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Meta Pauses AI Training on EU User Data Amid Privacy Concerns
Meta on Friday said it’s delaying its efforts to train the company’s large language models (LLMs) using public content shared by adult users on Facebook and Instagram in the European Union following a request from the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). The company expressed disappointment at having to put its AI plans on pause, stating…
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Downtown Portland office complex faces loan default
Owners of Park Square acquired the then-full building in 2019 for $96.5M.
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Fresh off Westside Pitch win, startup inks big partnership
In April, Stiira landed $50,000 from the Westside Pitch competition. In June, the startup inked an integration deal with HR company Isolved to add their leave management tool to the bigger company’s platform.
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Providence accuses nurses union of interfering with care as historic strike approaches
In a statement Friday, Providence said nurses were trying to “wrest control of Oregon’s entire health care system.”
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Inside The List: State’s publicly traded companies grew revenue but many have been cutting jobs
In fiscal year 2023, 34 publicly traded companies in Oregon and S.W. Washington grew revenue by 8.7% to 108 billion, but nearly half of them had net losses. As such, their overall net income fell by 19.3%, to 6.1 billion. In examining the PBJ’s Public Companies List, it’s also worth pointing out that 80% of…
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NW Natural water unit acquires Portland company, gains president in the process
Puttman Infrastructure will bring NW Natural Water 4,200 new customers, with another 19,000 expected.
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Google’s Privacy Sandbox Accused of User Tracking by Austrian Non-Profit
Google’s plans to deprecate third-party tracking cookies in its Chrome web browser with Privacy Sandbox has run into fresh trouble after Austrian privacy non-profit noyb (none of your business) said the feature can still be used to track users. “While the so-called ‘Privacy Sandbox’ is advertised as an improvement over extremely invasive third-party tracking, the…
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Learn to Secure Petabyte-Scale Data in a Webinar with Industry Titans
Data is growing faster than ever. Remember when petabytes (that’s 1,000,000 gigabytes!) were only for tech giants? Well, that’s so last decade! Today, businesses of all sizes are swimming in petabytes. But this isn’t just about storage anymore. This data is ALIVE—it’s constantly accessed, analyzed, shared, and even used to train the next wave of…
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Why Regulated Industries are Turning to Military-Grade Cyber Defenses
As cyber threats loom large and data breaches continue to pose increasingly significant risks. Organizations and industries that handle sensitive information and valuable assets make prime targets for cybercriminals seeking financial gain or strategic advantage. Which is why many highly regulated sectors, from finance to utilities, are turning to military-grade cyber defenses to safeguard
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ZKTeco Biometric System Found Vulnerable to 24 Critical Security Flaws
An analysis of a hybrid biometric access system from Chinese manufacturer ZKTeco has uncovered two dozen security flaws that could be used by attackers to defeat authentication, steal biometric data, and even deploy malicious backdoors. “By adding random user data to the database or using a fake QR code, a nefarious actor can easily bypass…
