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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Email: Cruise lays off 900 staff, or ~24% of its workforce, targeting non-engineering jobs, as part of a plan to slash costs and attempt to revamp the company — Cruise, the embattled GM self-driving car subsidiary, is laying off 900 employees, or about 24% of its workforce … | Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Meta launches Threads in the European Union, following the US, the UK, and 100+ other countries, and adds a way for EU users to browse Threads without a profile — Meta's Twitter competitor, Threads, is now available in the European Union, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced.
More: The Guardian, Fox Business, SamMobile, Wall Street Journal, Observer, Bloomberg, Android Central, Windows Central, NewsBytes, Thurrott, RTTNews, Pocket-lint, Silicon Republic, MarketWatch, iPhone in Canada Blog, Fortune, kuwaittimes, MSPoweruser, Benzinga, Variety, Android Headlines, PetaPixel, 9to5Mac, Tech Xplore, WinBuzzer, Independent.ie, Engadget, TechCrunch, and TechCrunch
Threads: @zuck, @mosseri, @eldsjal, @technicallymims, @merritmd, @technicallymims, @pkedrosky, @doniecnn, @jank0, @chancehmiller, @thatadamguy, @carnage4life, @mosseri, @tomwarrenuk, @mosseri, @gergelyorosz_, @tb_99999, @crumbler, @reckless1280, @freezydorito, @threads, @mkbhd, @poorlydrawnarsenal, @mattnavarra, @carnage4life, @carnage4life, and @gergelyorosz_
Mastodon: @Gargron@mastodon.social, @trumpet@mas.to, and @MostFollowed@mastodon.social
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Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware: |
At Intel's NYC event, Pat Gelsinger claimed that for AI, inference will become more important than training, and the industry wants to “eliminate” Nvidia's CUDA — Reframing the AI framework, away from CUDA and toward more open standards. — Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger came … | Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech: |
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
Google DeepMind's FunSearch model cracks the unsolved cap set problem in pure mathematics, the first time an LLM has solved a long-standing scientific puzzle — They had to throw away most of what it produced but there was gold among the garbage. — Google DeepMind has used a large language model …
More: Google DeepMind, Nature, Nature, New Scientist, The Guardian, and Stack Diary
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| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
The US DOJ announces an indictment for four people, two of whom have been arrested, in an alleged international pig butchering crypto scam costing victims $80M+ — - Los Angeles federal prosecutors said four indictments and two arrests had been made in an international “pig butchering” scheme.
More: US Department of Justice, BleepingComputer, Cryptopolitan, Bitcoin Insider, Cointelegraph, CoinDesk, Cryptonews, and NBC News. Mastodon: @brianstorms@mastodon.social
| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Google plans to test Tracking Protection and blocking third-party cookies on January 4 for ~1% of Chrome users globally, ahead of a phased rollout in H2 2024 — Google is about to launch its grand plan to block third-party cookies in Chrome that many websites use to track your activity across the web for profit.
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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
After an on-by-default AI toggle caused confusion, Dropbox says the company only shares user data with OpenAI when the AI search feature is actively being used — AI feature turned on by default worries users; Dropbox responds to concerns. — On Wednesday, news quickly spread on social media …
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Threads: @jina. Mastodon: @zarfeblong@mastodon …. X: @simonw, @rstankov, @bengoldhaber, and @iethics. Forums: Hacker News
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Instagram launches a generative AI background editing tool in the US, letting users change the background for their Stories using text prompts — Instagram introduced its generative AI-powered background editing tool to U.S.-based users Wednesday. — Meta's lead for generative AI Ahmad Al-Dahle posted …
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| Malak Saleh / Engadget: |
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google launches a Pixel Diagnostic App and repair manuals in English in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and European countries where Pixel devices are sold — Besides the new Repair Mode introduced with Android 14 QPR1 and the December Feature Drop, Google is widely launching … | Jon Victor / The Information: |
Sources: Google plans to use Gemini across nearly its entire line of products and in Pixie, an upcoming AI assistant that will be exclusive to its Pixel devices — For Google, it was a moment to savor its apparent triumph over the doomsayers. — Last week, the company released the first version …
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Threads: @goldman. Bluesky: @caseynewton.bsky.social, @dead.place, and @epro.social. Forums: Slashdot
| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Three Polish hackers say they fixed trains allegedly bricked by manufacturer Newag because an independent repair shop worked on them; Newag denies bricking them — Join the newsletter to get the latest updates. — Success — Great! Check your inbox and click the link. — Error
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| Guthrie Scrimgeour / Wired: |
A look at Koolau Ranch, Mark Zuckerberg's 1,400-acre, $270M+ compound in Kauai, Hawaii, with a 5,000 sq. ft. underground shelter, a project shrouded in secrecy — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is building a sprawling, $100 million compound in Hawaii—complete with plans for a huge underground bunker.
