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Millions of Workers Are Training AI Models for Pennies

Niamh Rowe Business Oct 16, 2023 2:00 AM Millions of Workers Are Training AI Models for Pennies From the Philippines to Colombia, low-paid workers label training data for AI models used by the likes of Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. Oskarina Vero Fuentes with her dog.Courtesy of Oskarina Vero Fuentes …

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Eastern Ontario farmer discovers new variety of truffle

A new variety of native edible truffles was discovered by a Franco-Ontarian farmer in Wendover, Ont. Lucille Groulx uncovered the unique fungus on her Wendover, Ont., farm When Lucille Groulx started her truffle farm in Wendover, Ont., in 2015, she was using truffles she had imported from France. Only later …

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X’s Sneaky New Ads Might Be Illegal

Vittoria Elliott Business Oct 13, 2023 12:22 PM X’s Sneaky New Ads Might Be Illegal Experts say a new advertising format on the platform formerly known as Twitter is misleading for users and could fall foul of FTC rules. Photograph: JOSH EDELSON/Getty Images Save this story Save Save this story …

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Philippines ranks second in global list of compromised Cisco devices

Cisco has issued an urgent warning about a critical vulnerability in its IOS XE software that unknown attackers are actively exploiting. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-20198 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to create an account on an affected device with full administrative privileges. The vulnerability affects the Web User …

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Finding a Tech Job Is Still a Nightmare

Amanda Hoover Business Oct 12, 2023 3:19 PM Finding a Tech Job Is Still a Nightmare Tech companies have laid off more than 400,000 people in the past two years. Competition for the jobs that remain is getting more and more desperate. Photograph: Shannon Fagan/Getty Images Save this story Save …

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