UK privacy watchdog warns Meta over plan to keep denying Brits a choice over its ad tracking
The U.K.’s data protection watchdog has responded to Meta’s announcement yesterday that it intends to offer (other) Europeans a free choice to deny its tracking-for-ad-targeting but won’t be asking U.K. users for their consent to its surveillance — with some, er, pointed remarks. Take it away, Stephen Almond, the Information
Read moreI Built a Trashtalk Wordle With ChatGPT Using LLM Decorator and Function Calling
Photo by Nils Huenerfuerst on UnsplashWith the new release of ChatGPT callback functions, I wanted to test it out with a new simple app.After a brainstorming session that was shorter than it should have been, I came up with the idea of the trashtalk Wordle. Just imagine how fun (and annoying) it
Read moreBloom Filters and Beyond: Probabilistic Membership in Practice
Image generated by OpenAI DALL.E 2Optimizing large systems is incredibly satisfying. Very few things are more exciting than seeing a large baseline shift in your metrics after a clever new algorithm is deployed. Optimization can save money, make systems easier to operate, improve developer productivity, or sometimes unlock scale that wouldn’t
Read moreUnderstanding iOS Memory Management With Toy Analogies
I’ve been an iOS developer for over five years now. I must confess that I’ve somewhat tiptoed around one particular topic all this time…Continue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreKenya suspends Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning crypto project
Image: Worldcoin via Twitter Kenya is pumping the brakes on Worldcoin — the eyeball-scanning crypto project launched by OpenAI founder Sam Altman. The Kenyan government has ordered Worldcoin to stop collecting data in the country while it reviews the project for potential privacy and security risks, as reported earlier by
Read moreTinder tests AI photo selection feature to help users build profiles
Tinder is currently testing an AI photo selection feature that looks at a user’s photo album and selects the five that best represents them for their dating profile, parent company Match Group revealed during its earnings call today. “AI has really inspired our product people across the entire company to
Read moreLow-Code and No-Code Task Automation With LlamaIndex Data Agents, Zapier NLA, Snowflake, &…
GitHub Archive data analysis and task automationContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreVoyager and Airbus will operate Starlab private space station via ‘transatlantic joint venture’
Voyager Space and Airbus Defence and Space are expanding their existing relationship via a new joint venture focused on the design, build and operation of the Starlab commercial space station. The two companies announced that they would be partnering on Voyager’s Starlab space station in January, saying that Airbus would
Read moreDiscord will now let you stream Xbox gameplay directly to servers and DMs
Streaming to Twitch is one thing, but sometimes you just want to share a new game (ahem Baldur’s Gate 3) or a big gameplay moment with your inner circle. Building off its previous integration with Xbox, Discord announced today that users will now be able to stream Xbox games directly
Read moreOurCrowd teams up with Airwallex to let its investors back startups in their local currency
Over the course of the last few years, venture investment platform OurCrowd has become Israel’s most active venture investor, with over 400 portfolio companies across 42 funds. The platform allows accredited investors to invest in the startups in the OurCrowd portfolio, but until now, they had to do so by
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