Threads: @mattnavarra. X: @jackmjenkins, @katiedrumm, @kylebrussell, and @jtemperton. Forums: Hacker News
| Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch: |
Amazon validates Project Kuiper's optical inter-satellite links, which use infrared lasers to move data around 30% faster than terrestrial fiber optical cables — Amazon's Project Kuiper successfully validated key technology that will increase throughput and reduce latency for customers using …
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| Ben Horowitz / Andreessen Horowitz: |
Andreessen Horowitz says “we will, for the first time, get involved with politics by supporting candidates who align with our vision and values” for technology — As software has eaten the world, it has become integral to every industry and nearly every endeavor in our society.
More: TechCrunch, Axios, Seeking Alpha, and Robots.net
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Sources: LinkedIn shelves its effort, announced in 2019, to relocate its data centers out of its physical facilities and into Azure, a setback for Microsoft — - LinkedIn called off a plan to move technology to Microsoft Azure, a setback for its parent company, which is chasing Amazon Web Services.
More: The Information, The Register, Tech Monitor, Neowin, and DatacenterDynamics
| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
The US FCC grants SpaceX a “temporary authorization” to test its cellular Starlink system by beaming data to unmodified smartphones in over two dozen locations — The experimental authorization lets SpaceX test the cellular Starlink system by using 840 satellites to beam the data … | Will Knight / Wired: |
OpenAI details how its Superalignment research team is exploring ways to control stronger AI models like GPT-4 using weaker supervisor models like GPT-2 — The “superalignment” team led by OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever has devised a way to guide the behavior of AI models as they get ever smarter.
More: OpenAI, MIT Technology Review, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Baseline, and IEEE Spectrum
X: @leopoldasch, @_akhaliq, @miramurati, @alextmallen, @nabla_theta, @sama, @swarnanlp, @stephenlcasper, @adrienle, @binarybits, @gdb, @openai, and @collinburns4. Forums: Hacker News
| Reuters: |
A judge tentatively rules that Elon Musk must testify again for the US SEC's investigation of his $44B Twitter takeover, after the SEC sued Musk in October 2023 — A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday tentatively ruled that billionaire Elon Musk must testify again for the U.S. Securities …
More: The Messenger, Bloomberg, and Wall Street Journal
| Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: |
TikTok quietly changed its TOS in July 2023, including removing requiring users to go through private arbitration, making it more difficult to sue the company — Some lawyers say the changes could make it more difficult to bring legal action against the company.| Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg: |
Apple's stock rose 1.7% to close at $197.96 on December 13, surpassing its previous record close in July 2023, for a ~$3.08T market cap; AAPL is up 57% in 2023 — - Shares surpass July high, putting market cap at $3.08 trillion — Revenue seen growing again in 2024 after falling this year| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple begins selling a $99 USB-C charging case for its second-generation AirPods Pro as a standalone purchase; delivery estimates are for after Christmas — Apple has begun selling the USB-C charging case for its second-generation AirPods Pro as a standalone purchase. But it doesn't come cheap.
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X: @snazzylabs, @tailosivetech, @rsgnl, @chriswelch, @rsgnl, and @tailosivetech. Forums: MacRumors Forums
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