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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out end-to-end encryption to Messenger by default for one-on-one chats and calls, fulfilling a long-term promise; E2EE for group chats remains opt-in — Meta is now rolling out end-to-end encryption for one-on-one chats and calls on Messenger and Facebook, finally fulfilling …
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Threads: @chriscox, @robsherman, and @alexheath
| Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: |
Google unveils Gemini, an AI model with Ultra, Pro, and Nano tiers, and plans a paid chatbot version in 2024; Google says Gemini Ultra beats GPT-4 on most tests — Starting today, Gemini is running on Bard and Google's Pixel 8 Pro phones. The company says it blows OpenAI out of the water.
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LinkedIn: Guy Kawasaki and Ali Arsanjani, PhD
Forums: r/singularity, r/technews, r/astrologymemes, r/ChatGPTPro, and r/OpenAI
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
More: The Keyword, Telegraph, Metaverse Post, Coinspeaker, Business Today, Cointelegraph, Memeburn, Android Authority, Bloomberg, Washington Post, and 9to5Google
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Forums: r/artificial, r/Bard, and r/GoogleBard
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
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| Mat Honan / MIT Technology Review: |
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
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Threads: @davey_burke. X: @keerthanpg, @nexuist, @simonw, @androiddevnotes, @zacharynado, @androiddev, @davey_burke, @andrewcurran_, @bryancsk, @nexuist, @mishaalrahman, @sundarpichai, @rowancheung, and @madebygoogle
Forums: r/Android, r/GooglePixel, and r/GooglePixel
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
More: Google Cloud Blog and TweakTown
| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Apple and Google confirm that foreign governments have demanded smartphone push notifications data, after US senator Ron Wyden revealed the practice in a letter — Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users via their apps' push notifications, a U.S. senator warned on Wednesday.
More: 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Wired, DocumentCloud, Ars Technica, 404 Media, Metaverse Post, MacRumors, Android Authority, The Register, TechSpot, AppleInsider, Bloomberg, Infosecurity, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden …, The Overspill, CNBC, Axios, Daring Fireball, and iMore
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Forums: Hacker News, r/cybersecurity, r/news, r/ios, r/business, r/Android, r/privacy, r/signal, r/technews, r/apple, r/technology, r/politics, Beehaw, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums
| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Apple guidelines now say that US law enforcement can obtain the Apple ID associated with a push notification token via a subpoena; Google requires a court order — Apple and Google had been told to keep the practice secret until Sen. Ron Wyden revealed it in a letter Wednesday
More: MacRumors, iTnews, and Daring Fireball
X: @eshumarneeedi and @matthew_d_green
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Sony's Discovery content removals due to licensing “arrangements” and unexpected account bans are timely reminders of why users don't really own digital content — In less than a week, Sony has given us two timely reminders of the tenuousness of digital “ownership” — and both reminders involve things on PlayStation.
More: Kotaku, PlayStation, Business Insider, and New York Times
Mastodon: @mookie@troublemaker.social. X: @ethangach, @jezcorden, @datnofact, @jaay_rock_, @hazzadorgamin, @jezcorden, and @tomwarren
Forums: Hacker News and r/dvdcollection
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans a revamped iPad Pro with an OLED screen, iPad Airs with 10.9" and 12.9" screens, 13" and 15" MacBook Airs with M3, and more for early 2024 — - New models follow an unprecedented drought in iPad releases — Vision Pro, larger iPhones and new AirPods also coming in 2024
More: Reuters, Forbes, Livemint, Business Today, Tom's Guide, PhoneArena, MacRumors, SamMobile, Tabletmonkeys, Laptop Mag, iMore, Wccftech, and The Verge
| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Robinhood launches a commission-free crypto trading app, supporting 25+ cryptocurrencies, in the EU, a week after the company launched stock trading in the UK — - More than 25 tokens available to trade for free at launch — Launch comes as Bitcoin's price recovers to 19-month high| Rebekah Valentine / IGN: |
Sources: Bungie's recent layoffs came alongside a scramble to avoid a total Sony takeover, which could happen if Bungie doesn't meet certain financial goals — The Destiny 2 and Marathon developer may not be able to cling to the last of its independence forever.
