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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue the internet giant earns from search ads through Safari, per the US v. Google testimony of Alphabet's main economics expert — Kevin Murphy, a University of Chicago professor, disclosed the number during his testimony in Google's defense at the Justice Department's antitrust trial in Washington.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, Beehaw, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums
| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Sam Altman expects “to raise a lot more over time” from Microsoft and other investors to keep up with the punishing costs of building more sophisticated LLMs — Sam Altman expects big tech group will back start-up's mission to create software as intelligent as humans
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Forums: r/singularity and Slashdot
| Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat: |
A look at OpenAI's structure where a six-member non-profit board can decide if the company has achieved AGI, which would exclude Microsoft from some IP licenses — According to OpenAI, the six members of its nonprofit board of directors will determine when the company has “attained AGI” …
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| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
Nvidia announces the H200, an update to its standalone H100 accelerator that swaps 5.3Gbps/pin HBM3 memory for 6.5Gbps/pin HBM3E memory and ships in Q2 2024 — With faster and higher capacity HBM3E memory set to come online early in 2024, NVIDIA has been preparing its current-generation server GPU products to use the new memory.
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Forums: r/hardware and Ars OpenForum
| Nathan Grayson / Aftermath: |
Amazon restructures its games division to focus on free streaming games offered with Prime and cuts ~180 jobs, the unit's second round of layoffs in 2023 — Video game workers just can't catch a break — Video game layoff season - an extension of what has basically at this point become …
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| John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: |
Google sues unnamed individuals in India and Vietnam for tricking US-based SMB owners with Facebook accounts into clicking fake Bard ads that install malware — Lawsuit attributes the alleged scheme to hackers in India and Vietnam — Scammers are capitalizing on the rush of consumer interest …
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| Maddie Stone / The Verge: |
After Apple voiced support for California's Right to Repair Act, a look at what's next for the movement, like tackling unsustainable designs and software locks — Apple stunned the world when it came out in support of California's right-to-repair law. But software locks and other obstacles seem …
More: New York Times, 9to5Mac, Pixel Envy, iFixit News, Tech Xplore, iFixit News, AppleInsider, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, and mjtsai.com
X: @ifixit, @themadstone, @repaircoalition, and @nproctor
Forums: r/Anticonsumption, r/gadgets, and r/apple
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
In a first, researchers show that a large portion of cryptographic keys used to protect data in computer-to-server SSH traffic are vulnerable to full compromise — An error as small as a single flipped memory bit is all it takes to expose a private key. — For the first time …
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LinkedIn: Michael Pak, Jason W., and Sebastian S.
Forums: Hacker News, r/cybersecurity, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out the ability for users to delete their Threads profile without having to delete their Instagram account — Meta is rolling out a way for you to delete your Threads profile without having to delete your Instagram account, too. You'll be able to access the new feature …
More: 9to5Mac, Neowin, Android Headlines, Engadget, Livemint, PCMag, and NewsBytes
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| Mark Matousek / The Information: |
Internal Brex data: Q3 annualized net revenue hit $283M, up 1% QoQ, and the company is far from profitable, as the growth spurt after SVB's collapse trails away — Almost no startup benefited more from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank than Brex, which saw a surge in deposits from young companies … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp launches a Discord-like voice chat feature for large groups that is designed to be less disruptive than a group call, which rings every group member — WhatsApp is rolling out a new Discord-like voice chat feature for large groups, the Meta-owned company announced on Monday.| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Truth Social lost $73M and took $3.7M in net sales since launching in early 2022, shows a filling from Trump Media & Technology Group's SPAC merger partner DWAC — The company that TMTG is planned to merge with, DWAC, broke out the surprising results in a securities filing Monday.Sponsor Posts
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