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Welcome to the age of paranoia as deepfakes and scams abound

Ars Technica

Yelland, who works in public relations for a Detroit-based nonprofit, says shell run the persons information through Spokeo, a personal data aggregator that she pays a monthly subscription fee to use. If the contact claims to speak Spanish, Yelland says, she will casually test their ability to understand and translate trickier phrases.

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Where Volunteer Management Meets True Activation

NonProfit PRO

With AI-guided tools for opportunity discovery, creation, and aggregation, CVC helps nonprofits and companies expand their reach and impact. The Community Volunteer Center (CVC) from StratusLIVE seamlessly connects, engages, and mobilizes volunteers for meaningful action.

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FriendlyCore: A novel differentially private aggregation framework

Google Research AI blog

Posted by Haim Kaplan and Yishay Mansour, Research Scientists, Google Research Differential privacy (DP) machine learning algorithms protect user data by limiting the effect of each data point on an aggregated output with a mathematical guarantee. To abstract away the particular application, we define friendliness using a predicate ?

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E-commerce aggregator Una Brands lands $30M just five months after its Series B 

TechCrunch

Una Brands , a Singapore-based e-commerce aggregator, has raised $30 million in pre-Series C financing just five months after announcing its $30 million Series B funding that was raised in September of last year. What does the future look like for e-commerce aggregators?

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New study accuses LM Arena of gaming its popular AI benchmark

Ars Technica

This data is aggregated in the LM Arena leaderboard that shows which models people like the most, which can help track improvements in AI models. LM Arena was created in 2023 as a research project at UC Berkeley. Companies are paying more attention to this ranking as the AI market heats up.

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As Twitter/X rivals explode, news aggregator SmartNews struggles to retain users

TechCrunch

News aggregator app SmartNews had a tough 2023, beginning with widespread layoffs in January and wrapping up with a leadership change that saw co-founder Kaisei Hamamoto assume the role of CEO after the abrupt departure of former CEO Ken Suzuki last month.

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Emulation aggregator RetroArch is now on Steam, and free

TechSpot

The version of RetroArch on Steam is mostly the same as the one available on the official website or through itch.io, except for the way users download cores -- which are what let RetroArch emulate different systems. Instead of using the "Core Downloader" in RetroArch itself, users have to download.