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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils a Copilot keyboard key, shipping in new PCs and laptops from its partners, the first major change to the PC keyboard layout in nearly 30 years — Microsoft wants 2024 to be “the year of the AI PC,” and it's kicking things off with a significant change to the keyboard on new laptops and PCs.
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Hackers are hijacking X accounts of governments and businesses marked with gold and gray checkmarks, including Google's Mandiant, to promote crypto scams — Hackers are increasingly targeting verified accounts on X (formerly Twitter) belonging to government and business profiles and marked … | Liam Proven / The Register: |
Software design pioneer and Pascal creator Niklaus Wirth, who devised nine programming languages and won the Turing Award in 1984, dies at 89 — Evangelist of lean software and devisor of 9 programming languages and an OS was 89 — OBIT Swiss computer scientist Professor Niklaus Wirth died …
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| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Memo: OpenAI plans to launch its GPT store next week; the store was originally slated to open in November 2023, but was delayed after OpenAI's leadership crisis — OpenAI is planning to launch its “GPT store” next week, according to a memo to developers seen by The Information.
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2, an update to the XR2 Gen 2 used in the Meta Quest 3, offering 4.3K resolution at 90fps per eye, up from 3K per eye — The new chipset is designed as a step up from the XR2 Gen 2 in the Meta Quest 3, capable of rendering high-resolution visuals like the ones promised by Apple's Vision Pro.
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| Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: |
Perplexity, which offers an AI-based “answer engine” with ~10M MAUs to compete with Google, raised $74M at a $520M valuation from IVP, Jeff Bezos, and others — Perplexity, with a fraction of Google's users, raised the largest sum by an internet search startup in recent years
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| Alex Cranz / The Verge: |
Dell announces the $1,299+ XPS 13, the $1,699+ XPS 14, replacing the XPS 13 Plus, and the $1,899+ XPS 16, offering Intel Core Ultra 7 and 9 and up to a 4TB SSD — This might not be the biggest shake-up of the Dell XPS lineup ever, but between some bigger laptops and a total revamping of the XPS portfolio, it feels like a big deal.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
LastPass now requires users to set a master password with a minimum of 12 characters, after enforcing the requirement for new accounts or resets in April 2023 — LastPass notified customers today that they are now required to use complex master passwords with a minimum of 12 characters to increase their accounts' security.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
As Google restricts third-party cookies for 1% of Chrome users, marketers, adtech companies, and publishers say Google has not done enough to prepare the market — Search giant plans to remove a technology seen as critical to the digital-ad industry — Google is going forward …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
DeepMind Robotics researchers outline new methods for training robots, like AutoRT, which can leverage a visual language model for better situational awareness — 2024 is going to be a huge year for the cross-section of generative AI/large foundational models and robotics.
More: Google DeepMind, The Verge, and The Decoder
| The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI offered some media firms $1M to $5M per year to license news articles for model training; Apple offers more but wants to use content more widely — OpenAI has offered some media firms as little as between $1 million and $5 million annually to license their news articles …
More: Bloomberg, Fortune, The Verge, The Decoder, New York Post, and Thurrott
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
A California judge lets a lawsuit against Snap from relatives of dead kids move forward, saying Section 230 doesn't apply due to disappearing messages and more — from the this-is-not-how-this-is-supposed-to- work dept — Well, this is dumb. As detailed by NBC News … | Sarah Martin / The Guardian: |
The CEO of collapsed crypto fund HyperVerse, introduced to investors in 2021, doesn't appear to exist; Chainalysis: consumers lost $1.3B to HyperVerse in 2022 — Exclusive: Steven Reece Lewis was introduced to investors with an impressive list of qualifications and achievements, but no organisation cited can find any record of him
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| Ana Swanson / New York Times: |
The White House awards $162M in federal grants to Arizona-based Microchip Technology to expand its Oregon and Colorado facilities, the second CHIPS Act award — The Biden administration said its second grant under a new program would help Microchip Technology expand its facilities in Oregon and Colorado.
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| Brendan McCord / Cosmos Institute: |
A look at the current AI philosophy landscape of existential pessimism vs. accelerationism, and the need for a balanced, enterprising optimism as the third way — We need a balanced, enterprising optimism—an ambitious and clear vision for what constitutes the good in technology, coupled with the awareness of its dangers| Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: |
The US NLRB rules that Alphabet illegally refused to negotiate with a group of YouTube Music contract workers employed by Cognizant after they voted to unionize — - YouTube Music staff voted to join Alphabet union last year — Google to appeal, says workers are employees of Cognizant
More: The Register, Reuters, and The Daily Beast
| Inbar Preiss / DL News: |
The European Central Bank plans to award €1.3B in contracts to help develop a digital euro; Amazon was selected in the past to help design the CBDC prototype — In a move that wasn't expected so soon in 2024, the European Central Bank said Wednesday it is ready to pay €1.3 billion …
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