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Visier, a people analytics software company, has launched Vee, its first generative AI assistant that allows managers, HR leaders, and employees to type natural language queries into commonly used apps and receive near-instant insights about their teams.

Vee transforms conversational queries into Visier’s query language and provides accurate and succinct narrative answers without depending on proprietary customer data.

Vee can be used to generate explanatory summaries from data visualizations, and build reports automatically, converting intricate people analytics into easy-to-understand responses and narratives.

Visier’s new #askvisier command allows managers to gain valuable insights into their teams and departments simply by asking Vee questions in their regular workflow.

Visier guarantees the most advanced security model and permissions available, ensuring that the results provided by Vee are only available to authorized end-users based on their assigned security model and associated permissions.

Visier also announced Smart Compensation, a product designed to streamline the complex compensation planning process using a user-friendly, data-driven approach.

Visier was founded in 2010 and has grown to reach over 25,000 customers in 75 countries, including BASF, Bridgestone, Electronic Arts, McKesson, and Merck KGaA.

Vee is currently available for customer and partner preview and will be widely available in autumn 2023.

Chinese cyberespionage group UNC3886 has been exploiting a VMware ESXi zero-day vulnerability to escalate privileges on guest virtual machines, according to cybersecurity firm Mandiant.

UNC3886 has been using malicious vSphere Installation Bundles (VIBs) to install backdoors on ESXi hypervisors and gain command execution, file manipulation, and reverse shell capabilities.

The European Parliament is voting on the Artificial Intelligence Act.

This Act is the first of its kind and goes beyond voluntary codes.

Companies must comply with rules requiring the public to be informed about risks associated with AI products.

Fines for breaking the rules could be up to €30m or 6% of a company’s global annual turnover.

The Act will not come into force until at least 2025.

API calls are growing twice as fast as HTML traffic, making APIs a prime target for new security solutions aimed at protecting customer data, with US businesses incurring over $23 billion in losses from API-related breaches in 2022, and 76% of cybersecurity professionals admitting to experiencing an API-related security incident.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a disruption that affected several websites, including those of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the Boston Globe, McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Delta, The Associated Press, The Verge, and New York transit agency MTA.

The outage was caused by an issue with a subsystem responsible for capacity management for AWS Lambda, which caused errors directly for customers and indirectly through the use by other AWS services.

India’s government has threatened to shut down Twitter unless the social media giant complies with orders to restrict accounts that are critical of the government’s handling of farmer protests, according to co-founder Jack Dorsey.

Dorsey also alleged that India threatened the company with raids on employees if it did not comply with government requests to take down certain posts.

Deputy Minister for Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar, a top-ranking official in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, called Dorsey’s assertions an “outright lie”.

A US judge has granted the FTC’s request to temporarily block Microsoft’s acquisition of video game maker Activision Blizzard and set a hearing next week.

Based on the late-June hearing, the federal court will decide whether a preliminary injunction is necessary.

Microsoft and Activision must submit legal arguments opposing a preliminary injunction by June 16, while the FTC must reply on June 20.

Activision declined to comment Tuesday.

Microsoft said Tuesday “accelerating the legal process in the US will ultimately bring more choice and competition to the gaming market.”

The FTC has argued that the transaction would give Microsoft’s video game console Xbox exclusive access to Activision games, leaving Nintendo consoles and Sony Group’s PlayStation out in the cold.

Microsoft’s bid to acquire the “Call of Duty” video game maker was approved by the EU in May, but British competition authorities blocked the takeover in April.

Microsoft has said the deal would benefit gamers and gaming companies alike, and has offered to sign a legally binding consent decree with the FTC to provide “Call of Duty” games to rivals including Sony for a decade.

Salesforce has launched AI Cloud, a suite of AI tools and services to help enterprise customers adopt generative AI.

AI Cloud integrates a variety of the company’s technologies, including its Einstein AI model, Tableau, and MuleSoft, among others.

The suite is designed to power open and real-time generative experiences across workflows.

Progress Software has warned customers of critical SQL injection vulnerabilities in its MOVEit Transfer managed file transfer solution that could allow attackers to steal information from customers’ databases.

