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Sean Hollister

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    Silicon Valley’s biggest city is training AI to detect homeless encampments.

    A decade ago, San Jose broke up “The Jungle,” reportedly the biggest homeless encampment in the US; the feds estimate San Jose still has the highest proportions of unsheltered homeless and homeless youth. It’s not unusual to see a sidestreet filled with sunbaked RVs, or tents lining a creek or underpass.

    Now, under new pressure to solve the homelessness emergency that’s never gone away, San Jose is quietly training AI to detect lived-in vehicles. More:

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    Sean Hollister
    $10,000 fine shows why you should report ISPs who lie about serving your address.

    When I suggested you should challenge the FCC’s new broadband maps — which still let ISPs lie about coverage — some readers told me it was pointless. Well... a small ISP in Ohio is now getting fined $10,000 after it was caught lying! Here’s hoping we can make bigger lying ISPs feel the heat, too.

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    Sean Hollister
    Three years later, AT&T still won’t say how 70 million customers’ data got leaked.

    TechCrunch’s Zack Whittaker has been pushing the company for answers, now that the massive cache of customer data is circulating once again. But although a known hacker claimed responsibility in 2021, AT&T still claims its systems weren’t breached at all — and yet it wouldn’t give Whittaker any other explanation for where the data came from.

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    Sean Hollister
    Google is starting to roll out AI answers in search results — even if you haven’t opted-in.

    this is an experience on a “subset of queries, on a small percentage of search traffic in the U.S.,” a Google spokesperson told Search Engine Land.

    Last year, we wrote about the AI takeover of Google Search and how Google wants you to forget the 10 blue links — but back then, it was opt-in. Just this week, Google’s head of AI search became the company’s head of search, period.

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    Sean Hollister
    GeForce Now is down around the world, for the second time this month.

    GeForce NOW is currently experiencing a global outage. We are working on a fix to bring back the service as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience!

    The first global outage this month was on Sunday, March 10th. This one’s on a Thursday, the day Nvidia adds new games; today it’s Alone in the Dark and Dragon’s Dogma 2. GFN has been down at least 50 minutes so far.

    Update: At 2:28PM ET, Nvidia posted that “A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.”