Meta’s advertising transparency team will soon reveal a trove of data: advertisers’ potential targeting options for political, election and social ads.
Meta said it plans to upload the targeting data to its Facebook Open Research and Transparency (FORT) environment for educational researchers by the end of May.
The move comes a day after Meta’s reputation as a bad custodian of knowledge resurfaced with news of a lawsuit filed in Washington DC against CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Yesterday’s dossier alleges that Zuckerberg built a corporate culture of poor knowledge management, which led to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The lawsuit aims to hold Zuckerberg accountable for the incident, in which millions of user insights were collected and used to influence the U. S. presidential election. UU. de 2020.
Jeff King, Meta’s vice president of business integrity, said FORT would allow researchers to take a look at detailed data from classified ads on social, electoral and political issues.
“This information will be provided for each individual ad and will come with data such as the interest categories selected through advertisers,” King said. The 2020 election was to be held as part of a pilot program. This new edition will make the engine bigger and load information from all the classified ads in those categories that have been running internationally since 2020, King said.
Non-academic audiences have to wait until July to get their hands on this knowledge in Facebook’s ad library, and when it’s published, it will be in summary form. The update will come with knowledge about the total number of social, election, and political classified ads that run on a specific targeting page, the percentage spent on other topics, and whether the page uses a traditional or similar audience.
King said Meta hopes the post “will make others better perceive the practices used to succeed in the potential electorate in our technologies,” and said Meta “is committed to delivering meaningful transparency, while protecting other people’s privacy. “
In addition to Zuckerberg’s non-public legal issues, Meta also faces demanding legal situations in the U. S. U. S. and similar to their advertising practices. The European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act (DSA) target giant tech companies, of which Meta is an archetypal example.
The DMA aims to prevent companies from abusing their market power, while the DSA targets advertising. The DSA imposes strict requirements for advertising transparency, which Meta’s ad meets today. USA. Lawmakers also recently introduced a bill that would crack down on big advertisers like Facebook and Google.
Great technology has stood out for the way it handles advertising. Meta, in particular, stalled last year by kicking transparency researchers out of the New York University Ads Observatory’s assignment of its platforms; it’s not the first time something similar has been done.
All regulation and research was expected to save Meta from such practices. For example, less than a month ago, a study found that a Meta tracking script was collecting information from academics seeking federal assistance through the U. S. Department of Education’s StudentAid. UU. gov, a violation of the site’s privacy policy. ®
Zoom has a constant security flaw in its video conferencing software that a thief can exploit with chat messages to execute malicious code on the victim’s device.
The bug, known as CVE-2022-22787, earned a CVSS severity score of 5. 9 out of 10, making it a medium-severity vulnerability. This affects the Zoom consumer for meetings running on Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows systems before. 5. 10. 0 edition, and users download the latest edition of the software to protect against this arbitrary remote code execution vulnerability.
The result is that who can send you chat messages can have your vulnerable Zoom consumer app install malicious code, such as malware and spyware, from an arbitrary server. Exploiting this is a bit tricky, so scammers can’t take advantage of it yet. you still want to update your app.
DALL· E 2 would possibly have to cede its throne as the ultimate artificial intelligence generating stunning images to Google, which has introduced its own style of text-to-image conversion called Image.
As DALL· E 2 of OpenAI, Google’s formula produces photographs of things based on written activations of users. Ask a vulture to fly away with a computer in its clutches and you’ll probably get that, all generated on the fly.
A quick look at Imagen’s shows some of the symbols he created (and that Google carefully selected), such as a blue jay perched on a pile of macaroni, a pair of robots enjoying wine in front of the Eiffel Tower, or Image’s own call gushing from a book. According to the team, “human evaluators prefer Image to all other models, whether in terms of symbol-to-text alignment and symbol fidelity,” however, they would say that, wouldn’t they?
Toyota is on the verge of reducing global motor vehicle production due to semiconductor shortages. The news comes as Samsung pledges to invest some $360 billion over the next five years to boost chip production as well as other strategic sectors.
In a statement, Toyota said it had to reduce the production schedule in tens of thousands of international games to figures provided to suppliers earlier this year.
“Semiconductor shortages, the spread of COVID-19 and other issues make it difficult to anticipate, but we will continue to do our best to deliver as many cars as possible to our consumers as soon as possible,” the company said.
