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Press Review: April 24, 2023

🇬🇧 This week’s six stories! Here are the StoriesOut editor’s picks 🙂

Meta ordered to compensate some of its usersđź’¸. AI takes on a new dimension… managing itself… One month on, the hacking attack on the UK Criminal Records service still remains unsolved 🥷. A warning message that doesn’t alert everyone. UK worried about China’s technological dominance đź’» . And Fox News fined a record amount for defamation in the 2020 US elections.

👉 Facebook notifies users who may be eligible for $725M privacy settlement
👉 Auto-GPT, BabyAGI, Agent-GPT… De fausses bonnes idées ?
👉 Criminal Records Service still disrupted 4 weeks after hack
👉 Emergency alert: Millions receive message and alarm but test failed to send to some mobile users
👉 UK cyber security chief to warn of China’s rise as a technology superpower
👉 Fox News settles with Dominion at the last second, pays more than $787 million to avert defamation trial over its 2020 election lies


#1. Facebook notifies users who may be eligible for $725M privacy settlement


Some Facebook users received a notification Saturday that wasn’t a friend request or comment (nor a scam, for that matter). The social media platform informed users they may be eligible for a piece of the massive $725 million settlement.

Clicking on the notification leads to a badge that reads, “You may be entitled to payment from the settlement of a lawsuit.”

The lawsuit stems from accusations that Facebook allowed users’ personal data to be shared with third parties, the most famous being Cambridge Analytica, a consulting firm that supported Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. The firm harvested the data of as many as 87 million Facebook users, the Associated Press reported.


👉 Facebook notifies users who may be eligible for $725M privacy settlement

 

#2. Auto-GPT, BabyAGI, Agent-GPT… De fausses bonnes idées ?

Les IA génératives n’en sont qu’à leurs balbutiements, mais elles occupent déjà la scène médiatique et s’infiltrent à grande vitesse dans notre quotidien et dans nos processus d’entreprise. Ceci malgré leurs imperfections. Les DSI le savent désormais, les grands modèles linguistiques LLMs ont une propension à affabuler ou halluciner, sont parfois très limités sur certaines formes de raisonnement, et sont très influencés par les biais humains présents dans les jeux de données qui ont servi à leur apprentissage.

Les IA conversationnelles comme ChatGPT, basées sur ces modèles LLMs, sont très douées pour s’exprimer, mais ne comprennent pas le sens des phrases qu’elles génèrent. Hallucinations, fausses informations, erreurs de raisonnement sont des défauts que les chercheurs travaillent désormais à gommer. Mais il faudra peut-être encore des années de R&D avant d’arriver à corriger ces défauts inhérents aux technologies de Deep Learning utilisées pour leurs modèles.

👉 Auto-GPT, BabyAGI, Agent-GPT… De fausses bonnes idées ?

 

#3. Criminal Records Service still disrupted 4 weeks after hack

The body that manages criminal records in the UK is still facing disruption nearly a month after a cyber-attack.

The Acro Criminal Records Office provides records to police, exchanges them internationally and processes certificates for people wishing to work with children or gain emigration visas. It took its website and application portal offline, when the hack was detected, on 21 March.

👉 Criminal Records Service still disrupted 4 weeks after hack


#4. Emergency alert: Millions receive message and alarm but test failed to send to some mobile users

Tens of millions of mobile phone users have received a message and loud alarm during the first nationwide test of the government’s new public alert system.

However, many people received the alert at 2.59pm on Sunday, a minute earlier than planned, and others claimed they didn’t receive anything until 10 minutes later – or at all. And in Wales, the government made a spelling error in the translation of the alert sent out in the Welsh language.

👉 Emergency alert: Millions receive message and alarm but test failed to send to some mobile users


#5. UK cyber security chief to warn of China’s rise as a technology superpower

Lindy Cameron, who is the director of the GCHQ arm, will use a speech in Belfast this week to warn the UK and allies of the “dramatic rise of China as a technology superpower”.

The remarks, to be delivered this week at the CyberUK annual conference, come as the US, the UK and western nations attempt to navigate the growing economic and political reach of China amid concerns about the threat the country poses to security.

👉 UK cyber security chief to warn of China’s rise as a technology superpower


#6. Fox News settles with Dominion at the last second, pays more than $787 million to avert defamation trial over its 2020 election lies

Fox News reached a last-second settlement with Dominion Voting Systems on Tuesday as the case raced toward opening statements, paying more than $787 million to end a colossal two-year legal battle that publicly shredded the right-wing network’s credibility.

👉 Fox News settles with Dominion at the last second, pays more than $787 million to avert defamation trial over its 2020 election lies

 

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