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| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer says he does not “feel an imperative” from users to release a major Xbox upgrade, preferring instead the “hardware we have” — Microsoft Corp.'s video gaming chief Phil Spencer said he doesn't “feel an imperative” to come out with a major upgrade of its Xbox game console.
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Tweets: @stephentotilo, @cecianasta, @stephentotilo, @imranzomg, @xboxp3, @tomwarren, @cecianasta, and @tomwarren
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Over 7,000 subreddits have gone dark to protest API changes, and Reddit experienced an outage for about an hour this morning — Reddit went through some issues for many on Monday, with the outage happening the same day as thousands of subreddits going dark to protest the site's new API pricing terms.
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| CNBC: |
Source: the US FTC is set to file for an injunction seeking to block Microsoft's proposed Activision Blizzard acquisition, after suing to block the $68.7B deal — The Federal Trade Commission is set to file for an injunction seeking to block Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard …
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LinkedIn: Ulysse Isnardi. Tweets: @macton93, @levie, @macton93, @macton93, and @fosspatents. Forums: r/XboxSeriesX
| Shinhye Kang / Bloomberg: |
South Korean prosecutors allege that a former Samsung executive stole blueprints and designs in 2018 and 2019 to reproduce an entire chip plant in Xi'an, China — A former Samsung Electronics Co. executive allegedly stole blueprints and designs to try and replicate an entire semiconductor plant in China …
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| Yuka Hayashi / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
A tech reporter on why he bought a 2023 World Book Encyclopedia printed set: nostalgia, permanence, and no AI or human tampering, link rot, or stealth edits — The still-updated World Book Encyclopedia is my antidote to the information apocalypse. — These days, many of us live online …
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
MacBook Air (15-inch) review: thin and relatively light chassis, excellent trackpad, keyboard, performance, and battery, but limited ports and no upgradability — Apple's first big-screened MacBook Air addresses a long-standing need in the company's laptop lineup. And it comes with zero surprises and no sticker shock.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
a16z plans to open a crypto-focused office in London and leads a $43M round in UK-based Gensyn, which offers a decentralized compute network for training AI — America's largest investor in crypto startups believes that the industry's future may be across the pond, and is opening …
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| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the EU is about to hit Google with a formal antitrust complaint focusing on its ad tech, with a statement of objections coming as soon as Wednesday — Google is set to be hit with a formal antitrust complaint from the European Union that could lead to massive new fines and strike … | Laurie Clarke / Politico: |
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic agreed to open up their AI models to the UK government for research and safety purposes — LONDON — Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic have agreed to open up their AI models to the U.K. government for research and safety purposes …
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| Ian Tucker / The Guardian: |
Q&A with Signal president Meredith Whittaker on how existential warnings about AI might help Big Tech entrench its power, the UK's Online Safety Bill, and more — The president of the not-for-profit messaging app on how she believes existential warnings about AI allow big tech to entrench their power …
LinkedIn: Timnit Gebru. Tweets: @colincrowell, @anjali28, @grettalouw, @amymaxmen, @san_lambert, @1br0wn, and @marloscmachado
| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Documents detail new prison-monitoring tech that tracks inmates' location, heartbeats, and more, developed by Talitrix and used in Atlanta's Fulton County Jail — Documents WIRED obtained detail new prison-monitoring technology that keeps tabs on inmates' location, heartbeats, and more.| Dhruv Mehrotra / Wired: |
Documents show some US courts are using Covenant Eyes, an anti-porn app sold to churches to monitor all online activity, to surveil parolees and their families — A court used an app called Covenant Eyes to surveil the family of a man released on bond. Now he's back in jail, and tech misuse may be to blame.| Tristan Cross / The Guardian: |
A writer who learned to code after losing his job reflects on AI chatbots, which make misakes and lack lateral thinking, and why human skills are irreplaceable — Silicon Valley wants to make us believe humans are predictable and our skills replaceable. I've learned that's nonsense
Tweets: @neilturkewitz, @sarahbadr, @tristandross, @jjvincent, and @david_rudnick
| Noah Smith / Noahpinion: |
Trying to shape AI tech to protect jobs is a bad idea since no one can predict which technologies will augment humans and which will simply replace their labor — Instead, we should empower workers and create mechanisms for redistribution. — I've been to a number of meetings and panels recently …
Tweets: @jackstilgoe, @emmabgo, and @psythor
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