All Things Internet: The Big Players & The Issues
The world has grown increasingly connected over the past few decades and a huge chunk of our lives are online. We cover the companies you care about: YouTube, Google, Amazon, and the issues you care about: NBN, IoT, social media, privacy and security.
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Workers Forced to Wade Through Toxic Mud to Build Elon Musk’s Pointless Hole
Elon Musk’s dumb — and almost entirely pointless — tunnels below the Las Vegas strip are not exactly going as planned. Since the company first appeared about seven years ago, plans have been scaled back, promises have been broken and safety violations have piled up. Bloomberg Businessweek decided to take a deep dive into just…
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Google Will Relaunch Gemini in a ‘Few Weeks,’ After Its Racial Controversy
Google launched a new AI image generator earlier this month that, for all intents and purposes, was incapable of generating consistent images of white people. As you might expect, rightwing influencers wasted no time in noticing this issue and promptly accused the tech giant of reverse racism. After temporarily disabling the image generator’s capabilities last…
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Tech News: 5 Things to Know in Australia Today
From Superloop shooting down an attempted merger to Microsoft outlining its AI principles, here are five things headlining tech news in Australia.
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Google Says It “Got It Wrong” Over Its AI Imagery
Google apologized on Friday saying its team “got it wrong” with a new image generation feature for its Gemini AI chatbot after various images it created that were devoid of white people went viral. A company exec firmly denied that it purposefully wanted Gemini to refuse to create images of any particular group of people.…