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Google changes privacy policy; everything you post will be used to boost its AI tools
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Google changes privacy policy; everything you post will be used to boost its AI tools

[ad_1] It has already been known that artificial intelligence (AI) models are trained on data sets that allow them to analyze and respond to texts in several contexts as well as languages. For instance, ChatGPT has been trained on a massive text dataset that is available in the public domain. On the other hand, DarKBERT is an LLM that has been trained on a vast dataset of dark web pages, assimilating information from places such as hacker forums, scamming websites, and other criminal internet sources. Since AI tools' hunger for data is insatiable, everything posted online by anyone, is fair game. Making that clear was Google, which has updated its privacy policy, and everything that you post online, could now be used to train its AI tools and models.New privacy policiesGoogle announced ...
Google Pulls Plug on Translate App for China in Ongoing Retreat
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Google Pulls Plug on Translate App for China in Ongoing Retreat

[ad_1] Google says that it shut down its Translate app for China due to its low usage. Google shut down its Translate app for China, ending one of the few remaining services the US giant still operates in the world's biggest internet arena.The service's web page in China now shows a photo of a generic search bar that redirects to Google's Hong Kong translation site, which isn't accessible from the mainland. “We have discontinued Google Translate in mainland China due to low usage,” a company representative said in a statement. Alphabet Inc.'s Google, which pulled its search engine from mainland China in 2010 because of the government's censorship of internet content, has explored ways to retain a foothold in the market. It m...
These scary fake Google apps scamming users; watch out for these signs
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These scary fake Google apps scamming users; watch out for these signs

[ad_1] A security research team has warned users of fake versions of popular Google apps like Google Translate, YouTube Music, and Microsoft Translate spreading Monero mining malware. A terrifying malware campaign has reportedly become operative and is targeting users via fake apps imitating popular Google apps. The malware has infected thousands of computers globally as reported by Check Point Research (CPR), the research team of American-Israeli cybersecurity provider Check Point Software Technologies. The research team has detected the Monero mining malware dubbed “Nitrokod” that has infected computers across 11 countries since 2019. In a report, the research team shared that the malware attacks through fake apps of desk...