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Eight US states, including Kansas, Arizona, and Montana, have sued OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT encourages children to harm themselves. The states are seeking changes to how the company's products interact with young users and the forfeiture of profits generated from their activity. Reuters reports: Attorneys general from the states, which include Iowa, Kansas and Arizona, filed the lawsuits independently in state courts, claiming ChatGPT is designed to be agreeable and engaging to earn the trust of users. But the chatbot reinforces delusions, encourages dangerous behavior and assists users in planning violence like mass shootings, the lawsuits claim. The lawsuits represent the most significant coordinated state action against an artificial intelligence company, adding to a wave of legal challenges OpenAI faces as it prepares for a public listing. Florida's attorney general filed the first such state suit in June.
The lawsuits accuse the company of violating state consumer protection laws by misleading users about the safety of ChatGPT. The states also allege that the company created a public nuisance by endangering the health of their residents. The lawsuits seek orders forcing OpenAI to make changes to how ChatGPT works. Among other things, the states want the company barred from developing AI models that can improve themselves unless it can ensure those models are aligned with human values. The states ... are also seeking civil monetary penalties for OpenAI's violations of state law as well as damages.
The lawsuits accuse the company of violating state consumer protection laws by misleading users about the safety of ChatGPT. The states also allege that the company created a public nuisance by endangering the health of their residents. The lawsuits seek orders forcing OpenAI to make changes to how ChatGPT works. Among other things, the states want the company barred from developing AI models that can improve themselves unless it can ensure those models are aligned with human values. The states ... are also seeking civil monetary penalties for OpenAI's violations of state law as well as damages.
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"Starting today, Linux desktops are now officially supported by Microsoft Defender," reports Neowin. A public preview of the threat detection app extends its enterprise security platform beyond servers to developer workstations running distributions such as Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and RHEL. The offering includes antivirus protection, endpoint detection and response, vulnerability management, threat hunting, and device isolation. From the report: Microsoft is also making it easier to onboard desktops through streamlined methods, offering a unified security operations experience, strengthened security, and improved response times. Organizations that are already familiar with securing Linux servers via Defender should feel right at home securing desktops too, as the experience is exactly the same. Defender knows whether it is securing a device in a data center, the cloud, or that it is owned by a developer and identifies them as such in inventory and security workflows.
As stated previously, all Linux server distros are supported via Defender on desktops too. These include RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, SLES, Fedora, and Oracle Linux, GNOME, KDE, and more. That said, you do need Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Plan 2 or a Microsoft 365 E5 and E7 subscription. You can enroll Defender on workstations using the same deployment methods you use for servers, but do check out the prerequisites here.
As stated previously, all Linux server distros are supported via Defender on desktops too. These include RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, SLES, Fedora, and Oracle Linux, GNOME, KDE, and more. That said, you do need Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Plan 2 or a Microsoft 365 E5 and E7 subscription. You can enroll Defender on workstations using the same deployment methods you use for servers, but do check out the prerequisites here.
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A College-by-College Guide to Which Majors Pay Off — or Don't. A detailed study of how students fared salary-wise four years after graduating from hundreds of American university programs in 2017 and 2018. (Recent developments in AI make extrapolation for math and CS difficult.)
"History majors can out-earn English majors by more than $50,000 four years after graduation.
A Juilliard graduate — trained at one of the country's most prestigious music schools — may not earn more than the median high school graduate. And the place to get the single most lucrative degree in America wasn't in the Ivy League, and it wasn't in a computer science program. It was in the mathematics department at Duke, where the median income among graduates was $297,029."
Ivy League schools give graduates an advantage, although if you are ambitious enough to even apply, that may be enough. --- The Most Versatile College Majors: Degrees That Help Graduates Succeed in a Shifting Job Market. "...hiring has fallen for all 20 majors since December 2019. Health professions and education majors held up best, with hiring down 16%, the smallest decreases of any major. But both rank near the bottom in versatility: Just 21% of health professions graduates and 34% of education graduates work outside their field's top two industries. English is the most versatile major: Nearly 70% of its graduates work outside the field's top two industries, the highest share of any major. Hiring for English majors has fallen 21% since December 2019, near the middle of the 20 majors." ---- Time to consider becoming a brick layer? "Young people are heeding the call or, more to the point, following the money. Enrollment at public two-year vocational-training colleges climbed nearly 20 percent from 2020 to 2025. Enrollment at public four-year colleges rose just 2.1 percent. But the country still needs thousands more high-school graduates and early-career workers to gravitate toward these professions. And it needs to create significantly more training capacity too."
