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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google updates how Bard handles math, coding questions, and string manipulation via “implicit code execution”, which lets the chatbot run code in the background — Bard, Google's beleaguered AI-powered chatbot, is slowly improving at tasks involving logic and reasoning.
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| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
Twitch walks back new branded content guidelines it released on June 6 and calls them “bad” for streamers and the company, after swift backlash from creators — / ‘These guidelines are bad for you and bad for Twitch, and we are removing them immediately.’
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| Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon plans to launch an ad-supported Prime Video tier and is talking with WBD and Paramount about adding their ad-based tiers to Prime Video Channels — Discussions come as ad buyers have been pushing for more access to premium shows and movies — Amazon is planning to launch … | Wall Street Journal: |
Investigations: Instagram connects and promotes a vast network of accounts openly devoted to underage sex content; Meta plans to improve its internal controls — The Meta unit's systems for fostering communities have guided users to child-sex content; company says it is improving internal controls
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| William Gallagher / AppleInsider: |
Apple details features coming to its services this fall, like offline maps and real-time EV charging availability in Maps and Collaborative Playlists in Music — New features are coming to Apple Music, Apple Maps and more — Following the launch of Apple's next operating systems for its devices …
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Google Cloud partners with Mayo Clinic to test a service for making AI chatbots and search apps; Mayo created a tool that helps staff find patient data and more — - Google Cloud on Wednesday said Mayo Clinic is using a new generative AI search tool that lets companies create customized chatbots.| Colin Wilhelm / The Block: |
Court documents: the SEC accuses Binance and Binance.US of redirecting $12B+ in customer assets to entities controlled by Changpeng Zhao between 2019 and 2021 — The Securities and Exchange Commission has accused Binance and Binance.US of redirecting over $12 billion in customer assets …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Reddit creates an exemption from its unpopular new usage-based API pricing terms for “select developers of non-commercial apps that address accessibility needs” — Reddit is creating an exemption to its unpopular new API pricing terms for makers of accessibility apps …
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases a Game Porting Toolkit, based on the open-source platform Wine, to translate DirectX 12 into Metal 3, a potentially massive step for Mac gaming — One of the new features in macOS Sonoma is Game Mode, which Apple claims improves gaming performance on Apple Silicon Macs.
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| Samrhitha Arunasalam / Reuters: |
GameStop fires CEO Matt Furlong two years after hiring him and appoints chairman and majority shareholder Ryan Cohen as its executive chairman; GME drops 15%+ — June 7 (Reuters) - GameStop (GME.N) fired CEO Matt Furlong two years after hiring him and appointed billionaire Ryan Cohen as executive chairman …
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| The Athletic: |
Sources: MLS and Apple discussed sharing new Season Pass subscriber revenue with Lionel Messi; on June 6, Apple unveiled a four-part Messi docuseries on TV+ — Major League Soccer and Inter Miami are solidifying details around the potential signing of Argentine superstar Lionel Messi.
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Chats, screenshots, and interviews: some people are pirating GPT-4 and offering free access after stealing OpenAI API tokens scraped from other people's code — Why pay for $150,000 worth of OpenAI access when you could just steal it? — People on the Discord for the r/ChatGPT subreddit …
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| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
SK Hynix says it has started mass producing its 238-layer 3D NAND flash memory chips, promising speeds of 2400MT/s, up from last gen's 176 layers and 1600MT/s — The new memory promises speeds of up to 2,400 MT/s. — SK hynix said late on Wednesday that it had begun mass production of its 238-layer …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Meta plans to update its account center to give users more control over its cross-site tracking and profiling, ahead of a German antitrust ruling set for July 4 — Meta has been dragged kicking and screaming into another notable privacy concession in Europe: The German Federal Cartel Office …
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| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
Pornhub adds a video message to its homepage for Virginia, Mississippi, and Arkansas visitors, asking to oppose the states' newly passed age verification laws — Pornhub wants to punt privacy concerns of age verification to Big Tech. — Starting today, Pornhub visitors in Virginia …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Berlin-based Payrails, which offers a framework for enterprise payments, raised a $14.4M seed extension led by EQT Ventures, bringing its seed total to $20.8M — Enterprises and marketplaces that need to take and make payments across multiple geographies and products have typically relied …
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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Mojang launches Minecraft: Bedrock Edition for ChromeOS, after early access in March 2023; the $20 game runs on Chromebooks from the past three years and more — It will run on any Chromebook from the last three years, as well as some other models. — Following an early access period …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
A survey of 472 corporate board directors ahead of the SEC's cyber-risk regulations: 76% have at least one expert, 62% say risk awareness is improving, and more — Board expertise depends very much on the industry and the company size — Are boards of directors capable of cybersecurity oversight?
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Automattic launches Jetpack AI Assistant for WordPress.com and Jetpack-powered sites, letting users generate content, translate text into 12 languages, and more — Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and the main contributor to the open-source WordPress project …
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The Verge, WordPress.com News, Jetpack, Tech.co, TechRadar, SlashGear, SiliconANGLE, PCMag, and Neowin
| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
A look at the similarities and differences between the SEC's lawsuits against Coinbase and Binance, as the SEC views every crypto exchange in the US as illegal — SEC v. Crypto — “A decent rule of thumb,” I wrote in March, “is that all cryptocurrency exchanges are doing crimes …
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| Robert Armstrong / Financial Times: |
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