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Metaverse Concerns:
- Privacy concerns in the Metaverse are growing as advanced VR gear tracks users' every move, glance, and heart rate.
- Ownership and use of personal data in the Metaverse raises questions about virtual personas versus real-life responsibilities.
- Addiction and excessive screen time in gaming are becoming significant issues in the immersive Metaverse environment.
- Harassment and scams in the Metaverse have real emotional and financial consequences for users.
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Microsoft bought nearly 500,000 Nvidia Hopper chips this year
- Microsoft bought more than 485,000 Nvidia Hopper chips in 2024
- This is more than twice the number purchased by their biggest rival, Meta
- Microsoft's 2024 chip purchase tripled the number from the previous year
- Microsoft is also developing its own custom AI chips called Maia
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End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2024
- Blizzard had a rough year with layoffs, canceled events and charging players for early-access leveling nerfed before launch.
- Blue Protocol was cancelled after looking gorgeous but lacking in juice. It was a sad end to a hyped MMO.
- Amazon fumbled the announcement for New World's console port, causing existing fans to lose interest.
- The US Copyright Office's decision against game preservation was a severe blow to long-term online game preservation.
- Stop Killing Games movement protested against game shutdowns, including Ubisoft's cancellation of its online games.
- Guild Wars 3 was accidentally alluded to in an investor meeting, but nobody knows anything about the genre of the title.
- AI and Blockchain continued to have mixed reviews in gaming, with scams still appearing often.
- Small titles like Wayfinder successfully pivoted while MMOs Zenith and Temtem failed. Path of Exile 2 was a big win for the genre.
- Fntastic continued to be a prolific maker of scams, running rackets from early-access slop to asset flips.
- The Elder Scrolls Online canceled a fan gathering and reduced its content pace with the switch to a seasonal format. This caused a fan freakout over the game's future.
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Blizzard’s 2024 infographic is light on useful info, but gamers did play 8.34B hours in Blizz games this year
- Blizzard's 2024 infographic lacks useful information for players and analysts.
- Blizzard games outside of China logged a total of 8.34B hours and 378M in-game messages.
- No mention of the unionization of over 500 World of Warcraft devs or the layoffs of 1200 Activision-Blizzard workers.
- Blizzard and NetEase renewed their partnership to restore games to the Chinese region.
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Silicon UK: AI for Your Business Podcast: Enhancing Your Workforce with AI
- Today's episode of Silicon UK: AI for Your Business Podcast explores how AI can enhance workforce productivity and decision-making, balance human roles with automation, and transform workplace culture.
- Ash Gawthorp, Chief Academy Officer at Ten10, shares insights on integrating AI into business processes, addressing ethical challenges, training, and maximizing ROI.
- The discussion covers practical strategies for automation, complementing human workers, and improving employee engagement and job satisfaction.
- The importance of training, reskilling, and measuring ROI of AI investments are also addressed.
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Medium
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Meta to Pay $50 Million to Australians Over Privacy Scandal
- Meta Platforms has agreed to a record AU$50 million settlement with Australia’s Information Commissioner over the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal.
- The settlement marks the largest privacy-related settlement in Australia’s history.
- Approximately 311,000 Australian Facebook users were affected by the scandal.
- Compensation will open in 2025, with payments based on general privacy concerns or demonstrated damages.
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MassivelyOP’s 2024 Awards: Best New MMO Class
- The Best New MMO Class award for 2024 goes to FINAL FANTASY XIV Dawntrail’s Viper as per the MassivelyOP staff pick.
- The award is open to all live MMOs that introduced a new class, archetype, profession, or skillset this year.
- The Viper added by Final Fantasy XIV was selected over Pictomancer because of its slick style and smooth gameplay mechanics.
- Guild Wars 2's landspears and Black Desert's Dosa also received mentions in the article for their awesome classes.
- WoW's Frostfire Mage was also among the nominees for its unique visual appeal.
- Readers can cast their vote on the new class or skillset added to an MMO in 2024.
- There are several other categories like Best MMO Trend, Biggest MMO Blunder, and Most Underrated MMORPG amongst others for which awards will be given out.
- The winners are selected via a consensus among the team members who also provide commentary on their selections.
- Both the staff selection and the community's top nomination will be included in a debrief in January.
- The Best New MMO Class award recognizes MMOs that are still focused on quintessential MMO character content.
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Alien: Rogue Incursion Review
- Alien: Rogue Incursion gets the the atmosphere right, but it’s more frustrating than scary to actually play.
- The game starts strong with ex-Colonial Marine Zula Hendricks literally in the hot seat of a transporter as it hurtles towards the planet Purdan.
- The game is tense, but it’s not because of the Aliens, it’s because you are worried you haven’t manually saved for a half hour and die.