Ivy League schools give graduates an advantage, although if you are ambitious enough to even apply, that may be enough. --- The Most Versatile College Majors: Degrees That Help Graduates Succeed in a Shifting Job Market. "...hiring has fallen for all 20 majors since December 2019. Health professions and education majors held up best, with hiring down 16%, the smallest decreases of any major. But both rank near the bottom in versatility: Just 21% of health professions graduates and 34% of education graduates work outside their field's top two industries. English is the most versatile major: Nearly 70% of its graduates work outside the field's top two industries, the highest share of any major. Hiring for English majors has fallen 21% since December 2019, near the middle of the 20 majors." ---- Time to consider becoming a brick layer? "Young people are heeding the call or, more to the point, following the money. Enrollment at public two-year vocational-training colleges climbed nearly 20 percent from 2020 to 2025. Enrollment at public four-year colleges rose just 2.1 percent. But the country still needs thousands more high-school graduates and early-career workers to gravitate toward these professions. And it needs to create significantly more training capacity too."
LONDEN (ANP) - Het schilderij Compositie III van Piet Mondriaan heeft woensdag bij de veiling bij Christie's in Londen ongeveer 29,8 miljoen euro opgebracht.
Het ging voor het eerst onder de hamer. "Compositie III stamt uit het doorbraakmoment in Mondriaans carrière, waarin hij een nieuwe, radicaal abstracte stijl ontwikkelde die de taal van de moderne kunst diepgaand heeft veranderd", aldus Keith Gill, hoofd van de afdeling moderne kunst van Christie's.
Volgens Christie's is Compositie III het belangrijkste werk van Mondriaan (1872-1944) dat naar een Europese veiling gaat sinds 2009. In dat jaar werden Compositie met blauw, rood, geel en zwart (1922) en Compositie I (1920) geveild.
In 2022 werd het tot nu toe hoogste bedrag betaald voor een werk van Mondriaan. Compositie II uit 1930 werd bij Sotheby's in New York verkocht voor 51 miljoen dollar (49,4 miljoen euro).
ISTANBUL (ANP/DPA) - In de Turkse stad Istanbul zijn door overstromingen zeker twee mensen om het leven gekomen. Dat meldt de televisiezender A Haber op X.
Een veertienjarige jongen kwam om het leven toen hij door snelstromend water in een put getrokken werd. Een 34-jarige persoon die de straat wilde oversteken, werd ook meegesleurd door het water en kwam ten val. Deze persoon werd naar het ziekenhuis gebracht en overleed daar.
De overstromingen zijn het gevolg van sterke regenval. Straten liepen onder water en in verschillende wijken vonden aardverschuivingen plaats. De autoriteiten besloten donderdag scholen te sluiten. Vanaf woensdag werd het gebruik van tweewielige voertuigen verboden.
LONDEN (ANP/DPA) - Het schilderij van de Russisch-Franse schilder Wassily Kandinsky Das bunte Leben heeft bij de veiling bij Christie's in Londen woensdag 27 miljoen pond (een kleine 32 miljoen euro) opgebracht.
Het schilderij heeft tientallen jaren in het Lenbachhaus Museum in München gehangen en werd in 2023 geclassificeerd als roofkunst.
Naaimachinefabrikant Emanuel Lewenstein en zijn vrouw Hedwig kochten het schilderij in 1927. Kort na het begin van de Duitse bezetting in Nederland, in oktober 1940, werd de collectie van Lewenstein geconfisqueerd. De Kandinsky kwam in bezit van Mondriaan-verzamelaar Sal Slijper. Diens weduwe verkocht het in 1972 aan de Bayerische Landesbank, waarna het ruim vijftig jaar lang te zien was in het Lenbachhaus in München.
Na de oorlog stelden de kinderen van het echtpaar Lewenstein alles in het werk om de geroofde collectie van hun ouders te traceren. In 2023 oordeelde de Duitse justitie dat het schilderij van Kandinsky roofkunst was. De Duitse bank gaf het in datzelfde jaar terug aan de erfgenamen. Die hebben het nu laten veilen bij Christie's.
