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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
GitHub announces Copilot X, a new Copilot version with chat and voice features using OpenAI's GPT-4 to help with certain coding tasks, available via a waitlist — Microsoft Corp.'s GitHub unit created one of the first widely deployed programs using OpenAI's language-generation tools …
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| Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: |
The US House Committee on Energy and Commerce posts TikTok CEO Shou Chew's prepared testimony, which says the company has spent ~$1.5B to safeguard US user data — TikTok Chief Executive Officer Shou Chew plans to tell Congress his app does more to protect young users than rival social media platforms … | New York Times: |
The US will find banning TikTok difficult due to its massive userbase, political ramifications, possible alienation of young voters, legal challenges, and more — The tensions over the Chinese-owned social media app will come to a head on Thursday, when the company's chief executive testifies on Capitol Hill.
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| Washington Post: |
A look at ByteDance and TikTok's lobbying before Shou Zi Chew's hearing, including Axios ads and private lawmaker meetings, mirroring Meta's well-worn tactics — The app, owned by Beijing-headquartered ByteDance, is adopting the lobbying tactics of many of its American tech company peers
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| Luke Plunkett / Kotaku: |
Ubisoft unveils Ghostwriter, an internal AI tool saving its scriptwriters time by creating first drafts and more realistic non-player character interactions — Ubisoft Ghostwriter is described by the company as ‘an AI tool’ — Ubisoft, the publishers behind Assassin's Creed …
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| Chris Stokel-Walker / BuzzFeed News: |
Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins says Midjourney banned him after he made images of a Donald Trump arrest; the company banned the word “arrested” in its tool — “I suspect it was pushing my luck when I did the [Twitter] thread,” Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins said.
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| Jaron Schneider / PetaPixel: |
Amazon-owned digital photography site DPReview is closing on April 10; people can request to download photos or texts they've uploaded to the site until April 6 — DPReview, easily one of the most beloved publications among photography enthusiasts, will shut down and its content will be deleted.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla announces Mozilla.ai, an AI-focused startup with a $30M seed from the Mozilla Foundation to create a “trustworthy”, independent open-source AI stack — On the eve of its 25th anniversary, Mozilla, the not-for-profit behind the Firefox browser, is launching an AI-focused startup.
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Karim Lakhani. Mastodon:
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Amazon introduces new Fire TVs and the cheaper TV lineup 2-Series, says 200M+ Fire TV devices have been sold, and expands Luna to the UK, Germany, and Canada — Amazon announced today that it has sold a total of over 200 million Fire TV devices. That number is a combination of Fire TV streamers …
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| Virginia Heffernan / Wired: |
Inside TSMC's facilities in Taiwan, where Fab 18 makes 1 quintillion transistors for Apple every six months, and an interview with Chairman Mark Liu — As the US boosts production of silicon chips, an American journalist goes inside TSMC, the mysterious Taiwanese company at the center of the global industry.
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Washington Post and DCD
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| Sean Endicott / Windows Central: |
Microsoft launches Loop, its Notion and Asana competitor, in preview, allowing users to collaborate in shared workspaces on the web, Android, and iOS — You can now try out Microsoft's new collaboration tool Loop. — What you need to know — Microsoft Loop is now available in preview.
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| Theo Wayt / The Information: |
Job listings site Indeed is laying off about 2,200 people, or 15% of its headcount; Indeed was acquired in 2012 by Japan's Recruit, which also owns Glassdoor — Job listings site Indeed.com told employees on Wednesday that it's laying off 2,200 people, representing 15% of its headcount …
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
The Association for Computing Machinery awards Bob Metcalfe the 2022 Turing Award for the invention, standardization, and commercialization of Ethernet — In the 1970s, Bob Metcalfe helped develop the primary technology that lets you send email or connect with a printer over an office network.
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@theofficialacm, @mit_csail, @jeffdean, @benbenbrubaker, @jessfraz, @nixcraft, and @joshuabaer
| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
A look at Balaji Srinivasan's weird $1M bitcoin bet, predicting one BTC will be worth $1M+ in 90 days, which is economically irrational but attracts attention — It is sometimes useful to think that the shareholders of a bank are not its owners; they are just renting it from its creditors.
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Molly White, Anthony Pompliano on YouTube, CryptoPotato, NewsBTC, New York Post, and CoinGape
| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Spotify has spent less than 10% of its $100M Creator Equity Fund, announced in February 2022 to promote diversity in music after the Joe Rogan controversy — Spotify Technology SA's $100 million Creator Equity Fund, designed to promote diversity in music and podcasts following controversial comments …
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Engadget. Tweets:
@ashleyrcarman, @ashleyrcarman, @ashleyrcarman, @lucas_shaw, @so_treu, @charlespulliam, @exavierpope, @simonowens, and @lucas_shaw
| Reuters: |
Nvidia announces the H800 chip, a modified H100 chip for export to China; the cloud units of Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent, and others are already using the H800 — Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O), the U.S. semiconductor designer that dominates the market for artificial intelligence (AI) chips … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google, Meta, and Apple want Congress to limit Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, expiring at 2023's end if not reauthorized — Top tech companies are mounting a push to limit how US intelligence agencies collect and view texts, emails and other information about their users … | Sahil Patel / The Information: |
Sources: Meta rehires veteran manager Nick Grudin, who left to join NFT startup Dapper Labs in August 2022, to oversee media company and creator relationships — Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg's effort to cut back on middle managers isn't stopping the company hiring more middle managers.| Cam Thompson / CoinDesk: |
Magic Eden launches a Bitcoin NFT marketplace, supporting Hiro and Xverse wallets to let users trade Ordinal NFTs, expanding on SOL, ETH, and MATIC marketplaces — The popular NFT marketplace is integrating support for Bitcoin wallets Hiro and Xverse to help traders list, purchase and sell Ordinal NFTs.| Coco Liu / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft announces a toolkit for developers to measure Xbox games' energy consumption “to the nearest millisecond”, helping the company establish a baseline — How much energy does it take to play Xbox? Microsoft Corp. is helping developers find out.| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
A look at San Francisco's Misalignment Museum, which displays art about AGI, including an apology to humans after a “misaligned” future AI wiped out humanity — - Underlying all the recent hype about AI, industry participants engage in furious debates about how to prepare … | TechCrunch: |
After the Russia-linked Clop ransomware gang claimed to hit 130 companies, victims are coming forward, many of which used Fortra's GoAnywhere file transfer tool — Clop claimed it mass-hacked 130 organizations. Now the list of known victims is growing — The number of victims affected …
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