Airbnb has fully announced ban on closed cells in host properties. Landlords were allowed to have cameras in communal areas, but they were it was assumed forbid entry into the bedroom and bathroom. Landlords would also have to disclose any rental cameras, which may not always be the case. The company says it set the new rules “in consultation with our guests, hosts and privacy experts” and will continue to seek feedback.
Landlords must also disclose any outdoor cameras (can’t be in areas that can’t show indoors or have a “greater expectation of privacy” — think showers and saunas). Because people can be horrible. The new rules come into effect on April 30.
Any hosts who violate this new policy could face having their property banned from Airbnb and even have their entire account deleted.
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The company may brand the next Surface Pro and Surface Laptop as AI computers.
On March 21, Microsoft is holding a digital event called Advancing the New Era of Work with Copilot. We’re looking forward to the new Surface devices and—given the event’s title—more on Microsoft’s AI ambitions with hardware and software. Rumors are everywhere: we could see a new Surface Pro with a brighter OLED screen, or devices powered by Intel Core Ultra or Snapdragon X Elite chips. And maybe nothing for consumers and just a barrage of business and commercial oriented devices. Boo! Engadget will cover all the notable announcements on March 21st at noon ET.
The company may have trained its NeMo AI on a controversial database.
The latest tech company to get into artificial intelligence and run into copyright issues is NVIDIA. Several authors are suing the company over its NeMo AI platform, a language model that allows the company to build and train its own chatbots. The authors claim that NVIDIA trained him on a controversial data set that illegally used their books without consent. They are seeking a jury trial and demanding that NVIDIA pay damages and destroy all copies of the Books3 data set used to power the NeMo large language models (LLM). They claim the dataset was copied from a shadowy library called Bibliotek, which contains 196,640 pirated books.
