Android

Oracle to Retrain TikTok's Algorithm with U.S. User Data

A deal to prevent a US TikTok ban is now in place. The app’s algorithm will be copied, overseen by Oracle, and retrained using only American user data. This new, separate system addresses national ...
Marketplace

Export controls on TikTok's algorithm are unique but not unprecedented

Algorithms, which are just sets of instructions expressed in code, are harder to restrict than physical goods. But governments, including the U.S., have long tried to prevent their export. The ...
The New York Times

U.S.-Run TikTok to License Algorithm, White House Says

The change is part of a deal to bring TikTok under U.S. ownership to avert a looming ban. By Emmett Lindner and Lauren Hirsch The software giant Oracle will oversee the security of Americans’ data and ...
USA Today

Disney to pay $10 million fine in FTC case for mislabeling videos on its YouTube channels

Disney has agreed to pay $10 million as part of its settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over charges it mislabeled some videos posted to YouTube, which allowed the collection of personal data ...
TechRepublic

Google to Power Data Centers With Nuclear Energy by 2030 in First-Of-A-Kind’ Agreement

Google to Power Data Centers With Nuclear Energy by 2030 in First-Of-A-Kind’ Agreement Your email has been sent Kairos Power’s Hermes 2 reactor uses liquid salt cooling for safer, lower-cost nuclear ...
Lifehacker

There's a Better Way to Watch YouTube on iPhone (Without the Algorithm or Shorts)

YouTube is a bit of a mess right now. It’s nowhere near as bad as Instagram or TikTok on this front, but it’s still easy to lose hours scrolling through YouTube videos and Shorts on your ...
TechRepublic

Stargate Norway: OpenAI’s First AI Data Center in Europe

Stargate Norway: OpenAI’s First AI Data Center in Europe Your email has been sent OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaking on the Uncapped with Jack Altman podcast. Image: Jack Altman via X Norway will host ...
Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Paris police to investigate Elon Musk’s X over data, algorithm abuse

PARIS >> A French probe into Elon Musk’s social media platform X deepened today, when the Paris prosecutor’s office said it had enlisted police to investigate suspected abuse of algorithms and ...
Reuters

Exclusive: TikTok prepares US app with its own algorithm and user data

NEW YORK, July 9 (Reuters) - TikTok is preparing to launch a standalone app for U.S. users that is expected to operate on a separate algorithm and data system from its global app, laying the ...
Space.com

Astronomy has a major data problem – simulating realistic images of the sky can help train algorithms

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Professional astronomers don’t make discoveries by ...
collider

How TikTok, Streaming, and Algorithms Are Rewriting Song Structure

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...