Germany argues groups such as Apple and Meta are excluded to protect Europe’s ‘digital sovereignty’

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Exclusive: Sarah Wynn-Williams faces $50,000 fine every time she breaches order banning her from criticising Meta

Industry researchers dispute DeepSeek's unusually low training cost claims

Arrangement follows big tech tie-ins claiming to offer £31B investment

Starting Friday, Arizonans will have to prove they're old enough to access nude photos and sexual activity online.

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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's YouTube account is offline. Venezuelan state-run channel Telesur claims it was "eliminated" without explanation.

Matthew Kellegrew of the Civil Liberties Defense Center, which represents the creator of stopice.net, called DHS' actions "a patent, open attempt to chill free speech"

A U.S.-China agreement on TikTok's U.S. operations includes China's ByteDance choosing one of seven board members for the new entity, with Americans holding the six other seats, a senior White House official said on Saturday.

"It is clear that Israel is paving the ground for an attack on the flotilla. World public opinion needs to mobilize against Israel’s next war crime. Now!"

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37782178

Microsoft has begun rolling out the beta version of its AI-powered Gaming Copilot to Windows 11 systems for users aged 18 or older, excluding those in mainland China.

https://archive.ph/2025.09.18-134818/https://kotaku.com/meta-ai-mark-zuckerberg-korean-steak-sauce-facebook-2000626808

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37646129

Source: Reddit post— Private front-end.

Samsung Statement to Android Authority:

Samsung is committed to innovation and enhancing every day value for our home appliance customers. As part of our ongoing efforts to strengthen that value, we are conducting a pilot program to offer promotions and curated advertisements on certain Samsung Family Hub refrigerator models in the U.S. market.

As a part of this pilot program, Family Hub refrigerators in the U.S. will receive an over-the-network (OTN) software update with Terms of Service (T&C) and Privacy Notice (PN). Advertising will appear on certain Family Hub refrigerator Cover Screens. The Cover Screen appears when a Family Hub screen is idle. Ad design format may change depending on Family Hub personalization options for the Cover Screen, and advertising will not appear when Cover Screen displays Art Mode or picture albums.

Advertisements can be dismissed on the Cover Screens where ads are shown, meaning that specific ads will not appear again during the campaign period.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/49028251

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R1 is thought to be the first major LLM to undergo the peer-review process. “This is a very welcome precedent,” says Lewis Tunstall, a machine-learning engineer at Hugging Face who reviewed the Nature paper. “If we don't have this norm of sharing a large part of this process publicly, it becomes very hard to evaluate whether these systems pose risks or not.”

In response to peer-review comments, the DeepSeek team reduced anthropomorphizing in its descriptions and added clarifications of technical details, including the kinds of data the model was trained on, and its safety. “Going through a rigorous peer-review process certainly helps verify the validity and usefulness of the model,” says Huan Sun, an AI researcher at Ohio State University in Columbus. “Other firms should do the same.”