Microsoft Build Windows still regulates the company, and among all the moves of Azure and Power Platform at Microsoft’s annual Build for Developers event, the company had news for users of its flagship operating system.
The first followed this week’s revelation that the Windows subsystem for Android now runs on Android Open Source Project (AOSP) 12. 1 and considers the Amazon Appstore preview.
After an inexplicable delay, Microsoft is still adding countries in addition to the United States. Users in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom will be able to participate in the Amazon Appstore preview until the end of the year. , it turns out there’s still no official way to access apps outside of the ones that were brought to Windows 11 via Amazon.
Regardless, Cockroach Labs has added a new command-line tool with the release of edition 22. 1 of its eponymous database, released today.
While it was possible to deploy CockroachDB using something like Terraform (e. g. , deployment on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure), the process is sometimes not entirely elegant.
“Until this release, we didn’t have an API for the database,” Jim Walker, developer and product evangelist at Cockroach Labs, told The Register at the 2022 EU Kubecon in Valencia, Spain.
Version 251 of Linux’s questionable formulated boot formula is here, and you can expect it to be in the next edition of your favorite distribution.
The unified formula and service manager for Linux continue to grow and develop, as does Linux itself. There’s a full replacement record on Github, so let’s look at some of the highlights.
New versions of systemd appear about twice a year, so it’s a smart possibility that it appears in the fall versions of Ubuntu and Fedora.
A Ukrainian minister accused software giant SAP of proceeding to operate in Russia despite the German supplier’s earlier promise to withdraw from the aggressor country.
In the months following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, SAP filed a complaint for proceeding to its software installations in Russia and cloud facilities used through Russian companies, adding to the state-owned Sberbank.
Pressure from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy contributed to the app’s provider promising in late April to continue with an “orderly exit from. . . its operations in Russia” after 30 years of presence in that country.
Neuromorphic chips have been approved in studies that appear to be far more effective at exploiting giant deep networks than non-neuromorphic hardware.
This can be vital as AI adoption increases.
The study was conducted by the Institute of Theoretical Computer Science at the Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) in Austria. Intel’s Loihi 2 silicon, a second-generation experimental neuromorphic chip announced by Intel Labs last year that has about a million synthetic neurons.
The fashionable relationship between Huawei and Leica to integrate the German camera maker’s generation into their phones has ended, the companies confirmed.
As of February 2016, all of Huawei’s flagship products were required to have lenses and brands evolved through Leica.
Reg has sometimes been inspired by blended products over the years.
HP cybersecurity specialists have discovered an email crusade that ticks all the boxes: messages with an attached PDF embedding a Word document that, when opened, infects the victim’s Windows PC with malware by exploiting a four-year code execution vulnerability at Microsoft. Office.
According to HP Wolf Security researchers, catching a PDF with a malicious Word document goes against the norm of the past 10 years. For a decade, criminals have had Office log formats, such as Word and Excel, to provide malicious code in PDFs. , as users are more accustomed to obtaining and opening Arraydocx and Arrayxlsx records. About 45% of malware stopped through HP’s risk intelligence team in the first quarter of the year used Office formats.
“The reasons are clear: users are familiar with those types of files, the programs used to open them are ubiquitous and are suitable for social engineering lures,” HP malware analyst Patrick Schläpfer explained in an article, adding that in this new campaign, “the malware arrived in a PDF document, a format that attackers use less to infect PCs. “
The next edition of Ubuntu, the 22. 10 edition and the codename Kinetic Kudu, will transfer the audio servers to the new PipeWire.
Don’t panic. As JM Barrie said, “All of this has happened before and will happen again. “Fedora switched to the 34th edition of PipeWire more than a year ago. Users who are not professional-level music and sound creators or editors in Ubuntu may not realize the expected change.
Currently, the maximum editions of Ubuntu use the PulseAudio server, which was followed in the 8. 04 Hardy Heron edition, the LTS edition of the company’s time. (The Ubuntu Studio edition uses JACK instead. )Fedora 8 also switched to PulseAudio. Before PulseAudio became the standard, many distributions used ESD, Enlightened Sound Daemon, from the Enlightenment project, known for its desktop computer.
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