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Google outlines updates to comply with the EU's DMA: search changes to prioritize large intermediaries and aggregators, new tools for app developers, and more — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google on Tuesday outlined changes to search results and new tools for apps developers to promote their products … | Financial Times: |
As Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft comply with the EU DMA ahead of March 7, experts are skeptical the rules will have the desired effect — This week is the deadline for large online platforms to comply with new EU regulations on competition. Too little too late, say some| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Instagram now lets users edit DMs up to 15 minutes after sending, pin up to three messaging threads to the top of their inbox, and save their favorite stickers — Instagram announced today that it's rolling out the ability for users to edit their direct messages for up to 15 minutes after sending them.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says, after a software update, the M3 14-inch MacBook Pro will be able to drive two external displays with its lid closed, just like the M3 MacBook Airs — Apple introduced the M3 MacBook Air with a headlining new feature. For the first time, the Apple silicon MacBook Air will be able …
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| Emilia David / The Verge: |
OpenAI updates ChatGPT with a “read aloud” feature supporting 37 languages, letting ChatGPT read its responses out loud, available on the web and mobile apps — OpenAI's new Read Aloud feature for ChatGPT could come in handy when users are on the go by reading its responses in one of five voice options out loud to users.
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| Alexa Corse / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter's former CEO, CFO, legal chief, and general counsel sue Elon Musk over $128M+ in unpaid severance and Musk's claim that he had cause to fire them — Former CEO, CFO, legal chief, and general counsel dispute Musk's claim he had cause to fire them — Four former top Twitter executives …
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X's audio and video calls, which are enabled by default, are peer-to-peer, revealing users' IP addresses to each other, unless they enable a privacy setting — The new X calling feature can hurt your privacy — In his quest to turn a simple and functioning Twitter app into X …
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| Lawrence Bonk / Engadget: |
Google's new Pixel updates include a Hello button to let Google Assistant screen calls, Circle to Search on Pixel 7, and 10-bit HDR video uploads to Instagram — Google Assistant will speak on your behalf to find out why someone is blowing up your spot. — Google just announced …
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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku prices, all with a 200K-token context window, seem to range from “super expensive” to “radically competitive” — Willison: “No model has beaten GPT-4 on a range of widely used benchmarks like this.”
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Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Counterpoint Research: |
Chinese smartphone sales declined 7% YoY in the first six weeks of 2024; Huawei rose 64% YoY while Apple fell 24% YoY, OPPO fell 29% YoY, and Vivo fell 15% YoY — - Growth: China's smartphone unit sales declined by 7% YoY during the first six weeks of 2024.| Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Cloudflare announces Firewall for AI, a protection layer that companies can deploy in front of LLMs to identify abuses before they can reach the models — Cloudflare Inc., a global cloud connectivity provider company, today announced the development of Firewall for AI to provide companies …
More: The Cloudflare Blog, TechRadar, and Cryptopolitan
| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
At an event, Sergey Brin said Google “definitely messed up” Gemini's image generation launch and it's “not our intention” to have it leaning left in many cases — - Google's Sergey Brin spoke to a roomful of entrepreneurs over the weekend at the “AGI House” in Hillsborough, California.
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| Bobby Borisov / Linuxiac: |
StatCounter: Linux hit a 4.03% share of the desktop OS market in February 2024, after taking 30 years to achieve a 3% share in June 2023 — According to StatCounter's data, by the end of February 2024, Linux has achieved a 4.03% desktop market share. — Linux has surpassed a 4% share … Sponsor Posts
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