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Experian fined $3.2 million for mass-collecting personal data
Experian Netherlands has been fined EUR 2.7 million ($3.2 million) for multiple violations of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) The Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) says that the credit and analytics services company used improperly personal data collected from multiple sources, both public and private, and did not inform customers. Experian is one of the world’s largest credit reporting and…
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Siddaramaiah assures personal info will not be misused
Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who was enumerated on Thursday for the ongoing Social and Educational Survey–widely referred to as the “caste census”–, said the survey was not limited to any one caste, but a scientific effort to shed light on the lives of everyone in the state. Calling on everyone to participate in the survey, he assured that the…
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Nvidia’s ‘personal AI supercomputer’ goes on sale October 15th
Nvidia will start selling its DGX Spark “personal AI supercomputer” this week. The machine is powerful enough to let users work on sophisticated AI models but small enough to fit on a desktop. Nvidia said Spark can be ordered online at nvidia.com starting Wednesday, October 15th, as well as from select partners and stores in the US. It said units…
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Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court today: “A little bit too personal and confrontational”
Former Justice Anthony Kennedy loves to show guests around his art-filled chambers, but beneath that gentlemanly charm is the steel that once made him a force on the Supreme Court. He showed a visitor a statue of the Pony Express: “And when Ronald Reagan was Governor, and he saw it and loved it, I said, ‘You’re not Queen Mary. I…
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The Personal Becomes Universal in Moving, Funny “Long Story Short” | TV/Streaming
Raphael Bob-Waksberg has left behind the shield of talking animals in “Bojack Horseman” and “Tuca & Bertie” to deliver a deeply personal family animated sitcom called “Long Story Short,” a 10-episode Netflix comedy that plays more like a powerful short story anthology than a traditional season of laugh-inducing television. With his writing team, Bob-Waksberg jumps around chronologically in the lives…
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Zach Cregger Breaks Down Movie’s Personal Final Act
In 2022, filmmaker Zach Cregger’s Barbarian left a big impression. Audience, still just venturing back to the theaters following the pandemic, were rewarded with the kind of shocking, has-to-be-seen-to-be-believed moviegoing experience that Nicole Kidman monologues are made of. (“Suffice it to say that anyone willing to go along for the perverse ride will be thoroughly satisfied,” readd The Hollywood Reporter’s…
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Decoding Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘personal superintelligence” plan for Meta
It has been another busy week. GPT-5 appears to be just around the corner… This week, I decode the meaning behind Mark Zuckerberg’s “personal superintelligence” manifesto, and what it means for the broader AI race. Keep reading for my chat with a Figma exec on the company’s IPO day, a bunch of good links, and some feedback from last week’s…
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