The security bugs were discovered on May 31, 2023, with the help of cybersecurity firm Huntress, and affect all MOVEit Transfer versions.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp has rejected calls to pause the development of artificial intelligence (AI), stating that it is only those with “no products” who want a pause.

Karp believes that the West currently holds key commercial and military advantages in AI and should not relinquish them.

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I've read all comments and I realise that I'm presenting this project completely wrong.

It's theoretically impossible to be 100% unbiased, and I'm currently misleading people by stating this across the site.

However, it's not impossible, and quite easy, to be 'the most unbiased' news source.

I believe the project can and will have a net-positive impact, by reducing the effects of sensationalism in the news.

Even if NewsNotFound articles were only 90% neutral, that's 90% BETTER than reading the same story from a sensationalist source.

This project has the potential to provide a platform for readers to digest the news in a 'less biased' way than anywhere else on the internet.

Whether people want this, or prefer to read from biased sources because it's more emotive and relatable, is another issue and I think will stay a matter of preference.

I will update all socials, whitepaper, etc. to reflect this and I apologise for my ignorance initially.

There are a few other fundamental issues that people have pointed out, which I will try to fix over time.

Thank you all for your feedback and insight.

If anyone would like to contribute to the project, here is the GitHub repo: https://github.com/joshwallerr/newsnotfound

This is referring to how the open-sourced code provides the freedom for anyone to criticise or correct the way the site works through contribution.

Also, LLMs are biased, but through prompt engineering and other techniques, you can produce neutrally-written text.

I realise now that my messaging with this project is off. What would more accurately explain the purpose of this project is to reduce the effects of sensationalism and indoctrination in the news.

In other words, provide a platform for readers to make up their own opinions on news stories by filtering out the positive/negative language and putting as much focus on facts as possible.

Even if NewsNotFound articles are only 90% neutral, that's 90% BETTER than reading the same story from a sensationalist source.

That's something I've realised after reading these comments - that the goal of the project isn't to be 100% unbiased.

To be even 90% unbiased is 90% better than a sensationalist source.

I'm sure we can get very close to 100% as LLMs progress and if more talented people contribute to the project.

Thank you.

I'd love to hear your thoughts after giving the site a try (please use the contact page on the website).

It is by no means perfect right now, but the goal is to get as close to perfect as possible.

Even if NewsNotFound articles are only 90% neutral right now, that's 90% BETTER than reading the same story from a sensationalist source.

Very good point.

I realise now that my messaging with this project is off.

What would more accurately explain the purpose of this project is to reduce the effects of sensationalism and indoctrination in the news.

In other words, provide a platform for readers to make up their own opinions on news stories by filtering out the excessive positive/negative language.

Even if NewsNotFound articles are only 90% neutral, that's 90% BETTER than reading the same story from a sensationalist source.

I realise now that my messaging with this project is off.

What would more accurately explain the purpose of this project is to reduce the effects of sensationalism and indoctrination in the news.

In other words, provide a platform for readers to make up their own opinions on news stories by filtering out the positive/negative language.

Even if NewsNotFound articles are only 90% neutral, that's 90% BETTER than reading the same story from a sensationalist source.

Because the project is small right now (and makes no money), I've included a very limited list of sources for each category, however at scale we would have alot of options for getting past this.

For example, one way in theory is to scrape all known publicly available news sites and create an article for every single detected story, but this would be very expensive.

As someone with experience in the media, what steps would you take to find these under-reported stories? Maybe the steps can be replicated with AI to increase coverage?

Imagine you could see into the minds of news reporters - their intentions, thought processes, and emotions when writing articles.

This would allow us to hold reporters accountable for bias, misinformation, and sensationalism.

Now imagine we could also dictate and control these thought processes and intentions, so as to ensure they aren't aligned with any particular viewpoint or political agenda.

Unfortunately, this isn't possible in humans (yet).

NewsNotFound proposes a solution to this problem, by removing the human middle-man between you and the news.

With open-sourced code, anyone can now see exactly what goes on behind the scenes of article creation.

This is the key to a trusted news company - complete transparency and the opportunity for anyone, anywhere to contribute.

Whitepaper: https://newsnotfound.com/whitepaper/

GitHub Repo: https://github.com/joshwallerr/newsnotfound