Figma pauses its new AI function amid the Apple scandal

This week, Figma CEO Dylan Field said the company was temporarily disabling its "Make Design" artificial intelligence feature after being accused of "massively" training the tool in existing apps. The feature aims to speed up the design process by generating UI layouts and components based on text prompts, but has been criticized for mimicking the layout of Apple's Weather app.

YouTube quietly rolled out a policy change this week that allows people to request the takedown of AI-generated or other synthetic content that simulates their face or voice. The move marks a shift in opinion from YouTube, where the company is now seeing deepfakes as a privacy issue, rather than just a content moderation issue. Fisker has asked Delawer's bankruptcy judge, who oversees his case in Chapter 11, to confirm the remaining announcement of all electric ocean off -road cars. If approved, the company will be able to release its prepared EV New York -based vehicle rental company for around $ 14,000 a day. The vehicle fell from the start of $ 70,000, which some once ordered.

Amazon retires Astro Business: Amazon has decided to stop its Astro business security robot just seven months after launch, as the company focuses on the Astro home version. Security first: Roll20, a popular online board and role-playing game platform, suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of some users. Currently, the platform informs users about the violation. Cloudflare Challenges AI Bots: The publicly traded cloud computing provider has released a new free tool to prevent bots from crawling websites hosted on its platform to train artificial intelligence models.

Is Gemini as good as Google claims? But new studies show that models are not as good as the company says. 1 billion stolen records and counting: This year there have been some of the largest, most visible data violations in the latest history. From AT&T to Ticketmaster, these are the biggest data breaches of 2024 so far.

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A year of threads: Threads, Meta's alternative to Twitter, just celebrated its first birthday. The social network has reached 175 million monthly active users, but it's still struggling to find its voice. Threads is not as journalistic as X, nor as open as Mastodon or Bluesky - at least not yet. Ivan Mehta looks back at the app's first year and what it can learn from other social networks.

Supreme Court Open to Regulators: In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court overturned the 1984 Chevron v. U.S. case in perhaps one of the most important rulings in the tech industry. Natural Resources Defense Council. On the surface, wetlands and the EPA may seem to have little to do with technology, but as Devin Coldaway writes, the decision leaves regulators facing endless distractions.