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| Andy Baio / Waxy.org: |
A developer says Twitter appears to be DDoSing itself via a Twitter web app JavaScript bug, which could be tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits — For the last two days, Elon Musk has claimed that Twitter is under attack from “several hundred organizations” who were conducting …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Elon Musk says Twitter has temporarily limited verified accounts to reading 10K posts/day, unverified 1K, and new unverified 500, due to “extreme” data scraping — Twitter is putting limits to how many tweets its users can read as the Elon Musk-owned service suffers extended outage …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Bluesky resumes new sign-ups after a temporary pause to resolve performance issues caused by “record high-traffic” — / ‘We will temporarily be pausing Bluesky sign-ups while our team continues to resolve the existing performance issues.’
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is exploring hearing health and body-temperature features for AirPods, while planning cheaper models and a shift to a USB-C port for the case — Apple is working on a slew of changes for its popular AirPods earbuds, seeking to expand its wearables business.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Report: Apple is working on new external display for Macs that can double as a smart home display in low-power mode, to release next year “at the earliest” — In the latest Power On newsletter, Mark Gurman writes that he understands Apple is working on a new Mac external display option … | Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple and Luxshare cut Vision Pro production plans from 1M to less than 400K units in 2024 due to manufacturing problems for the $3,500 headset — Initial hopes of 1mn shipments in 2024 launch year dashed by manufacturing problems — Apple has been forced to make drastic cuts …
More: MacRumors, Road to VR, 9to5Mac, Livemint, Reuters, Supercharged, Bloomberg, and Panda Security Mediacenter
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
The moderators of r/IAmA say they won't solicit and coordinate celebrity AMAs as Reddit “has all the funds they need to hire people” for work done by volunteers — The moderators of Reddit's IAmA community will no longer solicit and coordinate ask me anything (AMA) …
More: The Information, Neowin, WinBuzzer, and NPR
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Twitter: @austinj. Forums: r/IAmA, r/apolloapp, r/technology, and r/Save3rdPartyApps
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
More: Android Authority, Mashable, The Economic Times, Ars Technica, 9to5Google, Insider, Engadget, iDownloadBlog.com, Dexerto, MacRumors, and Wired
Mastodon: @ilyess@mastodon.online. Twitter: @christianselig, @entrpswn, @pointcrow, @davidcmurphy, @asallen, @heysaik, @christianselig, @tomwarren, and @verge
Forums: r/technology, r/RedditAlternatives, and Ars OpenForum
| Bernhard Warner / New York Times: |
How researchers at Amazon and other companies are making AI-powered devices and bots more conversational by tackling the voice disentanglement issue — For Alexa to speak like a Dubliner, Amazon researchers had to crack a problem that's vexed data scientists for years: voice disentanglement.| Benedict Evans: |
Analysis of whether in the coming years AI will destroy, displace, create, and accelerate jobs like other waves of automation, or if this time it's different — Pretty much everyone in tech agrees that generative AI, Large Language Models and ChatGPT are a generational change …
LinkedIn: Benedict Evans and Allan Thygesen
Twitter: @willcritchlow, @stevesi, @eswarpr, @dok2001, @aridavidpaul, and @_jeremyflores. Forums: Hacker News
| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Thousands of performers who signed their voice rights away in perpetuity years ago are now being forced to compete with AI-cloned versions of their voices — Performers forced to compete with themselves as companies' use of technology for cloning prompts calls to update copyright law
More: Cryptopolitan and Analytics Insight
| Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: |
A look at uncensored and loosely moderated AI chatbots like WizardLM-Uncensored and Open Assistant setting off a polarizing debate about free-speech and risks — A new generation of chatbots doesn't have many of the guardrails put in place by companies like Google and OpenAI, presenting new possibilities — and risks.
Twitter: @natolambert and @nytimes
| McKenna Oxenden / New York Times: |
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