More: Game World Observer, Gamereactor UK, Pure Xbox, and Destructoid
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Forums: Hacker News, r/Marathon, r/XboxSeriesX, r/gamernews, r/pcgaming, r/destiny2, r/Asmongold, r/gaming, r/PS4, r/technology, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/Games, and r/PS5
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
AMD launches Instinct MI300X and MI300A AI accelerators and claims the MI300X delivers up to 1.6x more performance than Nvidia's H100 HGX in inference workloads — AMD's chiplet strategy comes to fore. — AMD launched its Instinct MI300X AI accelerator and the Instinct MI300A …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
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X: @amd, @futurebec, @joshuaogundu, and @patrickmoorhead
Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Bitzlato co-founder Anatoly Legkodymov pleads guilty in the US to running a money transmitting business for illicit funds and plans to close the crypto exchange — Anatoly Legkodymov says he'll dissolve the sanctioned exchange as part of his plea. — Register Now
More: US Department of Justice, Tech Xplore, The Verge, crypto.news, Cryptopolitan, Blockworks, The Block, Bitcoin Insider, TechStartups, and CoinGape
Threads: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @brett@infosec.exchange. X: @silvermanjacob, @baddcompani, and @ednynews
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Meta debuts Imagine with Meta, a standalone text-to-image generator on the web powered by its Emu model that generates four images per prompt, free for US users — Not to be outdone by Google's Gemini launch, Meta's rolling out a new, standalone generative AI experience on the web …
More: Imagine with Meta AI, Meta, Metaverse Post, Android Authority, Ars Technica, PhoneArena, Cointelegraph, BetaNews, ZDNet, Decrypt, TweakTown, XDA Developers, and TechCrunch
Threads: @parkerortolani, @dantley, @parkerortolani, @stuartathompsonnyt, @stuartathompsonnyt, @film_girl, @daveleebbg, @stuartathompsonnyt, @aaldahle, and @chriscox
X: @joshuaogundu, @rcweston, @joshuaogundu, @scobleizer, @rcweston, @metanewsroom, and @g_ack. Forums: r/singularity
| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Sources: Microsoft plans the next major Windows version for 2024, with an AI-powered Windows Shell, an “advanced Copilot”, natural language search, and more — What's next for Windows? Microsoft plans next-gen Windows AI release in 2024, plus details on recent changes to the Windows roadmap
More: TechSpot, Ghacks, Windows Report, Notebookcheck, PCWorld, Thurrott, Neowin, and XDA Developers
X: @_h0x0d_, @aneternalenigma, @zacbowden, @xenopanther, @cullend, @compusemble, and @zacbowden
Forums: r/windows and r/Windows11
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Steve Hotelling, the Apple VP overseeing technologies like touchscreen, health sensors, and Face ID, and one of the inventors of Touch ID, is retiring — - Steve Hotelling oversaw many key technologies at Apple — Executive was a top deputy under hardware boss Johny Srouji| Reuters: |
Reuters temporarily removes its article titled “How an Indian startup hacked the world” to comply with an Indian court order, and plans to appeal the decision — Reuters has temporarily removed the article “How an Indian startup hacked the world” to comply with a preliminary court order issued …
More: 404 Media. Mastodon: @adamhotep@infosec.exchange. X: @tomhegel, @oneunderscore__, @byrontau, @ajvicens, @shanehuntley, @malwarejake, and @kimzetter
| Jonny Evans / Computerworld: |
Apple's machine learning research team quietly releases MLX, an array framework to train and deploy ML models on Apple silicon, available on GitHub — Apple's machine learning (ML) teams quietly flexed their muscle with the release of a new ML framework developed for Apple Silicon.
More: The Verge, ml-explore on GitHub, 9to5Mac, International Business Times, On my Om, The Stack, and MSPoweruser
Threads: @luokai. X: @deliprao, @awnihannun, @davewiner, @om, @benbajarin, @ryancarson, @ylecun, @awnihannun, @krishnanrohit, @angeloskath, @drjimfan, and @jsusskin. LinkedIn: Rami Krispin. Forums: Hacker News
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
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