- The play area is large with plenty of options to explore and uncover more the story via emails on terminals, but as every single room and corridor is of the same general design it is easy to get lost, especially when the map is so bad.
- The game does have moments of brilliance though, and it does feel very much like you are in an Alien movie at times.
- What is rather more annoying is the inaccuracy of the quest descriptions and map, and there's a lot of cycling through air locks and trying to remember where lifts are.
- The game is billed as having “most cunning Xenomorphs ever encountered” but it doesn’t take too long to realise that’s not true.
- Rogue Incursion has you constantly juggling two-handed weapons, the motion tracker, mission object, and the touch screen map that requires two hands to use, and it’s just clumsy going back and forth all the time.
- All of this is probably fine when it’s a quick button press away, but annoying in VR.
- There’s a good game here – it looks and sounds fantastic and really captures the feel of the films – but there are so many little annoyances that it’s hard to like it.
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Meta’s Apollo Models Set New Benchmarks for Video Understanding in AI
- Meta AI and Stanford have introduced Apollo, a family of video-based large multimodal models (LMMs) designed to efficiently and accurately understand video content.
- Apollo models excel at video tasks by addressing key challenges, including how videos are sampled, encoded, and trained.
- Apollo-3B outperforms larger 7B models with a score of 68.7 on the MLVU benchmark, while Apollo-7B achieves 70.9, surpassing some 30B models.
- Apollo marks a significant leap in video AI, opening doors to applications like content analysis and autonomous systems.
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Llama3.1 is Now a Radiologist
- Researchers at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) have developed BiMediX2, a medical AI model based on the Llama 3.1 model.
- BiMediX2 excels in text-based and image-based medical tasks, such as analyzing X-rays, CT scans, and MRIs.
- The model is integrated into the messaging platform Telegram, making it accessible for telemedicine applications.
- Designed to benefit underserved regions in Africa and the Middle East, BiMediX2 aims to bridge healthcare gaps and enable better communication between patients and healthcare providers.
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A tsunami of AI deepfakes was expected this election year. Here's why it didn't happen.
- The anticipated wave of AI deepfakes disrupting the election did not materialize.
- Generative AI technology is not yet advanced enough to create realistic deepfake videos.
- Democracies must be prepared for future AI deepfake challenges and implement regulations.
- TrueMedia.org achieves 90% accuracy in detecting deepfakes and plans to publish research and explore licensing deals.
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Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta €251 million for a 2018 data breach
- Meta has been fined €251M ($263M) for a 2018 data breach affecting millions in the EU, marking another penalty for violating privacy laws.
- The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta €251 million ($263M) for a 2018 data breach impacting 29 million Facebook accounts.
- The categories of personal data affected included: user’s full name; email address; phone number; location; place of work; date of birth; religion; gender; posts on timelines; groups of which a user was a member; and children’s personal data.
- Attackers exploited a vulnerability in the “View As” feature that allowed them to steal Facebook access tokens of the users, it allows users to see how others see their profile.
- The DPC fined Meta €251M for GDPR violations, citing insufficient breach notifications (€8M), poor breach documentation (€3M), design flaws (€130M), and default data protection failures (€110M).
- By allowing unauthorised exposure of profile information, the vulnerabilities behind this breach caused a grave risk of misuse of these types of data.”
- The hackers did not affect Facebook-owned Messenger, Messenger Kids, Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, Workplace, Pages, payments, third-party apps or advertising or developer accounts, the company said.
- We now know that fewer people were impacted than we originally thought,” said Facebook vice president of product management Guy Rosen in a conference call.
- The DPC found that MPIL had infringed these provisions, reprimanded MPIL, and ordered it to pay administrative fines of €110 million.
- This enforcement action highlights how the failure to build in data protection requirements throughout the design and development cycle can expose individuals to very serious risks and harms.
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Threads is testing a post scheduling feature
- Meta’s social network Threads is testing a post scheduling feature.
- Users will be able to schedule posts but not replies.
- Scheduled posts will appear in the drafts folder for editing or deletion.
- Threads has over 100 million daily active users and 300 million monthly active users.
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Tech Story
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Meta Fined €251 Million for 2018 Facebook Data Breach EU Watchdogs Penalize Meta for Privacy Violations
- European Union’s privacy regulators fined Meta €251 million for a 2018 data breach.
- The breach exposed millions of user accounts through vulnerabilities in Facebook's code.
- Meta responded by disabling the feature, fixing the vulnerabilities, and notifying regulators.
- Meta intends to appeal the decision and emphasizes its commitment to user data protection.
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WhatsApp Business Enhances Support with AI-Powered Features
- WhatsApp Business is introducing new AI-powered features to enhance customer support.
- The AI-powered feature will handle client messages when human teams are unavailable.
- Customers will be notified when they are communicating with an AI system.
- The upgrade allows businesses to manage their WhatsApp accounts more efficiently.
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