Rite Aid says breach exposes sensitive details of 2.2 million customers

July 16, 2024

Enlarge / Rite Aid logo displayed at one of its stores. (credit: Getty Images) Rite Aid, the third biggest US drug store chain, said that more than 2.2 million of its customers have been swept into a data breach that stole personal information, including driver’s license numbers, addresses, and dates of birth. The company said in mandatory filings with the attorneys general of states including Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Oregon…

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All four of Google’s Pixel 9 phones get lined up and shot (by regulators)

July 16, 2024

Enlarge / Now I’m going to show you a series of photos of Pixel Folds, and you just tell me if you recognize any of them from the bank earlier today, okay? (credit: NCC/Android Authority) Can you really call them “leaks” if, every year, Google’s Pixel phones end up being sloshed all over the web for months before their official release? What volume of photos, hardware specifications, and other details…

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Former OpenAI researcher’s new company will teach you how to build an LLM

July 16, 2024

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Tuesday, former OpenAI researcher Andrej Karpathy announced the formation of a new AI learning platform called Eureka Labs. The venture aims to create an “AI native” educational experience, with its first offering focused on teaching students how to build their own large language model (LLM). “It’s still early days but I wanted to announce the company so that I can build publicly instead of keeping…

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YouTube creators surprised to find Apple and others trained AI on their videos

July 16, 2024

Enlarge / YouTuber Marques Brownlee discusses iOS 18 in a new video. This specific video wasn’t part of the large dataset that was used to train AI models, but many of his others were. (credit: Marques Brownlee) AI models at Apple, Salesforce, Anthropic, and other major technology players were trained on tens of thousands of YouTube videos without the creators’ consent and potentially in violation of YouTube’s terms, according to…

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