity and frenzied online shopping — say Walmart’s interest in TikTok makes perfect sense. “To …

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5 years, 3 months ago

The Windows 10 privacy settings you should change right now

Wired

WIRED Windows 10 is running on 700 million devices, and it is now the most popular desktop OS in the world. If that unnerves you, make sure that you disable apps’ access to your advertising ID in the “General” tab of your privacy settings. Manage the data your apps can access The easiest way to make sure that individual apps …

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5 years, 9 months ago

Become a data analytics whiz by using Microsoft

Salon

The Salon Marketplace team writes about stuff we think you’ll like. This Microsoft Data Analysis Bundle details how to use Power BI, advanced Excel, advanced VBA, and Microsoft Access to do everything from deriving powerful insights from data to automating your common tasks. The bundle also incorporate advanced courses in Excel, VBA, and Microsoft Access — so you can solve …

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6 years, 1 month ago

Microsoft makes Azure Machine Learning available for data scientists, developers